"24" (2001)TV series 2001-????

Creators:

Robert Cochran
Joel Surnow

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Release Date:

6 November 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

To the world, he's dead. But soon, he'll become the most wanted man alive (Season 5)

Plot:

Federal Agent Jack Bauer can't afford to always play by the rules. As a member of the L.A. Counter Terrorist Unit, Jack must stop bombs, viruses, assassination attempts, and usually save someone he cares about at the same time. Every season of this series has 24 episodes, each unfolding in real time following a consecutive hour in one very bad day.

Plot Keywords:

Cult Hero | Paranoid | Explosion | Subterfuge | Terrorism

Awards:

Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 37 wins & 124 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. May 18

12:30 AM

WGNSAT

Day 6: 12:00 Midnight - 1:00 AM

#6.19

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland	...	Jack Bauer (172 episodes, 2001-2009)
Mary Lynn Rajskub	...	Chloe O'Brian (113 episodes, 2003-2009)
Carlos Bernard	...	Tony Almeida (102 episodes, 2001-2009)
Dennis Haysbert	...	President David Palmer / ... (79 episodes, 2001-2006)
James Morrison	...	Bill Buchanan (77 episodes, 2005-2009)
Elisha Cuthbert	...	Kim Bauer (72 episodes, 2001-2006)

Also Known As:

24 Hours (USA) (working title)
Twenty Four (International: English title) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian | German | Korean | Arabic | Spanish | Serbo-Croatian | Mandarin

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

New Zealand:M (Season 4 DVD rating) | Brazil:16 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12 | Hungary:16 (some eposodes) | South Korea:15 | Ireland:15 (seasons 1,3,4 and 5) | Ireland:18 (season 2) | Singapore:PG (season 4) | Singapore:NC-16 (season 1- 3) (season 5) (season 6) | New Zealand:R16 (Season 5 DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 (season 2, 3 DVD rating) | Brazil:12 (TV rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Australia:M (cable rating) | Czech Republic:15 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R13 (season 1) | South Africa:PG | UK:15 (video rating) | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Imagine Entertainment

Trivia:

Completing an entire season, including pre- and post-production work, takes ten and a half months.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the Season 5 episode where president Logan intends to send his wife to a mental hospital, he decides the last moment to change his mind and pick up his wife who already sits somewhat paralyzed in the car, while assistants and agents pack her bags etc.. We then see the split-screens of the actual occurring events, in especially President Logan standing in his office/retreat pacing and thinking, therefore clearly inside the house. But when the scene cuts complete to Martha Logan in the car, suddenly the President turns up at the car and gets his wife out of it, to tell her he is not going to send her to the hospital. This appears only seconds of real-time later, after we saw President Logan still being inside the house. To the reach the car in this short period of time was not possible for him.

Quotes:

Nina Myers: Jack, if you kill me, you won't know who I work for. You think I work for Drazen, but I don't!
Jack Bauer: I trusted you, Nina...
Nina Myers: I was just doing my job.
Jack Bauer: Your job? My wife and daughter almost died today! How many people that trusted you lost their life today because you were doing your job? Walsh, or Jamey? Ellis? How many others?
Nina Myers: How many people died because of you, Jack?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Pastewka: Der Gutschein (#2.1)" (2006)

One of the most original and compelling series ever

Yes... I love this series. I bought it on the big DVD pack with the complete first season, because it isn't available in German television right now. Anyway, I love it because it's not only the concept which makes it thrilling, even without that real-time style it would be extremely exciting and suspenseful. Also, it stars one of my top ten favourite stars, Kiefer Sutherland, and a truckload of exceeding supporting actors. Elisha Cuthbert, Leslie Hope, Sarah Clarke, Xander Berkeley, Dennis Haysbert... I could go on forever, even the characters who die after two episodes are very convincing.

Overall one of the things you can't stop watching after you've seen five minutes of it.