Home > Touch > Season 1 « TV Series Page Touch: Season 1 (2012) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Want to see Episode List Season 1 Touch Critics Consensus Touch is a welcome return to television for Keifer Sutherland, but although it presents a lot of intriguing ideas, it occasionally overdoses on sentimentality. 57% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 28 63% Audience Score User Ratings: 58 NEW More Info × Close Want to see Super Reviewer Submit Super Reviewer Edit Review Episodes 1 Tales of the Red Thread Air date: Jan 25, 2012 An encore of the TOUCH preview episode, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a single father who discovers his 11 year old son has the ability to see hidden patterns that connect people all over the world. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 2 1+1=3 Air date: Mar 22, 2012 A robbery at a pawn shop starts a chain of events involving a flight attendant in New York, a magician in Moscow, an Indian man hoping to spread his father's ashes and a mobster in the Bronx in the premiere of this series about a blue-collar dad trying to reach his emotionally troubled son, who is obsessed with numerical patterns. More 3 Safety in Numbers Air date: Mar 29, 2012 Martin discovers that a homeless man's obsession with numbers is similar to Jake's, and he undertakes a series of tasks that involve African boys in a dance competition and a woman at a music festival. Meanwhile, Teller visits Jake's board-and-care facility; and Clea goes on an emotional roller coaster. More 4 Kite Strings Air date: Apr 5, 2012 A teenage heavy-metal fan in Baghdad shares a light moment with a U.S. soldier, who is forced to hide in the desert after her convoy is ambushed. Meanwhile, Martin encounters a man who knew his deceased wife; and a lottery winner meets a depressed pastor. More 5 Entanglement Air date: Apr 12, 2012 S1Ep5, Entanglement: Martin gets his laptop stolen and becomes ensnared in a young Salvadoran woman's quest to avenge the death of her family. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 6 Lost and Found Air date: Apr 19, 2012 Martin and Clea uncover a shocking development involving Clea's mentally-challenged mother, and Teller (guest star Danny Glover) visits Jake at the board-and-care facility. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 7 Noosphere Rising Air date: Apr 26, 2012 Martin and Clea uncover a shocking development involving Clea's mentally-challenged mother, and Teller (guest star Danny Glover) visits Jake at the board-and-care facility. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 8 Zone of Exclusion Air date: May 3, 2012 Following numbers from Jake, Martin helps reunite a French woman with her biological mother and untangle the mystery of their estrangement. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 9 Music of the Spheres Air date: May 10, 2012 A corrupt parole officer is exposed by Martin; a Brazilian street guitarist tries to charm a beautiful woman; Jake bonds with another boy who doesn't speak; information about one of Teller's patients is revealed to Clea and Martin. More 10 Tessellations Air date: May 17, 2012 Martin's mistaken for a crook, but to get a dockworker's job back he must take part in a robbery. Meanwhile, an Israeli boy and a Palestinian girl's relationship is in trouble; Clea discovers documents about Jake; and Martin meets with his sister-in-law to make a tough decision. More Show More Episodes Touch: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (10) Tv Season Info In Season 1 of this drama from "Heroes" creator Tim Kring, Kiefer Sutherland stars as Martin Bohm, a former reporter whose wife was killed in the 9/11 attacks and who is struggling to raise their emotionally troubled 11-year-old son, Jake (David Mazouz). Jake never speaks, but his obsession with numbers appears to enable him to predict the future, and he finds a way to communicate with his father through numerical patterns that are often linked to chains of events involving random connections between people around the world. Martin gets help from social worker Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and an educator (Danny Glover) who studies gifted individuals, but their work also attracts the attention of Aster Corporation, a shadowy business empire that takes a special interest in the