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There are two types of shows that last for a single episode — the ones that are immediately canned, and those that never get picked up in the first place. The former category, while rare, should be easy to explain: if a show gets extremely negative reviews, poor ratings, or contains controversial content without enough redeeming value to be worth dealing with the media watchdogs, it's likely it'll die a quick death without anyone caring. The most it might get is a sense of confusion that anyone thought the idea would work in the first place. However, the second is just as intriguing. Most television pilots are poor-to-middling in quality, and this is to be expected: a network wouldn't greenlight a program if they thought it was terrible. But occasionally, a pilot episode manages to find its way to the general public and is beloved by many who watch it... leaving audiences wondering how a show with such an awesome premise, brilliant writing, superb casting, and/or just an overall excellent execution got rejected. Podcasts such as Dead Pilots Society and Canceled Too Soon are good starting places if you wish to dive into the world of rejected pilots. See also The Shelf of Movie Languishment, Poorly Disguised Pilot, Failed Pilot Episode and Audience-Alienating Premise; compare to Orphaned Series. Not to be confused with One-Scene Wonder. For characters who appear in only one episode of a series, see One-Shot Character. Some series make it past the first episode but not much further; that goes under Short-Runners. The Other Wiki has a pair of articles on the subject (one covering shows cancelled after one episode, and another covering shows canceled before even having one airing). |
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The Adventures of Superpup: At the end of the fifth season of The Adventures of Superman, star George Reeves was found dead. The producers of the show attempted to cash in on this... by filming an After Show pilot on the same sets with little people wearing giant dog masks, using character names such as "Bark Bent" and "Puppy Bite". | |
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BiffoVision, the sketch show by ex-Digitiser man Paul Rose, was shunted to "youth" channel BBC Three, as it took on the form of a decidedly twisted kids' show...who chose not to pick up the programme as it appealed to too old a market. | |
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The 2013 reality competition show The Job was canned by CBS after 2 episodes and many negative reviews, even though several more episodes had been filmed. Even the trailer seemed like they weren't sure whether to sell it as a serious reality show or So Bad, It's Good. In the end, it was just plain bad, and not bad enough to be So Bad, It's Good. | |
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Popeye Doyle: Aired as a Movie of the Week, this version of The French Connection cop hero was played by Ed O'Neill, broadcast about a year before he found himself Married... with Children. | |
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Supetastic 6, a one-off animated special starring the cast of The Naked Brothers Band. | |
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The People: An adaptation of the SF stories by Zenna Henderson, aired as a TV movie starring William Shatner, about a teacher who travels to a secluded valley and discovers the inhabitants are a group of extraterrestrials with supernatural powers. | |
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Videos After Dark - a spin-off of America's Funniest Home Videos that featured clips that were too risque for its parent show—the same concept as Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos. It too was cancelled after one episode, though at least it aired in full. | |
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Lost Flight - a 1970 TV Movie that can best be described as an adult version of Lord of the Flies, the plot revolved around the captain of a downed airliner who must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle. | |
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The Amazing Screw-On Head: 2006 animated pilot based on a one-off comic by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy. Featured Paul Giamatti as a Steampunk robot who fights paranormal forces at the behest of the Lincoln administration, with David Hyde-Pierce as his arch nemesis, Emperor Zombie. The Sci-Fi Channel actually had an online poll to gauge interest, but despite being very well-received it somehow never made it, possibly due to low numbers (ignoring how hard it is to promote a one-off pilot or attract word-of-mouth). | |
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Before the Fargo show we all know and love, a 1997 pilot tried to continue Marge Gunderson's adventures as a Minesota cop after the original film. The pilot ends with her giving birth to a baby girl. | |
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Ronna and Beverly: 2009 Showtime sitcom based on a live sketch comedy show about two middle aged Jewish women who write a bestselling self-help book. The pilot was written by Jenji Kohan, whom you might know better as the creator of Weeds. When the pilot wasn't picked up, fans of the duo petitioned Showtime to air it, which they did in the dead of a cold December night. This isn't the only Jenji Kohan series to have never gone past the pilot stage. One year later, Epix decided to pass on picking up her pilot Tough Trade due to budget and the company not liking the pilot. It has yet to be leaked. |
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Fearless was officially placed on the 2003 Fall schedule by The WB, but later delayed to midseason (One Tree Hill appeared in its place) and then canceled without ever being broadcast. If you're curious, the pilot can be seen on YouTube in its entirety. | |
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Higher Ground - A retired F.B.I. Agent played by John Denver becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. | |
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Beane's of Boston was the US version of Are You Being Served?. | |
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Flavio the Goat - A 2007 animated short about an Italian goat who works as a dishwasher at a pizzeria, and longs to become a famous inventor. | |
