Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
You can now watch The Wire online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Target | 2002-06-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Detail | 2002-06-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Buys | 2002-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Old Cases | 2002-06-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Pager | 2002-06-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Wire | 2002-07-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | One Arrest | 2002-07-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Lessons | 2002-07-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Game Day | 2002-08-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Cost | 2002-08-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Hunt | 2002-08-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Cleaning Up | 2002-09-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Sentencing | 2002-09-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Ebb Tide | 2003-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Collateral Damage | 2003-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Hot Shots | 2003-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Hard Cases | 2003-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Undertow | 2003-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | All Prologue | 2003-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Backwash | 2003-07-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Duck and Cover | 2003-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Stray Rounds | 2003-08-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Storm Warnings | 2003-08-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Bad Dreams | 2003-08-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Port in a Storm | 2003-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Time After Time | 2004-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | All Due Respect | 2004-09-26 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Dead Soldiers | 2004-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Hamsterdam | 2004-10-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Straight and True | 2004-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Homecoming | 2004-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Back Burners | 2004-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Moral Midgetry | 2004-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Slapstick | 2004-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Reformation | 2004-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Middle Ground | 2004-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | Mission Accomplished | 2004-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Boys of Summer | 2006-09-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Soft Eyes | 2006-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Home Room | 2006-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Refugees | 2006-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Alliances | 2006-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Margin of Error | 2006-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Unto Others | 2006-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Corner Boys | 2006-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Know Your Place | 2006-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Misgivings | 2006-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | A New Day | 2006-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | That's Got His Own | 2006-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Final Grades | 2006-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | More with Less | 2008-01-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Unconfirmed Reports | 2008-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Not for Attribution | 2008-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Transitions | 2008-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | React Quotes | 2008-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | The Dickensian Aspect | 2008-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Took | 2008-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Clarifications | 2008-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | Late Editions | 2008-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | -30- | 2008-03-09 | 60 min |
| Production | Joe Chappelle | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Nina K. Noble | Executive Producer |
| Production | George Pelecanos | Producer |
| Production | Ed Burns | Producer |
| Production | Eric Overmyer | Producer |
| Production | David Simon | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Blake Leyh | Music Supervisor |
