One Tree Hill is an American teen drama television series created by Mark Schwahn which follows the eventful lives of some high-school kids in Tree Hill, a small but not too quiet town in North Carolina.
The series aired in the USA on The WB (which became The CW in 2006) from 23 September, 2003 to 4 April, 2012. There are 187 hour-long episodes in nine seasons.
The series premiered in South Africa on DStv's GO channel (which became Vuzu on 1 July, 2009) on Thursday 7 October, 2004. It later aired on TopTV's Top One channel and on DStv's M-Net Series channel (last season only, replacing Vuzu).
See "Seasons" below for seasonal broadcast dates and times.
Season 1
Tree Hill is a small town in North Carolina, home to the famous High School basketball team "The Tree Hill Ravens" and two half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott. The two brothers have grown up in the same town, but have had little or no contact with each other due to the influence of their mutual father, Dan Scott.
Dan dated Lucas' mother Karen Roe in High School but left her and his unborn child (Lucas) behind to go to college and pursue a basketball scholarship. In college, he met Nathan's mother Deb, who also became pregnant.
Dan married Deb and provided her and Nathan with a stable home and rich lifestyle. In stark contrast, he never once tried to become a part of Lucas' life.
Lucas was raised single-handedly by Karen, with help from his paternal uncle Keith, the father figure in his life.
Nathan, a hot, young stud, plays for the Ravens, just as Dan did in his High School days but Lucas is forced to confine his talent to the River Court, until an opening in the lineup gives Keith an idea; he recommends Lucas to the Ravens' Coach, Whitey Durham, who asks Lucas to play. This adds to the tension between Lucas and Nathan.
Nathan, encouraged by Dan, tries to make life on the team difficult for Lucas, especially since Lucas has his eye on Nathan's girlfriend Peyton Sawyer. Peyton dumps Nathan when she tires of his attitude towards her, towards Lucas and towards the fact that Nathan is using Lucas’ best friend Haley James to get at Lucas.
To Nathan's surprise, he falls in love with Haley and she with him, although their relationship puts a strain on Lucas and Haley's friendship.
Lucas starts dating Peyton's best friend Brooke Davis but his feelings for Peyton resurface and they end up being unfaithful to Brooke, who wants nothing more to do with either of them once she finds out.
Brooke has a pregnancy scare later in the season, putting Lucas in Dan's position; Lucas understands for the first time why Dan did what he did and decides that he doesn't want to do the same thing so he offers to be there for Brooke and the baby, leading a guilty Brooke to confess that she lied about being pregnant to punish Lucas for cheating on her with Peyton.
Peyton gets close to single father Jake Jagielski and his baby, Jenny, but the return of Jenny's mother Nicki and her decision to battle Jake for sole custody of Jenny drives Jake out of Tree Hill and leaves Peyton on her own.
Karen heads to Italy for a few weeks and leaves Lucas in Keith's care. Lucas almost dies in a car accident caused by Keith's drinking. He also sustains a very serious shoulder injury and Karen's potential romance with Keith is destroyed as a result.
Deb tires of the pressure Dan puts on Nathan and seeks a divorce from Dan, but things turn nasty and Nathan is caught in the middle of his warring parents.
After learning that Deb once had an affair, Nathan emancipates himself and moves into his own apartment.
Karen and Deb become friends and go into partnership together at Karen's café while Keith is forced to sell his Auto-Shop to Dan to pay Lucas' medical bills.
Keith proposes to Karen but she turns him down so he decides to leave Tree Hill and move to Charleston.
In the season finale, the Playoffs have arrived and with Whitey in hospital having eye surgery, Dan is now coaching the team. Lucas and Nathan form a united front against their father but end up losing the Playoffs and their season is over.
Lucas decides to move to Charleston with Keith and he and Nathan part on good terms.
Haley decides that she wants to sleep with Nathan and is ready to lose her virginity to him. They make plans to do it after the game. Dan walks in on Keith and Deb sleeping together and then suffers a massive heart attack the next morning as a result.
Brooke and Peyton reunite and concoct a plan to get rid of Nicki; Brooke tells Nicki that Jake took Jenny to Seattle (he actually took her to Savannah) and Nicki sets off, leaving Brooke and Peyton delighted.
