The purpose of the {{Episode table}} template is to easily add header row to episode tables for television series, with up to 13 different columns, and optionally set the widths of these columns, and includes the {{Episode list}} template in the "episode" parameter. Cells are included by declaring the specific variable in one of two ways: title= includes the "Title" cell with no set width, and title=30 includes the "Title" cell with a width of 30%.

Standard columns:

{{Episode table|caption=This is a caption|background=#B40000 |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |prodcode=6 |viewers=9 |country=U.S.}}

This is a caption
No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

All columns:

{{Episode table |overall= |season= |title= |aux1= |director= |writer= |aux2= |aux3= |airdate= |altdate= |prodcode= |viewers= |aux4= |country= |aux1T=Aux1 |aux2T=Aux2 |aux3T=Aux3 |aux4T=Aux4 |altdateT=AltDate}}

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleAux1Directed byWritten byAux2Aux3Original air dateAltDateProd.
code
Viewers
(millions)
Aux4

With {{Episode list}}:
StoryEpisodeTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
UK viewers
(millions)
AI [1]
2031"The Eleventh Hour"Adam SmithSteven Moffat3 अप्रैल 2010 (2010-04-03)1.110.0986
2042"The Beast Below"Andrew GunnSteven Moffat10 अप्रैल 2010 (2010-04-10)1.28.4286

For seasons which have been split into parts, use {{Episode table/part}}, as per the examples below. The part row has a HTML ID attribute applied to it, equal to the text displayed; i.e. the ID attributes of the following examples will be "Part 1" and "Athelstan's Journal".

{{Episode table/part|p=1|c=#183E54}}

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
Part 1

{{Episode table/part|p=Athelstan's Journal|c=#061453|nopart=y}}

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateLength
(minutes)
Athelstan's Journal

Each cell parameter has an alias to match the parameters used in {{Episode list}}. In the Cell Inclusion & Widths rows, the original parameter is listed, followed by its episode-list alias. This means that this:

{{Episode table |background=#B40000 |overall=5 |season=5 |title=17 |director=11 |writer=37 |airdate=10 |prodcode=6 |viewers=9 |country=U.S.}}

will produce exactly the same as this:

{{Episode table |background=#B40000 |EpisodeNumber=5 |EpisodeNumber2=5 |Title=17 |DirectedBy=11 |WrittenBy=37 |OriginalAirDate=10 |ProdCode=6 |Viewers=9 |country=U.S.}}
Template parameters
Parameter Description Type Status
Table caption caption A caption should be provided that describes in general the content of the table. By default, the caption uses {{Screen reader-only}} to not be visually displayed in a browser, but still be present and voiced by a screen reader for accessibility. To make the caption visible, use |show_caption=y. e.g. NCIS season 11 episodes Wikitext Required for accessibility
Background color background The background color of the header row. If no color is specified, the background defaults to #CCCCFF.
Format: white / #FFFFFF
String Optional
Total width total_width Table width defaults to 100%. For tables that are less than 100%, set this field as necessary, with or without a percentage sign. Set to "auto" or blank to remove the set width and allow the table to display naturally.
Format: 75
Number Optional
Anchor anchor In {{Episode list}}, |EpisodeNumber= is a number representing the episode's order in the series. For example, the first episode would be 1. When defined, the specified number also generates a link anchor, prefixed by "ep"; for example, "[[List of episodes#ep1]]"; see more at Template:Episode list § EpisodeNumber. In the case of multiple tables with the same anchored episode number, the anchor can be made unique with the |anchor= parameter in the call of {{Episode table}}. For example, if |anchor= in this template is set to "Minisodes", then the anchor will be "[[List of episodes#Minisodesep1]]". Wikitext Optional
Cell Inclusion & Widths* Overall Number overall
EpisodeNumber
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "No." / "No. overall" cell.
Use |forceoverall=y to force this column to display "No. overall" when season/series is not set. Change the "overall" term by using |overall_type=)
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Season season
EpisodeNumber2
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "No. in season" cell.
(Inclusion will set "No." cell to "No. overall" if overallT is unset. Change the "season" term by using |season_type=)
Format: 10 / <blank>
Note: "series" and "season" cannot be included in the same table.
Number Optional
Series series
EpisodeNumber2Series
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "No. in series" cell.
(Inclusion will set "No." cell to "No. overall" if overallT is unset. Change the "series" term by using |series_type=)
Format: 10 / <blank>
Note: "series" and "season" cannot be included in the same table.
Number Optional
Title title
Title
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Title" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Aux1 aux1
Aux1
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Aux1" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Director director
DirectedBy
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Directed by" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Writer writer
WrittenBy
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Written by" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Aux2 aux2
Aux2
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Aux2" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Aux3 aux3
Aux3
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Aux3" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Air Date airdate
OriginalAirDate
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Original air date" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Alternate Air Date altdate
AltDate
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Alternate Air Date" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Production Code prodcode
ProdCode
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Production code" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Viewers viewers
Viewers
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Viewers" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Aux4 aux4
Aux4
The inclusion (and optionally the width) of the "Aux4" cell.
Format: 10 / <blank>
Number Optional
Content Country country The series' originating country; displayed before "viewers".
(Exclusion capitalized "Viewers"; inclusion un-capitalizes "viewers".)
Format: U.S.
String Optional / Unrequired when viewers is not set
Released/Aired released Determines whether the episodes were released online or aired. Changes the "Original air date" cell to "Original release date".
Format: y
String Optional
Viewers type viewers_type The numeric format that viewers are grouped within the episode table. Set to "millions" by default. Including the parameter but leaving it blank will disclude the bracketed format.
Format: thousands
String Optional
Variable Content {variable}T Custom content of any cell (e.g. overallT, titleT).
Format: Any string
String Optional / Required when aux{1-4} and altdate set
Reference {variable}R Reference for any cell (e.g. overallR, titleR). If Wikipedia's link colours are not WCAG 2 AAA Compliant with the background colour, {{Episode table/ref}} is used to provide the reference with a compliant background colour.
Format: Reference
Reference Optional
Episodes episodes An infinite number of consecutive episode rows.
Format: {{Episode list}} or {{Episode table/part}}
Template Required when using {{Episode list}}
Don't Close dontclose Set this parameter to "y" to be able to close the initial wikicode declaration of the episode table, but to be able to continue displaying the separate episode rows after the header but outside of the initial declaration. Particularly useful for when the individual rows have to be transcluded outside of the article and thus must be outside of a template, or in articles with lots of templates that would otherwise exceed the post-expand include size limit. To close the initial declaration, </table> must be used. Text Optional

*: These variables can be included but not set to a value, e.g. |title=, which will include the cell but not set a width to it.