The Unit: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

CBS | Season Premiere Date: March 7, 2006

Starring: Robert Patrick, Scott Foley, Dennis Haysbert

Summary: Playwright David Mamet's first real stab at network television follows an elite Special Forces unit (led by 24's Dennis Haysbert) on covert missions around the globe, while also focusing on the wives left behind.

Creator: David Mamet

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. The Wall
Air Date: May 16, 2006
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S1:E12. Morale, Welfare and Recreation
Air Date: May 16, 2006
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S1:E11. Exposure
Air Date: May 9, 2006

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Gloria Goodale

This could all get old really fast, but Taylor's steely performance keeps the home front interesting, while the globe-trotting soldiers bring home the reality of how many troubled spots this small planet still has. Read full review

Barry Garron

"The Unit" is filled with thrilling action and heart-pounding adventure. Read full review

Ken Tucker

This being Mamet, there's lots of folksy jargon. [10 Mar 2006, p.56]

Tom Shales

Mamet offers a kind of thinking person's war movie for a nation that is, indeed, at war. Read full review

Verne Gay

Some of Mamet's dialogue is certifiably awful and some certifiably brilliant, and the dichotomy is breathtaking. Read full review

Rob Owen

A not-awful but not-great drama. Read full review

Lee Siegel

What you get is a show constricted by radical artistic compromises that it refuses to acknowledge having made. The result is an expulsion of Mamet's distinctive vision into the margins of the series, in which it wanders around like a director who's been fired from a movie yet will not leave the set. Read full review

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derstreber

Sep 14, 2014

The Unit maybe one of the best tv shows I have ever seen. I loved the look, the style and everything. It was perfect. Such a shame that it was discontinued just to produce one more useless NCIS spin-off.
Kick all NCIS stuff out of your program except ne original one that was really good andThe Unit maybe one of the best tv shows I have ever seen. I loved the look, the style and everything. It was perfect. Such a shame that it was discontinued just to produce one more useless NCIS spin-off.
Kick all NCIS stuff out of your program except ne original one that was really good and go back producing The Unit. Dennis Haysbert was awesome btw.… Expand

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DavidE

Dec 12, 2006

Show has good morals! Well written scrips! Lots of MacGyver type of action! Keep me coming back every week. Actually this is the only show that I watch with my wife..... Awesom keep it on!