UC: Undercover

UC: Undercover
Genre	Procedural drama
Created by	Shane Salerno Don Winslow
Starring	Oded Fehr Jon Seda Vera Farmiga Bruklin Harris Jarrad Paul William Forsythe
Composers	David Arnold John King Roger Neill
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Danny DeVito Shane Salerno Don Winslow John Landgraf Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher
Producers	Regis Kimble Erik Bork Thomas Carter
Production locations	Vancouver, British Columbia
Cinematography	Tony Westman
Editor	Les Butler
Running time	43 minutes
Production companies	Jersey Television Chasing Time Pictures Regency Television NBC Studios 20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 30, 2001 (2001-09-30) – March 23, 2002 (2002-03-23)

UC: Undercover is an American procedural drama television series created by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow. The series premiered on the NBC network on September 30, 2001. The series ran for one season of 13 episodes, finishing its run on March 23, 2002. It focused on the secret lives and private demons of an elite Justice Department crime-fighting unit that confronted the United States' deadliest, most untouchable lawbreakers by going undercover to bust them.

The screenplays were either solely written or co-written by Salerno. James Bond composer David Arnold wrote the main title theme and scored the pilot episode.^[1] Salerno said the show was a "very music driven series."^[2]

The unit is headed by authoritative Frank Donovan (Oded Fehr), with undercover agents Jake Shaw (Jon Seda) and Alex Cross (Vera Farmiga), psychological profiler Monica Davis (Bruklin Harris), and young techno-wizard Cody (Jarrad Paul), who runs all of the high-tech surveillance operations.

As a federal team, the group responds to emergencies all over the country: taking down elite bank robbers, drug kingpins, domestic terrorists, spies, jewel thieves, and corrupt cops. The drama's character-driven storylines emphasize the taut, cat-and-mouse game played by the undercover agents as they attempt to infiltrate the lives of a gallery of criminals, including murderous master thief Jack "Sonny" Walker (William Forsythe) and imprisoned drug lord Carlos Cortez (Steven Bauer).

The series also explores the psychological toll undercover work takes on the agents who play this deadly game of false identities and who commit treachery as a daily profession for the greater good. The team often butts heads with Paul Bloom (Brian Markinson), their obstructive and fiercely ambitious Justice Department boss.

• Oded Fehr as Frank Donovan
• Jon Seda as Jake Shaw
• Vera Farmiga as Alex Cross
• Bruklin Harris as Monica Davis
• Jarrad Paul as Cody
• William Forsythe as Sonny Walker

• Angie Everhart as Carly
• Steven Bauer as Carlos Cortez
• Ving Rhames as Quito Real
• James Handy as Priest
• Bill Mondy as Scott Charles
• N'Bushe Wright as Keisha
• Grant Show as John Keller
• Brian Markinson as Paul Bloom
• Gabrielle Miller as Vanessa

The New York Times called it a "fast paced, good-looking series,"^[4] and Variety wrote that series lead Oded Fehr is a "commanding and interesting addition to television."^[5] Variety added that "technical credits are comparable to theatrical quality" which led the series winning awards for cinematography and sound. The show received a high 7.3 out of 10 from viewers on TV.com.^[6] USA Today's Robert Bianco gave it one star and said it was "pretentious, incoherent and so visually hyper it borders on nauseating."^[7]

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