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Launching The Pilot

Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email launchingthepilot@gmail.com

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01:03:48

Tracker (2001)

Launching The Pilot ·

2025/02/09

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.

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01:14:06

Thriller (1973)

Launching The Pilot ·

2025/01/26

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.

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01:04:08

The Magician (1973)

Launching The Pilot ·

2025/01/19

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.

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01:09:47

Mann & Machine (1992)

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2025/01/10

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.

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01:04:32

Dream Wife (1965)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/11/15

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.

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50:33

Deepwater Black (1997)

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2024/11/10

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.

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01:04:36

The Ghost Busters (1975)

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2024/10/31

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.

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41:45

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/10/26

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.

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54:11

Detectorists (2014)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/10/12

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

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01:02:13

The Middle (2007)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/10/04

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.

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52:51

Terry and the Pirates (1952)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/09/29

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.

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01:11:19

Time Banits (2024)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/09/08

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.

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59:35

Star Maidens (1976)

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2024/08/29

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.

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01:02:41

Small Wonder (1985)

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2024/08/22

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.

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01:13:26

House M.D (2004)

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2024/07/06

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

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01:08:21

Tag Team (1991)

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2024/06/28

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

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01:10:01

She Spies (2002)

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2024/06/07

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.

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50:04

Captain Z-Ro (1955)

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2024/05/31

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.

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01:07:30

The Powers Of Matthew Star (1982)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/05/17

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.

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01:00:04

T and T (1988)

Launching The Pilot ·

2024/05/03

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.

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