abilities of Jake and others like him. Season 1 guest stars include Titus Welliver, Bodhi Elfman and Catherine Dent. Genre: Network: FOX Premiere Date: Jan 25, 2012 Creator: Tim Kring Exec. Producers: Katherine Pope, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Chernin, Tim Kring, Francis Lawrence, Suzan Bymel Cast Kiefer Sutherland as Martin Bohm David Mazouz as Jake Bohm Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Clea Hopkins Danny Glover as Arthur Teller Catherine Dent as Abigail Kelsey Roxana Brusso Maria Bello as Lucy Jude Ciccolella Titus Welliver David de Lautour Sprague Grayden as Laura Ravi Kapoor Scott Michael Campbell as John Tenney Sean Peavy as Tomer Samantha Whittaker Robert Patrick Benedict Zuleyka Silver as Marisol David Julian Hirsh Meera Simhan Justin Louis as Felipe Louis Ferreira as Felipe Eden Modiano as Kamilah Bohdi Elfman as Avram Satomi Okuno as Izumi Ito Simon Delaney Kwesi Boakye Rolando Molina as Hector Tre C. Roberts as Andres Amy Sloan Kiko Ellsworth Eyal Podell as Prof. Logan May Miyata as Miyoko Sato Karen Shenaz David Amir Talai as Sami Slade Pearce as Aaron Yetide Badaki Richardson Chery as Alexandre Skyler Stone as DJ Oliver John Getz as Henry Kittridge Mary Stuart Masterson as Beth Cooper William Ragsdale as Travis Cooper James Handy as Lanford Mark Kelly as Nick Fowler Kat Purgal as Colleen Julian Barnes as Doctor Pippa Hinchley as Therapist Wade Williams as Brayden the Mechanic Show More Cast Episodes 1 Tales of the Red Thread Air date: Jan 25, 2012 An encore of the TOUCH preview episode, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a single father who discovers his 11 year old son has the ability to see hidden patterns that connect people all over the world. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 2 1+1=3 Air date: Mar 22, 2012 A robbery at a pawn shop starts a chain of events involving a flight attendant in New York, a magician in Moscow, an Indian man hoping to spread his father's ashes and a mobster in the Bronx in the premiere of this series about a blue-collar dad trying to reach his emotionally troubled son, who is obsessed with numerical patterns. More 3 Safety in Numbers Air date: Mar 29, 2012 Martin discovers that a homeless man's obsession with numbers is similar to Jake's, and he undertakes a series of tasks that involve African boys in a dance competition and a woman at a music festival. Meanwhile, Teller visits Jake's board-and-care facility; and Clea goes on an emotional roller coaster. More 4 Kite Strings Air date: Apr 5, 2012 A teenage heavy-metal fan in Baghdad shares a light moment with a U.S. soldier, who is forced to hide in the desert after her convoy is ambushed. Meanwhile, Martin encounters a man who knew his deceased wife; and a lottery winner meets a depressed pastor. More 5 Entanglement Air date: Apr 12, 2012 S1Ep5, Entanglement: Martin gets his laptop stolen and becomes ensnared in a young Salvadoran woman's quest to avenge the death of her family. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 6 Lost and Found Air date: Apr 19, 2012 Martin and Clea uncover a shocking development involving Clea's mentally-challenged mother, and Teller (guest star Danny Glover) visits Jake at the board-and-care facility. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 7 Noosphere Rising Air date: Apr 26, 2012 Martin and Clea uncover a shocking development involving Clea's mentally-challenged mother, and Teller (guest star Danny Glover) visits Jake at the board-and-care facility. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 8 Zone of Exclusion Air date: May 3, 2012 Following numbers from Jake, Martin helps reunite a French woman with her biological mother and untangle the mystery of their estrangement. TOUCH airs Thursdays on FOX. More 9 Music of the Spheres Air date: May 10, 2012 A corrupt parole officer is exposed by Martin; a Brazilian street guitarist tries to charm a beautiful woman; Jake bonds with another boy who doesn't speak; information about one of Teller's patients is revealed to Clea and Martin. More 10 Tessellations Air date: May 17, 2012 Martin's mistaken for a crook, but to get a dockworker's job back he must take part in a robbery. Meanwhile, an Israeli boy and a Palestinian girl's relationship is in trouble; Clea discovers documents about Jake; and Martin meets with his sister-in-law to