I used to watch this series like 8 years ago.. It was awesome, I would really like to know its name...

The series starts off with a guy who is a painter *mb don't really remember*..
who takes his gf/date to a restaurant, he goes to the bathroom and when he gets out he couldn't find his date.....he tries to use his credit card but it doesn't work..and its like he didn't ever exist...

Through out the series a picture/paint of men hanged and thier faces covered is displayed as it has something to do with the story...

I would be really grateful if you could name this....

Nowhere Man

Bruce Greenwood stars as documentary photographer Thomas Veil who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased, in the compelling one-hour drama Nowhere Man. It appears as if some mysterious and powerful entity has coerced Veil's family and friends into cooperating in a clandestine plan to annul every trace of him. Veil is all alone with no option but to begin a desperate, dangerous quest to find out how and why this has happened and most importantly, who is behind this torturous scheme.

Edit: FWIW I googled "tv show picture of men hanged" (without quotes) and it was the 4th one down.

Thanks a LOT !! I googled it lots of times just wasn't lucky...

yeah, you just run bad at googling, that's what it is.

Google variance is a bitch.

Had a bad day yesterday....last two posts made me . Thanks

So, partly out of boredom and partly because I thought a show about a photographer would be cool, I stuck Nowhere Man on Netflix after I saw this thread. Just finished watching the entire series this morning (one season, 28 episodes or so).

There was a lot to love in this series, and apparently it got very good reviews but was cancelled when UPN went in a new direction. The show was part The Prisoner, and a little The X Files. It was noir-ish in parts, pondered some interesting questions of identity, and kept the audience guessing.

The down side, of course, was pretty much everything else. It looks like it was filmed without a script, there's very little in the way of direction or continuity, much of it is fantastical to the point of being silly, and production values were awful.

It's definitely the sort of series I would never watch on television, but found oddly compelling on DVD. Yeah, it was bad and over the top and silly, but in the end it was also fun. When I finished watching the last episode, I was left wanting more answers and explanation and episodes, which I think means that ultimately the producers did something right.

If you can stomach all the downside (and there's a lot), this was actually a fun cult-following type of show to watch.

I watched the show as it aired in 9th grade and loved it. When I later watched The Prisoner, a lot of the themes and even certain plotlines were already familiar to me because of Nowhere Man.

At that age I didn't notice all the flaws you mention (or if I did I've forgotten), so it would be interesting to see it now.

The DVDs seem to have a lot of special features, pretty unlikely for a rare TV series release.

Lawrence Hetzog created/produced it, and he does many interviews on the DVD, along with a bunch of other people involved in the making of the show. He's pretty honest, which is refreshing - he plainly says some episodes worked better than others, the production schedule was brutal, and I got the sense that they were making up the plotlines as they went along.

He said in the interviews that the main character basically was him, which is sort of funny because he looks like the opposite of the actor. But it was obviously a project he felt passionate about.

Hertzog died last year, I think. Cancer.

As for the flaws, what can I say. These days, television shows are so smooth, streamlined and well done, it just doesn't compare. Even Fringe is better by miles (in some ways), and that's a show I watch(ed) that I think has plenty of flaws.

Still, Nowhere Man had its moments.

did it actually resolve before the cancellation or did it hang in the air?

RB

I think a little of both. They resolved some questions (it closed on a season finale, I believe), but definitely left open that more was to come. It picked up speed in the final episodes, trying to get to a stop/pause point.