Trivia / America's Most Wanted

• …But I Play One on TV: Apparently a recurring problem is that tipsters will frequently call the police to report seeing the actors who do the reenactments instead of the actual crooks. Apparently a couple have had to have special cards assigned to show police because it happened so frequently.
• Channel Hop: Fox to Lifetime, then back to Fox.
  • Studio-wise, the AMW intellectual property was sent to 21st Century Fox successor Fox Corporation, which owns longtime producer Fox Television Stations, upon that company's merger with Disney. The revival is handled by Fox Entertainment.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The only way to catch the series now is if you taped it off television during the original broadcasts. Beyond that, it's never been rerun in any capacity.
• Screwed by the Network: Big time, and screwed is actually putting it lightly. First, Fox canceled the series in 2011, citing various different reasons, ranging from the show being too expensive to produce, to low ratings (though it appears that after its cancellation, they just wanted to use the slot to air even more Family Guy); Fox continued with quarterly specials up till 2012, when the series was moved to Lifetime to resume broadcast. Lifetime aired the series for only one season from 2012 to 2013, and eventually axed it as well, because of the royalties they were having to pay Fox since they still owned the IP.
• Spiritual Successor: The Hunt with John Walsh on CNN. Goes into more detail about the criminals and the details of the crimes committed, with fewer criminals profiles per show.
• Throw It In!: Occasionally, they'll be stuck on a case and will have a wild idea they try that actually worked surprisingly well. In one case, they had a body with no obvious means of identifying him. One thing they noticed was that he had several distinct tattoos. So they painted replicas on a model (according to Walsh in a later interview, he was a dancer for Thunder Down Under) which led to a woman calling in and identifying him as her uncle.
• Un-Canceled: Three times!