Talk:List of Prison Break episodes

Effort for this page

For the episode Summarys I have tried to given a rough sketch of them for them to be corrected and fixed up by others.

Question's for all to Answer

I dont know whether to explain them as the episode is revealed or just combine all the scenes into a few sentences or have them scattered?

What to add/ What to do differently

Please let everyone know of other things that bug you on this page!

What bugs me is that almost half the episodes are missing on this page. is this vandalism or just they havent been done yet?

They havent been done yet. The series is reletivly new and so it's not that popular of a show here on wikipedia (i guess), so us that are here are trying to fill in all the gaps. No vandalism here! - Swerty 06:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I think Cell Test and Allen are the perfect length for episode recaps. --Dogbreathcanada 06:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Limit each episode to 500 words, and please, please avoid fancruft. Aim for synoptic summaries, not detailed summaries. Jtrost 13:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Nothing. Aboolutely nothing. This is a DRAMA series, and if they want to go for a cliffhanger / serious problem each week... well they are taking a page out of another drama series I like - 24. Each week they leave us with something to look forward to. The escape plan's snags. It is what makes great TV.

i am wondering how many ep's there are all together

Resource

This web page provides a complete and accurate recap to the Prison Break episodes from the official website.

• End of the Tunnel

Just change the file name at the end of the URL to view the episode recap you want. eg. recap_101_print.htm for the pilot and so on. --Fizan 05:07, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Length

I think the Allen and Cell Test synopsises (sp?) are the right length. I think the Cute Poison write-up is far too long. Thoughts? --Dogbreathcanada 06:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite

Please can someone who understands the plot and is a better writer improve these summaries? Whilst we appreciate the effort made by the author, the summaries miss key details, get plot information wrong and introduce story threads half way through. For example, in "Allen", Veronica is actually given (under the freedom of information act) a copy of the videotape showing Burrows apparently approach a vehicle and shoot at point blank range - something she firstly believes is indisputable evidence of guilt but upon further investigation she finds not all is as it seems (this is COMPLETELY unclear from the summary); T-Bag's cell mate DOES die - this is shown in the episode. In "Cell Test", Lincoln Burrow's son DOES NOT agree to witness him to die - he agrees to meet him the DAY BEFORE he is due to die; Veronica has met with Letisha who has important information on Burrow's conviction but she gets murdered by people who are receiving orders from a woman living in Montana who has a mysterious "plan"; the cell-phone is actually a fake made from soap; Abruzzi is actually after the whereabouts of a character called "Fibonacci", etc... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.13.74.221 (talk • contribs) February 10, 2006.

Hey, we try. and somtimes what seems a minor thing refereded in one episosde is a major plot point in another. Secre have conjugical visits with his girlfriend set the stage for Michael getitting the keycard during a conjuigcal in a later.

Michael is a complex person, who devised an escape plan, which went well until the cliffhanger episode at the end.. The previews of the last part show Michael does have one last escape plan - probably difficult... but Michaele always has plans..

I don't agree. Actually, I half agree. Michael had a perfect escape plan which he implimented in the first 14 episodes, only to have it foiled when a jnnitor noticed the corrosion of the pipe in the infirmary.

However, Michael is too complex a character to have put his eggs in one basket. He has a "Plan B" for escape.

The show is a thriller ... not unlike 24 which had cliffangers and put key characters in bad situations. And, in the first season of 24 there was clearly a bail-out point where Fox could call the whole thing off. We should be grateful Fox gave us a plan "B" with PrisonBreak - what a great series.

`` I agree, the show is a thriller and had a bail-out situation. Fox agreed to air 14 episodes, no more, no less. If the show was a failure, Michael, Lincoln, and the rest of the escape team would be in South America, living the high life after Michael's carefully planned escape route WORKED. Now Michael has about 36 hours to execute plan "B" another escape route. Or if he is lucky, the lawyers will buy him time via legal grounds to prevent Lincoln from dying via the electric chair.

