The Pretender(1996)

series - first aired/released 1996-09-19 - audience 7.4

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Directed by Anson Williams, Charles Siebert, Chuck Bowman, Craig W. Van Sickle, David Jackson, Gabrielle Beaumont, Ian Toynton, James Whitmore Jr., Jesús Salvador Treviño, Jim Charleston, Joe Napolitano, Jon Gries, Krishna Rao, Michael Lange, Michael T. Weiss, Michael Zinberg, Rick Wallace, Rodney Charters, Scott Lautanen, Steven Long Mitchell, Terrence O'Hara, Thomas J. Wright, Vern Gillum

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.