Bones (season 4)
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The fourth season of the American television series Bones
Bones (TV series)
Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...

premiered on September 3, 2008 with a two-hour episode and concluded on May 14, 2009 on the Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

. The show changed time slots again, airing on Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET before moving to Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET in 2009. The season consisted of 26 episodes and averaged 10.8 million viewers.

In the UK, the season premiered on September 25, 2008 and concluded on May 28, 2009 on Sky1, and averaged 827,000 viewers.

Main cast

The fourth season features six actors who receive star billing.
  • Emily Deschanel as forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan
  • David Boreanaz
    David Boreanaz
    David Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director, known for his role as Angel on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and as Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime drama Bones....

     as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth
    Seeley Booth
    FBI Special Agent "In charge" Seeley Joseph Booth is a fictional character in the US television series, Bones , portrayed by David Boreanaz. Agent Booth is a co-protagonist of the series alongside Dr...

    , who is the official FBI liaison with the Jeffersonian
  • Michaela Conlin
    Michaela Conlin
    Michaela Conlin is an American stage and television actress best known for her work on the Fox TV series Bones, as Angela Montenegro.-Early life:...

     as forensic artist Angela Montenegro
    Angela Montenegro
    Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro Hodgins is a fictional character in the television series Bones , portrayed by Michaela Conlin...

  • T. J. Thyne
    T. J. Thyne
    Thomas Joseph "T.J." Thyne is an American film and television actor. He was born in Boston to John J. Thyne II and Catherine Thyne, and has five siblings, John, Tone, Hazel, Katie and Shelly. He is best known for his work on Bones as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an entomologist.-Background:T.J...

     as entomologist Dr. Jack Hodgins
    Jack Hodgins (Bones)
    Dr. Jack Stanley Hodgins IV, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the American television series, Bones. He is portrayed by T. J. Thyne. Jack is introduced to the series primarily as an entomologist/forensic entomologist, but also as a mineralogist/forensic mineralogist, a palynology/forensic...

  • Tamara Taylor
    Tamara Taylor
    Tamara Taylor is a Canadian television actress.Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a Scottish Canadian mother, her most famous role is that of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, on the forensic crime drama Bones...

     as forensic pathologist and the head of the forensic division Dr. Camille Saroyan
    Camille Saroyan
    Dr. Camille Saroyan, M.D. is a fictional character in the American television series, Bones. She is portrayed by Tamara Taylor. Camille was introduced as a forensic pathologist in The Titan on the Tracks, Season 2, Episode 1, as the head of the Forensic Division, a new division formed during the...

  • John Francis Daley
    John Francis Daley
    John Francis Daley is an American television and film actor, singer, screenwriter, and director, sometimes credited as John Daley or John Francis Daly. He is best known for playing Sam Weir on the NBC comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks and his current role as Lance Sweets on the series Bones...

     as Dr. Lance Sweets
    Lance Sweets
    Lance Sweets, Psy.D., Ph.D. , is a fictional character in the American television series Bones. He is portrayed by John Francis Daley.Daley first made three guest appearances during the first eight episodes of Season 3, first appearing in "The Secret in the Soil"...

    , a psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

     who studies the relationship between Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth

Recurring cast

  • David Greenman
    David Greenman
    David Greenman is an American actor best known for portraying the character of Danny McCall from 2004-2006 on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.-Biography:...

     as Marcus Geier, a forensic technician (5 episodes)
  • Patricia Belcher
    Patricia Belcher
    Patricia Belcher is an American film and television actress, best known for her role as the strict Estelle Dabney on the Disney Channel Original sitcom, Good Luck Charlie and as attorney Caroline Julian on Bones. She also appeared in the film Jeepers Creepers as a psychic.-Biography:Belcher was...

     as Caroline Julian, a prosecutor (4 episodes)
  • Brendan Fehr
    Brendan Fehr
    Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr is a Canadian actor. He portrayed Michael Guerin on the WB television series Roswell and Laboratory Tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami.-Early life:...

     as Jared Booth, Booth's brother (4 episodes)
  • Marisa Coughlan as FBI Agent Payton Perotta (3 episodes)
  • Nichole Hiltz
    Nichole Hiltz
    Nichole Marie Hiltz is an American actress. She has appeared in the film May, A Midsummer Night's Rave, and the Sci Fi Channel movie All Souls Day and since 2008 has played Brandi Shannon on the USA network television series In Plain Sight.Hiltz has made guest appearances on several television...

