About the Pretender. Keep in mind, I’m a fan too. Occasionally, I know more than you think and I think I’ve rebuilt this site enough to have a lot of things memorized.
I do keep meaning to rewatch it all but I wish it was all digital because pulling out all those DVD is sooo much work. 😉
For some reason, I keep missing emails so I thought I’d give you all the change to ask questions on the “blog” where I can answer directly.
Somehow I’ve missed some correspondence from fellow pretenders out there. So I thought I’d just address them here as they are both questions all of us would like to know.
Will the Graphic Novel every be released in full?
That was the promise wasn’t it? We were told by the PTBs that we were going to see a Pretender Graphic Novel back in… 2013. We even got a sneak peek into it’s contents. That has been 11 years.
Is it coming? I honestly have no idea.
Do I think it is coming? No. Sadly, I feel like the PTBs have such a strong hold over The Pretender that unless they are working on it; we won’t see it. And it seems unlikely someone else will do something to reboot or revive The Pretender for the same reason.
Tyler Christopher, best known for his Emmy-winning role General Hospital, has died. He was 50.
Christopher’s former GH costar Maurice Benard confirmed the actor’s death on Instagram.
“It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Tyler Christopher,” he wrote. “Tyler passed away this morning following a cardiac event in his San Diego apartment.”
It has been 26 years since that beautiful first episode of The Pretender. Jarod, Miss Parker, Broots and Sydney are seriously missed but I’ve very thankful for the 4 seasons and 2 movies we did get.
Happy Pretender DAY!
It has been 25 years since we first saw little Jarod say, “I’m finished!”
I loved this show so much from day one. Back then you could go onto the NBC website which had a section of “offices” for Miss Parker, Broots, Sydney, etc and profiles for Jarod, Kyle and Angelo. It was fantastic. To top it off they encouraged fans to join the “Centre Exchange” and become a Centre Operative or Pretender.
I loved the Centre Exchange and made many a Pretender friend there. I’ve lost touch with most of them but it also inspired me to create Pretender Headquarters way back when Geocities was a thing. It took me some time and it went live in 1999.
Share your love of The Pretender and tell us your Pretender origin story. How did you discover The Pretender?
I haven’t seen an online news article about this loss but I did find a Go Fund Me page about Kelsey’s death.
Happy Birthday, Sam Ayers or Sam the Sweeper! You were totally my favorite! And I appreciate you dropping by the Facebook page and leaving a message for me. Made my day way back when you did it.
Happy Birthday to Lenny Von Dohlen! He was our creepy Mr. Cox. I’m still not entirely sure what his deal was on the show but yeah he was there.
Happy Birthday to Patrick Bauchau; our Sydney! I’ve seen him on so much which I always love. We adored you as Sydney. Happy birthday!!!
French film The Translators sets Agatha Christie-style whodunnit in the book industry.
The theft of a best-selling author’s unpublished manuscript sets off this glossy French whodunnit, a thriller with a nightmarish vision of freelance hotdesking that could easily have been a black comedy.
The suspects are the book’s translators, holed up in what amounts to a luxurious bunker beneath a French chateau, complete with a five-star chef, swimming pool and bowling alley.
I’m sure it isn’t really hard to figure out. Many actors were considered for the role but one was actually who Gene Roddenberry thought of for the role.
Happy Belated Birthday to Richard Marcus! His birthday was on the 19th and I missed it. So sorry to our Raines! Not only that but it was the 24th Anniversary of The Pretender first airing. Missed it all! Sorry.
Happy Birthday to Harve Presnell, gone but not forgotten.
Harve was in practically everything, or at least I saw him in a lot and anyone who was part of The Pretender became rather special to see anywhere. And wouldn’t you know he was born in Modesto, California which is George Lucas and Jeremy Renner’s hometown too. It is were American Graffiti takes place and Monsters vs. Aliens. And I can drive there so that’s fun not that Modesto seems quite so special when you go. Just a smaller city like them all.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Parker. I’ve always wondered what happened to you in the end.
Happy Birthday, George our Major Charles.
I know he was a Bond at one point but the few times I’ve seen him in things… Jarod’s dad. The whole time you wonder about Jarod’s father I actually wondered who would have the presence to be Jarod’s dad. I think George did a great job. I could see it. Impressive guy is the father of an impressive guy. Made sense.
And what do you know but George and Willie share a birthday. Very cool.
Happy Birthday to Willie Gault who was Willie the Sweeper.
Admittedly, I do not have great pictures of him from the show. If you do and you are willing to share, please do because I’ve had a tough time finding great ones and getting screen captures is also hard because I have to find him and get a shot where they show him in the forefront rather than behind Raines on shooting Miss Parker from a helicopter. In Willie’s defense he was trying to shoot Mr. Parer. 😉
Point is… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I’m curious if any Pretender fans out there remember The Centre Exchange which was part of the NBC’s Pretender site way back when the show was airing? I’m only curious because I wanted to see if I could find a screenshot or some kind of instance of it from way back then. Let me know.
Most Pretender fans already know this stuff but it came up in my Google alert so I thought I’d share it. The photos seem older in most cases but again I thought I’d share.
Michael T Weiss and other former cast members of NBC’s “The Pretender” took different paths after the show, which premiered series almost 25 years ago.
The show, which started in 1996, had a mixed genre of crime, drama, and mystery, according to IMDb. The series was about a man with an ability to master any skill instantly.
He escaped a secret testing facility and traveled the country, taking different jobs, and helping strangers while avoiding his kidnappers. The show, which has more than 80 episodes, ended in 2000.
That took me more time than I intended. I didn’t have a lot of images for the Island of the Haunted so I had to capture them. Now there is a lot of screencaps and some BTS images. I hope you enjoy them all.
I’m thinking I need to spend time watching this show again.
Finally! Various images are available for the first movie: The Pretender 2001. Plus there are lots of behind the scenes images including some Jamie Denton personal photos. A lot of the behind the scenes stuff is original to when it was first shared with fans so it is low resolution and small dimensions but they are there for fans to enjoy.
Now just got to work on Island of the Haunted.
