Scripted series · BBC One
The Missing
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
David Morrissey
Sam Webster
8 eps
James Nesbitt
Tony Hughes
8 eps
Keeley Hawes
Gemma Webster
8 eps
Abigail Hardingham
Alice Webster
8 eps
Frances O'Connor
Emily Hughes
8 eps
Tchéky Karyo
Julien Baptiste
16 eps
Anastasia Hille
Celia Baptiste
16 eps
Joséphine de la Baume
Monique
8 eps
Jason Flemyng
Mark Walsh
8 eps
Lia Williams
Nadia Herz
8 eps
Laura Fraser
Eve Stone
8 eps
Roger Allam
Adrian Stone
8 eps
Jake Davies
Matthew Webster
8 eps
Arsher Ali
Malik Suri
8 eps
Hilde Heijnen
Vivienne
1 eps
Ildikó Szücs
Mrs. Giroux
1 eps
Dianne Weller
HQ Receptionist
1 eps
Adam Thomas Wright
Alex Duchamps
2 eps
Sasha Waddell
Scottish Mum
1 eps
Max Wrottesley
Tommy (uncredited)
1 eps
Astrid Whettnall
Sylvie Deloix
2 eps
Jean-François Wolff
Alain Deloix
1 eps
Titus De Voogdt
Vincent Bourg
2 eps
Abigail Davies
Bourg's Doctor
2 eps
Johan Leysen
Karl Sieg
1 eps
Saïd Taghmaoui
Khalid Ziane
1 eps
Macauley Keeper
James Walsh
1 eps
Anjli Mohindra
Amara Suri
2 eps
Georgi Ivanov
Russian Policeman
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Missing actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Missing reads strongest on Tension, Character Depth and Bingeability.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 16 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20148 episodes
8.1IMDbWhen Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their 5-year-old son Oliver, their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears from a large celebrating crowd in Northern France.
Best episode · S01E08 Till Death
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20168 episodes
8.5IMDbIn 2014, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster, and she has been missing for 11 years. Alice’s return sends shockwaves through the small community. Told in dual timelines, flitting between 2014 and the present day, we follow Alice’s family as they are thrown back into a turmoil that threatens to tear them apart at the seams. When French missing persons detective Julien Baptiste, races across Europe to pursue a 12-year-old case that he never let die, we begin to explore the murky morality and emotional complexity of what happens when the missing child you’ve been longing to return actually comes back.
Best episode · S02E08 The Mountain
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S02E08 · Signature episode
The Mountain
Sam and Gemma are pulling together and join Julien in a desperate race against time.
S02E02 · Signature episode
The Turtle and the Stick
After Alice returns to her home, the Websters struggle to deal with what she's suffered.
S02E03 · Signature episode
A Prison Without Walls
Julien visits the father of Sophie Giroux, but Remy isn't all that pleased to see him.
S02E07 · Signature episode
1991
Julien finally learns the truth behind Alice and Sophie's abduction.
S01E08 · Signature episode
Till Death
The truth about Oliver's disappearance finally comes to light.
- Directed by Tom Shankland
S02E01
Come Home
A woman, previously abducted, may hold the key to the location of another missing girl.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E08 · Signature episode
The Mountain
S02E07 · Signature episode
1991
S02E06
Saint John
S02E05
Das Vergessen
S02E04
Statice
S02E03 · Signature episode
A Prison Without Walls
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Chris CloughProducer
- Colin CallenderExecutive Producer
- Willow GryllsExecutive Producer
- Elaine PykeExecutive Producer
Writing
- Harry WilliamsWriter
- Jack WilliamsWriter
Direction
- Ben ChananDirector
- Tom ShanklandDirector
Cinematography
- Ole Bratt BirkelandDirector of Photography
Music
- Dominik ScherrerOriginal Music Composer
Recognition
Awards
1 win
Golden Nymph for Best Mini Series
1 win · latest 2015
- WinnerGolden Nymph for Best Mini Series2015
The Missing · The Missing
Where to watch
Streaming
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