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Most Wanted

Description: From Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and the team behind "FBI" and the "Law & Order" franchise, "FBI: Most Wanted" is a high-stakes drama focusing on the Fugitive Task Force, which relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau's Most Wanted list. Seasoned agent Jess LaCroix oversees the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Year Released: 1976
Number of seasons: 1
Number of episodes: 23
First episode air date: March 21, 1976
Network: CBS
Program Creator: RenΓ© Balcer
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