Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: The Pretender television


  
  The Pretender TV Show - The Pretender Television Series :: The Pretender TV Series :: Summary/Synopsis
The Pretender is the story of Jarod, a highly intelligent person who has the ability to become anything he wants to be.
The Pretender was on NBC for four seasons and has been on reruns ever since on TNT.
Pretender fans have continued to wait for the story to finally be pieced together.
www.tvrage.com /shows/id-6107   (332 words)

  
  The Pretender (television) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pretender is a television series that originally ran on NBC for four seasons between 1996 and 1999.
Two telemovies -- The Pretender 2001 and Isle of The Haunted -- were aired on TNT in 2001; partly as a result of pressure from fans who staged a global email campaign.
Season 4's episode, "Cold Dick" is the only Pretender episode where Jarod doesn't use his first name in the "pretend"; on this occasion he is impersonating another character, whose name is Dick Dickson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Pretender_(television)   (538 words)

  
 The Pretender TV Show - The Pretender Television Show - TV.com
The Pretender is the story of Jarod, a boy-genius taken from his family as a child.
Seasons 1-3 are currently available on DVD.', 'The Pretender is the story of Jarod, a boy-genius taken from his family as a child.
This is the second of two Pretender TV Movies: 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.
www.tv.com /pretender/show/109/summary.html   (908 words)

  
 The Pretender (an Episode Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jarod pretends to be an instructor at a skydiving school in Texas to uncover the truth behind the death of one of the owners.
Jarod pretends to be a race car driver to investigate the death of a fellow driver, whose family is among the suspects.
Jarod pretends to be a SWAT officer to investigate the shooting death of a lieutenant.
epguides.com /Pretender/guide.shtml   (7436 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: The Pretender (television)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An impostor (or imposter, a common variant) is a person who pretends to be somebody else.
A third telemovie was promised, but has not been made as of 2005, despite further pressure from fans who feel that it is needed to tie up the loose ends created by the first two telemovies.
A television movie (also known as a TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Pretender-(television)   (1145 words)

  
 Pretender, The - The Arts & Entertainment Beat - SearchBeat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pretender Headquarters Worldwide - An interactive site, with "pretend" case files, a photo gallery of all the characters, links to other sites, an episode guide and message board.
The Pretender's Archive at Fortunecity - The Archive serves as a long summary of the series until partway into the third season, and examines the status and psyche of every important character from that time period.
The Pretender 2001 - TNT's official movie site includes multimedia, an article, behind the scenes photographs, and interviews with the cast, creators, and crew of the first movie, a continuation of the series.
www.searchbeat.com /Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Pretender,The   (878 words)

  
 Pretender (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
two notable claimants to the English throne, the son and grandson of a deposed monarch, were known as "The Old Pretender" and "The Young Pretender"
The Pretender, a television show formerly on the NBC network
Pretenders were a subline of the Transformers toyline.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pretender_(disambiguation)   (160 words)

  
 philjohn.com - tv shows: The Pretender
Pretending to know what exactly Jarod is would be ridiculous.
He always pretends to be someone else, he's hiding from that dark and strange secret organization, The Centre.
The Pretender is a show with an appeal that's not often to find in television.
www.philjohn.com /rev_tv/pjkrv_tpre.html   (283 words)

  
 Rovisoft - Arts Television Programs Dramas Pretender, The - Free Directory Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jeremy's Ultimate Pretender Home Page - Cast biographies, pictures and screen captures, and a brief episode guide with ratings are the components of the site.
My Pretender Refuge - Features quotes and wav sound files, a large photo gallery, an episode guide of the fourth season and the first movie, downloads, fanfiction, links, and interviews and chat transcripts with the cast and crew.
Sci-Fi Channel UK - The Pretender - Features include a detailed episode guide for the first three seasons, biographies of the cast and crew, a small gallery of early promotional photographs, and current show times on the United Kingdom's Sci-Fi Channel.
www.rovisoft.com /Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Pretender,_The   (805 words)

  
 FAQ - Dmoz/Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Pretender,_The
NBC has cancelled the "The Pretender." However, TNT shows re-runs on weekdays, and many other channels show re-runs late at night on Saturday or Sunday.
Two were made, "The Pretender 2001" and "Island of the Haunted," which both aired during 2001.
However, the storyline continued in two television movies, produced by TNT and first aired on that network March 22, 2001 and December 10, 2001.
dmoz.org /Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Pretender,_The/faq.html   (233 words)

  
 Wheat Grass and Tomato Juice
I got caught up in the Pretender craze when I happened to be channel-surfing one night and I saw the opening credits.
The Pretender drinking game - For those 21 and up, this game is for you.
The Pretender links - I'm sad to see you go, but I'll bet you'll be impressed by the list of links I have.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Boulevard/7431/Pretender.htm   (400 words)

