List of Offspring episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the Australian television programme, Offspring on Network Ten.

On 3 October 2014, John Edwards confirmed that Offspring would not return for a sixth series in 2015, due to cashflow issues resulting from Ten's cost-cutting measures in its production division.[1] However on 20 September 2015, Ten confirmed that Offspring would return for a sixth season in 2016.[2]

As of 30 August 2017,^[update] 85 episodes of Offspring have aired.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
Pilot			August 15, 2010 (2010-08-15)
1	13		22 August 2010 (2010-08-22)	21 November 2010 (2010-11-21)
2	13		16 May 2011 (2011-05-16)	20 July 2011 (2011-07-20)
3	13		18 April 2012 (2012-04-18)	11 July 2012 (2012-07-11)
4	13		22 May 2013 (2013-05-22)	14 August 2013 (2013-08-14)
5	13		14 May 2014 (2014-05-14)	6 August 2014 (2014-08-06)
6	10		29 June 2016 (2016-06-29)	14 September 2016 (2016-09-14)
7	10		28 June 2017 (2017-06-28)	30 August 2017 (2017-08-30)

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

Main article: Offspring (season 1)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
Pilot	Pilot	"Pilot – Telemovie"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	15 August 2010 (2010-08-15)	1.124[3]
1	1	"Taking Charge"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	22 August 2010 (2010-08-22)	1.084[4]
2	2	"The Uncomfortability"	Darren Ashton	Jonathan Gavin	29 August 2010 (2010-08-29)	1.122[5]
3	3	"Playing Aloof"	Darren Ashton	Michael Lucas	5 September 2010 (2010-09-05)	1.001[6]
4	4	"Poison Ivy"	Sian & Jane Davies	Kylie Needham	12 September 2010 (2010-09-12)	1.160[7]
5	5	"Carpe Diem"	Sian & Jane Davies	Debra Oswald & Jonathan Gavin	19 September 2010 (2010-09-19)	0.990[8]
6	6	"D-Day"	Kate Dennis	Michael Lucas	26 September 2010 (2010-09-26)	0.943[9]
7	7	"Two Sisters"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	3 October 2010 (2010-10-03)	0.935[10]
8	8	"Re-Unravel"	Glendyn Ivin	Jonathan Gavin	17 October 2010 (2010-10-17)	0.831[11]
9	9	"Making Peace"	Glendyn Ivin	Jonathan Gavin	24 October 2010 (2010-10-24)	0.989[12]
10	10	"The Other Woman"	Shirley Barrett	Debra Oswald	31 October 2010 (2010-10-31)	0.952[13]
11	11	"My Confessions"	Shirley Barrett	Michael Lucas	14 November 2010 (2010-11-14)	0.908[14]
12	12	"Not as Planned"	Kate Dennis	Jonathan Gavin	21 November 2010 (2010-11-21)	0.929[15]
13	13	"A New Miracle"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	21 November 2010 (2010-11-21)	0.860[15]

Season 2 (2011)

Main article: Offspring (season 2)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
14	1	"The Return"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	16 May 2011 (2011-05-16)	0.927[16]
15	2	"Baby Bumps"	Kate Dennis	Michael Lucas	16 May 2011 (2011-05-16)	0.760[16]
16	3	"Dates, Decisions & Divorces"	Ken Cameron	Christine Bartlett	23 May 2011 (2011-05-23)	0.905[17]
17	4	"Together, We Are One"	Ken Cameron	Jonathan Gavin	30 May 2011 (2011-05-30)	0.953[18]
18	5	"The Way You Are"	Daina Reid	Ian Meadows	6 June 2011 (2011-06-06)	0.954[19]
19	6	"Behind Closed Doors"	Daina Reid	Michael Lucas	13 June 2011 (2011-06-13)	0.982[20]
20	7	"Cheating on Your Test"	Shirley Barrett	Debra Oswald	20 June 2011 (2011-06-20)	0.995[21]
21	8	"Two Different Places"	Shirley Barrett	Jonathan Gavin	22 June 2011 (2011-06-22)	0.904[21]
22	9	"Just Keep Talking"	Emma Freeman	Christine Bartlett	27 June 2011 (2011-06-27)	0.938[22]
23	10	"Acceptance"	Emma Freeman	Michael Lucas	29 June 2011 (2011-06-29)	1.070[22]
24	11	"Complications"	Kate Dennis	Tony McNamara	6 July 2011 (2011-07-06)	0.825[23]
25	12	"What Goes Around Comes Around"	Kate Dennis	Jonathan Gavin	13 July 2011 (2011-07-13)	0.960[24]
26	13	"Proudman Wedding Curse"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	20 July 2011 (2011-07-20)	0.997[25]

