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<div>{{Short description|2000 American comedy television series}}<br />
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{{Infobox television<br />
| image = JackOfAllTrades Complete.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| genre = [[Action comedy TV series|Action comedy]] <br /> [[Steampunk]]<br />
| creator = [[Eric A. Morris]]<br />
| developer = <br />
| presenter = <br />
| starring = [[Bruce Campbell]] <br /> [[Angela Dotchin]] <br /> [[Stuart Devenie]] <br /> Chris Easley<br />
| voices = <br />
| narrated = <br />
| theme_music_composer = [[Joseph LoDuca]]<br />
| opentheme = <br />
| endtheme = <br />
| country = United States<br>New Zealand<br />
| language = English<br />
| num_seasons = 2<br />
| num_episodes = 22<br />
| list_episodes = <br />
| producer = Janine Dickins<br />
| executive_producer = [[Alex Kurtzman]]<br />[[Roberto Orci]]<br />[[Rob Tapert]]<br />[[Sam Raimi]]<br />[[Bruce Campbell]]{{efn|name=COEP|co-executive producer}}<br/>[[Eric Grundemann]]{{efn|name=COEP|co-executive producer}}<br />
| location = Auckland, New Zealand<br />
| camera = <br />
| runtime = 22 minutes<br />
| network = [[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]<br />
| company = Renaissance Pictures<br>[[NBCUniversal Syndication Studios|Studios USA Television Distribution]]<br />
| first_aired = {{start date|2000|1|22}}<br />
| last_aired = {{end date|2000|12|2}}<br />
| related = <br />
}}<br />
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'''''Jack of All Trades''''' is a half-hour-long [[broadcast syndication|syndicated]] [[action comedy TV series]] which ran for two seasons in 2000.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2000/tv/reviews/jack-of-all-trades-2-1117775564/ | title=Jack of All Trades | date=January 14, 2000 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/jack-of-all-trades-2000 | title=Jack of All Trades (2000) | website=[[The A.V. Club]] }}</ref> With ''[[Cleopatra 2525]]'', it formed the ''[[Action Pack (TV programming block)|Back2Back Action Hour]]'' and both shows were notable for being the first American non-animated action series to be produced in the half-hour format since the 1970s{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}. The show was canceled in the middle of its second season.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
It is set at the turn of the 19th century (beginning in 1801) on the fictional French-controlled island of Pulau-Pulau<ref>Season 1, Episode 13, 01:59</ref> in the [[East Indies]]. Jack Stiles is an American secret agent sent there by [[Thomas Jefferson|President Jefferson]]. While there, he meets his British contact and love interest, English spy Emilia Rothschild. Together, the two work to stop [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] and various other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack is seen as Emilia's [[attaché]] (she sometimes serves as his), and in order to protect his identity as a secret agent, while acting against the enemies of America, Jack often adopts the identity of a legendary (though otherwise fictional) masked hero: "the Daring Dragoon".<br />
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The show contained many ongoing gags, such as historical inaccuracies (such as Canada being a French territory rather than part of the British Empire, and [[Benjamin Franklin]] being on the [[100 dollar bill]] during his lifetime), Jack being responsible for many important historical events but not receiving credit, Emilia inventing a miraculous invention in an obvious [[deus ex machina]], sexual puns and innuendos, and Jack and Emilia's ongoing romantic tension.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[Bruce Campbell]] as Jack Stiles<br />
*[[Angela Dotchin]] as Emilia Rothschild<br />
*[[Stuart Devenie]] as Governor Croque<br />
*[[Stephen Papps]] as Captain Brogard<br />
*[[Shemp Wooley]] as the voice of Jean-Claude<br />
*[[Verne Troyer]] as [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] (recurring guest – 4 episodes)<br />
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==Production==<br />
===Theme song===<br />
The tune and lyrics are based on numerous period songs, such as the "[[Marines' Hymn]]" and "[[Yankee Doodle]]". The theme song was nominated for the "Outstanding Main Theme Title Song" [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] in 2000, but lost to ''[[The West Wing]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nominees / Winners 2000|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2000|access-date=2021-02-06|website=Television Academy|language=en}}</ref><br />
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===Historical figures===<br />
Many episodes of ''Jack of All Trades'' involved parodies of historical figures. Furthering the show's inaccuracies, some of these figures died before the show's 1801 time period.<br />
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The following is a list of historical figures who appeared on the show:<br />
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* [[Thomas Jefferson]] ([[Charles Pierard]]) 2 episodes<br />
* [[Blackbeard]] ([[Hori Ahipene]]) 2 episodes<br />
* [[Benjamin Franklin]] (John Sumner)<br />
* [[James Madison]] ([[Patrick Smith (actor)|Patrick Smith]])<br />
* [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] and [[Joséphine de Beauharnais|Josephine Bonaparte]] ([[Verne Troyer]] 4 episodes and [[Celia Nicholson]] 1 episode)<br />
* [[Marquis de Sade]] (Stuart Devenie)<br />
* [[Meriwether Lewis]] and [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] (Patrick Wilson and [[Peter Rowley]])<br />
* [[Sacagawea]] ([[Vanessa Rare]])<br />
* [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] ([[Mark Hadlow]])<br />
* [[Catherine II of Russia|Catherine the Great]] ([[Danielle Cormack]])<br />
