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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 full episode list
Release Date:
26 September 2002 (USA) more
Plot:
The cases of a FBI unit specializing in missing persons investigations. full summary
Awards:
Won Golden Globe. Another 16 wins & 29 nominations more
User Reviews:
Repetitive more (69 total)

Cast

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Anthony LaPaglia ... Jack Malone (160 episodes, 2002-2009)
Poppy Montgomery ... Samantha Spade (160 episodes, 2002-2009)

Enrique Murciano ... Danny Taylor (160 episodes, 2002-2009)
Eric Close ... Martin Fitzgerald (160 episodes, 2002-2009)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste ... Vivian Johnson (159 episodes, 2002-2009)

Roselyn Sanchez ... Elena Delgado (89 episodes, 2005-2009)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Vanished (USA) (working title)
W.A.T (USA) (short title)
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Runtime:
60 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG (some episodes) | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:M18 (season 2) | Singapore:PG (season 1) | Chile:14 | Singapore:NC-16 (season 3) (season 4) | South Korea:15 | Hungary:16 | Netherlands:6 (TV rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (some episodes) | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating)

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Trivia:
During each episode, a 15-second presentation appears, asking the public for help in finding real-life missing persons. The FBI provides a picture and descriptive information about the missing person to be displayed with a voice-over message recorded by one of the series stars. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: There are a number of scenes which indicate that the show is actually shot in Los Angeles and not New York, where the show is supposed to take place. There are several supposed one way streets with double yellow lines painted down the middle (which do not exist in New York), large blue street signs (which are used in LA, as opposed to NY, which uses green street signs), and house numbers on each street painted into the sidewalk in front of each house, which is also not done in New York, but instead in Los Angeles. more
Quotes:
[Looking through videos the missing girl made]
Samantha: I've been sitting here all night looking for clues, looking for suspects. I mean, I'm not just seeing her I'm seeing... everything she sees and I keep thinking that if I get to know her maybe that'll help, you know? And then I think maybe I'll get to know her and it won't make any difference at all, it just...
[Starts to cry]
Samantha: ... God, I'm sorry.
[Jack puts a hand on her shoulder]
Jack Malone: This is... well, you're not supposed to get used to this. You're not. When you do... it's time to hang it up.
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Soundtrack:
The Headphonist more

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32 out of 48 people found the following review useful.
Repetitive, 20 June 2006
5/10
Author: Mattias Petersson from Stockholm, Sweden

I have watched quite many episodes of this show. Simply because i have very few TV-channels with good reception during weekends in the cabin, and this show is conveniently shown Saturday evening.

There are two kinds of TV-shows. First the ones that get better the more you watch them, like most of the shows from HBO for instance. The characters get more elaborate, the story deeper and the show moves forward. Then there is the second kind of show that becomes worse the more you watch. Repetitive scripts, shallow characters, illogical story line. Unfortunately this show belongs to the latter category.

I don't really know whether that's so unexpected though. This show is about cops trying to find missing people and there are not that many ways for someone to go missing. Usually it's just variants on the same thing. Violent crime, teenagers run away from home, abductions, accidents. After a dozen episodes it more or less feels like i have seen it all.

And what are the positive points? Since i have given this show a five-star grade there should be a few of those as well. And there are. This show has a few qualities that i appreciate. Among them are the technical quality, the decent acting and the nice pace. Especially pace is something that's very necessary for a show to concentrate on. If i'm going to watch many episodes of a TV-show i need it to be well-paced. Not too fast-paced and not too slow. Both ruin the experience. This show is just about right.

With a bit more creative thinking in the script-department, a bit more character-development and perhaps also a bit less moralizing this could be good entertainment. Right now it barely reaches the "ok"-mark.

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