Reiko Aylesworth auditioned for Nina Myers, but lost to Sarah Clarke. When Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran were casting the second season, they remembered her and cast her as Michelle Dessler.
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24 (2001) - 49 trivia entries
Directed by Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran, starring Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert, Elisha Cuthbert, Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Reiko Aylesworth, Xander Berkeley (add more)
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Reiko Aylesworth auditioned for Nina Myers, but lost to Sarah Clarke. When Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran were casting the second season, they remembered her and cast her as Michelle Dessler.
Co-creators Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran have admitted to naming characters after tennis and chess players respectively, while producer Michael Loceff names characters after people from Foothill College, where he teaches.
Over the course of each season, Sterling Rush (head of the props department) takes an average of 10 to 12 thousand photos of sets, props and characters, in order to ensure continuity between scenes and episodes.
The main character of the show was originally going to be named Jack Barrett. The creators of the show decided they didn't like the name, and changed it to "Bauer" after Elaine Bauer, an executive at Imagine Entertainment.
Co-creator Joel Surnow originally named Carlos Bernard's character "Tonio" Almeida, but Kiefer Sutherland was unable to say this name and ended up calling him "Tony" instead.
Each member of the cast of 24 is required to trim their hair every 5 days.
Glenn Morshower, who plays Aaron Pierce, is the only actor besides Sutherland to appear in all seven seasons.
Reiko Aylesworth based her performance as Michelle Dessler on her mother.
Teri Bauer (Day 1), Chase Edmunds (Day 3), and Nadia Yassir (Day 6) are the only characters to appear in every episode of the season in which they appeared.
In the season seven premiere, Carlos Bernard is credited as Tony Almeida, even though his return was meant to be a surprise. This was because Tony's return was leaked in a press release almost a year before the episode aired.
The ninth episode of season 7, 4:00pm-5:00pm, was the first episode filmed after the 2007 Writer's Guild strike, and was produced concurrently with 24: Redemption.
11:00 P.M.-12:00 Midnight (series 1)
In the final episode of the first series, when Nina is erasing information from the computer, all the pictures you can see on the screen are of the cast and crew. One of these pictures features Kiefer Sutherland kissing a small cuddly toy.
To ensure that the season 1 finale wasn't given away by anyone, a number of different final episodes were filmed.
7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M. (series 1)
Lou Diamond Phillips made two appearances on the show, as Mark DeSalvo, the security chief where Victor Drazen is being held. Philips and star Kiefer Sutherland are known for having worked together in Young Guns and Young Guns 2.
3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M. (series 1)
This is a very strange observation that I made of the scene where George enters Jack's office as he's changing. Just after George says he's in charge, Jack jokingly says, "So they thought you'd do a better job keeping an eye on me than Alberta would." Just at that moment, he kicks a shoebox out of his way, and the sound it makes sounds exactly like a rimshot of a drum, unintentionally making a mockery of the joke he just made.
9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M. (series 1)
Alberta Green, who makes her first appearance in this episode, was named for actress Alberta Watson, whom series creator Joel Surnow originally wanted to play the role. Ironically, Watson played Erin Driscoll, a character that is by-the-book, much like Green is, in Season 4.
5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M. (series 1)
Eric Balfour began a series of guest appearances as Milo Pressman; the name was also used in the film Stand By Me, in which star Kiefer Sutherland appeared as a small-town bully.
All of series 1 (series 1)
While filming the first series of 24, the terrorist attacks of September 11th occurred. This is why the plane explosion is rarely mentioned as the series goes on.
Sarah Clarke was cast as Nina Myers the morning filming for the pilot was to begin; the costume department didn't have time to fit her, so she wore her own clothes during the season
During production, Dennis Haysbert was shuttling back and forth between Los Angeles and the East coast, because he was filming "Far From Heaven" at the same time.
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