* [[Leonardo da Vinci]] is parodied by his fictitious descendant Nardo da Vinci ([[Michael Hurst]]).<br />
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==Episodes==<br />
===Season 1===<br />
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{{Episode table |background=#CCCCCC |overall= |season= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes=<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 1<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1<br />
| Title = Return of the Dragoon<br />
| DirectedBy = [[Josh Becker (filmmaker)|Josh Becker]]<br />
| WrittenBy = [[Eric A. Morris|Eric Morris]]<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|22}}<br />
| ShortSummary = The adventure begins when Jack Stiles is sent by Thomas Jefferson to a tiny island in the East Indies where he teams up with a beautiful British inventor and secret agent to take on Napoleon Bonaparte.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 2<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2<br />
| Title = Sex and the Single Spy<br />
| DirectedBy = Charlie Haskell<br />
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Eric Morris|t= Melissa Blake}}<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|29}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Jack tutors Emilia in the art of seduction, and she then tests her skills on an eminent French spy from whom she must retrieve a secret code.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 3<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3<br />
| Title = The Floundering Father<br />
| DirectedBy = Chris Graves<br />
| WrittenBy = [[Roberto Orci]] & [[Alex Kurtzman]]<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|5}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Benjamin Franklin is kidnapped while journeying to France to build a weapon of mass destruction for Napoleon, and Jack and Emilia must come to his rescue.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 4<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4<br />
| Title = Once You Go Jack...<br />
| DirectedBy = Charlie Haskell<br />
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= [[Laurence Walsh]]|t= Eric Morris}}<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|12}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Kentucky Sue, Jack's former partner and old flame, returns with guns blazing—literally—and proposing marriage.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 5<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5<br />
| Title = The People's Dragoon<br />
| DirectedBy = Josh Becker<br />
| WrittenBy = Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|19}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Emilia and Jack, who is disguised as the Dragoon, work together to retrieve a shipment of American gold that has been intercepted by the corrupt Governor Croque.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 6<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6<br />
| Title = Raging Bully<br />
| DirectedBy = Charlie Haskell<br />
| WrittenBy = Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|26}}<br />
| ShortSummary = The stakes are high when Jack must beat Napoleon in a game of poker to win Louisiana back from the French—and save his own life.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 7<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7<br />
| Title=Daddy Dearest<br />
| DirectedBy = Chris Graves<br />
| WrittenBy = Eric Morris<br />
| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|3|4}}<br />
| ShortSummary = It's all in the family when Emilia's father, who also happens to be Britain's most decorated spy, comes to Pulau Pulau to supervise a mission.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 8<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8<br />
| Title = One Wedding and an Execution<br />
| DirectedBy = Charlie Haskell<br />
| WrittenBy = [[Andre Jacquemetton|Andre]] & [[Maria Jacquemetton]]<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|11}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Jack is determined to save Emilia from saying "I do" after she agrees to marry Napoleon in an attempt to save England from a French invasion.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 9<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9<br />
| Title = Croque for a Day<br />
| DirectedBy = Wayne Rose<br />
| WrittenBy = Geoff Martin & Josh Kravitz<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|15}}<br />
| ShortSummary = When Napoleon sends an inspector to evaluate Croque, Jack and Emilia scheme to keep the benign governor in office rather than have him replaced by someone who will bring real damage.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 10<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10<br />
| Title = Dead Woman Walking<br />
| DirectedBy = [[John Laing (director)|John Laing]]<br />
| WrittenBy = Hilary J. Bader<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|22}}<br />
| ShortSummary = When the Dragoon is blamed for the desecration of a cemetery, Emilia plays dead in an effort to clear his name.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 11<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11<br />
| Title = Love Potion No. 10<br />
| DirectedBy = John Laing<br />
| WrittenBy = David Ransil<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|29}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Hoping to keep the peace on the island, Jack and Emilia help Croque to satisfy his young wife's libido.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 12<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12<br />
| Title = Up the Creek<br />
| DirectedBy = Chris Graves<br />
| WrittenBy = [[Kevin Maynard]]<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|6}}<br />
