Reported Missing (TV series)
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Genre | Documentary |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 4 |
No. of episodes | 15 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 57-60 minutes |
Production company | Blast! Films |
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Network | BBC One |
Release | 2017 present | –
Reported Missing is a British documentary television series broadcast on BBC One (2017–present). The series follows various police departments and associated organisations in the United Kingdom, in search for missing people.[1] Each episode follow one or more cases, from the first 999 call through to the conclusion.[2] The first series was narrated by Ruth Wilson and the second and third series are narrated by Indira Varma. Reported Missing has eleven episodes over three series. Series 1 had three episodes, series 2 had four episodes, series 3 had five episodes (though the last episode was not aired), and series 4 had four episodes.
Episodes
[edit]Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 3 | 12 April 2017 | 26 April 2017 | |
2 | 4 | 3 September 2018 | 24 September 2018 | |
3 | 4 | 12 August 2020 | 2 September 2020 | |
4 | 4 | 11 October 2022 | 1 November 2022 |
Series 1 (2017)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Directed by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | Chris Rowe and James Incledon | 12 April 2017 | |
12-year-old Joshua disappears into the night after a row, and 13-year-old Katie walks out-of-home leaving a suicide note. | ||||
2 | 2 | Chris Rowe and James Incledon | 19 April 2017 | |
Documentary series following the search for missing people. Just six weeks after his wedding, 28-year-old Darren vanishes, apparently into thin air. | ||||
3 | 3 | Chris Rowe and James Incledon | 26 April 2017 | |
Documentary series following the search for missing people. When an 82-year-old man suffering from advancing dementia goes missing, a full-scale land and air search is launched. |
Series 2 (2018)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Directed by | Original release date | |
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4 | 1 | Alexander Niakaris | 3 September 2018 | |
Documentary series following the search for missing people. Five-year old Tyler is reported missing by his father after a dispute with Tyler's mum. | ||||
5 | 2 | Alexander Niakaris | 10 September 2018 | |
Documentary series following the search for missing people. Forty-nine-year-old George vanishes after going to the job centre, and his family think the police could be doing more. | ||||
6 | 3 | Alexander Niakaris | 17 September 2018 | |
Documentary series following the search for missing people. When 77-year-old Jean doesn't return from a doctor's appointment, Cheshire Police launch a large-scale search. | ||||
7 | 4 | Alexander Niakaris | 24 September 2018 | |
Documentary series following the search for missing people. As the months tick by in the search for 40-year-old Michael Price, will his family ever get answers? |
Series 3 (2020)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Directed by | Original release date | |
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8 | 1 | Aoife Carey and Alexander Niakaris | 12 August 2020 | |
When an ex-soldier with PTSD goes missing after posting that he wants to end it all, Cheshire Police need to work out fast what may lie behind his disappearance. | ||||
9 | 2 | Myles Jenks, Leonardo Machado and Rhys Roberts | 19 August 2020 | |
Police mount urgent searches for two people with dementia. Sheila has vanished from her husband’s side during a shopping trip, while John has headed out alone into the countryside. | ||||
10 | 3 | Myles Jenks, Leonardo Machado and Rhys Roberts | 26 August 2020 | |
Gloucestershire Police face a series of increasingly complex searches for 59-year-old Michael, whose paranoid schizophrenia prompts him to disappear and go into hiding. | ||||
11 | 4 | Leonardo Machado and Rhys Roberts | 2 September 2020 | |
Gloucestershire police search for two vulnerable drug users. One hasn't been seen on the streets for two months, while the other has left hospital against his doctors’ advice. |
Series 4 (2022)
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Directed by | Original release date | |
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12 | 1 | Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells | 11 October 2022 | |
South Yorkshire Police mount urgent searches for two vulnerable autistic men. Eighteen-year-old Matthew has missed his usual bus home, while 29-year-old Luke has disappeared from his care home. | ||||
13 | 2 | Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells | 18 October 2022 | |
South Yorkshire Police concern mounts for two men. Fifty-eight-year-old Gavin has vanished after giving away money, while a student has disappeared after joining a mysterious church. | ||||
14 | 3 | Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells | 25 October 2022 | |
South Yorkshire Police deal with two different missing people who both may be at risk. Mark has left a troubling note for his wife, while a potentially suicidal woman has vanished. | ||||
15 | 4 | Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells | 1 November 2022 | |
South Yorkshire Police race against the clock to find two missing women, both of whom are at potential risk of harm from abusive ex-partners. |
Unaired Series 3 Finale
[edit]The fifth and finale episode of series 3 was due to air on 9 September 2020 at 9pm on BBC One. However, a repeat of episode 2 from series 1 aired. The production company of Reported Missing told Gloucestershire Live that the change was for legal reasons: “The run was originally planned to be five new programmes, the majority of which featured Gloucestershire Constabulary, but for legal reasons, a repeat is now going in on the fifth and final week”.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Reported Missing". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ "Reported Missing". IMDb. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ "REPORTED MISSING: WHY SERIES 3 FINALE WAS REPLACED WITH SERIES 1 EPISODE ABOUT DARREN BENNETT". HITC. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
External links
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- 2017 British television series debuts
- 2010s British documentary television series
- 2020s British documentary television series
- BBC television documentaries
- BBC high definition shows
- British English-language television shows
- Missing person cases in the United Kingdom
- Television series about missing people
- British non-fiction television series stubs