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Category Archives: Failed TV Pilot
Maggie (Failed TV Pilot 1957)
Child star Margaret O’Brien is seventeen year old Maggie Bradley in this horrible attempt at comedy. Leon Ames and Fay Baker are her actor parents. Broadway actors Mark and Annie Bradley move to Hunters Ferry, Connecticut. They have a seventeen … Continue reading
Munroe (Failed TV Pilot 1963)
Comedian Guy Marks is Gitchy and Jan Stine is Ira. They are trainers at Camp Boone’s K-9 division. Munroe has a mind of his own and doesn’t take too well to training. How anyone in their right mind thought this … Continue reading
The Jane Powell Show (Failed TV Pilot 1961)
A misfire of a sitcom with Jane as actress-singer K.C.McCay. She marries a math professor from a small California town. Now she has to adapt to life on campus. This was the first attempt at playing a professor by “Gilligan’s … Continue reading
The Fat Man (1959 Unaired TV Pilot)
Uninteresting attempt to make a series out of the successful radio show and 1951 movie. Robert Middleton is Lucius Crane a P.I. who is an intellectual and epicurean. While TV detectives of the day were quick with fist and gun, … Continue reading
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Strictly For Laffs (Unsold TV Pilot-1961)
The premise was simple. Host Dave Barry sat at a table with various comedians and they all told jokes. That’s it. Some were actors, some did stand up and others were writers There was some sort of audience that ringed the … Continue reading
Mandrake The Magician (Failed TV Pilot-1954)
Despite the high hopes of the magazine article the show never got picked up. Maybe because it was the era of detective/cop shows and family sitcoms. This was entertaining in a tacky way and fun. Mandrake is aided by Princess … Continue reading
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Archie (1964 Failed TV Pilot)
An attempt to bring the comic book characters to TV that nosedived. Some familiar names were on hand including Roland “Charlie Chan” Winters and William Schallert. It’s a story about computer dating. The show opens with Archie’s parents (William Schallert … Continue reading
The Phantom (Failed 1961 TV Pilot)
The Phantom and Devil Roger Creed stars as the super popular comic strip character. A stellar cast couldn’t put this one over. Paulette Goddard, Lon Chaney, Jr., Reginald Denny and Richard Kiel are all in this pilot which never aired. … Continue reading
Lum And Abner (Failed TV Pilot-1949)
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff tried to bring their highly successful radio show to TV but it didn’t happen. In this pilot Abner is on the phone with Mose (Andy Devine) and says he’ll meet him and Opie Cates to … Continue reading
The Shadow (Failed TV Pilot 1954)
This was just okay. Nothing special that would keep viewers tuning in each week. “The Case Of The Cotton Kimono” w/Alexander Scourby – Cissy Chadwick is getting dressed when the doorbell starts ringing. She puts on her cotton kimono and … Continue reading
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