This is the list of episodes for Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 2001 to May 16, 2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Medical Examiner's Office...

, an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 from September 24, 2001 to May 16, 2007. It stars Jill Hennessy

Jill Hennessy

Jillian Noel "Jill" Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician known for her television roles on Law & Order and Crossing Jordan.-Early life:...

 as the crime-solving medical examiner

Medical examiner

A medical examiner is a medically qualified government officer whose duty is to investigate deaths and injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests....

, Jordan Cavanaugh. The show uses an ensemble cast

Ensemble cast

An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows flexibility for writers to focus on...

 approach featuring a group of Jordan's co-workers, members of the Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 Medical Examiner's Office and police detectives assigned to the various cases. It was created by Tim Kring

Tim Kring

Richard Timothy "Tim" Kring is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the television series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, and Heroes.Kring is Jewish...

. The title refers to both the name of the main character and the biblical

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 metaphor of the ancient Hebrews

Hebrews

Hebrews is an ethnonym used in the Hebrew Bible...

 crossing the Jordan River, commonly used in spiritual songs

Spiritual (music)

Spirituals are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America.-Terminology and origin:...

 to represent death and passage to the afterlife.

Crossing Jordan is part of the same fictional universe as Las Vegas

Las Vegas (TV series)

Las Vegas was an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working at the ficticional Montecito Resort & Casino dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and...

, another television series that aired on NBC. There are many crossover episodes between the shows. The crossovers included in the list are those which involve more than one character or are two-part stories where the first part is in one show and the second part is in the other show.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Premiere	Finale	U.S. Ratings			DVD releases
					Average viewers (millions)	Rank	18-49 rating/share Nielsen Ratings Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...	North America	United Kingdom	Australia
	1	23	September 24, 2001	May 13, 2002	12.8	28		May 6, 2008		November 19, 2008
	2	22	September 23, 2002	May 5, 2003	10.6	44
	3	13	March 7, 2004	June 6, 2004	12.33	24	4.5/11
	4	21	September 26, 2004	May 15, 2005	11.7	30	4.0/10
	5	21	September 25, 2005	May 7, 2006	10.9	40	3.3/8
	6	17	January 14, 2007	May 16, 2007	7.2	81	2.2/5

Season 1: 2001–2002

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Season 2: 2002–2003

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Season 3: 2004

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Season 4: 2004–2005

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Season 5: 2005–2006

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Season 6: 2007

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