Criminal Minds Season 1 Episode release dates & where to watch
Premiered
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Ended: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
When does Criminal Minds Season 1 come out?
Criminal Minds Season 1 premiered Thursday, September 22, 2005 on Paramount+ and ended Wednesday, May 10, 2006. The season has 22 episodes.
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Criminal Minds Season 1 release schedule
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1. Extreme Aggressor After a fourth woman goes missing in as many months, the team is brought in to track down the guy before he kidnaps again. Hotch is asked to secretly evaluate Gideon to see if he is ready to work full time again. |
Thursday · 21 years ago |
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2. Compulsion The team of investigators tries to capture a serial arsonist who has been terrorizing a college campus. |
Wednesday · 21 years ago |
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3. Won't Get Fooled Again Gideon and his team track down a copycat bomber terrorizing a quiet community. |
Wednesday · 21 years ago |
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4. Plain Sight The BAU team travels to San Diego to stop a rapist and murderer who commits his crimes in the middle of the day. |
Wednesday · 21 years ago |
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5. Broken Mirror The BAU investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. District Attorney's daughter and determines the kidnapper isn't seeking money -- he's after her twin sister. |
Wednesday · 21 years ago |
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6. L.D.S.K. The BAU is asked to identify a killer who is shooting at victims in broad daylight, and the team works with local law enforcement officers to recreate one of the shootings. |
Wednesday · 21 years ago |
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7. The Fox The BAU profiles a serial killer who takes families hostage and lives with them as a father figure during what is supposed to be their family vacations. |
Wednesday · 21 years ago |
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8. Natural Born Killer When an undercover cop in Baltimore involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than organized crime has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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9. Derailed Elle, along with many others, is held hostage on a train in Texas by a paranoid schizophrenic who is convinced that the U.S. government is monitoring him. Hotchner and Gideon are forced to play into the man's fantasy to save the people he has taken hostage. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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10. The Popular Kids The team investigates the death of one teen, and the disappearance of another , which may be linked to a satanic ritual. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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11. Blood Hungry Mid-season finale While Gideon is stuck at the office on crutches, the rest of the team travels to Tennessee to track down a killer who disembowels his victims and supposedly eats their organs. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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12. What Fresh Hell? When a young girl is abducted in broad daylight from a playground in a seemingly safe neighborhood, the BAU team initially believes her father is responsible. When he is able to provide an alibi, the team is forced to look for clues where the girl lives to determine who is really responsible. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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13. Poison The team travels to New Jersey where several people have been poisoned, one of them fatally with LSD, ten times more potent than the street version. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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14. Riding the Lightning After interviewing a couple on death row for serial murders, Gideon suspects that the woman is actually innocent. But since she's set to be executed in two days, it's a race against time to prove it. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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15. Unfinished Business A serial killer reappears after 20 years of silence and contacts the BAU with the promise he will kill another victim in the next five days. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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16. The Tribe The BAU team believes a dangerous cult may be responsible for the mass murders of five college students in an empty house. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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17. A Real Rain The BAU unit travels to NYC to investigate a series of murders that appears to have been committed by a vigilante conducting revenge on former criminals who have been released by the justice system. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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18. Somebody's Watching Reid finds himself in danger when he falls for a starlet whose stalker has turned into a killer. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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19. Machismo The BAU team travels to Mexico to aid in the capture of a serial killer who is targeting elderly women. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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20. Charm and Harm The BAU works to capture a serial killer who has evaded capture by altering his appearance. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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21. Secrets and Lies The BAU works with the CIA to identify a mole within that organization, whose leaks are putting operatives at risk. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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22. The Fisher King (1) Finale While on their vacations, each of the team receives a clue from a psychopathic killer challenging them to save his next victim. |
Wednesday · 20 years ago |
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Criminal Minds Season 1 FAQ
When does Criminal Minds Season 1 come out?
Criminal Minds Season 1 premiered Thursday, September 22, 2005 on Paramount+.
How many episodes are in Criminal Minds Season 1?
Criminal Minds Season 1 has 22 episodes.
Are new episodes of Criminal Minds Season 1 released weekly?
New episodes are released weekly.
When is the Criminal Minds Season 1 finale?
The Criminal Minds Season 1 finale (Episode 22) aired Wednesday, May 10, 2006.
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