They vow never to let another guy come between them again. Karen gives her consent for Lucas to leave with Keith, but reminds him; "There is only one Tree Hill - and it's your home".
Lucas comes to Nathan's apartment to say goodbye to Haley and it seems obvious to him that they slept together, which surprises him as she had said that she would not sleep with anyone until she was married.
He confronts Haley about it and is astounded when she announces that she and Nathan got married the night before. Following this groundbreaking revelation, Lucas and Keith leave Tree Hill.
Season 2
After Lucas and Keith learn of Dan's heart attack, they return to Tree Hill and Dan decides he wants to get to know Lucas. Lucas cautiously enters into a relationship with his father.
After Dan learns that Lucas has inherited his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the genetic defect which caused Dan's own heart attack, he convinces Lucas to move in with him and pays for his medication, keeping his condition a secret.
Dan also agrees to stay away from Keith and his girlfriend Jules (guest star, Maria Menounos) as Lucas discovers that Dan hired Jules to make Keith fall in love with her and then break his heart to get back at Keith for sleeping with Deb. Jules leaves Keith at the altar and he leaves Tree Hill with a broken heart.
Nathan and Haley receive a visit from Haley's wild older sister, Taylor James (guest star, Lindsey McKeon) who is revealed to have been the first girl Nathan ever slept with, long before he met Haley.
To make things worse, the marriage is tested even further with the arrival of Chris Keller (guest star, Tyler Hilton), a musician who convinces Haley to leave Nathan and Tree Hill to come on tour with him.
In despair, Nathan attempts to kill himself by crashing a race car but a dream makes him realise that he has to get on with life without Haley and so he allows papers to be drawn up to annul their marriage.
Peyton starts an all-ages club named TRIC but at the same time, finds herself tempted to take drugs and enters a dark place in her life, which Jake helps her out of when he returns.
Jake and Peyton fall in love and begin a relationship, but Jake is forced to leave Peyton and Tree Hill once again when Nicki kidnaps Jenny and disappears with her.
Brooke begins the season by forming a "Friends With Benefits" arrangement with her new neighbour, Felix Taggarro (guest star, Michael Copon), but after her parents lose all their money, Brooke discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.
She runs for Student Council President and is elected over her bitter opponent, Erica Marsh (guest star, Katherine Bailess). She dumps Felix after discovering he vandalized Peyton's locker and Felix is sent to Military School by his parents. Brooke gets close to Lucas and moves into his old bedroom after her parents move to California.
Lucas dates Felix's sister Anna (guest star, Daniella Alonso) but ends things with her after realising that he still holds a torch for Brooke. Anna's break-up with Lucas leaves her confused about her sexuality.
After kissing Peyton in a misunderstanding, Anna starts coming to terms with the fact that she is bisexual. After coming out to her parents, Anna returns to her old Boarding School to be with her girlfriend.
Dan and Deb reconcile, united in their disapproval of Nathan's marriage. Lucas finds out Deb has developed an addiction to painkillers and after Nathan's car accident, she tries to overcome it by going to rehab, blaming her unhappy marriage to Dan for her addiction.
Karen dates her business professor, the much younger Andy Hargrove (guest star, Kieren Hutchison), who makes an enemy out of Dan.
In the season finale, Andy is forced to return to New Zealand and look after his ill mother. Karen decides to go after him but is concerned that he hasn't checked into his hotel. Before Karen leaves Tree Hill, she thinks she sees Keith on the street opposite the café.
Deb is discharged from rehab and learns that Dan tried to make Nathan feel guilty for her addiction. Deb tells Nathan that she wants them to make a fresh start away from Tree Hill and Lucas gives her the ledger of Dan's illegal business activities, which Andy uncovered.
Dan blackmails Deb into giving the ledger back to him and disowns Lucas for betraying him. Nathan also disowns Lucas because he is angry with him for interfering in his family.
Dan learns that Whitey has been telling Deb and Nathan a few home truths about him and threatens to have him fired. Lucas finally tells Brooke how he feels about her but she leaves for a summer in California without telling him how she herself feels.
