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Without a Trace season 6

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3729815 ↗
Source-derived summary

The sixth season of Without a Trace began airing in United States on September 27, 2007. Twelve episodes had been completed before the WGA Strike. A further six episodes were produced after the end of the strike, making this the shortest season of Without a Trace at 18 episodes.

This season included a cross-over with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation involving Jack and Gil Grissom tracking a serial killer from Las Vegas to New York. This established Without a Trace as part of the same fictional universe as the tetralogy of CSI shows and Cold Case.

The sixth season of Without a Trace was not released on DVD in region 1 until May 7, 2013, but was first released in region 2 in Germany on November 20, 2009 on and in the UK on July 5, 2010.

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“Without a Trace season 6” enters the record as season of television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Without, Trace and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2013, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Without, Trace and season.
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This entry incorporates text from “Without a Trace season 6” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.