The beginning: Season 1

Season 1 of 24 began in November 2001 on the Fox Network and was created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran.

They were both executive producers along with Brian Grazer, Tony Krantz, Howard Gordon and Stephen Hopkins.

Fox originally only ordered thirteen episodes of the show to try it out and see whether it was successful.

The successful rescue at the end of the first half of the season was planned as a series ending in case the show was not picked up for the rest of the year.

Season 1 begins at 12:00 AM on the day of the California presidential primary. Jack Bauer has to protect Senator David Palmer from an assassination plot, and rescue his wife Teri and daughter Kim from those responsible for the plot, who seek retribution for Jack’s and David Palmer’s involvement with a covert U.S. mission in the Balkans.