# Winter Is Coming **Entity class:** Television episode and fictional house words **Series:** _Game of Thrones_ **Air date:** April 17, 2011 ## Definition **“Winter Is Coming”** is the title of the first episode of HBO’s _Game of Thrones_, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and directed by Tim Van Patten. The title derives from the words of [[wiki/House Stark|House Stark]], created by [[wiki/George R. R. Martin|George R. R. Martin]] in _[[wiki/A Game of Thrones|A Game of Thrones]]_. In the premiere, Eddard Stark speaks the warning to Catelyn Stark; the words are not properly attributed to Jon Snow merely because popular culture associates him with the North. ## Relationships - **literary origin:** [[wiki/A Game of Thrones|A Game of Thrones]]. - **fictional attribution:** [[wiki/House Stark|House Stark]]. - **television writers:** [[wiki/David Benioff|David Benioff]] and [[wiki/D. B. Weiss|D. B. Weiss]]. - **director:** [[wiki/Tim Van Patten|Tim Van Patten]]. - **speaker in cited scene:** [[wiki/Eddard Stark|Eddard Stark]]. - **playful route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - George R. R. Martin, _A Game of Thrones_ (1996). - HBO, _Game of Thrones_, season 1 episode 1, “Winter Is Coming” (2011).