Chris Hansen
Self – Host
To Catch a Predator (2004)
Specials
To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series that features hidden camera investigations by the television newsmagazine program Dateline NBC. It was devoted to impersonating underage people and detaining male adults who contacted them over the Internet for sexual liaisons. People were lured to meet with a decoy under the pretense of sexual contact and then confronted. Show host Chris Hansen clarified in an interview with NPR News that these subjects should be labeled as potential sexual predators, and not pedophiles. "Pedophiles have a very specific definition, people who are interested in prepubescent sex," he stated. The series premiered in November 2004, and featured 12 investigations in total held across the United States. The investigations were conducted as undercover sting operations with the help of on-line watchdog group Perverted-Justice. Since the third installment, law enforcement and other officials were also involved, leading to the arrests of most individuals caught. No new episodes have aired since December 2007. NBC affiliates WTMJ in Milwaukee, KSHB in Kansas City and WBRE have also done local versions of To Catch a Predator. Various spin-offs have aired in the same format, including To Catch a Con Man, To Catch an ID Thief, To Catch a Car Thief and To Catch an i-Jacker, which featured iPod thieves. To Catch a Predator is also aired on FX and Crime & Investigation Network in the United Kingdom, the Crime & Investigation Network in Australia and New Zealand and FOX Crime in Portugal.
Released Nov. 11, 2004
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Reality TV
Keywords: imdb.sting-operation, imdb.sexual-predator, imdb.chat, imdb.internet-chat, imdb.chat-room, imdb.soliciting-sex, imdb.cybersex + 8 more, imdb.hidden-camera-reality-tv, imdb.pedophile, imdb.crime-reality-tv, imdb.child-predator, imdb.police, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.decoy, imdb.online-predator
Network: MSNBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
10.0
S0E1 - Predator Update
Dec. 16, 2005, midnight
S0E2 - Predator Update: Where are They Now
May 26, 2006, midnight
S0E3 - In the Beginning (In Our Own Words)
Behind the scenes.
March 13, 2007, midnight
S0E4 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 1
Feb. 1, 2006, midnight
S0E5 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 2
April 1, 2006, midnight
9.0
S0E6 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 3
May 1, 2006, midnight
S0E7 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 4
Sept. 13, 2006, midnight
S0E8 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 5
Sept. 29, 2006, midnight
S0E9 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 6
Jan. 30, 2007, midnight
S0E10 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 7
Feb. 20, 2007, midnight
S0E11 - Predator Raw: The Unseen Tapes 8
Feb. 27, 2007, midnight
S0E12 - Bowling Green, Kentucky
On October 22, 2007, the Warren County District Attorney's Office announced that 29 men were arrested in an internet child sex sting conducted by local police in conjunction with Perverted Justice and Dateline NBC. Footage of this sting operation aired in an installment of the To Catch a Predator series on December 28, 2007. This is the twelfth investigation covered by Dateline and host Chris Hansen since the series began in 2004. Perverted Justice partnered with the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation as well as the Attorney General's office in three separate sting operations in three cities in Kentucky, but Dateline NBC was only involved in the Bowling Green portion of the operation. The female decoy used by Dateline in this operation was the same decoy they had used in the New Jersey operation though her hairstyle was different in order to avoid the possibility of being recognized by one of the predators who had watched the New Jersey investigation. Only seven men showed up to the hous
Dec. 28, 2007, midnight
S0E13 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 1
April 12, 2007, midnight
S0E14 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 2
Dec. 29, 2007, midnight
S0E15 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 3
Dec. 27, 2007, midnight
S0E16 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 4
April 4, 2010, midnight
S0E17 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 5
April 4, 2010, midnight
S0E18 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 6
May 9, 2010, midnight
S0E19 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 7
May 9, 2010, midnight
S0E20 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 8
June 6, 2010, midnight
S0E21 - Predator Raw - The Unseen Tapes 9
June 6, 2010, midnight
S0E22 - Predator Update
Jan. 1, 2007, midnight
S0E23 - Harris County, Georgia
S0E24 - Special Edition
S0E25 - just remove
S0E26 - just remove
S0E28 - Riverside, California
S0E29 - To Catch a Car Thief
S0E30 - To Catch a Con Man
S0E31 - To Catch a Lotto Scammer
S0E32 - To Catch an ID Thief
Network: MSNBC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1200 min.
Released: Nov. 11, 2004
Last Air Date: Dec. 28, 2007, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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