Winter Is Coming

Winter is Coming is the first episode of Season 1 of Game of Thrones, airing on 17 April, 2011. It is the 1st episode of the series overall.

Synopsis
King Robert Baratheon visits Winterfell, the home of his old friend, Eddard Stark, Lord and Warden of the North, with an important offer.

On the eastern continent, the dispossessed Princess Daenerys Targaryen marries Khal Drogo, a warlord of the Dothraki with tens of thousands of warriors at his command. Her brother, Viserys, plans to win Drogo's alliance with the marriage so he may return home to Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne, seized by force from his father by Robert.

In the lands of permanant winter, beyond the Wall, the wildlings are amassing in great numbers. But something else is stirring even further north...