• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Prime-Time Drama
• Themes: Missing Persons
• Main Cast: Gale Harold, John Allen Nelson, Joanne Kelly, Rebecca Gayheart, Margarita Levieva
• Release Year: 2006
• Country: US
• Run Time: 60 minutes

Plot

Debuting August 21, 2006, the hour-long Fox network series Vanished was a serialized drama in the tradition of 24 and Prison Break, this time with a bit of the "procedural" genre (à la Without a Trace) thrown in. Things got under way when Sara Collins (Joanne Kelly), the wife of prominent Georgia senator Jeffrey Collins (John Allen Nelson), abruptly disappeared during a fundraising dinner, the apparent victim of a kidnapping. Assigned to locate -- and, possibly rescue -- Mrs. Collins were FBI agents Graham Kelton (Gale Harold) and Lin Mei (Ming-Na). While Lin approached her job with a cynical sense of humor and an abundance of energy, Kelton was morose and taciturn, still blaming himself for the horrible death of a youthful kidnap victim which occurred right before his eyes. As the plot thickened, it became obvious that the two agents had more than a common, everyday abduction on their hands: the number-one suspect was killed off at the very start of the series; the trail was strewn with bizarre, contradictory clues and DaVinci Code-like cryptic messages; and finally, not only had Sara Collins mysteriously vanished on previous occasions, there was every indication that she wasn't really Sara Collins at all. Clearly, the missing Mrs. Collins was but a cog in the wheel of a larger conspiracy, in which (naturally) no one could be completely trusted. Other characters included Rebecca Gayheart as an unusually ubiquitous investigative reporter and Eddie Cibrian as Kelton and Mei's enigmatic FBI superior. Vanished was created by Josh Berman of CSI fame. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Gale Harold - Special Agent Graham Kelton
• John Allen Nelson - Sen. Jeffrey Collins
• Joanne Kelly - Joanne Kelly
• Rebecca Gayheart - Judy Nash
• Margarita Levieva - Marcy Collins

John Patrick Amedori - Max Collins; Chris Egan - Ben Wilson; Ming-Na Wen - Agent Len Mei; Robert Hoffman - Adam Putnam; Josh Hopkins - Peter Manning

Credit

Mimi Leder - Executive Producer; Charles Minsky - Cinematographer; Paul Redford - Executive Producer; Keith Neely - Production Designer; Chris Black - Co-Executive Producer; Rick Tuber - Editor; Liberman/Patton Casting - Casting; Josh Berman - Executive Producer; Carla Kettner - Co-Executive Producer; Robert Duncan - Composer (Music Score)