Release OrderRecommended
0 / 6 watchedAir order. Four NBC seasons straight through, then the two TNT films that resolve the series cliffhanger.
NBC Series
- 1 The Pretender Season 1 22 episodes, 1996 to 1997. Premiered September 19, 1996.
- 2 The Pretender Season 2 22 episodes, 1997 to 1998.
- 3 The Pretender Season 3 22 episodes, 1998 to 1999. Episode 19, End Game, starts a crossover with Profiler.
- 4 The Pretender Season 4 Final season, 20 episodes, 1999 to 2000. Ended May 13, 2000 on a bomb cliffhanger.
TNT Films
- 5 The Pretender 2001 Aired January 22, 2001 on TNT. Picks up directly from the series finale cliffhanger.
- 6 The Pretender: Island of the Haunted Aired December 10, 2001 on TNT. Jarod and Miss Parker are trapped together on an island.
With Profiler Crossovers
0 / 9 watchedThe same run with the three Profiler episodes where Michael T. Weiss appears as Jarod slotted in. Profiler is a separate show, so these are optional.
NBC Series
- 1 The Pretender Season 1 22 episodes, 1996 to 1997.
- 2 The Pretender Season 2 22 episodes, 1997 to 1998.
- 3 The Pretender Season 3 Watch through episode 19, End Game, then the Profiler episode below before continuing.
- 5 The Pretender Season 4 Watch through episode 10, Spin Doctor, then the next Profiler episode before continuing.
Crossover
- 4 Profiler: Grand Master Profiler season 3, episode 19. Second half of the End Game crossover with Dr. Sam Waters and Bailey Malone.
- 6 Profiler: Clean Sweep Profiler season 4, episode 10. Concludes the Spin Doctor crossover.
- 7 Profiler: Pianissimo Profiler season 4, episode 18. A standalone Jarod appearance with no Pretender-side episode.
TNT Films
- 8 The Pretender 2001 Aired January 22, 2001 on TNT.
- 9 The Pretender: Island of the Haunted Aired December 10, 2001 on TNT.
About The Pretender
The Pretender aired four seasons and 86 episodes on NBC from September 1996 to May 2000, following genius Jarod as he escapes the Centre and takes on a new identity each week while Miss Parker hunts him. TNT continued the story with two TV films in 2001, The Pretender 2001 and Island of the Haunted.
Good to know
Both TNT films end on unresolved cliffhangers and no further film was ordered, so the story still has no screen ending. The creators continued it in the novels Rebirth (2013) and Saving Luke (2014), which sit outside this list.