Trouble Editing

I tried to do some quite major editing (cleaning up spelling and grammer, making names consistent, adding wikilinks, moving episodes to their own pages in their entirity and leaving a summary on this page (you may notice Cute Poison (Prison Break episode) and And Then There Were 7 (Prison Break episode)) but I keep being cut off in the middle of the article (ie, i can only edit half of it). I've therefore made my changes section by section, so my username will appear a lot in the edit list.

Also, the same text appears at the bottom of 'And then there were 7' and in 'Odd man out'. Can someone confirm which episode this cliffhanger happens in? Masterdriverz 17:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Individual episode articles

I've added infoboxes to the individual episode articles (articles exist for Pilot, Cell Test, Cute Poison and Riots, Drills and the Devil Part 2). They still are in dire need of Wikification though - the articles currently only consist of the extended Synopsis transferred from this page. If anyone has ideas on ho to improve those articles, go for it. Tntnnbltn 05:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Makeover

The page now features a table with pictures, synopses and details, making it in-line with other List of Television Episode articles. All the information still remains on the page except for the UK airdates (available in history here). Adding the UK airdates to the table made it cramped, and other List of [Television] episodes articles do this (instead this information is presented as Airdates of Lost, Airdates of Desperate Housewives, etc). Tntnnbltn 20:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

(Airdates now at Airdates of Prison Break. It's missing a lot of countries, fill some in if you can) Tntnnbltn 06:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Fixed Episode Numbers

I fixed the episode numbers... the first one (Pilot) had production number 79 so I changed it to 01, which made me have to change the rest until the last one was 22 instead of 21. 22 is the correct number of episodes, according to TV.

The production number for the Pilot actually was 79 [1]. Only when the series was picked up did the production number start at 01, counting upwards with each episode. Tntnnbltn 09:33, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

So is there a reason this isn't getting changed back? – Quoth 01:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. Tntnnbltn 02:31, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Episode Summary Verbosity

There being people in countries where Prison Break does not air, it is necessary to expand the episode summaries to more than the 2-3 lines that they are currently. This should be taken as a guideline for editing/creation of episode summaries of other TV show pages on Wikipedia.

If a person in south-east Asia needs to know the detailed episode summary of a TV show which does not air in their country, there should be a resource available. And there is no better place to put these summaries in the already well formatted episode-list tables. Wikipedia users in countries where the show airs, already have many ways to find out about the episode drama, like TV guides, word of mouth, and the show itself on TV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Demorphica (talk • contribs)

After all Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and the best step towards encyclopedic veracity is verbosity.

Long episode summaries are kept on articles for individual episodes (ie. Pilot (Prison Break episode)). This article allows simply lists the episodes and gives a brief description of each episode, and provides a link if more information is wanted. Old editions of this article had long (long, long) episode summaries, but it made the page difficult to read. Tntnnbltn 17:42, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Episode screencaps

Just a note that I went through and updated the episode screencaps for season 1. The new screenshots are of the same scene from the season 1 dvd (as close as I could get to the original pictures), removing the FOX watermark (or blur, in the case of some episodes sourced from internet downloads) on the images. Tntnnbltn 17:46, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Nice. The images are a lot sharper. The screenshot for Riots, Drills and the Devil Part 2 looked kind of funny when it refreshed to the newer screenshot, hehehe... I guess I was used to the older image. It was very cool, nevertheless. Good work, Tntnnbltn. Ladida 00:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Episode summaries and WikiProject List of Television Episodes

Episode summaries can be found at the iTunes Music Store under TV Shows>Fox>Prison Break, if anyone was curious. Also, I think we should consider formatting the page to the standards of WikiProject List of Television Episodes. It wouldn't really change the article's appearance, just add things to it. Like these:

• Color coding for each season (by table)
• Season list incorporation into the Table of Contents

For examples of a proper List of TV episodes, see the list for South Park or the list for the Simpsons and you'll see what I mean. Both are featured lists.
What does everyone think? --Cliff smith 18:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

