Prison Break: Proof of Innocence is a low-budget spin-off series of the American television series, Prison Break. Made exclusively for mobile phones, its first episode was published on May 8, 2006. Due to the success of the Fox network's television series Prison Break, the release of this mobile series was an exclusive deal made between Toyota and News Corporation's Fox network, allowing Toyota to sponsor exclusive content of the show and to obtain advertising exclusivity.Toyota aims young, sponsors Fox spin-off for cellphone screens Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.
Each episode is approximately 2 minutes long. This series revolves around the conspiracy that put Lincoln Burrows in jail, but does not feature any of the actors or writers from the TV series, and the TV series does not acknowledge the events of this spin-off. It follows the character Amber McCall as she attempts to uncover evidence to exonerate her friend, L.J. Burrows. This mobile series is produced by Eric Young, who also produced the 24: Conspiracy, 24's mobile series.
Promotion The episodes advertise the Toyota Yaris. A ten-second advertisement of the car is shown at the beginning, and the car is incorporated into each episode. These are part of a campaign titled "Yaris vs. Yaris", inspired by Mad magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" with two endlessly duelling black hat and white hat spies. A total of eight different advertisements were featured in the series, which were re-used on subsequent episodes beyond the initial eight episodes.
Distribution Aside from broadcasts on Fox Mobile on mobile phones, the episodes are published on Toyota's Prison Break webpage. They were all included in the Prison Break Season 1 DVD set bundle at Target and Best Buy.
List of episodes Prison Break: Proof of Innocence was published in 26 episodes, on Toyota's Prison Break webpage on May 8, 2006.
Episode Title Release date 1 Proof May 8, 2006 2 Deeper May 8, 2006 3 Trust May 8, 2006 4 Heat May 8, 2006 5 Insight May 29, 2006 6 Ally May 29, 2006 7 Closer May 29, 2006 8 Switch May 29, 2006 9 Contingency June 2006 10 Abduction June 2006 11 Visit June 2006 12 Interrogation June 2006 13 Panic June 2006 14 Flush June 2006 15 Trapped June 2006 16 Escape June 2006 17 Chase July 2006 18 Evade July 2006 19 Guidance July 2006 20 Battle July 2006 21 Consequences July 2006 22 Wrinkle July 2006 23 Freedom July 2006 24 Reunited July 2006 25 Busted July 2006 26 Horizon July 2006
Cast Mandell Maughan as Amber McCall John Patrick Jordan as Rob McCall Dheeaba Donghrer as Buzz Donn C. Harper as Detective Franklin
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