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The Walking Dead timeline: Here's how to watch The Walking Dead universe in chronological order

There's lots to devour!

By David Opie

30 Jun 2022

The Walking Dead spoilers follow.

If there's any show in the world that will never die, it's The Walking Dead – and not just because it's full of zombies either.

From humble beginnings, AMC's comic book adaptation has shuffled on in surprising ways, branching out with new spin-offs, webisodes, and even films, like a particularly ravenous horde that's ready to consume everything in sight.

Each of these stories takes place within the same universe that was first inspired by Robert Kirkman's vision, and at certain points, these shows even cross over with each other. When you also take into account that some chapters were written as prequels designed to flesh out the origins of this apocalypse, it quickly becomes clear that The Walking Dead wasn't actually released in chronological order.

Are you a newbie who wants to dive right in or are you a purist who would like to rewatch The Walking Dead as a whole using the correct timeline? That's where we come in.

Join us here at Digital Spy as we reveal how to watch every Walking Dead show, web series, and film in chronological order. It's not as hard as you might think!

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And while you're here, would you also like to check out the Star Wars timeline? Or what about the X-Men's movie order? If the MCU timeline is giving you trouble, we're here to help with that too.

The Walking Dead in order - how to watch The Walking Dead timeline in chronological order

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1. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 1 (six episodes)

2. Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water (six episodes)

3. Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462 (16 episodes)

4. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 2 (15 episodes)

5. Fear The Walking Dead: Passage web series (16 episodes)

6. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 3 (16 episodes)

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7. The Walking Dead: Season 1 (six episodes)

8. The Walking Dead Webisodes: Torn Apart (six episodes)

9. The Walking Dead: Season 2 (13 episodes)

10. The Walking Dead: Cold Storage web series (four episodes)

11. The Walking Dead: Season 3 (16 episodes)

12. The Walking Dead: The Oath web series (three episodes)

13. The Walking Dead: Season 4 (16 episodes)

14. The Walking Dead: Season 5 (16 episodes)

15. The Walking Dead: Season 6 (16 episodes)

16. The Walking Dead: Season 7 (16 episodes)

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17. The Walking Dead: Red Machete (six episodes)

18. The Walking Dead: Season 8 (16 episodes)

19. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 4 (16 episodes)

20. The Walking Dead: Season 9 (16 episodes)

21. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 5 (16 episodes)

22. The Walking Dead: Season 10 (22 episodes)

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23. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 1 (10 episodes)

24. The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 (10 episodes)

25. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 6 (16 episodes)

26. The Walking Dead: Season 11 (24 episodes)

26. Fear The Walking Dead: Season 7 (16 episodes)

In case you're wondering, Fear The Walking Dead had a huge time jump between seasons three and four, which is why they're so far apart in the timeline.

The Walking Dead — Future Projects

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Don't you worry, when you've caught up with everything listed above, there's still so much more Walking Dead zombie goodness heading your way.

1. Tales of The Walking Dead (6 episodes — August 14, 2022)

Tales of The Walking Dead will be an anthology show that jumps around the timeline, so individual episodes will appear sporadically throughout this piece once it starts to air.

And while some episodes will focus on brand new characters, fan-favourites will also return as well, including Samantha Morton's Alpha. From the look of these first images, we expect that Alpha's episode will act as a prequel of sorts, which would place it somewhere before season nine where she made her onscreen debut.

2. Untitled ~~Carol And~~ Daryl Spin-off (2023)

This will take place after the events of The Walking Dead's final season, but no one has specified yet how far ahead exactly. And honestly, even this working title doesn't make much sense anymore given that Melissa McBride recently left the project prior to filming.

In a new interview with Leo Edit, Norman Reedus shed some new light on the spinoff, its place in the timeline, and what this will all look like now without Carol:

"There's gonna be a spinoff, and it'll be me alone, and I'll be on this mission, and those characters will come back together later on down the road, of course; and other characters that have gone missing, I'll probably run into."

"But," he continued, "the spinoff will look totally different from [The Walking Dead]. It'll be completely different. And to be honest, you wouldn't wanna do this show as a spinoff exactly the same by yourself, it's terrifying."

3. Isle of the Dead (6 episodes — 2023)

Isle of the Dead will follow Maggie and Negan as they travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that has been long cut off from the mainland. The events of this six-episode series will take place after the final season of The Walking Dead, which essentially confirms that both of these fan-favourites will survive the flagship show's last run intact.

Since the show was first announced, star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has suggested a crossover with Fear The Walking Dead's Alycia Debnam-Clark, who plays Alicia Clark, which could further cement the spinoff's exact place in the timeline. Saying that though, there's no guarantee this is actually going to play out the way Jeffrey suggests.

4. Untitled Rick Grimes Spin-off AKA The Walking Dead movie trilogy

Don't expect Rick Grimes to appear in our cinemas anytime soon though, but when he does, the first film will likely fill in that six-year gap between his abduction in The Walking Dead season nine and what's happening now in the franchise.

The Walking Dead in order — how to watch The Walking Dead universe in release order

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Just in case chronology isn't your thing, we've also included a guide to explain how fans can watch The Walking Dead universe unfold in order of release:

1. The Walking Dead (2010 – 2022)

2. The Walking Dead webisodes (2011 – 2013) including:

— The Walking Dead: Torn Apart

— The Walking Dead: Cold Storage

— The Walking Dead: The Oath

3. Fear The Walking Dead (2015 – Present)

4. Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462 (2015 – 2016)

5. Fear The Walking Dead: Passage (2016 – 2017)

6. The Walking Dead: Red Machete (2017 – 2018)

7. The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020 – 2021)

8. Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water (2022)

9. Tales of The Walking Dead (2022 – TBC)

10. Daryl spinoff (2023 — TBC)

11. Isle of the Dead (2023 — TBC)

There are well over 300+ hours of grisly zombie content here for you to enjoy, and you better start now, because who knows how many more spin-offs and films will be announced in the coming years. The petition for a web series starring Daryl's dog begins here.

The Walking Dead season 11 airs on AMC in the US and STAR on Disney+ in the UK.

Fear the Walking Dead, and The Walking Dead: World Beyond are both available on Amazon Prime Video.