Reported Missing (TV series)

Reported Missing is a British documentary television series broadcast on BBC One (2017–present). The series follows various police departments and associated organisations in the United Kingdom, in search for missing people.^[1] Each episode follow one or more cases, from the first 999 call through to the conclusion.^[2] The first series was narrated by Ruth Wilson and the second and third series are narrated by Indira Varma. Reported Missing has eleven episodes over three series. Series 1 had three episodes, series 2 had four episodes, series 3 had five episodes (though the last episode was not aired), and series 4 had four episodes.

Reported Missing
Genre	Documentary
Directed by	James Incledon Chris Rowe Aoife Carey Alexander Niakaris Myles Jenks Leonardo Machado Rhys Roberts
Narrated by	Ruth Wilson (2017) Indira Varma (2018–present)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	15
Production
Executive producers	Sacha Baveystock David Hodgkinson Edmund Coulthard
Running time	57-60 minutes
Production company	Blast! Films
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	2017 (2017) – present

Episodes

Series	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	3		12 April 2017 (2017-04-12)	26 April 2017 (2017-04-26)
2	4		3 September 2018 (2018-09-03)	24 September 2018 (2018-09-24)
3	4		12 August 2020 (2020-08-12)	2 September 2020 (2020-09-02)
4	4		11 October 2022 (2022-10-11)	1 November 2022 (2022-11-01)

Series 1 (2017)

No. overall	No. in season	Directed by	Original release date
1	1	Chris Rowe and James Incledon	12 April 2017 (2017-04-12)
12-year-old Joshua disappears into the night after a row, and 13-year-old Katie walks out-of-home leaving a suicide note.
2	2	Chris Rowe and James Incledon	19 April 2017 (2017-04-19)
Documentary series following the search for missing people. Just six weeks after his wedding, 28-year-old Darren vanishes, apparently into thin air.
3	3	Chris Rowe and James Incledon	26 April 2017 (2017-04-26)
Documentary series following the search for missing people. When an 82-year-old man suffering from advancing dementia goes missing, a full-scale land and air search is launched.

Series 2 (2018)

No. overall	No. in season	Directed by	Original release date
4	1	Alexander Niakaris	3 September 2018 (2018-09-03)
Documentary series following the search for missing people. Five-year old Tyler is reported missing by his father after a dispute with Tyler's mum.
5	2	Alexander Niakaris	10 September 2018 (2018-09-10)
Documentary series following the search for missing people. Forty-nine-year-old George vanishes after going to the job centre, and his family think the police could be doing more.
6	3	Alexander Niakaris	17 September 2018 (2018-09-17)
Documentary series following the search for missing people. When 77-year-old Jean doesn't return from a doctor's appointment, Cheshire Police launch a large-scale search.
7	4	Alexander Niakaris	24 September 2018 (2018-09-24)
Documentary series following the search for missing people. As the months tick by in the search for 40-year-old Michael Price, will his family ever get answers?

Series 3 (2020)

No. overall	No. in season	Directed by	Original release date
8	1	Aoife Carey and Alexander Niakaris	12 August 2020 (2020-08-12)
When an ex-soldier with PTSD goes missing after posting that he wants to end it all, Cheshire Police need to work out fast what may lie behind his disappearance.
9	2	Myles Jenks, Leonardo Machado and Rhys Roberts	19 August 2020 (2020-08-19)
Police mount urgent searches for two people with dementia. Sheila has vanished from her husband’s side during a shopping trip, while John has headed out alone into the countryside.
10	3	Myles Jenks, Leonardo Machado and Rhys Roberts	26 August 2020 (2020-08-26)
Gloucestershire Police face a series of increasingly complex searches for 59-year-old Michael, whose paranoid schizophrenia prompts him to disappear and go into hiding.
11	4	Leonardo Machado and Rhys Roberts	2 September 2020 (2020-09-02)
Gloucestershire police search for two vulnerable drug users. One hasn't been seen on the streets for two months, while the other has left hospital against his doctors’ advice.

Series 4 (2022)

No. overall	No. in season	Directed by	Original release date
12	1	Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells	11 October 2022 (2022-10-11)
South Yorkshire Police mount urgent searches for two vulnerable autistic men. Eighteen-year-old Matthew has missed his usual bus home, while 29-year-old Luke has disappeared from his care home.
13	2	Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells	18 October 2022 (2022-10-18)
South Yorkshire Police concern mounts for two men. Fifty-eight-year-old Gavin has vanished after giving away money, while a student has disappeared after joining a mysterious church.
14	3	Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells	25 October 2022 (2022-10-25)
South Yorkshire Police deal with two different missing people who both may be at risk. Mark has left a troubling note for his wife, while a potentially suicidal woman has vanished.
15	4	Leonardo Machado, Jules Endersby, Myles Jenks, and Paul Wells	1 November 2022 (2022-11-01)
South Yorkshire Police race against the clock to find two missing women, both of whom are at potential risk of harm from abusive ex-partners.

Unaired Series 3 Finale

The fifth and finale episode of series 3 was due to air on 9 September 2020 at 9pm on BBC One. However, a repeat of episode 2 from series 1 aired. The production company of Reported Missing told Gloucestershire Live that the change was for legal reasons: “The run was originally planned to be five new programmes, the majority of which featured Gloucestershire Constabulary, but for legal reasons, a repeat is now going in on the fifth and final week”.^[3]

See also

• Vanished