Peyton receives chilling instant-messages from someone named "WATCHMEWATCHU" and believes that it is the mysterious reporter, Ellie Harp (guest star, Sheryl Lee). Ellie comes to Peyton's house and shocks Peyton by telling her that she is her mother.
Dan finds a white substance on the rim of a bottle left for him anonymously at the dealership and discovers he has been poisoned. Before Dan falls unconscious, a black-clad figure enters his office and sets it alight.
Nathan moves back in with Deb but gets a surprise when he arrives home to find Haley on his doorstep. Lucas and Peyton find themselves alone on the beach together and realise that it's just the two of them this summer.
Season 3
Three months later, things pick up where they left off at the beginning of the summer. Lucas and Peyton spent their summer together and are hiding a secret from Brooke when she returns from California and proposes a non-exclusive relationship with Lucas.
Brooke takes pity on a homeless Haley and takes her on as her roommate. Haley tries to win back Nathan, who has spent the summer at "High Flyers", a basketball camp, however Nathan isn't ready to trust Haley again. He pays Chris to come back to Tree Hill and help Haley with her music.
Chris causes even more trouble this time round when he sleeps with Brooke, almost destroying her relationship with Lucas. Nathan and Haley get back together as do Lucas and Brooke. Nathan and Chris part on good terms as Chris leaves Tree Hill for good.
Peyton tries to come to terms with the fact that Ellie is her birth mother and the fact that Ellie has breast cancer. They make a benefit album together called "Friends With Benefits" in aid of breast cancer research but Ellie dies shortly after the album is finished.
Everyone returns to Tree Hill High to begin their senior year and basketball practice starts up again. Whitey reveals to the Ravens that win or lose, this is his last season as coach while Lucas tries to conceal his HCM from Karen and Whitey, despite the serious impact it is having on his performance.
Dan survives the fire at the dealership and it is revealed that Lucas pulled him out of the burning dealership. Dan decides to run for Mayor but gets a nasty shock when Karen announces that she is running against him.
However, Dan wins the election and Deb flees Tree Hill when Lucas tells her that he knows she tried to kill Dan in the fire.
Keith returns and he and Karen start seeing each other, even getting engaged. Dan is convinced that Keith tried to kill him and sets about plotting his revenge.
Newcomer Rachel Gatina tries to come between Lucas and Brooke before setting her sights on Mouth McFadden. Mouth falls for Rachel only to discover that she is seeing Nathan's uncle, Cooper Lee (guest star, Michael Trucco) who is oblivious to Rachel's true age, 17.
Rachel also opens the Time Capsule recorded in Season Two and exposes it to the whole school in an attempt to cause trouble, but neither Rachel nor anyone else is prepared for the damage it causes: Lucas and Mouth's former friend, Jimmy Edwards (guest star, Colin Fickes), bullied and tormented for voicing his contempt towards other students on the Time Capsule, takes the school hostage with a gun.
Peyton gets shot in the leg and kisses Lucas when he looks after her in the library, the kiss taking on a greater significance than either of them will admit.
Dan allows Keith into the school, Keith is convinced he can get through to Edwards, however Edwards ends up taking his own life and when Dan finds Keith kneeling over Edwards' body, Dan picks up the gun and fatally shoots his brother.
Keith's death makes everyone re-evaluate their lives: Nathan proposes to Haley again and they move back in together. Brooke moves in with Peyton who has a brief relationship with Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy before going to find Jake and Jenny in Savannah.
Lucas tells Karen and Whitey about his HCM results, then quits the Ravens. And Dan is haunted by visions of Keith as a child.
Peyton asks Jake to marry her, but Jake realizes that Peyton is in love with Lucas and sends her back to Tree Hill to deal with her feelings for him. Peyton confesses to a shocked Brooke that she still loves Lucas.
In the season finale, Nathan and Haley renew their vows in a beautiful ceremony. Deb has returned to Tree Hill and when she discovers that Dan thinks Keith was responsible for the dealership fire, she sets the record straight and tells him that she tried to kill him.