List of Stargate SG-1 episodes is also a featured list but does not apply the above features. Both South Park and The Simpsons have numerous seasons and it makes sense to have a season list. However, there is currently only two seasons of Prison Break and an overall of 29 episodes so it kind of is a waste of space to have a season list and a bit redundant since there is a auto "table of contents". So maybe it's not a good idea. Regards, Ladida 06:06, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Two week break between episodes 7 & 8

Is there any reason why this is so. Was it a sudden change or was it always going to happen. I'm puzzled to why it's off for two weeks (P.S, I live in Australia so I don't know how US Television works!) Lakeyboy 05:49, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

It's actually a three-week break. FOX is currently broadcasting baseball playoffs, which they do every year. -- Ladida 06:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Season 2 Episode 11 & 12 names

I've got different sources on this. The Futon Critic says it is called Bolshoi Booze while the IMDB says it's called Coyote. I personally think that Coyote is the most likely episode name according to sources. Anyone to confirm the name?

Also it's the exact same scenario with Disconnect and The Giving Tree for Episode 12. --Lakeyboy 01:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed that but I checked the Fox press release from the website I used as a reference, it says Bolshoi Booze and Disconnect for episodes 11 and 12. Normally, I use TV.com as a source but in this instance, I think we should go with the press release. Also, I wouldn't use IMDB as a source, it's frequently unreliable when it comes to future episode listings. Filmographies are fine but episode listings are sometimes wrong in IMDB since they are user-submitted. Regards, Ladida 12:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

So is there a 2:14 before the fall brake? The so called john doe mentioned at spoilerfix.com?

22 consecutive episodes from 22 january??

"After the thirteenth episode on 27 November 2006, the show will return on 22 January 2007 with Fox planning to air twenty-two consecutive episodes.[1]"

1.^ Fox: No Hiatus for Prison Break Mediaweek.com. 15 November 2006. Retrieved on 17 November 2006. http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003408065

The source doesn't actually say this. However, it does say, "Fox is leaning toward running 22 consecutive episodes first-run of Prison Break this season straight through, choosing not to pull the series at the end of the November sweeps as it did last season"

and adds to this with, "We do have a little break because we will be airing two BCS [college Bowl Championship Series] games and a two-hour 24 premiere in January (in the Prison Break time period)," Beckman said, "but it will run straight through after that."

The only reference to January 22 is this: "NBC also plans to air its freshman hit serialized drama, Heroes, straight through in originals, after only a short hiatus, beginning Jan. 22, according to Mitch Metcalf, executive vp, program planning and scheduling at NBC"

I don't think we can gauge what fox is going to do just from this, but they certainly won't run 22 episodes from 22 jan, as 13 episodes of season 2 would have already aired in 2006 and there will probably only be nine episodes left. Also, nothing in the given source says pb will return on january 22nd.

That was probably a mistake. -- Ladida 09:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

Is there any specific reason why articles about Prison Break episodes use {{Prison Break episode}} template instead of standard {{Infobox television episode}}? Jogers (talk) 20:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh.. well.. that is probably because of this ;-) thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 20:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Critical response and viewership

I just wanted to say I love the addition of the "Critical response and viewership" section to each episodes personal article, really interesting to read (good referencing too). --Bruce 16:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

January 22nd

Is the recap episode on the 22nd just a catch up episode like the "Behind The Walls" for Season 1? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.219.108.9 (talk • contribs) 08:51, 15 December 2006

No details have been released yet regarding that particular episode. -- Ladida 06:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I HATE RECAPS! It said on the ads that I have watched that "On January 22, All new episodes of Prison Break return". If Fox has done a backflip, shame on them. --Lakeyboy 02:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

On their press release for the fall finale, Fox said new episodes will return on January 29, 2007 and a recap episode will be broadcast on January 22, 2007. However, like you said, they also said all new episodes return on Jan 22 on Prison Break's official site as well. -- Ladida 23:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Adding titles for future episodes