  
 The Pretender - The Complete Second Season
Lyle's true identity is revealed, and double-length season finale "Bloodlines" (featuring Haley Joel Osment as a potential pretender), in which Miss Parker finds out she has a brother.
Lyle or Angelo (Paul Dillon), the Centre's idiot savant or, as she calls him, "Cousin It." The second season ends with a cliffhanger as a bomb goes off in the Centre--just as Jarod is trying to make his escape.
A stunt man is seriously injured during the filming of a television commercial.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /ItemId/B0009X76ZA   (1381 words)

  
 The Pretender - a fan site dedicated to the tv series
The Pretender has been picked up for two made for tv movies by the folks at TNT.
This page has the facts and theories that are so intricately intertwined with the Pretender.
This is a personal site on the Pretender, and it is for entertainment purposes only.
lavender.fortunecity.com /flamingos/149   (390 words)

  
 The Most Influential Show On television?---AllYourTV.com
While this is a long-time television staple, it's been reinvented in the last year,thanks in part to Nowhere Man.
But many of the other actors and actresses are shining this season on television as well.
NwM directors have popped up on every conceivable dramatic series, and it's a testament to their talent that a number of them were the pilots.
www.allyourtv.com /9697season/nowhere.html   (862 words)

  
 Jeremy's Ultimate Pretender Website
The Pretender, the Saturday-night NBC drama that ran from 1996 - 2000, is about a man named Jarod who kidnapped very young and was raised his whole life in a place called The Centre, a think-tank facility located in Blue Cove, Maryland.
Jarod, a Pretender, or genius who has the ability to "become anyone he wants to be," anybody from a fireman to a teacher, broke out of the Centre and has been on the run every since, searching for his family and his past.
Jarod is on the run, being pursued by the Centre, and In his travels Jarod has been avenging the victimized, assuming many different identities and occupations to suit his quest.
www.geocities.com /captainabsurd.geo/pretender   (213 words)

  
 The Pretender Dramas Programs Television Arts English EspaƱa
Features quotes and wavs, a large photo gallery, an episode guide of the fourth season and the first movie, downloads, fanfiction, links, and interviews and chat transcripts with the cast and crew.
An interactive site with "pretend" case files, a photo gallery of all the characters, links to other sites, an episode guide, and a message board.
Pretender collages, manipulated images, and desktop wallpaper by Hanna1013.
www.amigar.com /buscador/Top/10102042-10000001   (491 words)

  
 Episode Guide - The Pretender
Jarod is knocked unconscious during a pretend, and is rescued by Argyle, a collector and fixer.
The crime is shockingly similar to one he pretended years ago - a killer was kidnapping girls from their beds, after ripping out the eyes of their dolls and writing "Blue Moon Rising" on a mirror.
He looks through the trophies of Jarod's past pretends, trying to zero in on one of his past enemies, who may be the person who is putting Jarod in danger.
www.saltyrain.com /epguides/pretender.html   (15673 words)

  
 TWoP Forums -> The Pretender   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I'd seen him in "The Pretender" before, but I had no idea what a talented stage actor he is. He kicked ass.
Jarod, a boy genius with a special gift for pretending, was kidnapped and held prisoner by a corporation that used him as a human simulator in their clandestine research.
The Pretender aired for four seasons on NBC from 1996 - 2000.
forums.televisionwithoutpity.com /index.php?showtopic=2089672   (1495 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Television - TV Shows - The Pretender: Pretender back under guise of TV movies
Television's mysterious genius Jarod Russell isn't gone -- he was only pretending.
The Pretender, the cancelled sci-fi series about the identity-switching adventures of a think-tank-raised genius, is being revived in two TV movies for the U.S. cable network TNT.
Pretender reruns have been drawing strong ratings since they began airing a month ago on TNT, a network seen in 78-million U.S. homes.
jam.canoe.ca /Television/TV_Shows/P/Pretender/2000/09/23/733558.html   (289 words)

  
 the Pretender: Season One
The Pretender is a treat to watch and an easy way to pass several hours viewing the discs.
Season one of Pretender gets flying colors from me. The series is intriguing as well as entertaining.
TBS purchased the rights to the show and did two telefilms which continued the mystique of the Pretender.
www.scifi2k.com /misc_html/reviews/review_dvd_pretender_s1.html   (558 words)

  
 The Pretender | TheSweetScience.com Boxing
When he left the ring, everyone watching got to see that he was just another pretender, signifying the phony world that Stallone had created.
I guess the judges decided either to not watch the fight at all or were somehow influenced to score the bout with an extremely subjective bias.
Bonsante was so enraged with the decision that he skirted down the aisle from his dressing room to incite the fans and talk to the television audience about the injustice that had happened.
www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2781/pretender   (1280 words)