Dan realizes that he killed his brother for no reason and breaks down at Keith's grave. Later, Karen tells Dan that she is having Keith's baby and Dan promises Karen that he will be there for her this time.
Brooke is not speaking to Peyton and when Lucas lets slip that he and Peyton kissed on the day of the school shooting, she is devastated and tells Peyton that as far as she is concerned, their friendship is over.
Rachel is bitter over Cooper's rejection and drunkenly tells everyone at Nathan and Haley's wedding reception that Cooper slept with her even though he knew that she was only seventeen.
Rachel takes off in the wedding limo with Cooper and his attempts to talk her round eventually work. As Lucas and Karen leave the reception, he finds a pregnancy test in someone's purse. Lucas asks his mother if she is pregnant and she tells him that she is - but that's not her purse.
Rachel asks Cooper if there is anything that she can say to keep him. He solemnly tells her that there isn't, prompting Rachel to reveal something that causes a ferocious argument between them when Cooper refuses to believe her.
Rachel grabs control of the wheel and after a near-collision with Nathan and Haley (en route to London for their honeymoon), the limo veers off the bridge and into the water.
Against Haley's wishes, Nathan dives in to save them but ends up becoming trapped and stuck for air himself. And when Dan gets home he finds the word "MURDERER" smeared on his wall - someone knows what he did.
Season 4
As the end of High School approaches, everyone finds themselves at a crossroads in their lives. Nathan survives the accident and after some initial confusion, Haley is revealed to be pregnant while Rachel turns her attentions to Nathan after Cooper leaves town, using Nathan's theory that it was really Keith who saved him from the accident to get Nathan's attention.
Rachel backs off when she learns that Haley is pregnant and Nathan later learns that he had a vision of Keith and it was this vision that gave him the strength to get out of the water.
Shortly after finishing her friendship with Peyton, Brooke also breaks up with Lucas and then moves in with Rachel. Rachel sets Brooke up on a date with an older guy, Nick Chavez (guest star, Reynaldo Valentin), who turns out to be Brooke's new teacher.
After Brooke dumps Nick for cheating on her, Rachel informs Brooke that she is failing calculus and together, the two girls steal the calculus test from school but to cover their tracks, they are forced to join the "Clean Teens: Virgins for Life".
Newcomer Chase Adams (guest star, Stephen Colletti) also joins the Clean Teens and he and Brooke begin dating while Rachel is expelled for taking the fall for the stolen calculus test and later leaves Tree Hill with Mouth, who returns alone after she goes AWOL.
Skills Taylor becomes a Raven and Lucas is granted permission from Whitey to rejoin the team (as long as he keeps taking his heart medication and doesn't play for more than fifteen minutes per game).
In the run-up to the State Championship, Nathan borrows money from a loan shark, Daunte Jones (guest star, Rick Fox), who tells Nathan that the only way he can repay his debt is by shaving points in the semi-final and then by losing the State Championship.
When the Ravens actually end up winning, Daunte attempts to kill Nathan but instead hits Haley with his car and she is rushed to hospital along with Lucas, who had a heart attack because he didn't take his medication before the game.
While Lucas is unconscious, he has a vision of Keith, who shows Lucas how he has changed so many lives for the better and also tries to help Lucas remember what he saw on the day of the school shooting. Lucas wakes up with serious doubts about who killed Keith.
Meanwhile, Dan is in jail, covering for Nathan who beat Daunte to death in a rage for running Haley down. Daunte's autopsy results, however, show that he was killed in the car accident he had after hitting Haley, and not by the beating he was given so Dan is released and Nathan is overjoyed to learn that both Haley and the baby are going to be fine.
When Karen discovers that Dan was protecting Nathan all along, she starts to let Dan back in, realizing that he wants to be there for her and the baby. Deb, however, alienates everyone, including Karen, when her pill addiction resurfaces and she ends up overdosing.
To keep Deb on the straight and narrow, Nathan and Haley move in with her and throw a party on the night before prom where Mouth loses his virginity to Clean Teen Shelly Simon (guest star, Elisabeth Harnois), who runs out on him afterwards, and a tape from Nathan's past shows him having sex with Brooke after him and Peyton had called their relationship to an end.