Please add titles ONLY when you have a reliable and verifiable source, in this case, a press release from FOX or any major media publication like TV Guide. The press release usually comes out two weeks before the episode airdate. They can be seen via The Futon Critic. For further information, please see Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Thank you, Ladida 23:11, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Never Aired

What is the deal with the Season 2 special. It never aired on FOX. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.154.232.76 (talk) 22:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

Mahone

As for the description of "Chicago", how can Mahone have a new ally when he's dead? Does not make any sense.Shopteacher 14:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

You ever think maybe he is not dead. It's not a spoiler anymore so...

Oops...I guess I never thought that as a possibility- now I know. Shopteacher

Going down...

Is it really a good idea to name the order of those killed by Mahone in the descrpition? It's a VERY MAJOR spoiler. -- 211.30.223.128 10:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

It is important to mention the major characters that are going to be in the episode. You don't have to mention their deaths but you have to summarise the episode as best you can in a few sentences for this list. But you can't really avoid mentioning their deaths in the episodes' articles. Regards, Ladida 02:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Future episodes

Episode 2x21

Did we forget to add 2AKJ21, Fin Del Camino? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stephantom (talk • contribs) 20:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC).

Nobody has forgotten, however, information can (and should) only be added when verifiable (i.e. TV.com/IMDb = non-verifiable (they're user submitted)). Usually episodes get added when press releases are released. Matthew 21:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! —Stephantom 09:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Can we please semi-protect the article? Many times unsourced info has been added the last weeks. -- Magioladitis 11:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Episode 2x22

Episode 22. It's called Sona. Spoilers have been drifting around lately (Phu2734 11:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC))

This is unconfirmed till there is an official press release from FOX -- Magioladitis 13:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

My guess is right ;) (Phu2734 09:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC))

Attempt to create precedent disallowing individual episodes

There is discussion at WP:AN/I#Fancruft_issue_again, and an AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kept Man that is attempting to create a precedent disallowing individual episodes. Matthew 18:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

-- Ned Scott 18:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Episode Summaries

I think the little episode summaries under each episode should be deleted as it can spoil the viewing experience for people i.e they find out what is going to happen in future episodes (this happened to me). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.139.57 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 7 May 2007

"Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.", not sure how much clearer it gets. Your comment only stands to prove my point these spoiler warnings are nothing more then a placebo. Matthew 23:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Season Three

FOX:
Episode 1 - "Orientación"
Episode 2 - "Fire/Water"
Episode 3 - "Call Waiting"
Episode 4 - "Good Fences"
Episode 5 - "Interference"
Episode 6 - "Photo Finish"
Episode 7 - "Vamonos"

According to TV dot com that is true, further information can be found here

http://www.tv.com/prison-break/show/31635/episode_listings.html?season=3&tag=nav_bar;3 Where it shows 4 more episodes then the currently Wiki. --Kanonkas 14:06, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Photo Finish & Vamonos

Why would we combinen these justbecause they aired on the same night? They are clearly two separate episodes that happened to air on the same night (Liek Pilot & Allen did and we dont combine those). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shopteacher (talk • contribs) 00:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Season 3

Should we change the number of episodes for season three on the DVD table to 13? Or at least change it to 13-22....because it is very possible that there will be only 13 eps. Щіκі RoςкЗ^(talκ) 13:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Prison break season 3 UK

I'm not sure why but prison break season 3 in the uk is very different than in the USA. does anyone know why ? they have cut alot out in the UK season, there's no molly at all and the eps where the chopper comes to get whisler out was never shown.

Any ideas ?

29 january 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.153.53.228 (talk) 12:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I haven't noticed any difference, maybe its because it is shown a week later in the UK, and i definately remember seeing the episode with the helicopter.--Kip Kip 21:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

UK Versions are exactly the same as the U.S - just shown two weeks later. No Molly on either yet and Chopper was shown - Episode 8. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.11.13 (talk) 14:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Can this page be protected?