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And yet another FOX example: the 2007 reality series Nashville, which featured up and coming country music stars, including Jamey Johnson, Chuck Wicks (later a Dancing with the Stars finalist), and Terry Bradshaw's daughter Rachel. Six taped, two aired. Not to be confused with the ABC drama Nashville, begun in 2012. | |
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Jane the Novela, a spinoff of Jane the Virgin. Had the show gone to series, it would be an anthology series with each season based on a different novel Jane was writing (the show was also narrated by Jane herself). | |
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Ayane-chan High Kick! (aka Ayane's High Kick): A female Ordinary High-School Student with dreams of getting into Professional Wrestling is scouted by a former kickboxer who tricks her into getting into the sport because of her incredibly powerful kicks. | |
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Cucumber Quest has Hyper the Speedsword, a cartoon featuring an Expy of Sonic the Hedgehog. It lasted two episodes, but it did teach Almond the most important thing about combat: "The only rule... is COOL!" | |
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The Phantom - a 1961 TV movie based on the character of the same name. | |
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Peep Show: A pilot for an American remake of the British series starring Johnny Galecki and Josh Meyers was created but never picked up for a full run (one of the main criticisms levelled at it being that it echews the main POV mechanic that the original show is ostensibly named for, which also eliminates the inner monologues of the POV characters, making it a more generic and boring sitcom). It is actually only one of several failed attempts to adapt the series, but seems to be the only one that has a full pilot episode widely available to the public, with another, separate pilot only available as a few short clips found from various sources. | |
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McG's American version of Spaced had a pilot filmed, but it never got picked up. | |
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The format of the German police series Tatort resulted in a number of one-episode wonders as a new investigative team set in a different city was tried out but for one reason or another (often other commitments by the lead actor) was cancelled after just one episode. One such case was Diether Krebs (Michael in Ein Herz und eine Seele) who played the deadly serious Kriminalhauptkommissar Nagel from Hanover in 1979, while Klaus Schubert ("Ekel Alfred" himself) played retired Kriminalhauptkommissar Felber in Frankfurt in 1995. Klaus Löwitsch played two such roles in 1982 and 1985, in the first episode he did his character was killed in the line of duty. | |
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Turn-On: A 1969 ABC Sketch Comedy, slated to be a more sexually-charged, political version of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, from the same producers (who claimed that Turn-On was more reflective of their original concept for Laugh-In), which became probably the biggest fiasco in American television history up to that point. Tim Conway (the Special Guest on the single aired episode) recalled the show's cancellation rolling across the country the night it premiered as TV stations towards the west realized what was playing in the east and took preemptive measures. The Denver and Cleveland affiliates failed to return to the show after the first commercial break (a sketch of a woman trying to get a pack of birth control pills out of a vending machine supposedly being the last straw), replacing it with a documentary on gun safety, while other affiliates either banned the episode from airing, or aired the entire episode and never reran it, with ABC refusing to air the second episode (guest-starring Robert Culp) despite it being completed and ready for air. The prolific Hamilton Camp was one of the cast members. The Paley Center in New York has both episodes, and producer George Schlatter uploaded them both to YouTube in 2023. | |
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Big Shamus, Little Shamus, which drew few viewers to CBS from The Love Boat. | |
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The Omen: A 1995 Made-for-TV Movie based on the popular movie series, in which an epidemiologist teams up with a photojournalist and an E.R. nurse to try to stop a demonic entity which has the power to possess people. | |
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Mulholland Dr. started as a pilot for ABC. When it didn't get picked up, creator David Lynch added a massive Mind Screw ending and it was released to theaters as a movie. | |
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Judge Dee - A failed pilot for a TV series based on the books of the same name. | |
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Korgoth of Barbaria: 2006 animated pilot for a ridiculously over-the-top parody of Conan the Barbarian and works of that kind, created by Aaron Springer. Originally said to have been picked up by the [adult swim] lineup in 2007, but later said to be canceled with nary an episode other than the pilot. | |
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Clerks: The Animated Series. Although six episodes were produced, only two were shown on the network that commissioned the show (episodes 4 and 2, in that order). | |
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Constant Payne: 2001 animated pilot for Nickelodeon. Similar in concept to Jonny Quest, it followed the Payne family, consisting of an adventurous super-inventor and his daughter. There are several reasons why it didn't get aired, most notably the unfortunate timing of the September 11th terrorist attacks, when one of the action scenes sees a blimp nearly crashes into a twin-towered building. Creator Micah Wright's attempts to unionize the studio under the Writer's Guild of America instead of The Animation Guild, when the studio was already in the midst of talks with the latter, also resulted in bad blood that killed all hopes of the network greenlighting the project. | |
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Philbert - a failed pilot for a TV series staring William Schallert as cartoonist Griff and his cartoon Philbert, who comes to life. | |
