Nowhere Man (TV series)

Nowhere Man
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Genre	Drama Science fiction Mystery Thriller Romance Fantasy Horror Paranormal Conspiracy
Created by	Lawrence Hertzog
Starring	Bruce Greenwood
Theme music composer	Mark Snow
Composer(s)	Mark Snow
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	25 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lawrence Hertzog Joel Surnow
Editor(s)	Andrew Cohen Peter Basinski Jimmy Giritlian Josh Muscatine
Running time	Pilot: 66 minutes 43-45 minutes
Production company(s)	Lawrence Hertzog Productions Touchstone Television
Distributor	Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network	UPN
Picture format	4:3
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	August 28, 1995 – May 20, 1996

Nowhere Man is an American television series that aired from 1995 to 1996 starring Bruce Greenwood. Created by Lawrence Hertzog, the series aired Monday nights on UPN. Despite critical acclaim, including TV Guide's label of "The season's coolest hit," the show was cancelled after one season.

Nowhere Man is the story of photojournalist Thomas Veil, who discovers that his life has been abruptly "erased": his friends claim not to know him, his wife claims not to recognize him and is living with another man. His ATM cards and credit cards no longer work. His best friend turns up dead. His mother, recovering from a stroke, is incapable of confirming his existence. In the course of a single evening, every trace of Tom's identity is gone.

Tom believes this is a conspiracy related to a photograph he took a year earlier, depicting four men being hanged in South America by what appear to be US soldiers. The only evidence Tom has of his past are the negatives of that photograph. A mysterious organization covertly pursues Tom in search of the negatives. The series revolves around Veil's attempts to get his life back by trying to find out more about the organization, while also trying to keep the negative safe.

In the final episode, "Gemini," it is revealed that Tom had been captured by the organization prior to the events of the series' first episode, and that all his memories of his life, including his marriage and even his name, had been implanted as part of a brainwashing experiment known as Project Marathon. He learns that he is actually a covert government operative codenamed "Gemini", and is part of a secret task force called "Heritage House" which was formed to investigate the organization and Project Marathon. He also learns that his copy of the "Hidden Agenda" photograph, as well as his memories of having taken it, have been altered, and that the original negative shows that the four men being lynched are actually U.S. senators being murdered by the organization.