Season 1 - Trivia

A scene from the pilot episode depicting a Boeing 747 exploding was re-edited for broadcast, with the image of the plane exploding removed, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, which had occurred less than two months earlier.


Season 1 is the only season of 24, in which the acting President of the United States is neither shown nor mentioned.

Dennis Haysbert was travelling back and forth from the east coast to Los Angeles during the production of Season 1, as he was starring in the film Far from Heaven which was being shot at the same time.


Season 1's tragic ending saw the “silent clock” used for the first time.