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Missing Persons Unit (2006)

Missing Persons Unit poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
Australia

How it feels

This Australian documentary series follows police as they investigate missing persons cases. It shows the real-life efforts to find those who have disappeared and the impact on their families.

seriousinformativedramaticrestrainedsomberproceduraldocumentary-style

What happens

Missing Persons Unit is an Australian television documentary series on the Nine Network hosted by actor and personality Steve Bastoni. The show documents people who have gone missing in Australia and the police who investigate their cases. The show was hosted for its first three years by Mike Munro before he moved to the Seven Network. The program is produced by Sydney production company Freehand, executive producer for series 1-3 was Ivo Burum. The first series of Missing Persons Unit screened from February 2006 as 30-minute episodes. The second series began airing in a 60-minute format from February 2008 and remained in that format with the third series airing from June 2009. It began airing on UK television in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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