Chase breaks up with Brooke because of this and Brooke's hopes of rekindling her friendship with Peyton are diminished.
When Brooke learns that Peyton isn't coming to prom, she goes looking for her and finds her tied up in the basement by her stalker, Ian Banks (guest star, Matt Barr), who terrorized her earlier in the season by posing as the half-brother she never knew she had, Derek Sommers (guest star, Ernest Waddell) and by sending her instant-messages under the username of "WATCHMEWATCHU".
The two girls defeat Ian together and restore their friendship in the process, moving into Nathan and Haley's old apartment together.
At prom, Lucas realises that a student named Abby Brown (guest star, Allison Scagliotti) witnessed Keith's murder and he confronts her about it - she tells him that Dan was the one who killed Keith, however Karen (having kissed Dan) refuses to believe Lucas.
Lucas steals Deb's gun and is about to shoot Dan when Karen collapses and is rushed to hospital with eclampsia. After an emergency C-section, Karen gives birth to a baby girl, Lily, though her own life hangs in the balance.
While Karen is battling for her life she has a dream where she sees Keith. She, Keith, and their daughter are in a garden looking at flowers and Keith tells Karen to go be with their daughter and says to Karen "look for me in the lily's".
When Karen wakes up she decides to call the baby Lily. Dan, meanwhile, turns himself in to the police.
Having finally gotten together, things are going well between Lucas and Peyton until she is offered an internship in Los Angeles.
Chase and Brooke get back together and Brooke owns up to stealing the calculus test, though is still allowed to graduate while Nathan also owns up to his point-shaving; Duke retract their scholarship offer but Whitey is offered a coaching job at a nearby college and convinces Nathan to come with him as his star player.
At graduation, Haley goes into labour during her valedictory speech.
In the season finale, Nathan and Haley become the proud parents of a baby boy named James Lucas Scott, choosing Lucas and Brooke as godparents, while Deb, in her role as the grandmother, seems to have finally found happiness.
Chase and Brooke consummate their relationship while Rachel returns to Tree Hill and throws a party for everyone. Mouth does something he's always wanted to do and kisses Brooke, while also making his peace with Shelly.
Karen takes Lily to Keith's grave and says they are going to visit him every day, while Dan's attempt to hang himself in prison fails.
Karen visits Dan (only to tell him that one day she'll have to explain to Lily that her father was killed by the brother he loved so much) but Lucas and Nathan both agree that they never want to see Dan again.
Lucas reveals that he will be Whitey's Assistant Coach at college and supports Peyton as she and Brooke prepare to go to LA together.
In the closing scene of the season, everyone heads to the River Court for a game of basketball; boys against the girls, followed by a one-on-one game between Lucas and Nathan, taking them back to the night Lucas became a Raven.
Season 5
It's been four years since the gang left Tree Hill in Season 4 and many things have changed.
Lucas has published his first novel, "An Unkindness of Ravens," and is working on his second. Along with Skills, Lucas also coaches his former high school basketball team, vowing to take the squad to another championship.
Peyton, who is at the beginning of a budding music venture, loved two things when she graduated from high school: Lucas and music. But did leaving Tree Hill for an internship at a record company in Los Angeles change her mind about either passion?
Peyton's best friend Brooke has been chasing her dream of becoming a top fashion designer with her clothing line Clothes over Bros. Four years later, Brooke finds herself at a crossroads; she has found some success, but at what cost?
Nathan and Haley, young parents who are trying to find their way, have also endured highs and lows - particularly those of Nathan's career path - but they have balanced this journey with the joys of parenthood as they raise their young son, Jamie.
Enduring his own struggles, Mouth continues to chase a career in broadcasting but is finding the on-air business to be cutthroat and difficult.
In the Season 5 premiere, Tree Hill is a new place. Much has changed in four years; but, in many ways, the journey is just beginning.
Season 6
Now beginning its sixth season, One Tree Hill will explore the journeys of its characters as they face the exciting possibility of dreams come true and the heartbreaking reality that being an adult isn’t as easy as it seems.
The sixth season will deal with themes of love, longing and loss as new relationships begin, others end, and through it all, these friends realize that life always leads you right where you belong.
