AIRPLANE BOMBING
Day 1 — 12:00am-1:00am

To say that 24 began with a bang is an understatement. 24's pilot episode ends with saucy bisexual assassin Mandy (Mia Kirshner) stealing a press photographer's ID badge while having sex with him in an airplane lavatory, then blowing up the plane to cover her tracks — as she safely parachutes out. No wonder the premiere — initially set to air shortly after 9/11 — was pushed back to Nov. 6, 2001. But even then, creators Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran took a huge gamble with America's shattered nerves.