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Australian TV series or program
Missing Persons Unit
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Genre
| Police documentary
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Presented by
| Mike Munro
(2006?2008)
Steve Bastoni
(2009?2010)
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Country of origin
| Australia
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 5
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Executive producers
| Ivo Burum
Peter Abbott
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Production locations
| New South Wales
, Australia
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Running time
| 60 minutes (including commercials)
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Network
| Nine Network
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Release
| 7 February 2006
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2006-02-07
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2010
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2010
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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.
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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.
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Synopsis
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Missing Persons Unit
is an observational documentary series that explores the world of the
New South Wales
Police MPU and the families of missing people.
Filmed at police stations, forensics labs, with families and on location with search and rescue, the program follows MPU operatives as they investigate cases and piece together the jigsaw that might lead to closure for a grief-stricken family.
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