High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first season of AMC`s television series The Walking Dead premiered on October 31, 2010 and concluded on December 5, 2010. The series is based on the series of graphic novels of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard; it was developed for television by Frank Darabont, who wrote or co-wrote four of the season`s six episodes and directed the pilot.