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Sett på maken, an attempt to make a Norwegian version of Spitting Image. The second episode was scrapped due to the very poor reception of the first. The series was supposed to return after a few weeks, but nothing ever materialized. | |
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Spitting Image | hasFeature |
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Shangra-La Plaza: Sure, everyone remembers Cop Rock and a few may even remember Hull High but there was a third Random Genre Meets Musical Production created for the 1990-91 season. This unsold pilot, which aired as an episode of the CBS Summer Playhouse, featured employees, customers and family members singing about their lives and times at an outside strip mall with stores like a donut shop. Starring Broadway's Terrance Mann as a grease monkey in the mall's garage. | |
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Cop Rock | hasFeature |
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The Dana Carvey Show had a fake newscast during the end credits of its premiere declaring that it had been canceled 15 minutes into its first episode. The real show got a couple more than that. | |
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The Dana Carvey Show | hasFeature |
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Original Cast Album - Intended as a documentary series that focused on the making of "Broadway Cast Recording" albums, to be directed by D.A. Pennebaker, but his clients moved to Hollywood and stopped returning his calls. The pilot, focused on Company, was instead released theatrically and became a cult classic. | |
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Company (Sondheim) (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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Bates Motel (1987), a Made-for-TV Movie meant as a pilot for a horror anthology series spin off of the movie Psycho. | |
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Heil Honey I'm Home!: A 1990 British comedy starring caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbors to a Jewish couple. | |
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Heil Honey I'm Home! | hasFeature |
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American Dad! has White Rice, a sitcom about Francine's life as a white girl adopted by a Chinese couple. It gets cancelled after one joke, probably setting a record for both real and fake shows. | |
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American Dad! | hasFeature |
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The Shark Jumping sub-series "Once a Pilot" is about these, covering shows that either only lasted one episode or whose pilots never even made it to air. | |
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Shark Jumping (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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In Anime-Gataris, the anime that Minoa dreamed about was revealed to be memories of watching the pilot of Ultra Katharsis Kortisi: Eternal Symphony. It aired on TV only once, but the episode's plot was considered so meandering and Reference Overdosed at the expense of story that the executives canned it. Its director considered it such an Old Shame (even he didn't know what he was referencing when he made it) that he swore off anime completely and actively tries to suppress the entire medium's popularity when he becomes a school's principal. | |
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Curbside - a pilot produced in 1999 by Nickelodeon for an Animated Anthology series featuring Terrytoons characters with the framing device consisting of a talk show hosted by Heckle and Jeckle. For reasons unknown, the pilot was never aired, let alone picked up for a series. | |
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Curbside | hasFeature |
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Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, an attempt to keep G.I. Joe going between G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and G.I. Joe Extreme, included a one episode pilot that was released on video with the titular Sgt. Savage, focusing on G.I. Joe finding a soldier with superhuman abilities who was frozen at the end of World War II and revive him, only for him to learn that his archenemy is also still alive. Though Sgt. Savage itself only had the one episode, the character himself went on to be part of Extreme. | |
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Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles | hasFeature |
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Surviving Urban Disasters: Documentary show starring Les Stroud of Survivorman fame, showing techniques for how to stay safe during disasters and interviews with survivors. | |
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Survivorman | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Hyouman and Jaguarman, a pair of unaired pilots produced in 1967 which served as alternate takes for a toku superhero character by P Productions. | |
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1.0 | |
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Hyouman | hasFeature |
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Aquaman: 2006 superhero show from Smallville creators Al Gouch and Miles Millar, though not intended as a spin-off. Was called Mercy Reef in the development phase. The pilot is available for purchase on iTunes and is recapped here. Justin Hartley played Aquaman in the pilot as opposed to Alan Ritchson in Smallville. When it didn't get picked up, Hartley went on to play Smallville's Green Arrow. | |
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Smallville | hasFeature |
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Stargate SG-1 has Wormhole X-Treme, which was variously said to have only run one episode before being cancelled ("Citizen Joe") or three episodes ("200") and got a feature film because it performed well on DVD. And then after the movie stalled in production, the network uncancelled it and it ran for another ten seasons. | |
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Stargate SG-1 | hasFeature |
