Kidnapped: The Best TV Show You Never Saw

Before he became the scruffy Lupo, Jeremy Sisto was equally tattered as dogged investigator-for-hire Knapp in the doomed 2006 series Kidnapped.

You probably never saw this excellent show because, after a brief scheduling jostle, it was canceled by NBC after it aired a scant number of episodes and then did dreaded time slot two-step.

The good news is that you can catch this thriller, also starring Delroy Lindo (below) and Timothy Hutton (with pre-Leverage gravitas) via Netflix on demand or DVD.

I would describe the complex show as family drama meets conspiracy theory, chock full of cops and Feds.

Meanwhile, now that Lost, 24, Prison Break and various other episodic dramas have either been canceled or ended their runs, I fear a future where intelligent, story-driven shows like Kidnapped won't air at all.