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The Pretender

Name: The Pretender
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries, Richard Marcus

1996–2000 · 4 seasons, 86 episodes · 43m episodes · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · NBC · United States · Rated TV-14 (US)

Hero of a thousand faces. Man of a thousand lives.

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

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Craig W. Van Sickle, Steven Long Mitchell

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Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries, Richard Marcus, James Denton

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