In the last few days there have been some idiots adding fake episodes to season 3. Can we please put a stop to this??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.202.118 (talk) 11:04, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Season 3 is over!

"Production of future episodes of Season 3 is currently uncertain..." And "Paul Scheuring recently commented 'If the strike doesnt get resolved soon the season ends in February with 13 episodes.' However, according to Fox Networks, the show will most probably go in Hiatus until new episodes can be written and produced." Are both OUT-DATED by the more recent revelations that Season 3 is over. Every single time it seems that I check on the page both of these lines have been added back into the article - even when people have been removing information on the fake episodes.

Please, if you edit the page to remove the fake episodes remember to also remove the above two lines - so that the facts presented in the page are in-line with what is written on the main article, which states that Season 3 is over. The easiest way to do this is to use my most recent revision as a guide when editing the page - or just restore the page to the last version I posted (and considering there are going to be no new episodes for a while, the page is unlikely going to need further editing at this point anyway). PlikPlok (talk) 04:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Please stop adding the fake Season 3 Episode 14, there is no episode called "Fall of the Company" written by Paul Scheuring and directed by Kevin Hooks for broadcast on 16 July 2008. Do not add it, it is not real information. See the main article which states: "Although the strike was resolved on the 12th of February there will be no further episodes broadcast as part of third season." PlikPlok (talk) 05:41, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I would further like to add that I've had to modify this article a number of times now due to people putting back the old line "Due to the current writers strike, Paul Scheuring recently commented "If the strike doesnt get resolved soon the season ends in February with 13 episodes." However, according to Fox Networks, the show will most probably go into hiatus until new episodes can be written and produced." "Prison Break" the TV show is on hiatus, yes, however Prison Break Season 3 is not on hiatus it is over. We don't yet know if there will be a Season 4, but it looks likely, and the correct place to mention anything about future episodes would be under the heading "Season 4" once, and only once Season 4 is announced. PlikPlok (talk) 04:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

THERE ARE NUMEROUS LEGIT WEBSITES REPORTING INFORMATION LEAKED/RELEASED ON TWO NEW EPISODES. THE NAME "FALL OF THE COMPANY" IS COMPLETLY FALSE THOUGH THE EPISODE DIALOGUE SEEMS CONSISTENT WITH MANY WEBSITES, THERE IS ALSO AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS SUCRE WHO STATES THAT FILMING WILL TAKE PLACE IN MAY WHICH COULD SUGGEST THAT SEASON 3 MAY ACTUALLY CONTINUE AND BE SCREENED FROM JULY ONWARDS (HENSE THE INTERNET REPORTS OF A LEAKED NEW EPISODE). THOUGH THIS COULD ALSO MEAN FILMING OF A NEW SEASON 4 WHICH YOU WOULD EXPECT TO BE SCREENED IN ITS USUAL AUTUMN START. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.11.13 (talk) 09:25, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

There are no more episodes of Season 3. I've again updated the page to remove the old (and currently incorrect) statement: "However, according to Fox Networks, the show will most probably go in Hiatus until new episodes can be written and produced." Replacing it with one that matches the main page which states "Due to the Writer's strike, which lasted 100 days, only 13 episodes were produced for the third season, all of which have aired as of February 2008." I have not included the reference on the main page because when I visited it I could find no information on Prison Break - there should be a clearer reference page. At any rate here is a reference for you from Nick Santora - one of the writers/producers of the show: [click here]. Not only did he make it clear that Season 3 is over, he also made it clear that as of yet no further episodes for a new season have been written. So unless you can produce better-quality sources then all you're hearing is a rumour. PlikPlok (talk) 08:48, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't think those episodes are notable enough to have their own article.

