Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30296 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-12-06
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: Arabic, English, German, Korean, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 27

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24 - Season One
Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes places over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you subtract the commercials). Everything takes place in real time, which means no flashbacks, no flash-forwards, no handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked so things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy. Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done an impressive job of putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) runs around L.A. trying to stall an assassination attempt on an African American presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations, and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It's not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?); the final twist makes no sense whatsoever; there are altogether too many huggy family moments; and as for Dennis Hopper's "Serbian" accent....

24 - Season Two
Jack Bauer is having another one of his "very bad days" in the second season of the groundbreaking real-time thriller 24. Once again the hours are ticking by with more guaranteed cliffhangers than a convention of mountain climbers. Holed up in a Los Angeles condo and estranged from his daughter, Jack is no longer on the government payroll; unfortunately for him, this small fact doesn't seem to matter to President David Palmer and the NSA, who call him back in to the CTU and give him 24 hours to infiltrate a terrorist organization that is planning to detonate a dirty bomb in the city of angels. All Jack wants is to get his daughter out of the city, unfortunately Kim's new employer, the abusive father of the child she is nannying, has other ideas.

24 - Season Three
There's not one cougar to be found in 24's dynamic third season, and that's good news for everyone. After Jack Bauer's daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) survived hokey hazards in season 2, she's now a full-time staffer at CTU, the L.A.-based intelligence beehive that's abuzz once again--three years after the events of "Day Two"--when a vengeful terrorist threatens to release a lethal virus that could wipe out much of the country's population. Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) attempts to broker a deal for the virus involving drug kingpin Ramon Salazar (Joaquim de Almeida), whose operation Jack successfully infiltrated at high personal cost: to maintain his cover, he got hooked on heroin. That potentially deadly triangle--drug lords, addiction, and bioterrorism on a massive scale--sets the 24-hour clock ticking in a tight, action-packed plot involving a potential traitor in CTU's midst; the return of TV's greatest villainesses in Nina Meyers (Sarah Clarke) and former First Lady Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald); a troubled romance between Kim and Jack's new partner Chase (James Badge Dale); and a scandalized reelection campaign by president David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), who monitors CTU as they struggle to (literally) save the day.

24 - Season Four
Oh boy. Here we go again! Just another exciting day in the life of 24 super-agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). The season kicks off with a deadly terrorist strike resulting in the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Heller (William Devane). Although a fired, ex-employee of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), it is no surprise who is going to shift into full gear to bring the terrorists to justice. However, it doesn't take the super-agent long to discover the kidnapping of his boss is part of a much larger plan, master-minded by Habib Marvan (Arnold Voslo) the middle eastern terrorist cell leader the US government has been trying to track down for years.

Customer Reviews

Amazing series, BUT...
Why do they put SPOILER images of the episode you're about to watch in the main menu??? Every season there are at least a couple DVDs that show which person is going to die or get captured. Keep the menus neutral so I don't know what's going to happen before I watch it!

One of the best action series ever written for television, IMO.

TV should not be this good!!!
WARNING - This show just might ruin everything else for you.
OK so I'm not saying the show is perfect, there are a lot of little things about it that annoy me, heck some stuff doesn't even make sense but........
Overall this show is amazing. It's kind of like when you watch a James Bond flick and you go, oh yeah right, like that would ever happen but you enjoy the action anyway. But with 24 it's not just action. The show grabs a hold of you and wont let go. it's an adreline rush and an emotional roller coaster honestly I held back tears on more than one ocasion and I'm no bitch. The only problem is it ruins everything else for you. I really can't watch anything else anymore because nothing on TV even comes close. I am a big Soprano's fan and thought that was as good as it gets but once I got into 24 I forgot all about the Soprano's. It's really not fair to other shows and don't just take my word for it look at the other reviews here on amazon and the average rating. Also it is consistantly rated as the number one show on tv amongst all the critics and in all the guides, Entertainment weekly, TV Guide, newspapers, magazines, everyone agrees 24 is the best show on TV. But look you have to be in to that kind of thing, in other words the idea of anti terrorism has to appeal to you. You have to like shows of this nature for example: The Soprano's, CSI, Allias, The Wire, The shield, House, Lost, ect. if your more of a sex in the city or friends type of person who enjoys that light harted stuff then this is not for you. But if you want your pulse to race, if you want to be on the edge of your seat, if you don't mind violence, and if you can take the emotional games the show will play with you then your going to love it. I am writing this for anyone who has not already seen it. Pick up season one and start from the begining, what ever you do don't try to get into it on tv five seasons after the fact, you must start from the beginin that would be like trying to watch Star Wars Episode 3 without seing any of the other ones, it just wont work you have to start from the begining but be prepared say goodbye to any social life you have for the next month while you catch up.

WOW!!!
The greatest show ever to hit T.V. You will never know what happens next on this show and that is one of the many elements that make this show great,It always keeps you guessing and wanting more.C.T.U(Counter Terrorist Unit) and C.T.U operative Jack Bauer(Keifer Sutherland)try and stop terrorist threats all within 24 hours which is in real time. What I like about this show is that Keifer Sutherlands character Jack Bauer is not afraid to do what ever it takes to stop a terrorist threat even if it is going against C.T.U or the President. Another great aspect of the show is they are not afraid to kill off main characters that you grow to love on the show, so you will never now what is going to happen next which keeps you wanting more. You still reading, stop and go buy the first season right now. Hell, buy all 4 right now thats how good it is.