9 Interesting Facts About The 4400

1. #001

   When the producers were designing the series, the secret of who abducted the 4400 was meant to be revealed in the fifth season. The US network had picked up the show as a miniseries and wanted it brought to a resolution, so the secret was revealed in the fifth episode.

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2. #004

   For the show's advertising, stock images were purchased from various stock photo agencies to create the various people shown as part of the 4400 missing persons. This was most likely to avoid paying various actors for the use of their images in advertising.

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3. #005

   Joel Gretsch (Tom Baldwin), Jacqueline McKenzie (Diana Skouris) and Patrick John Flueger (Shawn Farrell) are the only actors who appear in all 44 episodes of the series.

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4. #006

   The address of The 4400 Center is the same as that of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia, 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia. The Chan Centre was the filming location for The 4400 Center's exteriors and some interiors, including the main lobby.

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5. #007

   Seacrest High School in this series is also the location of Smallville High School in Smallville (2001).

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6. #008

   The character Tom Baldwin wears a striped shirt in every episode except the final one, in which he wears a black shirt.

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7. #009

   The two main characters, Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie), were inspired by the main characters of The X-Files (1993), Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). This is more evident in the names of the female roles.

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8. #010

   Because it was the first major science fiction miniseries since Steven Spielberg's Taken (2002) and has an almost opposite premise, science fans jokingly renamed it "Put Back."

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9. #011

   Michael Moriarty and Joel Gretsch appeared together in Steven Spielberg's Taken.

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