The fourth season of Chuck

Chuck (TV series)

Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...

 was announced on May 13, 2010. Having initially ordered 13 episodes, NBC ordered an additional 11 on October 19, 2010 for a total of 24 episodes.
Throughout the season, Chuck faced individual villains: Alexei Volkoff

Alexei Volkoff

Alexei Volkoff is the alias and alter ego of Hartley Winterbottom , a fictional character on the television series Chuck. Volkoff is the head of Volkoff Industries. For the first six episodes of the fourth season, he was an unseen character, directing his operatives from behind the scenes...

, head of Volkoff Industries

Volkoff Industries

Volkoff Industries is a major organization on the television series Chuck. It is a public business front owned by an international arms dealer named Alexei Volkoff, portrayed by Timothy Dalton. Volkoff Industries is introduced in the third season finale as a threat against which Stephen J...

, and Volkoff's daughter, Vivian McArthur.

Josh Schwartz

Josh Schwartz

-Film school at USC:In 1995, Schwartz realized his boyhood dream of attending film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California...

 and Chris Fedak

Chris Fedak

Chris Fedak is a co-executive producer of Chuck. He has also co-written several episodes with Josh Schwartz.Chuck is Fedak's first television credit.Schwartz says that the idea for Chuck originally came from Fedak:-External links:*...

 expressed a desire to continue the series past the fourth season as early as March 2011, when it was announced that the season finale would be titled "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger

Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger

"Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger" is the fourth season finale of the American NBC action-comedy television series Chuck. Aired on May 16, 2011, it is the season's 24th episode, and the 78th overall episode of the series. The episode was directed by Robert Duncan McNeill and written by series...

". The episode, as the title suggests, had a cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...

 ending leading into the fifth

Chuck (season 5)

The fifth and final season of the American action-comedy television series Chuck was announced on May 13, 2011. It is reported to include 13 episodes, which airs in fall 2011...

 and final season, which was ordered on May 13, 2011.

Main cast

• Zachary Levi
  Zachary Levi
  Zachary Levi Pugh , better known by his stage name Zachary Levi , is an American television actor, director, and singer known for the roles of Kipp Steadman in Less than Perfect, Chuck Bartowski in Chuck, and Flynn Rider in Tangled.- Early life :Zachary Levi Pugh was born in Lake Charles,...
  
   as Agent Charles "Chuck" Bartowski
  Chuck Bartowski
  Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is the main and titular character of the American fiction television show Chuck on NBC. He is portrayed by Zachary Levi.-Character profile:...
  
   (24 episodes)
• Yvonne Strahovski
  Yvonne Strahovski
  Yvonne Strahovski is an Australian actress. Born in Australia to Polish immigrant parents, Strahovski speaks Polish and English...
  
   as Agent
  Special agent
  Special agent is usually the title for a detective or investigator for a state, county, municipal, federal or tribal government. An agent is a worker for any federal agency, and a secret agent is one who works for an intelligence agency....
  
   Sarah Walker
  Sarah Walker (Chuck)
  Sarah Lisa Bartowski is the alias of one of the main characters of the fictional television show Chuck on NBC. She is portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski and is one of two agents assigned by the NSA and CIA to protect Chuck Bartowski after he unwittingly downloads the secret government computer known...
  
   (later Bartowski) (24 episodes)
• Adam Baldwin
  Adam Baldwin
  Adam Baldwin is an American actor, known for his roles as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard, Knowle Rohrer in The X-Files, and Marcus Hamilton in Joss Whedon's Angel...
  
   as Colonel
  Colonel
  Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
  
   John Casey
  John Casey (Chuck)
  Colonel John Casey is portrayed by actor Adam Baldwin on the television show Chuck on NBC. Prior to the episode "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac," he was partnered with CIA agent Sarah Walker to protect Chuck Bartowski....
  
   (24 episodes)
• Joshua Gomez
  Joshua Gomez
  Joshua Eli Gomez is an American actor best known for his role as Morgan Grimes on Chuck. He is the younger brother of actor Rick Gomez....
  
   as Morgan Grimes
  Morgan Grimes
  Morgan Guillermo Grimes is a major character on the television series Chuck. He is portrayed by actor Joshua Gomez, and is the best friend of Chuck Bartowski....
  
