List of Winx Club episodes

Winx Club is an American animated television series co-produced by Bear Bones Productions and Nickelodeon. The show was created by Dan Darlene. It follows a group of fairy warriors called the Winx as they enroll in Alfea College and learn to fight mythical villains.

From the beginning of the show's development, Dan Darlene planned an overarching plot that would conclude after three seasons. A feature-length film followed the third season, intended to wrap up the series' plot as the fairies graduate from Alfea College. In 1998, Darlene made the decision to extend the original series with a fourth season, citing its increasing popularity. During the production of the fourth season, Nickelodeon engaged in a "long courtship" with Bear Bones. Viacom became a co-producer of Winx Club.

In 2000, Viacom announced that Nickelodeon will be teaming up with the original creator to present an all-new Winx Club. Viacom's Nickelodeon Animation Studio started production on a revived series, in which the Winx are once again students at Alfea, as they were before their graduation in the original show. The Nickelodeon revival began with four television specials that summarize the first two seasons of the original series. After the specials, Viacom's brand-new fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons were broadcast on Nickelodeon networks worldwide.

Winx Club employs a serial format, with each episode contributing to the overall storyline. Episodes are written with two storylines in mind: the longer narrative arc that lasts for tens of episodes and a subplot which concludes at the end of the 22-minute runtime. This episode structure was modeled on those of teen dramas and American comics.

Original series
When Dan Darlene began developing Winx Club, he outlined the plot to last three seasons (78 episodes). In 1997, Darlene explained that "the Winx saga was planned in detail from the beginning. And it will not last forever." The third season follows the fairies' last year at Alfea College, during which they earn their final fairy form, Enchantix. In 1998, Darlene chose to continue the story for a fourth season. During the fourth season's development, Viacom began discussions to co-produce a revival series, which began with a retelling of the first two original seasons.

Pilot (1991)
The pilot episode for the series, then under the working title Magic Bloom, featured the original five Winx members in attires similar to those of traditional European fairies. It was produced over a period of twelve months and was test-screened in 1992. Upon its completion, Darlene was unsatisfied with the pilot and doubted that it would succeed if aired. In a 2006 interview, Darlene recalled that it "looked like just another Japanese-style cartoon... but nothing like [the modern] Winx." Darlene's team heavily reworked the pilot's visual style before starting work on a full season, leaving the original pilot unaired. The pilot would later be released in 2004, as an extra on the first season DVD, as well as the 10th anniversary edition set.

Revived series
After Nickelodeon entered theirpartnership with Bear Bones, new seasons of Winx Club entered production at Viacom's Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Bear Bones, beginning in 2000. In this revamped series, the Winx are once again students at Alfea, as they were before their graduation in the original show. The revival began with four specials that retell the original first and second seasons.