24 (the original season don't get excited)

[bitchstewie]

Day off and it's chucking it down so I'm discovering what's on Disney Plus.

I remember hearing about something called 24 back when it first aired and paying no attention then I caught it on some sort of 3 episodes back to back repeat on BBC Two (I think).

To say it's over 20 years old it's aged remarkably well

[Countdown]

Cheers - I never managed to get around to watching it and have been looking everywhere!

[siovey]

One of the most addictive programs I've ever watched. Back in the day, I literally couldn't stop watching due to the cliff hangers at the end of each episode.
Used to watch many episodes on the run and go to bed at stupid o'clock.
Eventually i realised the best way to watch it is stop after about 10 minutes of the next episode

[Countdown]

Just got through to Episode 22....very enjoyable!

Unfortunately the suspense was killing me so I googled the last two episodes......

[StevieBee]

siovey said:

One of the most addictive programs I've ever watched. Back in the day, I literally couldn't stop watching due to the cliff hangers at the end of each episode.

Ahh - same here. Nights after night of going to bed at 2am mid week!

Might have to crack out the old DVDs again!

Were we the only ones to guess what the time would be when did a scene change?

[PurpleTurtle]

Having missed it all back in the day I got on board around the time of 'Redemption' then found myself watching all six prior seasons followed by Day 7 and 8 plus Live Another Day in real time.

I normally hate American TV, but found this really watchable.

[RacingBlue]

I know you've got quite a while to go yet, but wait until you get to Series 5.

Absolutely superb.

[remedy]

I finished my MBA in March and my present to myself was watching the box set again.
The wife even agreed so we spent about 2 months going through the lot.
I only had the original 6 season box set so bought the full one half way through S5

My favourite series ever. Love Kiefer and love Jack Bauer.

And of course Kim

And I agree on the ageing of it. Except for old mobiles in the early series. It was great to see the technology change as well as things like touch screen and Bluetooth came in.

[Dan_1981]

Ah 24.

Sooo many hours mispent watching that.

What a series though.

And characters - some of the deaths were genuinely traumatic.

Had my desk phone set to the 24 ring for ages . 'Du-Du-Du-Duu'

[Zetec-S]

I remember years ago I borrowed the box set from a work colleague. Can't remember how far I got, I think either season 3 or 4 before I had to return them, so thinking I might have to give it another go somewhen as I remember quite enjoying it.

[croyde]

One night I managed to watch about 10 episodes back to back starting each one at the same time as the clock at the beginning of each episode.

Thus I got a ten minute break each hour

His mobile phone was amazing. Never ran out of juice and always worked, even in a cave or way out in a desert.

He always managed to travel at an amazing speed from place to place considering it was real time and when did he use the loo

Great series though, I loved it.

[SydneyBridge]

Can you imagine only being able to watch one episode a week? Unbearable..

This is the programme made for boxsets, superb at the time.

[rodericb]

One place I worked at back then had the same phones - Honeywell which would do that blop blop bleep blurp ring.

There was a real stty saxaphone ring too - lucky they didn't play that one in 24 as it would have killed that show stone dead.

[Mischa33]

We blitzed through Series 1 a couple of weeks ago too - my other half had never seen it. Now she's amazed she's hooked on a 22 year old TV series. Unlike me, it really has aged well (asides from some of the tech as mentioned). Series 2 when the nights draw in a bit more.

[Patch1875]

Might need to watch this again!

[emperorburger]

Remember the joy and elation when you knew you wouldn't have to endure Teri for another episode.

[glennjamin]

Great series got the box set, Just finished 4 series Designated Survivor was just as good. Although released years ago had storyline linked to re ent events like COVID !! Surreal!!

[cologne2792]

I think the second series was about the best.

They'd worked out what they'd got and developed it extremely well.

After that, a bit hit and miss.

[SydneyBridge]

Where is 24 to watch, netflix/sky etc.?

Save all the dvds..

[StevieBee]

cologne2792 said:

I think the second series was about the best.

They'd worked out what they'd got and developed it extremely well.

After that, a bit hit and miss.

I forget which season it was but the production coincided with a Writers strike. In Hollywood. Fox threatened to pull the series if they didn't provide the season as per the agreed schedule. Sutherland and a few others including some of the filming crew ended up writing it as they went. Literally penning something then filming it. There's one scene when they're in an office in the CTU HQ and you see on the wall a load of post it notes and scribbles. They are actually plot lines and lines of dialogue that they forgot to remove!!

There's a fascinating article with Sutherland and the Director on this. I'll try and find it and link it. They said that they had started with a degree of anger at the writers for striking but ended the process with huge respect and support for their cause.