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Stranded - a failed pilot about the survivors of an Australia-bound airliner which crash-landed on an uncharted island who create their own little civilization, a la Gilligan's Island. | |
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1.0 | |
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Gilligan's Island | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Global Frequency: A 2005 Mark Burnett adaptation of the Warren Ellis comic book series, starring Michelle Forbes of Star Trek fame and scripted by John Rogers (Leverage, Jackie Chan Adventures). There was a change of network management while the pilot was in production, which is almost always death to a pilot even if the new executives like the project — and these didn't. Several months after the project was axed, the pilot was leaked onto BitTorrent networks to tremendous acclaim; rather than recognize this as a sign of the show's potential, the network used it as grounds to deny the pilot a proper airing or DVD release on the grounds that anybody who might have wanted to see it had already. | |
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Global Frequency (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Christmas In Tattertown, a failed animated pilot from 1988 about a girl who falls into a world of lost items where her doll comes to life and tries to run away | |
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1.0 | |
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Christmas In Tattertown | hasFeature |
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Seinfeld has Jerry, the in-universe sitcom Jerry and George spend much of the series trying to make. In real life, Seinfeld's "show about nothing" was a hit; in the show's universe, it lasted one episode. Part of the problem was that Jerry and George's only ally at NBC who supported the show ran away to join Greenpeace for all the wrong reasons. They try for the rest of the series to get it back on the air, and they very nearly succeed when they get thrown in jail. | |
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Seinfeld | hasFeature |
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The Charmkins, an animated television film based on an early 1980s toyline by Hasbro. | |
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The Charmkins | hasFeature |
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I-Man - A Made-for-TV Movie, aired as an episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, about a man who acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin when he is exposed to an alien gas. | |
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Made-for-TV Movie | hasFeature |
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Familia Tipo only had one episode ever produced, and it was released on a rare VHS rather than being aired on network television. This is likely because of the show's cheap animation and it being a blatant clone of The Simpsons. | |
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Familia Tipo | hasFeature |
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NBC's 2011 Wonder Woman, which was quietly canned after receiving hugely unfavorable feedback from test audiences. The incomplete pilot was leaked onto the Internet, which allowed fans to see precisely why it was savaged. Wonder Woman is a violent vigilante who tortures a crook for information so she can slander Elizabeth Hurley and then goes home to curl up on the couch with her cat, eating ice cream from the tub, watching The Notebook. (Really!) In other words, nothing to do with Wonder Woman. | |
One-Episode Wonder / int_7c61ff7a | featureApplicability |
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Wonder Woman (2011 pilot) | hasFeature |
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Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman, based on a 9-volume manga series. | |
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1.0 | |
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Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The Clerks live-action pilot from 1995 with Jim Breuer. | |
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Clerks | hasFeature |
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Elf Princess Rane only lasted two episodes before the creators "ran out of budget". This is highlighted by a close-up of one of the characters begging the viewing audience for more money so they can continue the series. | |
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Elf Princess Rane | hasFeature |
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NBC attempted a shot at adapting Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) as a show, starring Martin Henderson and Jordana Brewster. It didn't get picked up. | |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) | hasFeature |
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Alexander the Great (1968), a TV show about the legendary warlord starring William Shatner and Adam West. The pilot was so bad that the network didn't put it on the air until several years after filming it, and then only because they were hoping to cash in on the fame the leads had gathered from their recently cancelled shows, Star Trek and Batman (1966). It didn't work. | |
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Alexander the Great (1968) | hasFeature |
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The Henry and June Show, a spin-off of KaBlam!. | |
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1.0 | |
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KaBlam! | hasFeature |
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Poochinski, a 1990 NBC comedy crime series starring Peter Boyle as the titular Chicago police detective who takes in a stray bulldog as his companion, only to be killed while responding to a mugging and then resurrected when his soul floats into the bulldog. Now a talking dog, he partners up with fellow officer George Newbern to track down his killer while engaging in all sorts of canine hi-jinks. The pilot was aired as part of a double feature with Turner and Hooch, then dropped by NBC as the premise had proven too bizarre and unfunny to audiences. | |
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Poochinski | hasFeature |
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Rear guard was the American attempt at Dad's Army. Similar fate as nearly all US remakes of UK comedies. | |
