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Launching The Pilot

Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email [email protected]
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Highway To Heaven part 2 (1984)

Episode 395 is Part 2 of Highway To Heaven (1984) "Highway to Heaven part 2" When Mark Gordon's investigation starts getting too close, Jonathan must reveal his true identity and purpose to Mark in order to successfully complete his assignment.

Jun 12, 202549 minEp. 405

Highway To Heaven Part1 (1984)

Episode 394 is Highway To Heaven Part one (1984) "Highway To Heaven" Jonathan Smith, an angel, arrives at a retirement home to help not only the occupants but also an employee named Leslie Gordon. However, Leslie's brother Mark, a jaded and bitter former police officer, is suspicious of Jonathan.

Jun 06, 20251 hr 3 minEp. 404

So Haunt Me (1992)

Episode 393 is So Haunt Me (1992) "A Haunted House" Recently made redundant from his job in advertising Pete Rokeby moves,with his wife Sally,teen-aged daughter Tammy,little son David and their dog to a much smaller house,which smells of chicken soup. Hearing noises in the night Sally investigates and meets the ghost of Yetta Feldman,a Jewish former occupant of the house who choked to death on a chicken bone twenty-one years earlier and has seen off seventeen previous sets of house-holders. Pete...

May 30, 202543 minEp. 403

B J And The Bear part 2 (1978)

Episode 392 is part 2 of B J and the Bear (1978) "The Foundlings" Part 2 B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

May 05, 202553 minEp. 402

B J And The Bear (1978)

Episode 391 is B J And The Bear (1978) "The Foundlings" Part 1 B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

Apr 18, 20251 hr 7 minEp. 401

The Day Of The TriffIds (1981)

Episode 390 is The DayOf The Triffids (1981) "Episode 1" Bill, who works at a farm for deadly plants called triffids, was temporarily blinded by one of them and is now in hospital. The hour approaches for the bandages over his eyes to come off, but a strange silence pervades the room.

Mar 23, 202545 minEp. 400

The Swiss Family Robinson (1974)

Episode 389 is The Swiss Family Robinson (1974) "The Arrival" In 1801, a family from Switzerland is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. All wash ashore safely except their younger son Franz, who is presumed dead.

Mar 16, 202549 minEp. 399

Lucan (1977)

Episode 388 is Lucan (1977) "Pilot" A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity.

Mar 09, 20251 hr 16 minEp. 398

Mr Merlin (1981)

Episode 387 is Mr Merlin (1981) "Pilot" Merlin, who nowadays operates an auto mechanics shop, meets Zac, who he takes on as his new apprentice in both sorcery and fixing cars.

Mar 02, 202558 minEp. 397

Sheena Queen of the Jungle

Episode 386 is Sheena Queen Of The Jungle (1955) "Crash in the Jungle" Sheena rescues bush pilot Andy Howard, when his plane crashes in the jungle. Andy was delivering film containing rare footage of a secretive native tribe that had been filmed by Clare Graham, a documentary film maker. Andy is convinced that his plane was sabotaged

Feb 15, 202551 minEp. 396

Tracker (2001)

Episode 385 is Tracker (2001) "Pilot" The guard's prison comes to Earth. He creates a body out of a billboard. He's dazed and disoriented, he encounters Mel who offers him a ride. The guard must now track down all the alien prisoners.

Feb 09, 20251 hr 4 minEp. 395

Thriller (1973)

Episode 384 is Thriller (1973) "Lady Killer" A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

Jan 26, 20251 hr 14 minEp. 394

The Magician (1973)

Episode 383 is The Magician (1973) "The Manhunters" Someone is trying to kill Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. The investigation leads Blake to an alcoholic lady gambler in distress and the plot thickens in a casino.

Jan 19, 20251 hr 4 minEp. 393

Mann & Machine (1992)

Episode 382 is Mann & Machine (1992) "Prototype" Los Angeles Police Detective Bobby Mann is teamed with a cyborg cop named Eve to investigate the murders of international steel brokers. Eve finds evidence that implicates another cop, who is also Mann's childhood friend.

Jan 10, 20251 hr 10 minEp. 392

Dream Wife (1965)

Episode is 381 Dream Wife (1965) Actress Shirley Jones stars as Lisa Michaels -- a wife with a husband, a boy, and the ability to hear other people's thoughts. Whether she's trying to use it to have a better marriage, make her kid happy, and even trying to save other people's lives, she just can't quite seem to get things right.

Nov 15, 20241 hr 5 minEp. 391

Deepwater Black (1997)

Episode 380 is Deepwater Black (1997) "Awakening" Six crew are awakened from stasis to discovered they are aboard a spaceship alone and under attack from an alien spacecraft.

