Claim: Avatar: The Last Airbender has more than 60 episodes.

Avatar : The Last Airbender is a 61-episode , Emmy Award-winning American animated television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko . It first aired on February 21 , 2005 , on Nickelodeon with a one-hour series premiere and concluded its run with a two-hour TV movie on July 19 , 2008 . The Avatar : The Last Airbender franchise refers to each season as a `` Book '' , in which each episode is referred to as a `` chapter '' . Each `` Book '' takes its name from one of the elements that Aang , the protagonist , must master : Water , Earth , and Fire . The show 's first two seasons each consisted of 20 episodes , while the third season had 21 . In addition to the three seasons , there were two recap episodes and three `` shorts '' . The first recap summarized the first eighteen episodes while the second summarized season two . The first self-parody was released via an online flash game . The second and third were released with the Complete Second Season Box Set DVD . The entire series has been released on DVD in Region One , Region Two and Region Four .   In the Avatar : The Last Airbender universe , there are people who are able to manipulate , or `` bend '' , the four elements : Air , Water , Earth , and Fire . Along with the four elements , there are four nations that correspond with each element . Not everyone can bend an element , and those that can can only bend one . However , the Avatar is a being able to manipulate all four elements as well as communicate with the spirits . The Avatar is also born into one nation , and after dying , is reincarnated into another nation following the pattern of Air , Water , Earth , and Fire . The series takes place 100 years after the Fire Nation declares war against all other nations and has killed off all airbenders in search of finding the Avatar , who has been reincarnated as an airbender named Aang . The Avatar , trapped in ice for 100 years , knows nothing of the war . The series starts with Aang being accidentally freed by Katara , a waterbender . The series then primarily follows the adventures of Aang and his companions , Sokka , Katara , and later Toph and Zuko , as he tries to master all four elements and defeat the Fire Nation . There is also a strong secondary focus on Zuko , the banished and disinherited crown prince of the Fire Nation . Zuko was scarred in a duel with his own father , the current Fire Lord , and is obsessed with trying to capture Aang to regain his father 's favor and in doing so restoring his honor .