Season 3 (2012)

Main article: Offspring (season 3)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
27	1	"Happiness is a Delusion"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	18 April 2012 (2012-04-18)	0.728[26]
28	2	"Secrets and Lies"	Kate Dennis	Tommy Murphy & Jonathan Gavin	25 April 2012 (2012-04-25)	0.759[27]
29	3	"Fertility Woes"	Kate Dennis	Michael Lucas	2 May 2012 (2012-05-02)	0.629[28]
30	4	"Time"	Shirley Barrett	Christine Bartlett	9 May 2012 (2012-05-09)	0.785[29]
31	5	"Allegations"	Shirley Barrett	Jonathan Gavin	16 May 2012 (2012-05-16)	0.774[30]
32	6	"Partners in Crisis"	Elissa Down	Debra Oswald	23 May 2012 (2012-05-23)	0.726[31]
33	7	"Drink, Drank, Drunk"	Elissa Down	Michael Lucas	30 May 2012 (2012-05-30)	0.867[32]
34	8	"One Night Stand Off"	Emma Freeman	Ben Chessell & Michael Lucas	6 June 2012 (2012-06-06)	0.930[33]
35	9	"Chaos"	Emma Freeman	Jonathan Gavin	13 June 2012 (2012-06-13)	0.865[34]
36	10	"The Aftermath"	Ben Chessell	Leon Ford	20 June 2012 (2012-06-20)	0.906[35]
37	11	"Goodbye is Always Hard"	Ben Chessell	Michael Lucas	27 June 2012 (2012-06-27)	0.918[36]
38	12	"Insecurity"	Kate Dennis	Jonathan Gavin	4 July 2012 (2012-07-04)	0.894[37]
39	13	"Pregnant Pause"	Kate Dennis	Debra Oswald	11 July 2012 (2012-07-11)	1.086[38]

Season 4 (2013)

Main article: Offspring (season 4)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
40	1	"Outside of the Comfort Zone"	Emma Freeman	Debra Oswald	22 May 2013 (2013-05-22)	0.868[39]
41	2	"Second Chances"	Emma Freeman	Jonathan Gavin	29 May 2013 (2013-05-29)	0.798[40]
42	3	"Truth Time"	Emma Freeman	Christine Bartlett & Michael Lucas	5 June 2013 (2013-06-05)	0.737[41]
43	4	"Keeping it in the Family"	Shirley Barrett	Michael Lucas	12 June 2013 (2013-06-12)	0.847[42]
44	5	"The Things We Do for Love"	Shirley Barrett	Debra Oswald	19 June 2013 (2013-06-19)	0.770[43]
45	6	"Difficulty"	Ben Chessell	Samantha Strauss	26 June 2013 (2013-06-26)	0.583[44]
46	7	"Smoking Situations"	Ben Chessell	Leon Ford	3 July 2013 (2013-07-03)	0.696[45]
47	8	"Freaking the Freak Out"	Kate Dennis	Michael Lucas	10 July 2013 (2013-07-10)	0.711[46]
48	9	"Numbing the Pain"	Kate Dennis	Jonathan Gavin	17 July 2013 (2013-07-17)	0.625[47]
49	10	"Matters of the Heart"	Jennifer Perrott	Debra Oswald & Jonathan Gavin & Charlie Garber	24 July 2013 (2013-07-24)	0.723[48]
50	11	"Dialing Up the Crazy"	Jennifer Perrott	Michael Lucas	31 July 2013 (2013-07-31)	0.874[49]
51	12	"Goodbye Patrick"	Emma Freeman	Jonathan Gavin	7 August 2013 (2013-08-07)	1.057[50]
52	13	"The Bond Between Sisters"	Emma Freeman	Debra Oswald	14 August 2013 (2013-08-14)	1.106[51]

Season 5 (2014)