| ShortSummary = The famed explorers Lewis and Clark, two men who really should just ask for directions, think their deserted island is actually Oregon and can't fathom the idea that the Revolutionary War is over.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 13<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13<br />
| Title = X Marquis the Spot<br />
| DirectedBy = Eric Gruendemann<br />
| WrittenBy = Timothy A. Jones<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|13}}<br />
| ShortSummary = It's a little bit of pleasure and a whole lot of pain when Jack and Emilia are sent to the Marquis de Sade's island of torture and participate in a leather-clad triathlon in order to retrieve King George's stolen crown.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 14<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14<br />
| Title = It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Opera<br />
| DirectedBy = Chris Graves<br />
| WrittenBy = Melissa Blake<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|20}}<br />
| ShortSummary = It's not over until the fat lady sings when Jack and Emilia are assigned to protect the unstable King George from a staged assassination attempt.<br />
| LineColor = CCCCCC<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
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===Season 2===<br />
{{Episode table |background=#9999CC |overall= |season= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes=<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 15<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1<br />
| Title = A Horse of a Different Color<br />
| DirectedBy = Charlie Haskell<br />
| WrittenBy = Melissa Blake<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|10|7}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Someone's horsing around with the safety of the island when Katherine the Great threatens to destroy Pulau Pulau unless her champion horse is returned within 24 hours.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 16<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2<br />
| Title = Shark Bait<br />
| DirectedBy = Eric Gruendemann<br />
| WrittenBy = David Ransil<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|10|14}}<br />
| ShortSummary = It's all hands on board when Jack and Emilia enlist the help of the legendary pirate Blackbeard to thwart Leonardo Da Vinci's great, great, great, great grandson from destroying the annual Founding Father/Son cruise.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 17<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3<br />
| Title = Monkey Business<br />
| DirectedBy = Chris Graves<br />
| WrittenBy = Eric Morris<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|10|28}}<br />
| ShortSummary = A priceless silver monkey by the WallaWalla Bing Bang tribe has Emilia and Jack ape mad at each other when they're both ordered to send it to their respective countries.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 18<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4<br />
| Title = The Morning After<br />
| DirectedBy = [[Michael Hurst]]<br />
| WrittenBy = Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|11|4}}<br />
| ShortSummary = There's a lot of bitter grapes going around when Jack and Emilia wake up in bed together after drinking the "special" wine that Napoleon plans to send to every world leader.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC <br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 19<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5<br />
| Title = Croquey in the Pokey<br />
| DirectedBy = Chris Graves<br />
| WrittenBy = [[David H. Goodman]]<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|11|11}}<br />
| ShortSummary = When the governor is jailed for a planned assassination attempt on Napoleon, it's a battle behind the bars as Jack gets himself sent to prison so he can protect Croque from every thug he's ever sentenced.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 20<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6<br />
| Title = One, Two, Three, Give Me Lady Liberty<br />
| DirectedBy = Michael Hurst<br />
| WrittenBy = Stephanie C. Meyer & Christopher Beresh<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|11|18}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Napoleon seems to be turning over a new leaf when he has a special statue sculpted to give to America, but Emilia and Jack soon learn that behind the stone beauty lies a beast.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 21<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7<br />
| Title = Hamnesia<br />
| DirectedBy = Wayne Rose<br />
| WrittenBy = Eric Morris<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|11|25}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Emilia goes hog wild when an accident erases her memory, including the location of a priceless land deed, and Jack convinces her that she's really an uninhibited party animal.<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
{{Episode list<br />
| EpisodeNumber = 22<br />
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8<br />
| Title = Seventy Brides for One Brother<br />
| DirectedBy = Charlie Haskell<br />
| WrittenBy = [[Rick Copp]]<br />
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|12|2}}<br />
| ShortSummary = Emilia finds herself one woman among many when she is kidnapped and placed in a sultan's harem, but the longer she stays, the more she refuses to leave without the other "wives."<br />
| LineColor = 9999CC<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0220906}}<br />
* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/22698 DVD Talk's Review of The Complete Series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060722003453/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=22698 |date=July 22, 2006 }}<br />
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