History Trivia / WithoutATrace

* WrittenInInfirmity: Poppy Montgomery's RealLife pregnancy resulted in Samantha Spade becoming a mom too.

* ChannelHop: The repeats have aired at various times on the Escape and Pop channels, sometimes only on one or the other and as of 2020, are airing on the Bounce channel, again at varying times.

* NamesTheSame: Martin Fitzgerald is also the name of a character on the SoapOpera ''Series/{{Passions}}''.

** There have been several episodes featuring the disappearance of pregnant women.

* FakeAmerican: Half the damn cast. Anthony [=LaPaglia=] (Jack Malone) and Poppy Montgomery (Samantha Spade) are Australians and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson) is British.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The pilot episode (which aired in the fall of 2002) mentions a suspect flying back to New York via the Concorde, which hasn't flown since 2003.
** Another Season 1 episode from the fall of 2002 has Martin and Jack making jokes about the Chicago White Sox, which at the time was in the midst of an 85-year World Series title drought, a losing streak that was finally broken in 2005.
** The agents are also often shown using some now-defunct technology, such as phone books and videotapes (do either of those even exist anymore?).

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/PedroPascal ''and'' Creator/CoreyStoll in "Candy."

* ExecutiveMeddling: For its first four seasons, the show aired on Thursdays at 10 pm until September 2006 (it was the first show to put a dent in the ratings of ''Series/{{ER}}'', which was beginning its 9th season at the time ''WAT'' premiered). Then for the fifth season, it was moved to Sundays. For the sixth season, it was returned to its original Thursday timeslot, then moved ''again'' to Tuesdays at 10pm for it's seventh and final season.

** "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_a_Trace_(film) Without A Trace]] is also the name of a 1983 movie.

* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/EricClose (Martin Fitzgerald) directed a handful of episodes, as did Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson).

** In a Season 1 episode (fall of 2002), Martin and Jack make a crack about the Chicago White Sox, which at the time was in the midst of an 85-year World Series title drought, a losing streak that was finally broken in 2005.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The pilot episode (which aired in the fall of 2002) mentions a suspect flying back to New York via the Concorde, which hasn't flown since 2003. The agents are also often shown using some now-defunct technology, such as phone books and videotapes (do either of those even exist anymore?). Martin and Jack also make a crack about the Chicago White Sox, which at the time was in the midst of an 85-year World Series title drought, a losing streak that was finally broken in 2005.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The pilot episode (which aired in the fall of 2002) mentions a suspect flying back to New York via the Concorde, which hasn't flown since 2003. The agents are also often shown using some now-defunct technology, such as phone books and videotapes (do either of those even exist anymore?).

** Season 1's "Snatch Back" and Season 3's "Manhunt". A disturbed person who lost a child kidnaps one to replace them and is DrivenToSuicide after being caught and forced to give them back. The only difference is the gender (female in the first episode, male in the second) and that in the latter episode, agent is able to stop the guy from killing himself.