I mean look at them, all they have are plot summaries and trivia sections. They would probably fit as one season per page, but one episode per page, give me a break, I don't think they are notable enough to have their own page. What is there to say about those episodes? Is any way we can make real world information to any of those episodes? I doubt that, I suggest merging. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 14:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

but "Sona (Prison Break episode)" is the season final... so much new info... and shows a new cute muscle man standing above bellick in the end... --Homer Landskirty (talk) 16:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

You may be right, but most of those articles have nothing but plot and trivia sections, and I can't see how that's notable. I'm not as obsessed with merging as TTN, but I know he was right to merge episode articles. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 22:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Alot of the season 3 episodes I have edited and thus do not contain trivia sections since I last edited them, most have a screenshot from the episode, international broadcast dates and a detailed summary. I say do not delete them. They are fine. Instead, lets build them up to meet the guidelines listed in WP:EPISODES. --Lakeyboy (talk) 05:13, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, do whatever you want, I don't really care anymore. I just thought this needed to be merged... Oh and by the way, I never suggested a deletion, there is a difference between deletion and merging. It's just that many well known shows like Charmed got their episode article merged, so I thought PB needed it too. Again, do what you want, I already have stated everything I have to state here. TheBlazikenMaster (talk) 00:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not certainly sure if merging would help in this situation. Plots have a lots information and after merging IMO it could be useless for readers, coz it's hard to read one big article instead of several smalls.Andrew₁₈ ^@ 12:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I am with the merge. We can keep the pilot and some significant episodes, if any, and merge the rest. A TV series is more than just the collection of its episodes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Agree, please merge. The current, hugely overblown plot renarrations are very poorly written, unstructured and uninformative, and there's not much else in the articles besides them. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:21, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Agree, as above. Eusebeus (talk) 15:38, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Redirect the episodes that consists of nothing but plot and trivia, but leave any ep article intact (for now) that has some non-trivial production and reception info in it. Then it's possible to judge if season articles are worth it for actual merging (I guess so), or whether only the most important episodes should stay, without season articles. – sgeureka ^t•c 20:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

No, they shouldn't be merged. They should be left alone and editors should be allowed to improve the articles. And somehow I get the feeling the article won't actually be merged, just redirected. --Pixelface (talk) 03:31, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

The episodes can all have their notability established. You can redirect them and slowly bring them back, or you can leave them and slowly establish their notability. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contributions) 07:00, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I think every episode should have its own article.Gevorg89 (talk) 14:33, 4 June 2008 (UTC) P.S. Who deleted Season 4 episode 1 article (Scylla)?

I agree every episode should have it's own article. Johntex\^talk 22:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I am sick of people deleting the episodes of various T.V shows. I prefer each episode having it's own article because look at the Stargate SG-1 episode list. It tells you nothing if you are looking for infomation on specific episodes which is one of the reasons I go on this website, please don't do to Prison Break epsiodes what occured to the SG-1 episodes. Series premiere (remake) (talk) 13:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I think each episode should have its own article because all the episodes are good.Gevorg89 (talk) 09:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

They are good but not notable. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

How about merging them, and then give each season their own individual articles, take 24, Lost, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, The Simpsons etc etc, for example. And what about keeping the pilot episode, as pilots are usually notable enough. -- Matthew R Dunn (talk) 15:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Applying some IAR in these cases to notability wouldn't be a bad idea. People come here to look it up. These articles are useful and well written. The episodes were viewed by millions of people. There is no reason to go all bureaucratic and delete them because they don't follow your notability standards, because they almost certainly are notable for other people. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 19:36, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Creating 4 season article it's the best idea I think. Every season has each own characteristics. This solves the problem of notability. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Please don't merge the articles. I just started the wikiproject Prison Break and will work on each episode and seasons articles these days.If u can help than please participate in the project. It's done after the model of Lost and now Lost has it's own episode articles. The episodes started as plot summaries but will later expand to production, cast, reception .... The Seasons are on DVDs now and have their commentaries and like the simpsons and futurama this will help in the production section of the article's sections. So, please don't merge anything now. --Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 10:58, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Title of 4x01

