Patrick Bauchau

1934. The Dustbowl. In a time of sandstorms, plagues, drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the heartland of America.

Flashing back intermittently to dream-like scenes from his hardscrabble rural childhood, "Ray" chronicles Ray Charles' remarkable rise from sideman and Chitlin Circuit fixture to innovator, icon, and international superstar. Yet even as Charles ascends to the heights of the musical and cultural elite, he remains hobbled by heroin addiction and compulsive womanizing, a prisoner to his own insatiable needs. Through it all, Ray Charles possessed a rock-solid...

Taken from his home and raised with other genius children at a mysterious place called The Centre, Jarod, who has the uncanny ability to pretend and easily assume the identity of any person, escapes as an adult in order to use his abilities to help the public while being followed by his mentor and a childhood friend from The Centre. Pilot (originally aired 9/19/1996): In Queens, New York, Miss Parker and Sydney find they have just missed Jarod helping...

Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true identity and tries to balance any wrong his simulations have...

Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true identity and tries to balance any wrong his simulations have...

A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.

Agenda for murder: "It's not an open-and-shut case when a man with strong political connections--and a strong motive for murder--was the last person to see a supposed suicide victim alive"--Container. Columbo cries wolf: "When a woman with the controlling interest in a magazine disappears before a meeting to discuss selling her majority share, Columbo is ready to throw the book at her partner"--Container. Columbo goes to college: "Columbo enters...