Missing Persons (TV series)

Missing Persons
Created by	Peter Lance Gary Sherman
Starring	Daniel J. Travanti Erik King Juan Ramírez Frederick Weller Jorja Fox Robert Swan Patty Lombard
Composer(s)	Joe Renzetti
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17
Production
Executive producer(s)	Stephen J. Cannell Gary Sherman
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Gary Sherman Productions Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	August 30, 1993 – February 17, 1994

Missing Persons is an American crime drama television series, set in Chicago. It followed a fictitious missing persons unit; each episode usually following the investigation into three or more cases. It ran on ABC from August 30, 1993 to February 17, 1994.

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 guest stars such as Nina Foch, Eddie Bracken and Lois Smith. Semi-regulars included Ian Gomez, Irma P. Hall, Laura Cerón and Valerie Harper. Unlike most series from Cannell's company, he did not create or co-create this series.

Among the guest stars was Stephen Colbert in episode 2.

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

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 episodes of Missing Persons.

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