The Forgotten (TV series)

The Forgotten
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Genre	Drama
Starring	Christian Slater Michelle Borth Rochelle Aytes Heather Stephens Anthony Carrigan Bob Stephenson
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17 (plus an unaired pilot) (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jerry Bruckheimer Jonathan Littman
Location(s)	Chicago Los Angeles
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 22, 2009 (2009-09-22) – July 3, 2010 (2010-07-03)

The Forgotten is a television series which premiered on September 22, 2009 on ABC. On November 9, 2009, ABC ordered five additional episodes of the series, bringing the first season's total to eighteen episodes. The final two episodes of The Forgotten aired on July 3, 2010.

Premise

A group of dedicated, amateur detectives, the members of the Forgotten Network (referred to in the pilot as the Identity Network), attempt to reconstruct the pieces of these John and Jane Does' lives from what little evidence is left behind. Each episode is narrated by a "body" who watches the team as they pursue the tantalizingly difficult challenge of figuring out who this victim once was. Why would anyone volunteer for such a grim task? As new recruit Tyler Davies quickly discovers, each of the members of the team has his or her own reasons for volunteering for the Network. Alex Donovan is a former cop, whose then 8-year-old daughter was kidnapped two years ago and has never been found. Lindsey Drake, the woman who runs the network from her home, is a virtual recluse whose husband is a convicted murderer. Walter Bailey does stake outs—when he's not blowing his cover. Candace Butler hates her day job. She also happens to have a special gift for putting people at ease—even the prickly Tyler, a talented sculptor with a background in forensics, a medical school drop-out, who initially joined the team to fulfill a sentence of 200 hours of community service after being apprehended defacing buildings.

The pilot episode of The Forgotten had an unusual error in the location scenes. Most of the action takes place in Chicago, while a few scenes are set in Dubuque, Iowa – less than four hours drive northwest. The Dubuque scenes are set in summer weather, with green trees and lush growing grass. The Chicago scenes, taking place at the same time, are in winter with falling snow – in spite of the fact that Dubuque is over 50 miles farther north than Chicago.

Cast

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• Christian Slater as Alex Donovan (episodes 1-17)
• Heather Stephens as Lindsey Drake (episodes 1-13)
• Michelle Borth as Candace Butler (episodes 1-17)
• Anthony Carrigan as Tyler Davies (episodes 1-17)
• Bob Stephenson as Walter Bailey (episodes 1-17)
• Rochelle Aytes as Grace Russell (episodes 1-17)
• Elisha Cuthbert as Maxine Denver (episodes 12–17)

Episodes

Main article: List of The Forgotten episodes

In addition to the 17 regular episodes produced with the cast listed, an "Original Pilot" was previously filmed with different actors in some of the roles. Rupert Penry-Jones played Alex Donovan, and Reiko Aylesworth played Linda Manning (replaced by Heather Stephens as Lindsey Drake).

International broadcasting

Country	Channel	First aired
Finland	MTV3	January 6, 2012
France	TF1	February 28, 2012
Greece	Star Channel	March 18, 2013
Hungary	RTL II	October 3, 2012
Italy	Joi	March 3, 2010
Lithuania	LNK	December 8, 2011
Netherlands	NET 5	December 9, 2011
Poland	TVN	February 23, 2010
Switzerland	RSI La 2 (in Italian)	September 18, 2011

External links

• The Forgotten at the Internet Movie Database
• The Forgotten at TV.com
• Hollywood Reporter review
• "List of The Forgotten Episodes". TVGuide.