24
It's from 2001, before you were born.
- Network
- FOX
- Genre
- Action thriller
- Star
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Premiered
- 2001
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About
As of 2026, it's 25 years old.
24 ran on one gloriously stressful gimmick: each season is a single day, told in real time, one ticking-clock hour per episode, as agent Jack Bauer races to stop a catastrophe while never appearing to eat, sleep, or use a restroom. The on-screen clock and that 'BEEP-BOOP' transition made it pure adrenaline.
It turned the political thriller into a breathless sprint and made Kiefer Sutherland's perpetually-shouting Bauer an action icon for the post-9/11 era.
Tense, propulsive, and exhaustingly fun, 24 is the show that compressed a whole season into one impossibly eventful, bathroom-free day.
24 season by season
24 ran for 9 seasons (2001–2014) across 204 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
