America's Most Wanted (TV Show)
America's Most Wanted was an American documentary television show that first aired on Fox from 1988 to 2011 , but was then shown on Lifetime cable for two more years . The broadcast was used to investigate criminal offenses and track down suspects.
The thematic predecessors of the program were the German-language program Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved and the British Crimewatch . Each episode aired features in which actors re-enacted real crimes. Afterwards, the spectators were called to report as witnesses. According to their own statements, 1089 criminals had been caught by September 12, 2009. In September 1996, the show was canceled, a decision that was reversed after massive protests and after the replacement broadcast fell short of expectations.
The show was hosted by John Walsh , whose son was murdered in 1981. Walsh is also one of the owners of the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, DC , which is where the show's television studio was located.
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Hibberd: Fox cancels "America's Most Wanted", plans specials . Entertainment Weekly . May 16, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
- ↑ Deborah Jermyn: Crime watching: investigating real crime TV . IBTauris & Co Ltd, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-84511-239-4
- ↑ a b Douglas Snauffer: Crime Television . Praeger Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-0-275-98807-4
- ↑ amw.com ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : AMW CAPTURE DATA FILE FOR Chad Earl Schaffner
- ↑ latimes.com : Adam Walsh case is closed after 27 years, Los Angeles Times , Dec 17, 2008
Web links
- America's Most Wanted in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website