Touch: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

FOX | Season Premiere Date: January 25, 2012

Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Danny Glover

Summary: Kiefer Sutherland is Martin Bohm, a single father who discovers his mute son can see things nobody else can see.

Creator: Tim Kring

Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. The Road Not Taken
Air Date: September 14, 2012
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S1:E12. Gyre, Part 2
Air Date: May 31, 2012
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S1:E11. Gyre, Part 1
Air Date: May 31, 2012

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Verne Gay

Jan 24, 2012

A bit melodramatic, a bit manipulative, Touch is still one of the best pilots of the 2011-12 season to date. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Jan 20, 2012

There's heavy-handed imagery, and the show will rise or fall depending on the different weekly encounters with Jake. [27 Jan 2012, p.68] Read full review

Tom Gliatto

Mar 16, 2012

The one great redemptive asset--and it's significant--is Kiefer Sutherland. [26 Mar 2012, p.41]

Alan Sepinwall

Jan 24, 2012

It's an interesting, emotionally manipulative but still effective hour of television. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jan 24, 2012

The 11-year-old boy at the center of the story has never spoken and is also the show's narrator. It's a perfectly acceptable device, if not a particularly interesting one in this case. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Mar 22, 2012

In some parts, Touch is pleasantly moving and even tightly woven, until it becomes too blunt in its purposeful yanking of heartstrings. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Jan 24, 2012

Ironically, given a show that so clearly wants to touch its audience--from that weighty one-word title on down--we have met, apart from Martin, hardly a single character who incorporates more than the hint of an actual person. Read full review

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Gabe_Wales

May 13, 2018

Superb series.

Unique and thought provoking. Anyone who doesn't get this, has my sympathy. Unfortunately, the 2nd Season went to pot. Utter rubbish, without direction and may as well have been a different series. Such a shame. Guess they ran out of ideas. But, they say, everyone hasSuperb series.

Unique and thought provoking. Anyone who doesn't get this, has my sympathy.

Unfortunately, the 2nd Season went to pot. Utter rubbish, without direction and may as well have been a different series. Such a shame. Guess they ran out of ideas.

But, they say, everyone has a story inside them... so, as for the writer: well this first season was his.… Expand

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carojo3

May 28, 2012

I am surprised at these scores! Thankfully, this series has been renewed. I love this show.. I love the originality and the mystery... keeps me coming back every week. This show deserves a TEN,

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MichaelD84

Apr 3, 2012

So far from what i have seen so far is an excellent mind bending masterpiece, if the rest of the show resembles the first three episodes then i would say this story has the potential to be the best show i have ever seen, and i watch alot of shows.

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MsBetterThanU

Mar 29, 2012

No one listen to ajlondon he's just butthurt about knowing that this is better than 24. But seriously it's worth a watch even if you just watch it as a time passer every week it's still worth a watch.

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AustinGigi

May 3, 2012

JAKE!!!!!! JAKE!!!!!!!! JAKE!!!!!!! Show is okay, but I can't take Kiefer's character screaming for his son that we all know will not respond in any way. It is crazy, but this is my main reason for not wanting to watch it anymore.

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CovertHolistic

Mar 27, 2012

I found it difficult to take seriously, right from the intro where the kid claims "most people don't realize there's a pattern in plants and seashells". Really? Well most people clearly are idiots, then. There doesn't seem to be any direct connection between the plot points other than theI found it difficult to take seriously, right from the intro where the kid claims "most people don't realize there's a pattern in plants and seashells". Really? Well most people clearly are idiots, then. There doesn't seem to be any direct connection between the plot points other than the fact they're tied together by Jake's powers, so if (like me) you like it when things actually make sense and get resolved - you might be disappointed. Other negative points for me were the obligatory 911 reference, and the poor European acting (so people living in Dublin refer to their city as "Dublin, Ireland" do they?). I didn't even finish watching the first episode, which either disqualifies me from reviewing it, or forms the lynch-pin of my review. You decide!… Expand

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Justinsb

Sep 20, 2016

Writers throwing together a lot of scientific and technical jargon that they clearly don't understand and mixing it with new age psychobabble - then wrapping all of that around a plot riddled with holes and inconsistencies.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

58
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: February 8, 2013
Season 1

63
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 25, 2012
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  S1:E13. The Road Not Taken
  Air Date: September 14, 2012
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  S1:E12. Gyre, Part 2
  Air Date: May 31, 2012
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  S1:E11. Gyre, Part 1
  Air Date: May 31, 2012
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  S1:E10. Tessellations
  Air Date: May 17, 2012
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  S1:E9. Music of the Spheres
  Air Date: May 10, 2012
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  S1:E8. Zone of Exclusion
  Air Date: May 3, 2012
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  S1:E7. Noosphere Rising
  Air Date: April 26, 2012
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  S1:E6. Lost and Found
  Air Date: April 19, 2012
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  S1:E5. Entanglement
  Air Date: April 12, 2012
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  S1:E4. Kite Strings
  Air Date: April 5, 2012
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  S1:E3. Safety in Numbers
  Air Date: March 29, 2012
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  S1:E2. 1+1=3
  Air Date: March 22, 2012
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: January 25, 2012