Main article: Offspring (season 5)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
53	1	"Back in the Game"	Emma Freeman	Debra Oswald	14 May 2014 (2014-05-14)	0.931[52]
54	2	"When Sparks Fly"	Emma Freeman	Michael Lucas	21 May 2014 (2014-05-21)	0.817[53]
55	3	"Moving On"	Emma Freeman	Leon Ford	28 May 2014 (2014-05-28)	0.766[54]
56	4	"Winners and Losers"	Kate Dennis	Li-Kim Chuah	4 June 2014 (2014-06-04)	0.828[55]
57	5	"The Story of My Life"	Kate Dennis	Jonathan Gavin	11 June 2014 (2014-06-11)	0.804[56]
58	6	"Emergencies"	Wayne Blair	Michael Lucas	18 June 2014 (2014-06-18)	0.823[57]
59	7	"I'm Always Here"	Wayne Blair	Debra Oswald	25 June 2014 (2014-06-25)	0.865[58]
60	8	"Expect the Unexpected"	Daina Reid	Jonathan Gavin	2 July 2014 (2014-07-02)	0.746[59]
61	9	"Return, Romance, Repeat"	Daina Reid	Christine Bartlett	9 July 2014 (2014-07-09)	0.738[60]
62	10	"Introduction"	Peter Salmon	Leon Ford	16 July 2014 (2014-07-16)	0.981[61]
63	11	"Love, Pain and the Whole Damn Thing"	Peter Salmon	Michael Lucas	23 July 2014 (2014-07-23)	0.905[62]
64	12	"Life Changing Decisions"	Emma Freeman	Jonathan Gavin	30 July 2014 (2014-07-30)	0.847[63]
65	13	"When Life Gives You Lemons..."	Emma Freeman	Debra Oswald	6 August 2014 (2014-08-06)	0.992[64]

Season 6 (2016)

Main article: Offspring (season 6)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
66	1	"...Make Lemonade"	Emma Freeman	Jonathan Gavin	29 June 2016 (2016-06-29)	0.959[65]
67	2	"Endings and Beginnings"	Emma Freeman	Leon Ford	6 July 2016 (2016-07-06)	0.779[66]
68	3	"Getting to Know You"	Shannon Murphy	Shirley Barrett	13 July 2016 (2016-07-13)	0.742[67]
69	4	"Fallout"	Shannon Murphy	Alice Bell	20 July 2016 (2016-07-20)	0.845[68]
70	5	"Breaking Point"	Peter Templeman	Christine Bartlett	27 July 2016 (2016-07-27)	0.726[69]
71	6	"A Present from the Past"	Peter Templeman	Jonathan Gavin	3 August 2016 (2016-08-03)	0.783[70]
72	7	"Just Keep Swimming"	Emma Freeman	Leon Ford	24 August 2016 (2016-08-24)	0.668[71]
73	8	"Sisters Aren't Doing It for Themselves"	Emma Freeman	Rachel Givney	31 August 2016 (2016-08-31)	0.638[72]
74	9	"Tried and Tested"	Daina Reid	Leon Ford	7 September 2016 (2016-09-07)	0.594[73]
75	10	"To the Best of My Ability"	Daina Reid	Jonathan Gavin	14 September 2016 (2016-09-14)	0.810[74]

Season 7 (2017)

Main article: Offspring (season 7)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Australian viewers (millions)
76	1	"Happy Geraldine Day"	Shirley Barrett	Jonathan Gavin	28 June 2017 (2017-06-28)	0.724[75]
77	2	"The End of an Era"	Shirley Barrett	Leon Ford	5 July 2017 (2017-07-05)	0.594[76]
78	3	"Episode 3"	Matthew Moore	Christine Bartlett	12 July 2017 (2017-07-12)	0.459[77]
79	4	"Episode 4"	Matthew Moore	Alice Bell	19 July 2017 (2017-07-19)	0.646[78]
80	5	"Episode 5"	Ben Chessell	Leon Ford	26 July 2017 (2017-07-26)	0.559[79]
81	6	"Episode 6"	Ben Chessell	Claire Phillips	2 August 2017 (2017-08-02)	0.559[80]
82	7	"Episode 7"	Shannon Murphy	Christine Bartlett	9 August 2017 (2017-08-09)	0.618[81]
83	8	"Episode 8"	Shannon Murphy	Alice Bell	16 August 2017 (2017-08-16)	0.556[82]
84	9	"Episode 9"	Peter Salmon	Leon Ford	23 August 2017 (2017-08-23)	0.568[83]
85	10	"Episode 10"	Peter Salmon	Jonathan Gavin	30 August 2017 (2017-08-30)	0.545[84]

Ratings

Offspring : AUS viewers per episode (thousands)

Season		Episode number
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	1	1084	1122	1001	1160	990	943	935	831	989	952	908	929	860
	2	927	760	905	953	954	982	995	904	938	1070	825	960	997
	3	728	759	629	785	774	726	867	930	865	906	918	894	1086
	4	868	798	737	847	770	583	696	711	625	723	874	1057	1106
	5	931	817	766	828	804	823	865	746	738	981	905	847	992
	6	959	779	742	845	726	783	668	638	594	810	–
	7	724	594	459	646	559	559	618	556	568	545	–

Source: Audience measurement performed by OzTam[85]

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