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Dad's Army | hasFeature |
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Newhart has Seein' Double, a show created by aspiring TV producer Michael, starring Stephanie as identical twin sisters and Dick as their father. It's basically The Patty Duke Show meets Three's Company, with a whole lot of Stylistic Suck in both the acting and the writing. | |
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Newhart | hasFeature |
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Being Human began life as one of a series of pilots aired on BBC3 in 2008, with the intention that the best-received one would be turned into a full series. Therefore, all the others were One-Episode Wonders: Phoo Action, a comic book adaptation about a superhero duo fighting mutant terrorists. It was actually chosen as the one to be made into a series, but cancelled before shooting began (and replaced with Being Human) when the BBC decided that scripts weren't good enough. The Things I Haven't Told You, a mystery drama. Mrs In-Betweeny, a comedy about orphaned children taken in by their transgender aunt. West 10 LDN and Dis/Connected, teen dramas. |
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Being Human (UK) | hasFeature |
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On Glee, Rachel attempts to write a TV show called That's So Rachel. It lasted one episode, which her manager says managed to offend every major human rights organization. The show's failure prompts Rachel to return to Lima and to McKinley after having left it all behind to chase stardom. | |
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Glee | hasFeature |
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SCTV had the SCTV head, Guy Caballero, realize that Bob and Doug McKenzie were his station's Breakout Character stars and upgrade their simple "Great White North" spot into an opulent variety show. Unfortunately, this new arrangement is completely out of the brothers' comfort zone, and the resulting show is so disastrously inept that Caballero orders the broadcast canceled and the broadcast stopped right in the middle of a sketch. The McKenzies are forced to dismantle the set by themselves. | |
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SCTV | hasFeature |
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Winter Dragon: A 30-minute adaptation of part of The Eye Of The World (the first volume of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series) that appeared on FXX on February 9th, 2015. What makes it interesting is that the TV rights to the Wheel of Time series were set to revert from Universal to The Bandersnatch Group (which is owned by the Robert Jordan estate) on February 11th, which makes the episode look very much like a quick attempt to retain those rights. | |
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The Wheel of Time | hasFeature |
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In early 2010, 1000 Ways to Die aired a spinoff named 1000 Ways To Lie, based around common scams. Spike TV actually had 13 episodes filmed but chose not to air them after the pilot was so poorly received. The pilot only aired once on television. | |
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1000 Ways to Die | hasFeature |
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The TV Wheel: Another experimental sketch comedy show, this time, created by and starring MST3K's Joel Hodgson. Heavy on the "experimental", but worth a look. It was originally developed for HBO and known as "The X-Box". (No relation to the video game console.) | |
One-Episode Wonder / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Dirk Derby, a pilot by Steve Oedekerk (best known for creating The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius). The pilot was released on Vimeo but nothing ever came out of it. | |
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1.0 | |
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Bubsy, which nobody would've ever seen if not for the fact that it was packaged with the Windows version of one of the Bubsy games. Rob Paulsen leaves it off his résumé nowadays... | |
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Bubsy | hasFeature |
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Similar to the above, Six Dates with Barker was a series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies. The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was turned into a serial for the 1976 series of The Two Ronnies, The Odd Job Man became a 1978 film retitled The Odd Job, with Graham Chapman replacing Barker, and The Removals Person was turned into Ronnie Barker's final TV series Clarence. The other three were never picked up. | |
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The Two Ronnies | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Cheat Slayer is a manga example, as it was cancelled after a single published chapter due to the sheer amount of backlash against it (it was meant to be a satire of isekai series, but the very unsubtle attempts at Take Thats weren't at all appreciated by fans or creators of other isekai works). | |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Archie - a failed pilot for a sitcom about Archie Andrews. | |
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Archie Comics (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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West 10 LDN and Dis/Connected, teen dramas. | |
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Dis Connected | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Futurama has a brief scene at the 3010 ComicCon, where Matt Groening's head shows a teaser of his new animated sci-fi show Futurella. FOX cancels it after just three seconds, prompting Groening to admit that the process has been streamlined. | |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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You're in the Picture: 1961 CBS game show hosted by Jackie Gleason where the celebrity panel put their heads in cut-outs of painting reproductions, and had to guess the scene depicted. It was slaughtered by critics so much that the following week's episode instead featured Gleason delivering a self-deprecating "apology", poking fun at the show and his past failures. Gleason's apology is considered one of the premier mea culpas of the television age; CBS would let Gleason ride out the rest of his contract by replacing it with an informal interview series (The Jackie Gleason Show), and followed it up in 1962 with the more successful American Scene Magazine. | |
