Trivia: After coming up with the concept of a story taking place in real time over the course of one day, Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran originally planned on the show being about the 24 hours leading up to a wedding. After realizing that it would be difficult to think of reasons for a bride and groom to be forced to stay awake for 24 straight hours, they decided that the show could instead be about a federal agent being forced to protect a politician from assassination for 24 hours - which became the plot of season 1 and the basis for the show.
Trivia: Kiefer Sutherland's father Donald was approached to play Philip Bauer, but he was already committed to another project. He was also allegedly put off by the idea of playing a father attempting to kill his own son.
Trivia: Although she's credited as a main cast member, Regina King only appears in nine of the season's twenty-four episodes, which is fewer than some of the season's guest stars.
Trivia: President Palmer's Cabinet has a Department of Homeland Security, so one has to assume that Palmer's term in office takes place after the presidency of George W. Bush.
Trivia: With the 12,000 people killed in the nuclear blast, in addition to the hundreds of casualties from the previous 11 weeks, Abu Fayed is the show's most successful mass murderer.
Trivia: The romance between Tony and Michelle was not originally in the script. The writers decided to add this subplot after observing the natural chemistry between Carlos Bernard and Reiko Aylesworth during the filming of the early episodes.
Trivia: As initially conceived, the series was meant to be a family drama about the 24 hours that passed before a wedding, with each episode being in real-time. However, the creators worried that this idea wouldn't be exciting enough to hold an audience's attention. So they began to brainstorm other ways to use the real-time format idea they had come up with. They ultimately decided to change the series from a drama to an action-thriller, and thus "24" was born.
Trivia: The storyline of Teri's amnesia is loosely based on an incident that actually happened to series director Stephen Hopkins.
Trivia: Although the series featured numerous presidents, Martha Logan was the show's first First Lady. David Palmer was a divorcée, and John Keeler was a widower.
Trivia: The exterior shots of the Ritter Building, where Iké Dubaku based his operations in the early episodes of the season, are of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Trivia: Sean Astin was cast as Lynn McGill after he learned he and Joel Surnow shared the same chiropractor; they both happened to be visiting the office at the same time, so the doctor asked Astin if he would like to meet Surnow, who in turn asked if was interested in appearing on the show.
Answer: This is unintentional and a simple continuity mistake.
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