After being left at the altar, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) decides to give love another chance and proposes to the woman of his dreams. As his second book goes into publication, he must find balance with his future as a husband and his career as a writer.
Peyton (Hilarie Burton) meets someone with a connection to her mother and, as she explores this new relationship, she learns about her past.
Brooke (Sophia Bush) makes a painful revelation as she struggles with Victoria (Daphne Zuniga) over the future of Clothes Over Bros, but how far will Victoria go and will the company survive this mother-daughter feud?
Nathan (James Lafferty) and Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) relish the joys of parenting their son Jamie (Jackson Brundage) and pursue their dreams of playing basketball and music professionally, but will their personal goals drive the family apart?
Mouth (Lee Norris) makes a tough decision about a job offer that might take him away from Millicent (Lisa Goldstein) and his life in Tree Hill.
As Skills (Antwon Tanner) coaches the Ravens and Deb (Barbara Alyn Woods) settles in as Jamie’s nanny, they must decide if they are ready to bring their relationship out into the open or if it is easier to call it quits.
And after being struck by a car, Dan’s (Paul Johansson) life hangs in the balance. Again.
In the sixth season premiere, the residents of Tree Hill are each faced with choices that will change their lives forever. As Lucas goes after the woman he wants to spend his life with, Brooke must deal with her mother being back in her life.
Meanwhile, Mouth and Millicent make a large step in their relationship; Dan has an encounter with a person from his past; and Peyton finally gets to live out her dream.
Season 7
This season, One Tree Hill introduces new characters and stories to complement an established core of beloved faces.
Navigating their twenties without a road map, the denizens of Tree Hill are finding more questions than answers. But sometimes the search for answers leads you to great places - places you were meant to be. And sometimes simply finding the right person to ride shotgun on your journey is the most important piece to the puzzle.
In season seven, our characters struggle to keep their dreams alive, their friendships intact, and their lives full, in the place they call home.
Having finally professed her love for Julian (Austin Nichols), Brooke (Sophia Bush) tries to reconcile her desire for a stable home life with the uncertainty of dating a film producer.
Meanwhile, as his NBA career flourishes, Nathan (James Lafferty) navigates the pitfalls of being in the spotlight, with the help of his charismatic sports agent and friend, Clay (Robert Buckley).
Equally busy recording for Red Bedroom Records, Haley's (Bethany Joy Galeotti) attempt to juggle motherhood, a career, and a famous husband are complicated when her free-spirited sister Quinn (Shantel VanSanten) returns with a surprising revelation.
Jamie (Jackson Brundage) remains the brightest spot in Nathan and Haley's lives as they refuse to let him get lost in the shadows of their successful careers.
Millie's (Lisa Goldstein) relationship with Mouth (Lee Norris) is challenged when she forms a friendship with the new face of Clothes Over Bros, starlet and train-wreck, Alex (Jana Kramer).
Skills (Antwon Tanner) must choose between a settled life with Lauren (Allison Munn) and his desire for a new and exciting career.
Finally, with the knowledge that his weakening heart could fail at any moment, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson) struggles to find forgiveness in what little time he has left on the earth.
Season 8
Season eight of One Tree Hill sees the characters moving away from glamour, fame and wealth and instead dealing with the delicate balance that contemporary twenty-somethings face as they endeavour to build and define what their lives will be.
Fashion designer Brooke Davis loses her company but finds love with Julian Baker, is married and gives birth to twins.
Haley James Scott supports her husband Nathan as he loses his NBA career to an injury, but she also wins a personal battle with depression and ultimately gives birth to a daughter to compliment their son Jamie.
Nathan's friend and business partner Clay Evans survives an attack by the psychotic Katie to find love and happiness with Quinn James, who not only survives the same attack, but also vanquishes the threat of Katie in a harrowing confrontation.
Alex Dupré begins a promising singing career and also a promising relationship with Chase Evans, who joined the Air Force and returns with a newfound maturity and perspective.
And Millicent Huxtable begins a broadcasting career, ultimately launching a morning show with her boyfriend Mouth McFadden.
