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* The fateful journey, Oceanic Flight 815 (Sydney to Los Angeles), flew on September 22nd 2004. This was the pilot episode's airdate on US television's ABC network.

* The song Juliet listens to in Season 3 is "Downtown" by Petula Clark. However, the CD case Juliet pulls the disc from is from Talking Heads' ''Speaking in Tongues'' album and the CD that she puts in the stereo has the serial number "JN 94743", which belongs to the album ''Okemah and the Melody of Riot'' by Son Volt.

* Jorge Garcia was the first person cast for the series.

* Josh Holloway was trying to cover up his Southern accent while shooting several of his first scenes in the first season. It wasn't until producer J.J. Abrams told him that the reason they cast him was ''because'' of the accent that Holloway changed. There are still some scenes left in the pilot where he doesn't use his Southern accent.

* The airline in this show that flew the ill-fated flight is called "Oceanic", a name that has been used before in films, such as 1996's ''Executive Decision'' and in many other made-for-TV movies.

* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje came up with his own character's name, "Mr. Eko", while he and the writers were developing the character.

* Although in the cast list Sun is listed as having her husband's last name of Kwon, in real life it's highly unusual for Korean women to take their husband's last name.

* The series began development in January 2004 when Lloyd Braun, then head of ABC, ordered a script that fused the concepts of the film ''Cast Away'' and the popular reality TV show ''Survivor''. Jeffrey Lieber was tasked with writing the pilot, but Braun was unimpressed with the initial effort and subsequent rewrites and he contacted J.J. Abrams, whose series ''Alias'' was a hit for the network. Although initially hesitant, Abrams gave it a go in collaboration with Damon Lindelof. Their script was greenlit, but because it had been commissioned so late in the 2004 development cycle it was under very tight deadlines. Ironically, before the pilot aired Lloyd Braun was sacked by ABC's parent company, Disney - for greenlighting such an expensive and risky project. Abrams only worked on the show for a handful of episodes in the first season before leaving Lindelof as showrunner; due to his lack of experience in running a network show, Lindelof asked former colleague and ''[[Nash Bridges]]'' showrunner Carlton Cuse to come aboard as co-showrunner of ''Lost''. The two served as showrunners for the remainder of it's run, and are primarily responsible for mapping out the ''Lost'' mythology.