High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Last One" is the series finale of the television sitcom Friends. The episode serves as the seventeenth and eighteenth episode of season ten; the episode`s two parts were classified as two separate episodes. It was written by series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and directed by executive producer Kevin S. Bright. The series finale first aired on NBC in the United States on May 6, 2004, when it was watched by 52.46 million viewers, making it the most watched entertainment telecast in six years and the fourth most watched television series finale in U.S history.