Dexter

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What's on this list

All ninety-six episodes of Dexter, the twenty-four chapters of the animated Dexter: Early Cuts, and the three continuations: New Blood, Original Sin and Resurrection. Five series, one page, because none of them is a separate continuity - the prequel opens on the man the sequel wakes up.

The webisodes sit among the seasons, not after them

Early Cuts is the reason this page is more than a list of five blocks. Its first twelve chapters went out weekly through the autumn of 2009, alongside the fourth season; Dark Echo landed on the Sunday of season 5's First Blood; and the six All in the Family chapters ran in the five weeks before season 7 started. Sorted by series, the twenty-four would sit in a lump at the end and that whole pattern would be invisible.

It also means the shorts are the earliest stories on the page and among the latest rows in their own seasons. In-universe, Dark Echo is 1991 and the other four arcs run from 1993 to 2004, all of them before the pilot. The site does not order by story, and this is a good illustration of why: there is no version of in-universe order that puts Dark Echo where a viewer in 2010 met it.

Original Sin and Resurrection are dated to the Friday, not the Sunday

Both dropped on Paramount+ with Showtime on a Friday and reached linear Showtime two days later. Every row here carries the Friday, because that is when a contemporary audience saw it - the same call the Yellowstone page makes for the Paramount+ prequels. Wikipedia's episode tables carry the Friday too. The two-day split is recorded against both series in the site's own status file.

Two seasons opened with more than one episode. Original Sin released episodes 2 and 3 together on 20 December 2024, and Resurrection premiered with episodes 1 and 2 on 11 July 2025. Both pairs are ordered by episode number within the day.

The contested nights, and how they were ordered

Eight Sundays in 2009 carry both an Early Cuts chapter and an episode of season 4, and one Sunday in October 2010 carries six Dark Echo chapters and season 5's First Blood. On every one of them the chapter is placed first. That follows the Supernatural page, where the Ghostfacers webisodes are ranked ahead of the episode they went out alongside: a webisode was posted to the network's site during the day and the parent show went out at nine that night.

It is worth being plain that this is a rule rather than a record. No listing source gives a time of day for a 2009 webisode, and the site's network grids cover broadcast networks and no cable channel at all, so nothing here can be checked against a schedule. What can be said is that the two are never simultaneous and the shorts were up first.

The cross-over flags, and the two rulings behind them

Almost everybody in this franchise appears in more than one of its series, so the flags needed a line drawn or they would have marked nearly every row and told a reader nothing.

The guest star icon is for guests. Dexter, Harrison, Debra and Harry are regulars of the series they appear in, and a regular is not a guest even when he arrived from somewhere else - so the icon goes on Trinity returning in Skin of Her Teeth, on Batista in Runaway and Sins of the Father, on Masuka and Quinn in Backseat Driver, and on Brian Moser in the Resurrection finale, and not on the leads. That is a narrower reading than this site has taken elsewhere, and it is narrower on purpose: here the transferring regular is the title character.

The story arc icon is for the episodes that move it. New Blood and Resurrection are one continuation of the 2013 finale from end to end, so a flag on all twenty would have been defensible and useless. The flag is on the ones where the older story actually turns something: the letter to Hannah, Trinity coming back, the Bay Harbor Butcher reaching Iron Lake, Batista making the call.

The original ninety-six episodes carry no flags at all. They are the parent series, and a parent referring to itself before its continuations existed is not a cross-over.

Two things about the sources

The six Dark Echo chapters really did all go out on one day. It looks like a collapsed weekly run and it is not: Showtime's own media alert describes the second installment as one long-form story of six chapters, available online, and IMDb and the fan wiki both stamp all six 24 October 2010. Contemporary coverage is dated the 25th, so a Sunday launch with a Monday press push is the likeliest reading, and the date could be a day out.

None of the twenty-four chapters has a Wikipedia article, and neither does any of the five stories, so their Wikipedia column points at the section of the list article that holds their tables rather than at a row. That is deliberate. The row anchors on that page are not unique - each Early Cuts table restarts its numbering, exactly as the parent show's first season does, so the article carries four elements numbered ep1 and a link to any of them lands on the pilot.

What was left off

Dexter: Resurrection was renewed and filming through 2026 with no episode released, so its second season is not here yet. Dexter: Original Sin was cancelled in August 2025 and has one season only, despite a renewal reported four months earlier.

Two aftershow series, Dexter: Final Cut and Dexter's Kill Room, are indexed as episodes by the fan wiki and are not on this page: they are companion chat shows rather than part of the story. Jeff Lindsay's novels are out of scope for a site about screen productions, and the series stops following them after the first season anyway.