     as Roxie Lyon, Angie's girlfriend (3 episodes)
  • Eric Millegan
    Eric Millegan
    Eric Millegan is an American actor, primarily known for his work on the Fox series Bones in which he played Dr. Zack Addy. Millegan is openly gay, and was out before being cast as Zack Addy in Bones.-Biography:...

     as Dr. Zack Addy
    Zack Addy
    Zachary Uriah 'Zack' Addy, Ph.D is a fictional character in the television series Bones. He is portrayed by Eric Millegan. The character was introduced as Dr...

     (2 episodes)
  • Ryan O'Neal
    Ryan O'Neal
    Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal , better known as Ryan O'Neal, is an American actor best known for his appearances in the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place and for his roles in such films as Paper Moon , Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon , A Bridge Too Far , and Love Story , for which he received...

     as Max Keenan, Brennan's father (2 episodes)
  • Ty Panitz
    Ty Panitz
    Ty Panitz is an American child actor. He debuted as Ethan Beardsley in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours . His other roles include Woody Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms....

     as Parker Booth, Booth's son (2 episodes)
  • Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry
    Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...

     as Dr. Gordon Wyatt, Booth's former psychiatrist (1 episode)
  • Billy Gibbons
    Billy Gibbons
    William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...

     as Angela's father (1 episode)
  • Deirdre Lovejoy
    Deirdre Lovejoy
    Deirdre Lovejoy is an American actress. She is most notable for her role on the HBO television series The Wire as Rhonda Pearlman. She graduated from the University of Evansville with an undergraduate degree in theatre....

     as Heather Taffet (1 episode)


This season also introduces several new interns who fill Zack's position with each new case.
  • Eugene Byrd
    Eugene Byrd
    Eugene Byrd is an American actor.-Career:He has been in movies including Dead Man, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and has the leading role in Confess, for which he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the 2006 Method Fest Independent Film Festival...

     as Dr. Clark Edison (6 episodes)
  • Ryan Cartwright as Vincent Nigel-Murray (5 episodes)
  • Michael Grant Terry
    Michael Grant Terry
    Michael Terry is an American actor, primarily known for his role as Wendell Bray on the Fox series Bones. He is sometimes credited as Michael Grant Terry.-Biography:Michael Terry was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

     as Wendell Bray (5 episodes)
  • Carla Gallo
    Carla Gallo
    Carla Gallo is an American actress notable for roles in the television series Undeclared, Carnivàle, and Bones, and in the indie film Spanking the Monkey.-Filmography:-External links:...

     as Daisy Wick (4 episodes)
  • Joel David Moore
    Joel Moore
    Joel David Moore is an American actor who has appeared in television commercials, feature films, and television series. He is best known for his roles as Owen Dittman in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Dr. Norm Spellman in Avatar, Colin Fisher in Bones and J.P...

     as Colin Fisher (4 episodes)
  • Pej Vahdat as Arastoo Vaziri (3 episodes)
  • Michael Badalucco
    Michael Badalucco
    Michael Badalucco is an American actor most famous for his role as lawyer Jimmy Berluti on the ABC legal drama The Practice...

     as Scott Starret (1 episode)

Episodes

The season premieres with its first two-part episode, "Yanks in the U.K." which was filmed on-location in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. This season sees the return of The Grave Digger, who was last seen in the second season. This time, The Grave Digger captures Booth. After Booth is rescued, the team discovers the identity of The Grave Digger.
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DVD and Blu-ray release

The fourth season of Bones was released on DVD (subtitled "Body Bag Edition") in region 1 on October 6, 2009, in region 2 on October 26, 2009 and in region 4 on October 27, 2009. This was the first season to be released on Blu-ray, and was only released in region A alongside the region 1 DVD release. The region 1 DVD set only includes 22 episodes of season four, as the first four episodes of the season were made available as bonus episodes on the season three DVD set. While the Blu-ray release, and the region 2 and 4 versions include all 26 episodes of the season. Special features include two featurettes—"Androgyny: Playing Haru Tanaka" and "Squints in Training"; three extended episodes—"The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond", "The Doctor in the Den" and "The Girl in the Mask". Also included are deleted scenes and a gag reel.
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