Season 9
Season eight of One Tree Hill saw the characters moving away from glamour, fame and wealth and instead dealing with the delicate balance that contemporary twenty-somethings face as they endeavor to build and define what their lives will be.
Fashion designer Brooke Davis lost her company but found love with Julian Baker, was married and gave birth to twins.
Haley James Scott supported her husband Nathan as he lost his NBA career to an injury, but she also won a personal battle with depression and ultimately gave birth to a daughter to compliment their son Jamie.
Nathan's friend and business partner Clay Evans survived an attack by the psychotic Katie to find love and happiness with Quinn James, who not only survived the same attack, but also vanquished the threat of Katie in a harrowing confrontation.
Alex Dupré began a promising singing career and also a promising relationship with Chase Evans, who joined the Air Force and returned with a newfound maturity and perspective.
And Millicent Huxtable began a broadcasting career, ultimately launching a morning show with her boyfriend Mouth McFadden.
In season nine, how will Brooke and Julian juggle parenthood and their very young careers? With Nathan traveling more as an agent, how will Haley's life change with a second child, an increasingly independent Jamie, and a busy café to run?
Is a wedding in store for Quinn and Clay? Or Mouth and Millicent? And what's to become of Alex and Chase and their burgeoning romance?
Following a fictional four year jump in time, One Tree Hill has now spent four seasons exploring the experiences of twenty-somethings. Season nine will continue to grow and break new ground, as the show approaches the rarified air of 200 episodes.
The series stars James Lafferty as Nathan Scott, Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis, Bethany Joy Galeotti as Haley James Scott, Robert Buckley as Clay Evans, Austin Nichols as Julian Baker, Shantel VanSanten as Quinn James and Jackson Brundage as Jamie Scott.
One Tree Hill was created by Mark Schwahn and is executive produced by Schwahn, Joe Davola, Greg Prange, Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins. One Tree Hill is a Mastermind Laboratories and Tollin/Robbins Production in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Seasons
Note: the first eight seasons aired on GO/Vuzu, after which the show was moved to M-Net Series for Season 9 (the final season).
Season 1 (22 episodes)
Channel: GO | Premiere: 7 Oct 2004 | Finale: 3 Mar 2005 | Thursdays, 21h00
Channel: Top One | Premiere: 5 May 2010 | Finale: 29 Sep 2010 | Wednesdays, 19h00
Season 2 (23 episodes)
Channel: GO | Premiere: 14 Jul 2005 | Finale: 15 Dec 2005 | Thursdays, 21h00
Channel: Top One | Premiere: 6 Oct 2010 | Finale: 9 Mar 2011 | Wednesdays, 19h00
Season 3 (22 episodes)
Channel: GO | Premiere: 13 Jul 2006 | Finale: 7 Dec 2006 | Thursdays, 20h00
Channel: Top One | Premiere: 22 Jun 2011 | Finale: 16 Nov 2011 | Wednesdays, 19h00
Season 4 (21 episodes)
Channel: GO | Premiere: 3 May 2007 | Finale: 20 Sep 2007 | Thursdays, 18h30
Channel: Top One | Premiere: 29 Feb 2012 | Finale: 18 Jul 2012 | Wednesdays, 19h00
Season 5 (18 episodes)
Channel: GO | Premiere: 12 Jun 2008 | Finale: 9 Oct 2008 | Thursdays, 18h30
Channel: Top One | Premiere: 24 Oct 2012 | Finale: 20 Feb 2013 | Wednesdays, 19h00
Season 6 (24 episodes)
Channel: Vuzu | Premiere: 2 Jul 2009 | Finale: 10 Dec 2009 | Thursdays, 20h30
Season 7 (22 episodes)
Channel: Vuzu | Premiere: 15 Apr 2010 | Finale: 9 Sep 2010 | Thursdays, 20h30
Season 8 (22 episodes)
Channel: Vuzu | Premiere: 13 Dec 2011 | Finale: 8 May 2012 | Tuesdays, 20h30
Season 9 (13 episodes)
Channel: M-Net Series | Premiere: 24 May 2013 | Finale: 5 Jul 2013 | Fridays, 20h30