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You're in the Picture | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Battletoads, an animated pilot based on the video game which aired in 1993. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Battletoads | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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My Big Fat Greek Life, the television version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. As soon as Life was canned, TLC decided to borrow the elements from the original Wedding film and create a reality show named My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. | |
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Pryde of the X-Men: Surreal 1989 Kitty Pryde-based animated X-Men adaptation, which laid the ground work for the later series, after a much needed retool. Stan Lee's hyperactive narration takes it to the next level. The inclusion of Dazzler in the main cast and the fact that the historically Canadian Wolverine is depicted as an Awesome Aussie probably didn't help either (and this was before Aussie Hugh Jackman took on the Wolverine role for the 2000's film series). Nowadays, most fans would recognize the show's character designs as those used in Konami's X Men arcade game. |
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Princess Rouge. | |
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1.0 | |
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PrincessRouge | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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The Greatest American Hero: a remake of the series of the same name, starring a female protagonist. | |
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The Greatest American Hero | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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ABC dumped The Great American Dream, a modern equivalent of Queen for a Day hosted by Donny Osmond in which female contestants got to see their dreams come true. Five episodes were taped, but only two aired. | |
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Queen for a Day | hasFeature |
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The Modifyers: A 2007 animated pilot created by Lynne Naylor and Chris Reccardi of The Ren & Stimpy Show fame. The show was originally going to be on Nickelodeon, but the network rejected it. Soon after, the pilot was then pitched to Cartoon Network, only to be rejected there as well. Despite rumors that Disney Channel would pick it up next, it never truly caught on though it still has a small cult following. The pilot can be found here or, in case the link dies out, as a download. | |
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The Modifyers | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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VG Cats: The Animated Series. Technically, it's not even a one-episode wonder as only the first part of the first episode was ever released. | |
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VG Cats (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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In "PTV", Peter creates the titular channel filled with uncensored content. One of them is a parody of Jackass called Douchebags. He poops on top of a bridge which lands on Lois's car. The FCC comes over to the Griffin’s house and cancels PTV and Douchebags after one episode. | |
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Jackass | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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The Zombieland series, due to vast amounts of Tainted by the Preview. | |
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Zombieland | hasFeature |
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Hieroglyph: a Fox drama of intrigue among ancient Egyptian royalty (think Game of Thrones with pyramids) that was ordered straight to series, then cancelled after only one episode was shot. You can see the trailer here. | |
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Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
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The IT Crowd, an American adaptation of the hit British comedy series. | |
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The IT Crowd | hasFeature |
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Snavely was a US pilot for Fawlty Towers that went the same way as their Dad's Army and Are You Being Served? copies: instead of going west, it went south. | |
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Fawlty Towers | hasFeature |
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Diner: In 1983 Barry Levinson wrote and produced a half hour sitcom version of his movie of the same name, with Paul Reiser reviving his original role. | |
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Diner | hasFeature |
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Lookwell: 1991 detective comedy series written and produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel. Stars Adam West as a washed-up TV action star who, after being legally deputized at the peak of his career, decides to fight crime, which he does ineptly. The two writers were reportedly happy they didn't get picked up, feeling they had exhausted all good material on the pilot and no idea what to do for further stories. | |
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Lookwell | hasFeature |
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Black Bart: A half-hour sitcom version of Blazing Saddles which can now be found as an extra on the movie's 40th Anniversary DVD and can be easily summarized as just like the movie, only without Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, or jokes. | |
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Blazing Saddles | hasFeature |
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Dorbees: Making Decisions, a 1998 shameless cash-in on the CG Christian kid's video craze started by VeggieTales. It became infamous for lacking the heart, soul, and, y'know, Christian stories that made VeggieTales stand the test of time, as well as the character designs and animation being some of the most static and ugly creatures ever seen in animation. If you're curious, you can watch the entire video here. | |
