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24: The Complete Series box set: A review (with link)

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24: The Complete Series           Reviewer’s Note: This Epinion focuses solely on the  24: The Complete Series  box set (DVD format) and its particular features.  It doesn’t contain any season-specific content. It doesn't discuss plot or characters, either. However, links to the author’s reviews of the seven seasons found in the Epinions database have been provided in the   Content  section of this review:  On November 6, 2001, the Fox television network aired the first episode of  24,  a hybrid of the action/espionage/political thriller and nighttime soap opera genres. Created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran ( La Femme Nikita ) and starring Kiefer Sutherland as Federal counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer,  24  portrays the events of a single day in “real time.”  The series ran for nine years and eight seasons – the seventh being delayed by almost a year due to the Writer’s Guild strike of 2007-2008; it spanned 192 regular episodes and a two-hour TV movie,  Redemption.   On May 2