The Famous Jett Jackson

The Famous Jett Jackson is an Canadian-American television series created by Fracaswell Hyman. It is about a boy who plays a teenage secret agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone.

The series aired on Disney Channel from October 25, 1998 to June 22, 2001.

Plot
Jett Jackson previously lived with his actress mother in Los Angeles, but missed his home and his friends. Longing for a relatively normal life, Jett succeeds in getting the production of Silverstone moved to the fictional Wilsted, North Carolina, thus providing jobs to townspeople while affording Jett the chance to live with his father, Sheriff Woodrick "Wood" Jackson, and his great-grandmother, Miz Coretta (whom Jett calls Nana). Keeping in touch with his mother Jules by video link on his computer (though by the third season she also moved to Wilsted), Jett now spends part of his time with family, friends and school, and the rest living the life of a working actor and celebrity. In doing so, Jett often ends up in sticky situations, usually aided and abetted by his childood friend, J.B., his not-quite girlfriend Kayla, and sometimes by Cubby, Silverstone's wacky special effects wizard. In the second half of the series, Jett's new co-star, Riley Grant, is added to the mix.

The show within the show, Silverstone, is about a spy who works for Mission Omega Matrix(the acronym being a pun on the word "Mom")in order to save the world from villains like Dr. Hypnoto and the Rat. In contrast to Jett, Silverstone has no family, only his mentor, Artemus, and eventually his partner "Hawk"(surname Hawkins) ("played" by Riley Grant). From the second season onward, the action sequences and Silverstone subplots saw a greater increase.

Main

 * Lee Thompson Young as Jett Jackson/Silverstone
 * Ryan Sommers Baum as J.B. Halliburton
 * Kerry Duff as Kayla West
 * Gordon Greene as Woodrick Jackson
 * Montrose Hagins as Miz Coretta
 * Melanie Nicholls-King as Jules Jackson

Recurring

 * Jeffrey Douglas as Cubby
 * Lindy Booth as Riley Grant/Hawk
 * Nigel Shawn Williams as Nigel Essex/Artemus
 * Andrew Tarbet as Deputy Booker Murray
 * Robert Bockstael as Mr. Dupree

Episodes
See Also: List of The Famous Jett Jackson Episodes

Jett Jackson: The Movie
The film was released on June 8, 2001 and was written by Bruce Kalish. It follows Jett as he struggles with some life choices.

Critical Response
Response to the show was generally positive. Laura Fries of Variety, the Hollywood trade paper, noted in her review of Jett Jackson: The Movie that "Young serves as an appealing role model, much like Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy the Vampire Slayer - someone who can fulfill young, action craving audiences without the gratuitous violence. There's a sense of empowerment associated with these sort of roles, and handled correctly, they function as an excellent allegory for the confusing teenage years." Although she mentions "contrived plot devices", she also refers to the series as "clever" and "an extremely entertaining concept".