Do You Remember: Zero Hour

Zero Hour was a short-lived conspiracy series created by Paul Scheuring (who created Prison Break) that debuted on Valentine’s Day in 2013, as a mid-season replacement on ABC.

The series focused on Hank Galliston (Anthony Edwards of ER fame), a publisher of a paranormal-skeptics magazine, who got caught up in a hunt for the holiest of relics going back to the early days of Nazi Germany, after his wife, Laila (Jacinda Barrett, who went on to star in Bloodline), was abducted after purchasing a seemingly harmless – albeit elaborately designed – clock.

Beyond Edwards and Barrett in the lead roles, the main cast also included:

Carmen Ejogo (from the Fantastic Beasts franchise) as Agent Rebecca “Beck” Riley
Scott Michael Foster (from Greek and Chasing Life) as Arron Martin
Addison Timlin (from the box office movie Fallen) as Rachel Lewis
Michael Nyqvist (from the original movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) as White Vincent

Those who had recurring roles in the short-lived series include:

Amir Arison (from The Blacklist) as Theodore Riley
Dylan Baker (from The Americans and Blindspot) as Agent Terrance Fisk
Charles S. Dutton (from Roc and Longmire) as Father Mickle
Zach Grenier (from Ray Donovan and Devs) as Wayne Blanks
Grace Gummer (from The Newsroom and Mr. Robot) as Agent Paige Willis
Amy Irving (best known for her role in Crossing Delancey)as Melanie Lynch
Ken Leung (from Lost and The Night Shift) as Father Reggie

The series only aired three episodes before it was cancelled due to low ratings. The series premiere episode garnered 6.3 million viewers and then averaged 5.3 million viewers for the other two episodes. At the time of its airing, those ratings numbers were considered low: how times have changed. The remaining 10 episodes from its one and only season aired over the summer, earning an average of 1.6 million viewers, running from June 15 to August 3, 2013.

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Zero Hour received mostly less than favorable reviews from the likes of Newsday where it was touted as “ambitious and intermittently entertaining” and “[it doesn’t] quite hit all [its] marks.” And The New York Times shared “[its] entirely dispensable, its silliness [is] matched by its comic-book solemnity.”

In line with the mystery around the clock – for which the lead character’s wife was kidnapped – each episode began with the view of the internal workings of a ticking clock, focusing on one of the Roman numerals of the clock face. Heard over those images was a narrator who recited a rhyming couplet relating that number to the title of the episode, which was one word in this order: Strike, Face, Pendulum, Chain, Suspension, Weight, Sync, Winding, Balance, Escapement, Hands, Ratchet and Spring.

Here is the trailer for Zero Hour:

You can actually watch the 13 episodes of Zero Hour here.

Do you remember Zero Hour?