Question: Which is the longest and shortest season of HBO's Game of Thrones?game-of-thrones-01


Answer: The official HBO website and Blu-ray/DVD cases for Game of Thrones has conflicting approximate run times for that series. With that said:

Both HBO and the Blu-ray/DVD cases for Game of Thrones lists the first season as that series longest.

HBO lists the second season as being the shortest, while the Blu-ray/DVD cases for Game of Thrones lists the second and third seasons and being the shortest.

Season
Aired
Approximate Run Time
According to HBO[1]
Approximate Run Time
According to DVD Case
Episodes
1 2011 567 minutes 561 minutes 10
2 2012 549 minutes 550 minutes 10
3 2013 561 minutes 550 minutes 10
4 2014 553 minutes TBA 10

Notes: Some websites lists each episode in the entire Game of Thrones series as being exactly "60 minutes." That's false information.

Sources:

  1. hbo.com | Game of Thrones - Full Length | Retrieved July 17, 2014