| "The Finale" | |
|---|---|
| Seinfeld episodes | |
| Episode nos. | Season 9 Episodes 23 and 24 |
| Directed by | Andy Ackerman |
| Written by | Larry David |
| Production code | 923/924 |
| Original air date | May 14, 1998 |
| Running time | 56 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"The Finale" is the series finale of the American television sitcom Seinfeld. It is the 23rd and 24th episode of the ninth season, and the 179th and the 180th episode overall.[1] The episode, written by series co-creator Larry David and directed by Andy Ackerman, originally aired on NBC on May 14, 1998, to an audience of 76 million viewers, making it so the fourth-most watched overall television series finale. In the preceding hour, a clip show called "The Chronicle" (also called "The Clip Show") aired. The initial running time for the finale was 1 hour and 15 minutes.[2]
In this episode, Jerry and George's Jerry pilot is finally picked up as a series by NBC. However, when their private plane is forced to land in a small town in Massachusetts, Jerry, George, and their friends Elaine and Kramer unknowingly violate a local duty to rescue law (referred to as a Good Samaritan law in the episode's dialogue) and are put on trial. Co-creator Larry David, who departed from the series after the seventh season, returned to write the script for this last episode.