The Rookie in release order

About this order

What's on this list

All 144 episodes of The Rookie across its eight seasons, and all 22 of The Rookie: Feds, which ran for a single season in 2022 and 2023.

Thirteen Tuesdays, and four stories that cross between them

For most of autumn 2022 the two shows were kept apart on purpose — Feds on Tuesdays, The Rookie on Sundays. Then in January 2023 ABC put them back to back, The Rookie at eight and Feds at nine, and they ran that way for thirteen weeks to the end of both seasons.

That is why the order within those nights matters, and it is the reason this page exists as one list rather than two. On four of those nights the story runs straight from one show into the other: an episode of The Rookie ends on an arrest or a discovery and the Feds episode an hour later picks it up. Watch them in the order on this page and they work. Watch one show through and then the other and you get the second halves of four stories before their firsts.

A fifth pairing works differently and is on the list a week apart rather than an hour: a death in LAPD custody in October 2022 is the opening premise of the Feds episode two nights later.

The backdoor pilot is here once, where it went out

Simone and Enervo, The Rookie's nineteenth and twentieth episodes of season 4, are where Simone Clark and the rest of the Feds cast first appear. They are episodes of The Rookie and they are on this list once, in April and May 2022, in their place in The Rookie's run.

They are easy to find listed twice elsewhere, because the Feds article on Wikipedia reproduces them above its own episode table — though it says plainly, directly above that table, that the numbering belongs to The Rookie.

Two episodes on one night in December 2022

The Collar and Take Back both went out on 4 December 2022, a two-hour block after a four-week break. Two rows on one date is correct, and they are ranked in episode order.

The Rookie: North is not here yet

It was ordered to series in May 2026 for ten episodes, the pilot has been shot, and Nathan Fillion appears in it as John Nolan. But nothing has been broadcast and ABC has named only a month — May 2027 — so there is nothing to put in release order. It will go on this list when it has a date.

Two things about it are worth knowing in the meantime. Despite the name it is set in Washington state, not Canada. And its creator has said to expect two or three crossovers with The Rookie a season, so when it does arrive it will belong on this page rather than a page of its own.

Two more things that are not rows

The extended cut of His Name Was Martin, put on Hulu in July 2026 with about five and a half more minutes in it, is another version of an episode this list already has rather than a new one.

Fun and Games, in season 8, is a crossover with Game Changer, which is not part of this franchise — the Dropout cast appear as themselves. It is an episode of The Rookie and it is on the list as one, but it earns no cross-over mark, because the mark is for crossings within a franchise.

What is still open

The Rookie was renewed for a ninth season in April 2026 and ABC has put it in an April 2027 window without naming a day. Season 8 ended on 4 May 2026, so this list is complete as far as anything has aired.

One thing to be careful of if you are checking this list against another: sort by air date and never by production code. Season 7 broadcast its thirteenth production out of order as its twelfth episode, and seasons 1 and 3 have several swaps of their own.