  
 The Pretender   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Though I believe that the Pretender never "jumped the shark", I believe that it began to go in the wrong direction with the Island of the Haunted movie...
The Pretender was my favorite show until that episode (in season 4 I think), all the episode was Broot's Dream (he dreams he sleeps with Miss Parker !!) and Jarod met Wayne Newton.
My one regret about THE PRETENDER is that I did not watch it while it was a regular series, and now as I watch the reruns I realize how much I would have enjoyed the series lasting longer than it did.
www.jumptheshark.com /p/pretender.htm   (3927 words)

  
 Business Wire: TNT Acquires Exclusive Off-Net Cable Rights to ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Pretender debuted on NBC September 28, 1998 and has helped re-establish the network's presence on Saturday night.
The Pretender, distributed by Twentieth Television, is a production of MTM Enterprises in association with NBC Entertainment.
Turner Network Television, currently seen in more than 75 million homes, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s 24-hour, advertiser-supported service offering original motion pictures and miniseries; contemporary films from the world's largest film library; the combined Turner and Warner Bros. film libraries; exciting NBA sports action; and popular television series.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:54064968&refid=ink_tptd_np   (367 words)

  
 dvdfuture.com :: Review - Pretender: The Complete First Season, The
The entire first season of "The Pretender" series starring Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a man searching for his past while avenging wrongs, is out now on a four disc DVD set.
I thought "The Pretender" was some kind of Lifetime channel invention because there didn't seem to be much violence on the show.
Overall this DVD set of "The Pretender: The Complete First Season" worked for me. There was not as much violence as I would have liked, but the different turns and mysteries in the show kept me intrigued.
www.dvdfuture.com /review.php?id=748   (2010 words)

  
 The Pretender - Television Tropes & Idioms
Boy genius Jarod was raised in a secret science-with-a-capital-$ laboratory (known, in a further example of the series' remarkable reticence with full names, only as "the Centre") where his talents were put at the service of the highest bidder.
Fake Gunshot (in "A Stand Up Guy", Jarod, pretending to be a gangster, shoots an FBI agent in cold blood -- but it turns out that he's actually pretending to be an FBI undercover agent, and the 'shooting' was a set-up to establish his bona fides with the mob)
Shout Out (whenever he does a pretend, Jarod adopts the surname of a relevant real-life person or fictional character: examples include Jarod Wright, test pilot; Jarod Marley, in the Christmas episode; and Jarod Shatner -- in honor of the host of Rescue 911 -- when he was working in a search-and-rescue team)
tvtropes.org /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePretender   (1005 words)

  
 pretender series television
Television M A N H A T T A N Fox Television Stations 205 East 67th Street...
Evan Marriott, left, of the FOX Television show "Joe Millionaire" speaks to members of the...
Smith is a frequent guest on television and radio...
television-info.acdom.com /pretender-series-television.html   (552 words)

  
 The Pretender - The Complete First Season
The Pretender ran on NBC for four seasons and was followed by two TV movies, The Pretender 2001 and Isle of the Haunted.
Now on the run, Jarod embarks on a search for his true identity while also attempting to balance out any wrong his simulations have caused by helping people who are as powerless as he once was.
The most amazing series on television: I bought this DVD because I was a fan of the Pretender when it originally aired, and I'm ashamed to say I'd nearly forgotten just how good it was.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /ItemId/B0006UEVTK   (1142 words)

  
 Patrick Bauchau: "The Pretender"
The show is now in syndication on Turner Network Television during the week and various stations on weekends.
The premise of the show is that there are geniuses, or Pretenders, "...who can become anyone they want to be." One such Pretender is Jarod (Michael T. Weiss).
Sydney trains Pretenders to run "simulations" of events; a Pretender uses his skills to become the person involved in a given event, thereby enabling him to predict the outcome.
bauchau.com /career/pretend   (527 words)

  
 Virtual_season
A virtual season is a collection of fanfiction stories, often by various authors, that continue a cancelled television show.
For some projects, the intended purpose is to depict the adventures of the characters in more desirable directions when the producers in question made artistic decisions that fans disapproved of.
Examples of television shows that have virtual seasons or virtual spin-offs based on them include The X-Files, Millennium, Xena: Warrior Princess, Gargoyles and MacGyver.
www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Virtual_season   (224 words)

  
 Premium SEO Friendly Web Directory - Domaining.in- Arts > Television
Television shows from past to present now on DVD.
This tackles great shows on television from past to the present.
Discuss were the valuable lessons that was given by each episodes on each television series.
www.domaining.in /Arts/Television_   (400 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts:Television:Programs:Dramas:Pretender, The   (Site not responding. Last check: )
All submissions must be of sites that are directly related to the television series 'The Pretender,' or to the 'Pretender' television movies, or both.
"The Pretender" is a television series about Jarod, a genius with unique abilities, and The Centre, a shadowy organization that imprisoned him as a child and exploited his gifts.
In addition, Jarod is searching for his family, and attempting to elude Centre personnel, who are intent on recapturing their pretender.
dmoz.org /Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Pretender,_The/desc.html   (158 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.