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The clock is ticking...Midnight. Jack Bauer, head of the CIA's Los Angeles Counter Terrorism Unit, is suddenly thrust into a chaotic and exhausting 24-hour marathon of death, deception, and terror as he struggles to prevent the assassination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter…and that's just in season one of Fox's series thriller "

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" stars Kiefer Sutherland as federal agent Jack Bauer as it follows him, unfolding in real time over a

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-hour period with each episode devoted to one hour of his life, as he tries to prevent terrorist attacks. "

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" first aired on November 6, 2001 and also stars Carlos Bernard, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dennis Haybert, Elisha Cuthbert, Reikio Aylesworth, Kim Raver, James Morrison, D.B. Woodside, and Roger Cross.

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" won the 2006 Emmys for Outstanding Best Drama and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, in addition to the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Drama. Kiefer Sutherland won the 2006 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama.

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" was created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran and is produced by Imagine Television.