Gunpowder premiered on ABC on March 4, 2012. Every year on November 5 the English mark the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in London in 1605 with bonfires and fireworks. Though known as Guy Fawkes Day because many people believe Fawkes devised the plot, the actual driving force was Robert Catesby, a 30-year-old Warwickshire gentleman. This is a thriller based on the real-life 17th century events that led to Guy Fawkes Day.