Nov 10, 202451 minEp. 390

The Ghost Busters (1975)

Episode 379 is The Ghost Busters (1975) "The Maltese Monkey" The Ghost Busters must stop the Fat Man and Rabbit from summoning the ghost of gangster Big Al Caesar, who will help them steal the stuff dreams are made of: the Maltese Monkey.

Oct 31, 20241 hr 5 minEp. 389

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Episode 378 is Tales of the Unexpected (1979) "The Man From The South" A young American couple on holiday meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes them a macabre wager.

Oct 26, 202442 minEp. 388

Detectorists (2014)

Episode 377 is Detectorists (2014) "episode 1" Andy and Lance are members of the small but dedicated Danbury Metal Detecting Club (DMDC), who search for buried treasure with metal detectors. As boring club president Terry welcomes new member student Sophie Andy and Lance determine to look for the rumoured Saxon hoard on farm-land owned by eccentric Larry Bishop

Oct 12, 202454 minEp. 387

The Middle (2007)

Episode 376 is the unaired pilot of "THE MIDDLE" (2007) A look at the life of a lower-middle-class family living in the Midwest. Sue tries out for show choir with disastrous results. Frankie desperately tries to close a sale with disastrous results. Brick has trouble relating to his teacher with odd results.

Oct 04, 20241 hr 2 minEp. 386

Terry and the Pirates (1952)

Last on with suspect sound is episode 375 Terry and the Pirates (1952) "Macaco Gold" Hotshot Charlie's plane, with its cargo of gold bullion, is hijacked by the Dragon Lady's operatives while en route to Japan. Terry Lee and Chopstick Joe deduce that the gold could only be disposed of it the Portugese colony of Macao and Terry flies there to attempt to recover the precious cargo.

Sep 29, 202453 minEp. 385

Time Banits (2024)

A big of an audio disaster has my laptop deicided to switch to my build in mic, which is only little better than a cup on a string. Base on the 1981 film "Kevin Haddock" A boy struggles to make the most of everyday life-until a bumbling gang of thieves lands in his bedroom.

Sep 08, 20241 hr 11 minEp. 384

Star Maidens (1976)

Episode 373 is Star Maidens (1976) "Escape To Paradise" Medusa, torn from orbit around Proxima Centauri by a comet, was sent careering through space. Ages later, with Medusa now in orbit between Uranus and Neptune, Adam and Shem escape the autocratic all-female Medusan society and head to earth.

Aug 29, 20241 hrEp. 383

Small Wonder (1985)

Episode 372 is "Small Wonder" (1985) "Vicki's Homecoming" Genius United Robotronics cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson, brings home for assembly and long-term field beta testing Vicki, or V.I.C.I. (Voice Input Child Identicant): a secretly constructed robotic domestic aide in the form of a 10-year-old girl, to whom housewife Joan takes a shine while 10-year-old son Jamie instantly takes advantage of Vicki as a maid to clean his room and do his homework.

Aug 22, 20241 hr 3 minEp. 382

House M.D (2004)

Episode 371 is House M.D. (2004) "Pilot" Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.

Jul 06, 20241 hr 13 minEp. 381

Tag Team (1991)

Episode 370 is Tag Team(1991) Tricky Rick MacDonald and Billy The Body Youngblood are two of the best wrestlers in the country. They are told to take a dive by the wife of a promoter. If they don't, she will make sure they are blackballed from wrestling. When they don't do what she says, they are fired immediately. They try many jobs without any success. When they stop a grocery store robbery, they get the idea to be cops. So begins a new chapter in the life of this tag team

Jun 28, 20241 hr 8 minEp. 380

She Spies (2002)

Episode 369 is She Spies (2002) Three cute, humorous women are taken out of prison to work for the government as spies - a crime fighting unit. "First Episode" An ex US presidential candidate, who's been given his own TV talk show, might be assassinated. The 3 cute ex cons get to prevent this as their first job as a unit.

Jun 07, 20241 hr 10 minEp. 379

Captain Z-Ro (1955)

Episode 368 is Captain Z-Ro (1955) "Christopher Columbus" Captain Z-Ro goes back to 1492 in order to put down an attempted mutiny happening on board Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria.

May 31, 202450 minEp. 378

The Powers Of Matthew Star (1982)

Episode 367 is The Powers Of Matthew Star (1982) "Jackal" Matthew Star appears to be a typical teenager, but in actuality is an alien who is a member of the ruling family of his planet, who are endowed with powers like telekinesis and telepathy. When his home planet was invaded, his parents gave him when he was a baby to one of their trusted emissaries, who went to Earth because it's almost like their home world.

May 17, 20241 hr 8 minEp. 377

T and T (1988)

Episode 366 is T and T (1988) "Extortion in Chinatown" When a Vietnamese grocer is roughed up by a Chinese extortion gang, T and T. get involved.

May 03, 20241 hrEp. 376
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