Without a Trace
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Network: CBS
Episodes: ongoing (hour)
Show dates:
September 26, 2002 — present
Performers include: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Eric Close, Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Enrique Murciano, and Roselyn Sanchez.
Series Description: A drama that follows an FBI missing persons team and their cases. Each episode shows the events leading up to a person’s disappearance and the timeline of the efforts to find them. At the end of each episode, information on a real-life missing person is is shown.
The team includes FBI head of the Missing Persons Unit Special Agent John Michael Malone (LaPaglia) and special agents Samantha Spade (Montgomery), Martin Fitzgerald (Close), Vivian Johnson (Jean-Baptiste), Danny Taylor (Murciano), and Elena Delgado (Sanchez).
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Series Finale
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What happened next?
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Behind the Scenes
| • | The series ranked in the top twenty for each of five seasons. |
| • | The real-life missing persons information is generally not shown in other countries. A few countries replace the US information with details from a case in that particular area. |
| • | In 2003, TNT acquired the syndication rights to broadcast the series for $1.4 million per episode. |



































