Missing Persons (TV series)

For other uses, see Missing Persons.

Missing Persons
Format	Drama
Created by	Peter Lance Gary Sherman
Starring	Daniel J. Travanti Erik King Juan Ramírez Frederick Weller Jorjan Fox
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Stephen J. Cannell Gary Sherman
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	August 30, 1993 – February 17, 1994

Missing Persons is an American television show set in Chicago. The show is about a fictitious missing persons unit. Each episode usually following the investigation into three or more cases.

It was produced by Gary Sherman Productions in association with Stephen J. Cannell Productions, and often used local Chicago-based actors, as well as occasional big-name guest stars such as Nina Foch, Eddie Bracken and Lois Smith. Semi-regulars included Ian Gomez (as Pete, the Morgue Technician), Irma P. Hall (as Bobby's mother), Laura Cerón (as Carlos's wife Anita) and Valerie Harper (as an old flame of Ray's transferred into his department). Unlike most series from Cannell's company, he did not create or co-create this.

Missing Persons was run on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC apart from the feature-length pilot episode, which was broadcast as the Monday Night Movie from 9 p.m.-11 p.m. ET.

Episodes usually began with some sort of humorous exchange between the team as they all crowded round the coffee machine, eating doughnuts. Ray would then come out from his office and hand out the cases for the day.

Episode titles were all taken from a quote from their episode.

Regular cast

• Daniel J. Travanti: Lieutenant who heads the Missing Persons Unit Lt. Ray McAuliffe
• Erik King: Missing Persons Unit Investigator Investigator Bobby Davison
• Juan Ramírez: Missing Persons Unit Sergeant Sgt. Carlos Marrone
• Frederick Weller: Missing Persons Unit Investigator Investigator Johnny Sandowski
• Jorjan Fox: Missing Persons Unit Officer Officer Connie Karadzic
• Robert Swan: Missing Persons Unit Secretary Dan Manaher
• Paty Lombard: Wife of Ray McAuliffe Barbara McAuliffe

Episodes

Title	Original Airdate	#
Pilot	August 30, 1993	1x01
Cabe... What Kind of Name Is That?	September 23, 1993	1x02
People Don't Talk to Cops, People Lie to Cops	September 30, 1993	1x03
I Can't Even Imagine	October 7, 1993	1x04
That's My Sister, Pal	October 14, 1993	1x05
The Man's an Emotional Termite	October 28, 1993	1x06
Some People's Priorities	November 4, 1993	1x07
I'm Gonna Miss Him Too...	November 11, 1993	1x08
Sometimes You Can't Help Getting Involved...	November 25, 1993	1x09
Right Neighborhood... Wrong Door	December 2, 1993	1x10
How Hard Is It Just to Get Off at the Next Exit?	December 16, 1993	1x11
If You Could Pick Your Own Parents...	January 6, 1994	1x12
I've Got a Siren!...	January 13, 1994	1x13
My Beautiful Son Is O.K...	January 20, 1994	1x14
All They Had to Do Was Ask...	February 3, 1994	1x15
Tell Me You Didn't Do It... I'll Go to the Wall for You	February 10, 1994	1x16
What Do You Want... A Signed Confession?	February 17, 1994	1x17

DVD release

On July 27, 2010, Mill Creek Entertainment released Prime Time Crime: The Stephen J. Cannell Collection on DVD in Region 1. This special collection contains 54 episodes from 13 different shows produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions including ALL 17 episodes of Missing Persons.^[1]

References

1. ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Unsub-Prime-Time-Crime-SJC-Collection/13792

External links

• Missing Persons at the Internet Movie Database