According to the sources of SpoilerTV, the season premiere will be called Scylla. [| Source]

Soulslayer X 16:39, 8 May 2008 (CEST)

Please, don't add it yet. This is an unverified spoiler. Please wait for an official announcement. Why are you on hurry? Next season starts in some months. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Images will be deleted

According to WP:CSD I7, I am going to delete all screenshot images from the episode infoboxes of this series, for blatantly failing WP:NFCC #8. All the images in this series I've seen are used without any link to analytical discussion. Most are, in fact, completely random, generic images of this or that character just standing around somewhere or talking in some indescript scene – they thus have no function at all, not even identifying some notable plot line.

Note that fair-use screenshot images only make sense when they are used to support analytical commentary in the text. That presupposes that articles actually engage in analytical commentary. Since these articles don't do that (all of the ones I've seen are plot-renarration only), there is no conceivable way they could support a valid fair use case for images.

Since this is a bulk case, I'll spare myself the trouble of individually tagging and making notifications in every single case; I assume that people interested in the series are watching this page. Deletions will take place in about 48h, according to the rules.

Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:47, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

So are you going to do this with all the episode guides or are you just targeting these ones for some reason?--CyberGhostface (talk) 14:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

It's been done with many other series already, I'm not the only person to do it. This was just a particularly blatant case I happened to come across by chance and that hadn't been done yet. I'll probably proceed to others, but with no particular schedule and only to the degree I find the time and energy. It's a rather tedious and thankless job after all. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:45, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

And please don't go replacing the deleted images with yet others that have exactly the same problem. I'm going to delete the new one right away. If you want images, first write something that warrants an image. Analytical, sourced commentary. First you do the analysis, then, if and when it turns out that there is something to analyse that requires an image to be understood, then and only then go and look for an image. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I replaced the image becasue I had no idea why it was deleted in the first place, because no one had bothered to warn me. I don't speak for all editors here, but I've barely touched this page so I had no idea that this was even going on until you mass-deleted all the images. And considering that no one replied in the 48 hours since you posted this, I'm willing to bet a lot of others didn't see it other.--CyberGhostface (talk) 15:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion under I7 requires notification of the uploader, Fut.Perf. -- Ned Scott 06:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:NOT a bureaucracy. I notified people here. Given that it was a bulk case and tedious enough to do as it was, I felt this was sufficient. If this missed out on people, I apologise. But then, it's also a WP:SNOW issue. Even if a dozen more editors had become aware of it, there'd been no way on earth they could have saved the images – short of rewriting the articles from scratch, and not even then in some cases. Did you look at them? Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:13, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

No, but I recall being the one that said we should add the 48 hour thing to I7 after it was added (by someone else) to WP:NFCC, so I'm pretty sure of its criteria. There's nothing overly bureaucratic about leaving the uploader notice of deletion. I know it's probably no big deal, but it's a pet peeve of mine. -- Ned Scott 07:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Not overly bureaucratic? It would have cost me at least half an hour doing all the tagging and notifying. It cost me about an hour doing the deletions and de-linking alone. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

If you don't have the time then don't do the speedy deletion. They could have been deleted anyways under another CSD with the same amount of effort, but just spread out time wise, which would have also given the uploaders a fair chance at review. -- Ned Scott 07:56, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong, I don't really care, and I doubt it really matters, but it does bother me a little bit, so here I am. Take it for what you will, but I'm just noting a minor objection to the process followed, and am not looking to make it into a big deal. -- Ned Scott 08:02, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

"If you don't have the time to waste double the necessary amount of time cleaning up the house, then don't clean up the house" doesn't strike me as a very convincing argument. This was the cleanest and quickest way of getting the correct result. And I don't see how any other process would have been less painful, either for the admin or for the uploaders. – But if you have a better idea where a central notification announcement could be made in future cases so as to reach more people, I'd be glad to hear. Perhaps the television wikiproject? Strictly speaking, the CSD rules don't specify that notifications must be made on people's talkpages, and to act in the spirit rather than the letter of the rule, I guess notifying the active maintainer community is more important in such a case than notifying an individual (who may have left or moved on to other articles anyway.) That's what I was trying to do with this page. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough, you do make a good point about trying to give notice in the most noticeable area, rather than an uploader that may or may not be active. I guess I didn't really look at it that way. -- Ned Scott 08:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review is at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_May_24--CyberGhostface (talk) 21:56, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Source for the show being set in 2005