make a tough decision. More Show More Episodes Critic Reviews for Touch Season 1 All Critics (28) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (12) It's difficult to fully embrace. Sep 14, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review… John Griffiths Us Weekly Top Critic Its spirit is willing, but the construction has foundation problems. Mar 22, 2012 | Rating: C+ | Full Review… Ed Bark Uncle Barky Top Critic Playing around with fractals, chaos theory and more, the tone and concept are appealing - and more rooted in drama than science fiction. Mar 22, 2012 | Full Review… Joanne Ostrow Denver Post Top Critic There is a sense of adventure and uplift in Touch that is rare in current procedurals. Mar 22, 2012 | Full Review… Sarah Rodman Boston Globe Top Critic One of the best pilots of the 2011-12 season to date. Mar 22, 2012 | Rating: A- | Full Review… Verne Gay Newsday Top Critic From a purely workmanship point of view, Touch lacks the depth and assurance the best shows in the big-picture mystery genre (like Lost and, for that matter, the early seasons of 24) boast. Jun 22, 2018 | Full Review… Megan Basham WORLD "Pilot" on its own is an entertaining hour of television, regardless of whether or not the show can continually compete. Mar 22, 2012 | Rating: 8.3/10 | Full Review… Ross Bonaime Paste Magazine For all its numbers wizardry, the overmanipulative Touch doesn't yet add up. Mar 22, 2012 | Full Review… Ellen Gray Philadelphia Daily News Touch feels like yet another series that seemed like a better idea for a one-shot movie than a weekly TV series. Mar 22, 2012 | Full Review… Rob Owen Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sutherland is decent, but it all gets repetitive quickly. Nov 1, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… William Thomas Empire Magazine Top Critic View All Critic Reviews (28) Audience Reviews for Touch: Season 1 Jan 05, 2019 Sutherland's acting...his panting...everything is off. Marieke H Aug 08, 2018 Jake is 10 years old and has never spoken a word in his life. Still, his father keeps yelling "Jake!!" 20 times every episode, followed by exasperated breathing by Kiefer Sutherland. Soooo annoying, because I like the concept and story line. Nov 07, 2016 A kid that doesn't speak and a father that loves him deeply, I was hooked.... Until the sadistic social worker steals the child, placing him in a care home and insisting the 11yr old child names the animal a moo comes from. This social worker snatching the child's red car because she wants eye contact from the kid screams abuse. These scenes suggested a sticky red end for this social worker or simply the dreadful writing of another annoying character, to make the shows stars look great. Either way I can't watch grown-ups abusing innocents, unless it's the news. Wanda K Oct 29, 2016 The first about four episodes are alright, but are very stand alone, and don't have an overarching plot. Every subsequent episode features that plot, which makes it a little better. I expected it to be handled more seriously, but it's not, which made it less interesting and almost boring, a big reason because it didn't add any tension or thrill you more. But I could have been ok with that if they had at least made them not feature random crap connecting for no reason. All of the episodes with that plot shouldn't have had that, because the plot is very interesting. I can tell this is from Tim Kring. This show seems like something from him, and another person that wants to be family friendly and boring. Kiefer Sutherland is great, obviously. The big problem is not mixing two different genres well, but Kiefer makes it all better, and by the end you're more hooked. Andruw F Sep 20, 2016 Poor premise, bad science, lots of new age psychobabble Justin B Oct 14, 2015 While having a promising premise, Touch tries too hard to be a drama-fied 24. Austin G Aug 31, 2015 Intrigue, exciting, fear, curiosity. This series has it all, and a series of events connected between them that makes this a fan-deserve series. Great acting, maybe overrated Kiefer Sutherland and overexploting 9/11, but deserves five stars, great series. Sebastián S Jan 30, 2014 Such a terrible show, got cancelled for good reason! Shane B See all Audience reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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