Overview - Friends

Overview

Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 39

  Date first aired: 2001-02-15

• Name: Season 1

  Episode: 24

  The first season introduces the six main characters who live in New York City: Rachel Green, a waitress; professional chef Monica Geller; her paleontologist brother, Ross Geller; free-spirited masseuse Phoebe Buffay; struggling actor Joey Tribbiani; and Ross's college friend, Chandler Bing, whose precise occupation at a corporation is unknown. Rachel arrives at Central Perk, wearing her wedding dress, after leaving her fiancé, Barry Farber, an orthodontist, at the altar. She moves into her high school friend Monica's apartment, and gets a waitress job at Central Perk.

  Date first aired: 1994-09-22

• Name: Season 2

  Episode: 24

  Date first aired: 1995-09-21

• Name: Season 3

  Episode: 25

  Date first aired: 1996-09-16

• Name: Season 4

  Episode: 23

  Date first aired: 1997-09-25

• Name: Season 5

  Episode: 23

  Date first aired: 1998-09-24

• Name: Season 6

  Episode: 23

  Date first aired: 1999-09-23

• Name: Season 7

  Episode: 23

  Date first aired: 2000-10-12

• Name: Season 8

  Episode: 23

  Date first aired: 2001-09-27