The article presently asserts that the first season “covers approximately six weeks of the characters' lives (from April 11th to May 27th, 2005)”. What is the source for the year? I just watched the season on DVD and I do not recall any mention of the year. It seems more likely that it was set a few years in the future, not the year in which it aired. --Mathew5000 (talk) 18:25, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

There is a shot of a driver's license and a mention an age at some point, which is how it was calculated. If I'm remembering the right show. NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 00:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

the making-of

what about the "making of prison break?" I've actually found the watching kind of nice... it brought me down to who the actors really are, e.g. Abruzzi and T-Bag. the thing is, it doesn't appear anywhere! I thought it would have been listed in the specials...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846712/ Twipley (talk) 20:24, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Season 4 length misinformation

The top of the page falsely informs viewers that there will be 22 epizodes in Season 4. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alcator (talk • contribs) 17:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

and now changed to 24... what is it? 82.131.76.19 (talk) 17:10, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Apparently there are two new episodes that have been announced as a possible two hour season finale. -- Tyler D Mace (talk · contr) 17:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Just to make this clear... There will be more than 14 episodes, right? --Ratchet93 (talk) 22:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Still there is 22 in the head article and 24 in the box with List of seasons. 83.10.217.198 (talk) 20:33, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

There will be 22 episodes in season 4. The additional 2 episodes has yet to be determined by the network. [2] --Erroneuz1 (talk) 06:17, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I didn't understand nothing from [this source]. I did'nt see anywhere to be written something like "there will be 24 eipsodes in season 4". --Batman tas (talk) 15:42, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I just went to TV.com and saw the two episodes. --Batman tas (talk) 15:44, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

the current link to thefutoncritic helps explain how the dvd release of those final two production season 4 episodes might or might not air on tv because of ownership rights and stuff Grande13 (talk) 18:03, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Plot "summaries" for each episode

The plot summaries given for each episode are not very useful (at least, in the sections for seasons 3 and 4, which are the only ones I glanced at). They don't say much, and a lot of them are tongue-in-cheek (as in "Michael drops the chicken foot on a certain con," emphasis added). I don't know if these have been copied directly from promotional materials or TV listings, or if they were just written in that way by an inexperienced editor, but anyway, these summaries should provide information, not attempt to "hook" the reader in. It seems to me that the only solution to the way they are currently written is to expand them to make them more detailed and less tongue-in-cheek, or to remove them entirely. Because of space limitations in the article, expanding the plot summaries will probably mean splitting this into four lists (one for each season). Any thoughts? —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 04:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Expanding the edit summaries is on my to-do list, and probably will be done by next week.

Instead of splitting this article into multiple lists, just remove the plot summaries on this page and expand the ones on the individual articles (Example formatting: see this and this). - NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 04:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

That format looks perfect. Glad to hear you're already on it! :) —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 04:57, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Paul Scheuring writer for The Final Break?

Where has it been confirmed that Paul Scheuring is the writer for The Final Break? Until this has a source, I do not think it should be listed here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.130.0.226 (talk) 21:35, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

I added a source for it, but there is still a bunch of missing information. I'll see if I can get to cleaning up this article soon. NW (Talk) ^{(How am I doing?)} 21:57, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Excellent news that it's semi confirmed. I'll believe it when I see it but an Amazon listing I suppose is semi solid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.189.229 (talk) 01:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

FL

Could someone nominate this for FL? I will address the issues raised there. 107.22.97.150 (talk) 14:12, 25 July 2012 (UTC)