He was conceived when catherine parker was artificial inseminated unbeknownst to her when she was sedated during an operation. Jarod was a young man who had terrible experiences growing up as a child during his childhood days. Trying to describe the pretender to people whos never seen it is nearly impossible. The pretender pilot season 1, episode 1 s1e1 mefeedia. It was part of nbcs action programming block, thrillogy.
Originally pitched to be a set of four madefortv films only the first two were made before weak ratings caused the project to be scrapped. Nbc promo for the saturday may 16, 1998 season finale of the pretender. The average tomatometer is the sum of all season scores divided by the number of seasons with a. If you like the pretender the series and the pretender 2001 you will love this. Pretender and to give this series that is so dear to us a fitting and rewarding conclusion. Ethans birth parents are catherine parker and major charles. The pretender 2001 the pretender island of the haunted.
Season 3 jarod is a pretender a genius whose exceptionally high iq allows him to master virtually any profession. In this crossover between leverage and the pretender, a mysterious stranger will change the teams lives forever, especially that of nate. Jarods new mission in life is to help people in need with his gift. A series gets an average tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. A specially gifted man, with the ability to instantly master any skill, escapes from a secret testing facility and travels the country taking on different jobs and helping strangers while hiding from his kidnappers. The pretender is an american television series that aired on nbc from 1996 to 2000. The pretender tv series 19962000 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The series follows jarod, a young man on the run who is a pretender. Dec 03, 2007 the pretender debuted on september 19, 1996 and aired for four seasons on nbc. Nineteen episodes were aired for season four, with the season finale being a twopart episode. The pretender is the story of jarod, a boygenius taken from his family as a child. One thing i love about this series is its originality.
Jarod possesses the ability to quickly learn and impersonate. The pretender centers on a man named jarod michael t. The pretender season 4 full episodes watch online guide. Jarod possesses the ability to quickly learn and impersonate different jobs and occupations. Tyler christopher, 20002001 appeared in series finale episode and the pretender 2001 jarod and miss parkers halfbrother. Watch the pretender online full episodes of season 4 to 1. Tvguide has every full episode so you can stayuptodate and watch your favorite show the pretender anytime, anywhere. Las vegas, nevada after being contacted by argyle, jarod becomes a las vegas private investigator to save a showgirl in trouble with with the mob. Season, episodes, season premiere, season finale, rank, viewers. The average tomatometer is the sum of all season scores divided by the number of seasons with a tomatometer. The ending did not reveal whether jarod andor miss. Watch the pretender episodes online season 1 1997 tv. Queens, new york miss parker and sydney find they had just missed jarod helping a tanker ship in alaska. The pretender season four premiered on september 25, 1999 with the episode the worlds changing.
The pretender is an american drama television series that premiered in the united states on september 19, 1996 and ended on may, 2000 two television movies were made by turner network television after the series was cancelled and they both aired in 2001. Spoilers up to the queens gambit job in leverage season 4. The pretender is an american action television series that aired on nbc from september 19, 1996 to may, 2000. Weiss plays the lead character, a beyondgenius pretender named jarod. The pretender 1998 nbc season finale promo youtube. Jarod is a pretender, a very intelligent person with the ability to slide into somebody elses personality. The pretender still looks fresh, and not outdated like most of the tv series from the mid to late 1990. The pretender is an american action drama television series created by steven long mitchell and craig w. The pretender is a television series, which ran for 86 episodes over four seasons from september 1996 to may 2000. The complete fourth season dvd set was released on for region 1 on july 18, 2006. Cbs all access series to have fewer episodes, take week hiatus brave new world, the capture, angelyne. Through a series of bizarre circumstances, jarod and miss parker find themselves trapped together on a strange island in a life and death situation, out of which come some of the most important revelations about their pasts.
Reruns aired on the tnt cable network and the ratings were so strong that a series of pretender movies were planned. Van sickle, that aired on nbc from september 19, 1996 to may, 2000. The television series known as the pretender is about an intelligent young man named jarod who has the ability to effectively pretend to be whosoever he desires to be at a time and do so very well. Do not read until youve watched the series finale of the americans. Pretender 2001 basically dealt with the cliffhanger left by the season four finale and the series. Island of the haunted is the second of two madefortelevision films based on the television series the pretender. Meanwhile, broots and miss parker try to outwit jarod by posing as a newlywed coup. The pretender debuted on september 19, 1996 and aired for four seasons on nbc. These shows tried lastminute twists, but some backfired. Watch full episodes of the pretender and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at. Weiss, who escapes a covert research facility called the centre where he has lived since he was taken from his family as a boy after learning that his genius intelligence has been exploited in immoral ways. The series finale closed with both characters being nearby an exploding bomb. In the 1960s, when he was a child, he was abducted by a delawarebased think tank known as the center. What happened to jarod of the series the pretender.
Fox series ep has alternate ideas to release the real series finale. Watch the pretender season 4 episode 11 online cold dick. All in all, this is well worth getting as it is a slightly better conclusion to the series than the season 4 finale cliffhanger, but nevertheless, i along with all the other fans of the pretender want answers to the questions that remain from the numerous arching storylines, such as who exactly is jarods mother, will he ever get to spend. Does anyone else remember the pretender, the weirdest show of. He is a pretender a genius who can become anyone he wants to be one day he might be a doctor, the next a lawyer. Having just missed jarod on a tanker ship in alaska, miss parker and sydney track him to a hospital where he plans on exposing an alcoholic surgeon who crippled a young boy. This is the place where you can read the further adventures of jarod, miss parker, sydney, and broots, as well as your favorite centre villains. A young man awakens from a sixyear coma with the ability to see into peoples futures.
May 24, 2010 in our lost finale explanation we address the questions that left fans confused andor upset by how lost ended its run. Fortunately, the shows creators havent forgotten about them and are working on a way to bring the series back, albeit in a different form. Van sickle, that aired on nbc from september 19, 1996, to may, 2000. Watch the pretender s1e01 pilot series on dailymotion.
The pretender is a series that aired for four years on nbc before moving over to tnt for reruns and two followup television movies. A page for fans wanting a conclusion to the amazing tv series the pretender. From the beginning, the americans was a show about two people trying to pull off a balancing act. The pretender is an american drama television series that premiered in the united states. Season five is currently available in the archives, and season six is now in progress. The pretender 2001 also called pretender 2001 is the first of the two the pretender telemovies to air after the series was cancelled by nbc. At the end of the inner sense part 2, the last episode of the fourth and final season of the.
Rent the pretender 1996 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. By far the pretender is my favorite television show. After a four year run the pretender was cancelled by nbc. An update for all the pretender fans from series cocreator. Island of the haunted double feature on dvd 024543412168 from 20th century fox. Does anyone else remember the pretender, the weirdest show. Pretender 2001 basically dealt with the cliffhanger left by the season four finale and the series cancellation. Based on the comic with the same title, this series follows the adventures of police detective sara pezzini, the bearer of the witchblade. Still on the run from his excaptors, jarod continues to help innocent victims even as he digs deeper into his own background and the secret inner workings of the centre. For that purpose, he has been taken from his family as a child in order to work for a secret agency called the centre.
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