   (24 episodes)
• Sarah Lancaster
  Sarah Lancaster
  Sarah Lancaster is an American actress. Since the show's inception in 2007, she has co-starred in the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck, as the title character's sister, Ellie Bartowski....
  
   as Dr.
  Physician
  A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
  
   Eleanor "Ellie" Bartowski Woodcomb
  Ellie Bartowski
  Eleanor Faye "Ellie" Bartowski Woodcomb, M.D., Ph.D., is the older sister of title character Chuck Bartowski on the television series Chuck. She is portrayed by actress Sarah Lancaster.-Biography:...
  
   (21 episodes)
• Ryan McPartlin
  Ryan McPartlin
  Ryan McPartlin is an American actor, best known for his role as Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb on NBC's Chuck.-Early life:...
  
   as Dr. Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (18 episodes)
• Mark Christopher Lawrence
  Mark Christopher Lawrence
  Mark Christopher Lawrence is an American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his role as esoteric D.J., Tone Deaf, in the 1994 satirical rap mockumentary, Fear of a Black Hat. He has co-starred in popular films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day,...
  
   as Michael "Big Mike" Tucker (16 episodes)
• Scott Krinsky
  Scott Krinsky
  Scott Krinsky is a Los Angeles-based actor and comic best known for his role as Jeff Barnes on the hit TV series Chuck and his role as Darryl on The O.C.....
  
   as Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes (18 episodes)
• Vik Sahay
  Vik Sahay
  Vikram "Vik" Sahay is a Canadian actor best known for playing Lester Patel, a member of the Nerd Herd in the NBC television series Chuck on which he became a series regular from the second season, and Rama in the Roxy Hunter Saga.-Life and career:...
  
   as Lester Patel (18 episodes)
• Bonita Friedericy
  Bonita Friedericy
  Bonita Friedericy is an American actress. She currently can be seen in the television series Chuck as NSA Director Diane Beckman. She has also appeared on Malcolm in the Middle, Veronica Mars, Star Trek: Enterprise, Bones, The Nine, The West Wing, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and in the film...
  
   as Brigadier General
  Brigadier General
  Brigadier general is a senior rank in the armed forces. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries, usually sitting between the ranks of colonel and major general. When appointed to a field command, a brigadier general is typically in command of a brigade consisting of around 4,000...
  
   Diane Beckman
  Diane Beckman
  Brigadier General M. Diane Beckman, USAF is a fictional character in the NBC television series Chuck. Beckman is a senior official of the National Security Agency, working within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She holds her rank of brigadier general in the United States Air...
  
   (21 episodes)

Supporting cast

• Mekenna Melvin
  Mekenna Melvin
  Mekenna Melvin is an American actress known for playing the role of Alex McHugh in Chuck, Angela in Three Rivers, and Stefanie Fife in Lie to Me. She also co-created and will be starring as Amber Hannold in Amber Lake, an independent film due for release in 2010.- Personal life :Melvin was born...
  
   as Alex McHugh (12 episodes)
• Linda Hamilton
  Linda Hamilton
  Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy...
  
   as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski
  Mary Elizabeth Bartowski
  Mary Elizabeth Bartowski is a character on the television series Chuck. Mary is the estranged mother of Chuck and Ellie Bartowski. She is portrayed by Linda Hamilton.-Biography:...
  
   (11 episodes)
• Timothy Dalton
  Timothy Dalton
  Timothy Peter Dalton ) is a Welsh actor of film and television. He is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill , as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett , an original sequel to Gone with the Wind...
  
   as Alexei Volkoff
  Alexei Volkoff
  Alexei Volkoff is the alias and alter ego of Hartley Winterbottom , a fictional character on the television series Chuck. Volkoff is the head of Volkoff Industries. For the first six episodes of the fourth season, he was an unseen character, directing his operatives from behind the scenes...
  
   (6 episodes)
• Olivia Munn
  Olivia Munn
  Lisa Olivia Munn is an American comedic actress, model, television personality and author. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. Since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn personally and professionally....
  
  , Isaiah Mustafa
  Isaiah Mustafa
  Isaiah Mustafa is an American actor and former NFL practice squad wide receiver. Mustafa is widely known as the main character for a series of Old Spice TV commercials, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.-Early life:...
  
  , Stacy Keibler
  Stacy Keibler
  Stacy Keibler is an American actress, model, and former professional wrestler and valet, best known for her work with World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment ....
  