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Dorbees: Making Decisions | hasFeature |
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Lost in Oz: 2002 series sequel to The Wizard of Oz, written by David Hayter, screenwriter of X-Men and X2: X-Men United and voice actor of Solid Snake. | |
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Lost in Oz | hasFeature |
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K-9 and Company: the first and, for a long while, only Doctor Who TV Spin-Off, starring Elisabeth Sladen as the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith alongside her own version of K-9. The pilot aired as a Christmas special 1981 and featured a silly plot involving a local coven. It probably would've gone to series at the time, but the then-recently appointed BBC One controller Alan Hart opposed the concept. Twenty-six years later, Sarah Jane returned in a second and considerably more successful spinoff series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. | |
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K-9 and Company | hasFeature |
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Dick Tracy - a failed pilot starring the character of the same name. | |
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Dick Tracy (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Heat Vision and Jack: 1999 comedy/sci-fi show starring Jack Black as Jack Austin, a former astronaut exposed to inappropriate levels of solar radiation, granting him super-intelligence whenever the sun is out. Since NASA wishes to take out his brain, he's on the run with his friend Heat Vision, a friend who has been hit by a laser beam and turned into a talking motorcycle (Voiced by Owen Wilson). They travel the countryside chased by NASA mercenary Ron Silver (as himself), blocked at every turn...by adventure! Directed by Ben Stiller, and created by Dan Harmon, who gave the leads (Black and Wilson) a guest appearance on a show of his that did get picked up. | |
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Heat Vision and Jack | hasFeature |
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Dragon Half had only two OVA episodes based on the manga. Legend has it the OVAs were cancelled after the mangaka was busted for drug possession. | |
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Dragon Half (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Peter Berg's Wonderland is an unusual case in that in its first airing it actually won its time slot against a rerun of ER, which was still a ratings juggernaut. Misfortune quickly followed, though. Advocacy groups protested the first scene of the pilot, in which a mentally ill man goes on a shooting spree. The second episode was crushed when ER returned with new episodes. It might have survived as a prestige series in other times, but ABC was in a period of artificially high ratings expectations due to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. | |
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ER | hasFeature |
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Thirtysomething(else): A sequel to thirtysomething, with emphasis on the original cast's children — the new generation of thirtysomethings. | |
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thirtysomething | hasFeature |
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Epic - a romantic anthology series taking place in a Disney-like Enchanted Forest that reinvents fairy tales a la Once Upon a Time. | |
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Once Upon a Time | hasFeature |
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Metal Arms: Glitch in the System is a video game example that was very well received. Furthermore, it’s studio was in the middle laying out a sequel. This got left unfinished once a certain company took it over. | |
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Co-Ed Fever: 1979 CBS sitcom set at an all-female college that had just started to admit male students made on the heels of Animal House's success. | |
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Co-Ed Fever | hasFeature |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "Best Thing" describes Limozeen: But They're In Space!, an animated Band Toon about the Fake Band Limozeen (in space, for whatever reason), which Strong Bad claims is the greatest thing he's ever "seen, done, or eaten". It didn't even finish airing the pilot before it was canceled, and the characters themselves halt the action midway through to inform the viewers that they can watch their future adventures in syndication or on DVD. The Strong Bad Email "Montage" includes a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue (in the form of a montage) that alludes to the phenomenon: |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series. It never even made it to the full pilot stage, but the link is to the 4-minute promo on YouTube. It features almost the entire original cast (except Sarah Michelle Gellar; they got Buffy's voice from the video game instead). | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
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One-Episode Wonder | |
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Dr. Strange - a 1978 TV movie based on the character of the same name. | |
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Doctor Strange (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Jerks of All Trades, a series The Three Stooges planned for ABC in 1949. It was to feature the Stooges trying their hand at a different profession each week, whereupon their trademark hilarity would ensue. It never went beyond the pilot stage due to Columbia threatening to cancel the trio's short subjects contract and sue them if they tried to sell the series — a stipulation in the contract said that they couldn't perform in a TV series that could compete with their theatrical shorts. As a compromise, Columbia sold a package of 30 shorts to ABC, leading to the first-ever broadcast of Three Stooges shorts on television. | |
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The Three Stooges | hasFeature |
