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Surnow, who is Jewish, says his back- After determining the entire season ground has played a role in would take place in one day, shaping the show. "Bob is a with each of the 24 episodes Christian Scientist and I am covering one real hour in Jewish and we are both time, he needed a. storyline. deeply committed to our "Bob (co-creator Robert respective religions, and that Cochran) and I sat down influences the way we write and tried to think of what our characters," he says. would be compelling "We are always concerned enough to keep people up that Keifer Sutherland's for 24 hours," recalls- character has strong values Surnow, who cast Keifer and a commitment to his Sutherland in the lead role. country, his family, etc. This "We started with an comes from both of our assassination attempt on a "24" co-creator Joel president, which would Surnow spent his early religious upbringings." Surnow, 47, spent his cause everyone to be on . childhood in Detroit childhood in Detroit and high alert, but we also and Oak Park. Oak Park, beginning his needed a personal story "Bob and I both have teenage daugh- education at Clinton Elementary and transferring to Einstein Elementary. ters and we thought if our daughters When he was 8 years old, his parents, were missing, we wouldn't be worrying about sleeping, showering or eating. We Max, a carpet salesman, and Reva, a saleswoman at Ferguson's in Detroit, would be completely committed to moved the family to Los Angeles. finding them. So we put those two "It's ironic that I'm being written up ideas together and it grew from there." in the Jewish News," says Surnow, The 24 hours of the title begin at whose parents are both deceased. "The the midnight hour, the day of the Jewish News was [my parents'] favorite California presidential primary. After paper, and they had it sent to playing chess with his 15-year old California and read it every week until daughter, CIA agent Jack Bauer they died. They would have loved this." (Sutherland) gets called into work, Surnow went to high school in where he learns of a plot to assassinate Beverly Hills, Calif, and spent his col- the presidential nominee. lege years at Berkeley and UCLA, He has only has 24 hours to hunt down the potential assassin. But Bauer where he earned his bachelor's degree. Following graduation, he worked for also has to deal with another crisis — his father selling carpets for a few his daughter is missing. years, and then landed his first writing Surnow, who is married with five assignment on the TV hit St. Elsewhere. daughters, ages 6 to 19, says 24 "has a From there I was the head writer lot of elements that audiences are famil- on Miami Vice for the first season, and iar with — a crime story and a personal family story. We didn't want any kind of then became executive producer of The Equalizer, which was shot in New science fiction, just dramatic elements York," says Surnow, who also pro- that people are comfortable with." Because of the events of Sept. 11, the duced and wrote the Rock Hudson vehicle The Commish. writers had to make a script change. "Then I developed and executive "We had a scene of a plane exploding ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to the Jewish News