Heroes
Five Years Gone
TV Flash files “Five Years Gone” as a desk essential hour — Heroes (2006–2010) on NBC, season 1, episode 20, aired 2007-04-30, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E20: listed hour 20 of 78 in the Heroes guide, hour 20 of 23 in season 1. It aired 2007-04-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “.07%” (S01E19). Next is “The Hard Part” (S01E21).
Essential hour: “Five Years Gone”. Five Years Gone is the season-one future-jump people still assign: save-the-cheerleader mythology as structural dare, not just a slogan.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Thrown five years in the future, Hiro and Ando discover that people with extraordinary abilities are not only widely known about -- after the destruction of New York City and the deaths of millions -- but are being registered, imprisoned, hunted and even killed as "terrorists." As the President takes his first step towards a "final solution," the pair get swept up in what could be the "Heroes" final battle and encounter a range of new and darkly familiar faces. If they survive the experience, can they still get back to the present and save the world?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Five Years Gone sit in the Heroes guide?
S01E20 is listed hour 20 of 78 — hour 20 of 23 in season 1, season 1 episode 20.
When did Heroes S01E20 air?
Five Years Gone aired 2007-04-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Heroes only worth season one?
Season one is the watercooler hit with the tight mystery-box hook and the cheerleader catchphrase. Later seasons struggled under hype and strike turbulence; the premiere year defines the memory.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Ordinary people discover superpowers while a company and a killer close in. Tim Kring's NBC event made "Save the cheerleader, save the world" a national earworm in season one — then hype weight and strike turbulence. Superhero TV before Marvel owned the medium; the rise-and-fall is the lore.
September 25, 2006, NBC puts ordinary people and superpowers on Monday like a network once put a mystery on Thursday: comic-book serialization as watercooler event. Tim Kring's *Heroes* ran four seasons through 2010, later followed by *Heroes Reborn*. Season one made "Save the cheerleader, save the world" a national earworm. Milo Ventimiglia, Hayden Panettiere, Masi Oka, Adrian Pasdar, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Zachary Quinto's Sylar intersect across cities with graphic-novel chapter titles and origin-story structure.…
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