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Theatrical: 2001

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Genre: TV Series / Action

Duration: 96

Summary: Jarod reunites with two old friends and unleashes some powerful Centre revelations. Also Jarod and Miss Parker learn more about their pasts.

Theatrical: 2001

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: TV Series / Action

Duration: 120

Summary: Disc 1 Side A: PRETENDER 2001 (Full Screen) Picking up where the television series left off, Jarod reunites with two old friends and unleashes some powerful Centre revelations. This film opens with a sequence that will allow it to be enjoyed by individuals who have not yet seen the TV series.
Disc 1 Side B: PRETENDER: ISLAND OF THE HAUNTED (Widescreen) 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.

Theatrical: 1996

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Genre: TV Series / Adventure

Duration: 1078

Summary: Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) is a Pretender. As a five-year-old in 1963, he was taken from his home and "adopted" by The Centre, a mysterious Delaware-based think tank. Why Jarod? His superior intellect--Jarod can "pretend" to be anything he wants: doctor, lawyer, engineer, astronaut and, as he quips in episode five ("The Paper Clock"), "I'm working on Indian chief."

Thirty years later, once he realized his efforts were not being used for good, Jarod escaped from the Centre. Psychiatrist and surrogate father Sydney ("Carnivàle"'s velvet-voiced Patrick Bauchau) and sociopathic sidekick and Emma Peel lookalike Miss Parker ("ER"'s Andrea Parker) have been trying to track him down ever since. They're assisted by the technically proficient, if socially inept Broots ("Napoleon Dynamite"'s Jon Gries). Each and every time, Jarod eludes their grasp, but not before helping some stranger who's been dealt an injustice (just as he once was). Along the way, he hopes to figure out who he is and where he came from.

Each of these 21 episodes moves deftly from Jarod's lonely past to his more satisfying, if precarious present (the human "science project" was constantly videotaped as a boy, hence the abundance of footage from his childhood). It's a worthy successor to paranoid thrillers like "The Fugitive" and the unjustly obscure "Nowhere Man" (from "X-Files" creator Chris Carter), and the droll performance of Weiss ("Jeffrey") adds a dose of levity to a concept usually painted with a darker palette. "The Pretender" ran on NBC for four seasons and was followed by two TV movies, "The Pretender 2001" and "Isle of the Haunted". "--Kathleen C. Fennessy"

Theatrical: 2005

Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

Genre: TV Series / Action

Duration: 42

Summary: This Series is Excellent I didn't watch any of the episodes of this show on Fox because I was Just going to buy all four seasons of this show this show completely blew me away I really enjoyed watching all four seasons of this show I'd recommend this TV Series on DVD to someone that I know because this TV Series is Excellent I was blown away after seeing every single episode of this show this show was Just plain awesome I'm not going to give away any details of the DVD Series because I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet but if you can afford seasons 1-4 I'd say go ahead and buy this Excellent TV Series.