  , and Summer Glau
  Summer Glau
  Summer Lyn Glau is an American actress, known for playing River Tam in the science fiction series Firefly and follow-up film Serenity, and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.-Early life:...
  
   as "Greta" (5 episodes)
• Lauren Cohan
  Lauren Cohan
  Lauren Cohan is an American actress. Her most recognized role to date is that of the role of Bela Talbot on Supernatural...
  
   as Vivian McArthur (5 episodes)
• Robin Givens
  Robin Givens
  Robin Simone Givens is an American model and film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for her role as Darlene Merriman on the television series Head of the Class.-Early life:...
  
   as Jane Bentley (3 episodes)
• Ray Wise
  Ray Wise
  Raymond Nicolas "Ray" Wise is an American actor, known for his roles as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, as Leon C. Nash, right-hand henchman to villain Clarence Boddicker in the science fiction classic RoboCop, and recently as the Devil in the CW television series Reaper.-Life and career:Wise was...
  
   as Riley (3 episodes)

Episodes

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US Nielsen ratings

|1
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Anniversary"
|
|5.7
|2.0
|6
|> |2
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Suitcase"
|
|5.3
|2.0
|5
|> |3
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z"
|
|5.3
|1.9
|5
|> |4
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Coup d'Etat"
|
|5.3
|1.9
|5
|> |5
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Couch Lock"
|
|5.2
|1.9
|5
|> |6
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Aisle of Terror"
|
|5.4
|1.9
|5
|> |7
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the First Fight"
|
|5.4
|2.0
|5
|> |8
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Fear of Death"
|
|5.4
|1.8
|5
|> |9
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus Phase Three"
|
|4.8
|1.7
|5
|> |10
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Leftovers"
|
|6.1
|2.0
|6
|> |11
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Balcony"
|
|5.9
|2.1
|5
|> |12
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Gobbler"
|
|6.0
|1.9
|5
|> |13
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Push Mix"
|
|5.5
|1.7
|5
|> |14
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Seduction Impossible"
|
|5.4
|1.7
|5
|> |15
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Cat Squad"
|
|5.5
|1.7
|5
|> |16
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Masquerade"
|
|5.5
|1.7
|4
|> |17
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil"
|
|5.3
|1.7
|5
|> |18
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the A-Team"
|
|4.9
|1.6
|5
|> |19
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Muuurder"
|
|4.2
|1.5
|4
| > |20
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Family Volkoff"
|
|4.0
|1.3
|4
| > |21
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Wedding Planner"
|
|4.2
|1.3
|4
| > |22
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus Agent X"
|
|4.1
|1.4
|4
| > |23
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Last Details"
|
|4.1
|1.4
|4
| > |24
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger"
|
|4.5
|1.5
|4
| >

#	Episode	US air date	Viewers (millions)	18–49 Rating	18–49 Share	Note

UK BARB ratings

|1
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Anniversary"
|
|259
|5
|
|> |2
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Suitcase"
|
|222
|6
|
|> |3
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Cubic Z"
|
|199
|6
|
|> |4
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Coup d'Etat"
|
|152
|8
|
|> |5
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Couch Lock"
|
|169
|10
|
|> |6
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Aisle of Terror"
|
|
|
|
|> |7
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the First Fight"
|
|133
|9
|79
|9> |8
|style="text-align:left"|"Chuck Versus the Fear of Death"
|
|160
|5
|
|> |9
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus Phase Three"
|
|197
|4
|
|> |10
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Leftovers"
|
|178
|7
|95
|8> |11
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Balcony"
|
|192
|9
|
|> |12
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Gobbler"
|
|180
|10
|
|> |13
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Push Mix"
|
|
|
|
|> |14
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Seduction Impossible"
|
|238
|9
|
|> |15
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Cat Squad"
|
|183
|8
|
|> |16
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Masquerade"
|
|
|
|
|> |17
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil"
|
|
|
|
|> |18
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the A-Team"
|
|
|
|
|> |19
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Muuurder"
|
|173
|10
|
|> |20
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Family Volkoff"
|
|192
|7
|
|> |21
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Wedding Planner"
|
|181
|10
|83
|4> |22
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus Agent X"
|
|244
|5
|
|> |23
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Last Details"
|
|195
|5
|
|> |24
|style="text-align:left"| "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger"
|
|212
|7
|
|>

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