American Idol
Season 1
25 listed hours · 2002–2016 · Fox
From the desk
How this season is filed
Simon Cowell's sneer, Paula's softness, Randy's dawg: Simon Fuller's Fox hit made karaoke national infrastructure and a star factory. Mid-2000s finales felt like elections; Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood fed a pop pipeline. Pure event-TV archaeology from the last mass monoculture.
TV Flash files Season 1 of American Idol (2002–2016) on Fox as the first listed season of 24 — 25 listed hours, 2002-06-11–2002-09-04 from “Auditions” (S01E01) to “EL FINALE!” (S01E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Auditions
Auditions is the first cattle call: Cowell's sneer, Paula's softness, Randy's dawg — Simon Fuller making karaoke into Fox event TV.
- S01E01 Auditions
- S01E02 Hollywood Week
- S01E03 No Way Jim Moves On After That Performance. Right, Simon? Simon?
- S01E04 Dewey Defeats Truman!
- S01E05 Army of the Mediocre
- S01E06 Six Pack
- S01E07 The Bad, the Even Worse and the Ugly
- S01E08 Judge Fight!
- S01E09 Wild!
- S01E10 Top 10 Perform
- S01E11 Top 10 Results
- S01E12 Pride Goeth Before the ‘Fro
- S01E13 Clash of the Titanic Egos
- S01E14 The Big Time!
- S01E15 Ryan-ara!
- S01E16 Jump, Jive and Fail!
- S01E17 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- S01E18 Five Alive (and an Assortment of Other Bad Puns)
- S01E19 RJ is Short for "Really Gone"
- S01E20 Two for Each One
- S01E21 What? Who? You're Sure now?
- S01E22 Three Do Two
- S01E23 Two More
- S01E24 Showdown!
- S01E25 EL FINALE!
More from the 2000s.