Genre Crime drama Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 2 | Composer(s) David Lowe Original language(s) English | |
Starring Pauline Quirke
Mark Wingett
Felix Scott
Pooja Shah
Jamie Belman
Adjoa Andoh
Roy Hudd | ||
Missing is a British daytime television crime drama series starring Pauline Quirke and Mark Wingett. The series is set in a busy, under-resourced missing persons unit, and follows the team led by DS Mary Jane "MJ" Croft (Quirke). The first series of five episodes aired on BBC One in 2009, with an extended second series of ten episodes airing in 2010. It was filmed in and around Dover, Kent and Tonbridge, Kent. The series also starred Felix Scott and Pooja Shah as Croft's sidekicks, Jason Doyle and Amy Garnett. Guest stars who appeared throughout the series run include Paul Nicholas, Brooke Kinsella, Gary Lucy and Sylvia Syms.
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The first series was commissioned in July 2008 to be broadcast in the daytime schedule, alongside a new series of Missing Live, which follows the work of the police and a missing persons charity searching for people who go missing. A second series was commissioned in October 2009. BBC daytime controller Liam Keelan commented: "We have seen how successful combining drama and factual programming has been in BBC Daytime - extending the run of Missing will create an even greater sense of event."