"Jack of All Trades" (2000) TV series

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Creator:

Eric Morris

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

17 January 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Action | Comedy | Fantasy

Plot:

Jack Stiles, an American spy stationed on a South Pacific island in the early 19th century, works against Napoleon's colonizing efforts.

Plot Keywords:

Napoleon | Spy | Emperor | 19th Century | British

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Bruce Campbell	...	Daring Dragoon / ... (22 episodes, 2000-2001)
Angela Marie Dotchin	...	Mrs. Emilia Smythe Rothschild (22 episodes, 2000-2001)
Stuart Devenie	...	Governor Croque / ... (22 episodes, 2000-2001)
Stephen Papps	...	Captain Brogard (22 episodes, 2000-2001)
Shemp Wooley	...	Voice of Jean-Claude (13 episodes, 2000)

Runtime:

30 min (22 episodes)

Country:

USA | New Zealand

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Auckland, New Zealand

Company:

Renaissance Pictures

Trivia:

Jack's horse is named "Nutcracker," an oblique reference to his method of boarding - jumping onto the saddle from great heights.

Quotes:

Jack Stiles: It's a beautiful day, and the scent of violence is in the air.

Bruce Campbell's spectacle

JACK OF ALL TRADES is mostly fun and spectacle, in the twenty minutes of each episode we have great slapstick as only Bruce Campbell can do, great swordfights, really bad ( but funny, often politically incorrect ) one-liners, talking parrots, jokes about the french and to summarize it, it can be very immature. But good executed. So a whole lot of fun. It's comparable to Brisco County in the fact that modern inventions are often used as deus ex machina, but it is not as emotionally. The whole setting reminds more of the Wild,Wild West Movie than of Brisco. The guests are great fun, for instance Verne Troyer as Napoleon goes where Mini-me of Austin Powers not even dared to.

Watch it for the fun of it.