High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Days Gone Bye" is the first episode of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on October 31, 2010. The episode was written and directed by Frank Darabont, the creator of the series. In this episode, Rick Grimes, a sheriff`s deputy of a small town in Georgia, wakes up in an abandoned hospital from a coma after being severely wounded. Realizing that the world has been riddled with zombies, Grimes ventures out to locate his home where his wife and son are. After finding out that both Lori and his son are missing, he later encounters some other survivors, holed up in a neighbors house, who reveal that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has set up a quarantine zone in Atlanta, Georgia. Grimes travels to the city in the hopes of finding his family.