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Li'l Abner - a failed pilot for a sitcom about the misadventures of the famous comic strip character. | |
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Li'l Abner (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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Groove Squad: A 2002 installment of the DIC Movie Toons series focusing on three cheerleaders who gain superpowers and fight the evil Dr. Nathaniel Nightingale. | |
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Groove Squad | hasFeature |
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Mockingbird Lane is a single-episode Continuity Reboot of The Munsters. The episode was shown as a Hallowe'en special rather than as the pilot of the intended weekly series. Writer/producer Bryan Fuller later cast his Grandpa Munster - comedian Eddie Izzard - as an addled serial killer on Hannibal. | |
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Mockingbird Lane | hasFeature |
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Family Guy: Brian pitches a drama to CBS called What I Learned on Jefferson Street, in which Elijah Wood would play a single father returning to college to give him and his young daughter a better life. CBS rewrites the script so extensively that it becomes Class Holes!, a sitcom starring James Woods attending college alongside his daughter. It airs only one episode due to very low ratings. Peter pitches a show called Handiquacks and almost gets it on air — but when an executive proposes a very minor change to one of the characters, Peter immediately pulls the plug and quits, turning down thousands of dollars to preserve his pride — even after the executive relents and agrees not to change anything. In "PTV", Peter creates the titular channel filled with uncensored content. One of them is a parody of Jackass called Douchebags. He poops on top of a bridge which lands on Lois's car. The FCC comes over to the Griffin’s house and cancels PTV and Douchebags after one episode. |
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Family Guy | hasFeature |
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The American version of Red Dwarf didn't survive past a single pilot episode that never made it to air. Notable for casting Terry Farrell (of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fame) as a female version of Cat, a pre-Frasier Jane Leeves as the computer Holly and Robert Llewellyn reprising his role of Kryten from the original British series. Because of Executive Meddling late in the production, multiple actor recastings and other problems, British series footage had to be used to fill in the holes in the episode. A brand-new higher-quality Kryten suit was made for the pilot which Llewellyn was allowed to keep and re-use in further British seasons following the American cancellation. There were actually two Red Dwarf USA pilots. The first was a full pilot, with Hinton Battle as Cat; the second was more of a five-minute promo reel which mixed scenes from the UK version, the first USA pilot, and some new material (the only appearance of Terry Farrell as Cat is one of these). |
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The Strong Bad Email "Best Thing" describes Limozeen: But They're In Space!, an animated Band Toon about the Fake Band Limozeen (in space, for whatever reason), which Strong Bad claims is the greatest thing he's ever "seen, done, or eaten". It didn't even finish airing the pilot before it was canceled, and the characters themselves halt the action midway through to inform the viewers that they can watch their future adventures in syndication or on DVD. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie had only two episodes due to the franchise's lack of popularity in Japan. | |
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Defenders of Dynatron City was a tie-in to an NES game and a comic book series in an effort to make a new superhero franchise. Despite the ambition, the show went nowhere beyond the pilot, the comic only lasted six issues, and the NES game tanked commercially and critically. | |
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Made in Jersey was cancelled after its second episode, though CBS was nice enough to air the rest of the already-shot episodes. On Saturday nights. | |
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Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Failed 1998 Pilot Movie starring David Hasselhoff as the Marvel Comics character. | |
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Friends gives us Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E., Joey's first shot as a TV lead, in which a cop gets a primitive robot as a partner and they fight crime. Apparently, the show is even worse than the premise lets on, as even Joey's friends have trouble mustering up any kind of encouragement after watching it, and it's cancelled as soon as it airs. | |
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Locke & Key had a pilot filmed in 2011 for Fox, but it was not picked up for a series. | |
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Mandrake - a 1979 TV Movie based on the character of the same name, in which Mandrake and Lothar come to the aid of an amusement-park owner who is being blackmailed by a madman who is killing the park's customers until he gets his money. | |
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¡Aquà mando yo!, the Spanish version of British show Gogglebox, premiered on Antena 3 on April 15, 2016 and was canceled by the channel on April 18 after the extremely poor ratings — and negative feedback — of the first episode. The official version about this is that the show has been "sent to the workshop", which is basically jargon for going back to Development Hell. | |
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The Groovenians: A 2002 half-hour CGI television special by Kenny Scharf that was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject. | |
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There was a two-episode Fire Emblem OAV based on the Archanea gamesnote Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light and Mystery of the Emblem that detailed the beginning of Marth's quest, showcased the first few battles, and brought in more than a few of the first set of characters present in the game. | |
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