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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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52:23

The Storyteller (1987)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/04/14

Episode 334 is Jim Henson's The Storyteller (1987) "Hans My Hedgehog" A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon enough, she gives birth to a baby who resembles a hedgehog, much to the father's dismay and the scorn of the villagers.

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41:06

Phoenix Five (1970)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/04/07

Episode 333 is Phoenix Five (1970) "Zone of Danger" Zodian has been imprisoned by Earth Space Control. Zodian escapes, boards the Phoenix Five and forces Tina to blast off for his stronghold on planet Zebula 9.

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56:22

Heat Vision and Jack (1999)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/03/31

Episode 332 Is Heat Vision and Jack (1999) Astronaut on the run with special powers and his talking motorcycle must deal with a malevolent artificial life form that's possessing people and turning them into dust, as well as NASA's hitman and real life actor Ron Silver

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01:04:22

The Cosby Mysteries (1994)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/03/24

Episode 331 is The Cosby Mysteries (1994) Guy Hanks Is a Criminologist who works for the New York police Department who wins the Lottery "The Lottery Winner Murders" Guy's newfound wealth proves dangerous when a killer begins targeting lottery winners.

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01:03:59

Harley Quinn (2019)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/03/17

Episode 330 is Harley Quinn "Til Death Do Us Part" Harley sets off to rule Gotham City and separate herself from being known as "Joker's Girlfriend"

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01:22:24

The Love Boat (1977)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/03/10

Episode 329 is The Love Boat (1977) "The Newlyweds/The Exchange/Cleo's First Voyage" Stanley and Joyce Adams are nervous newlyweds. Leonora and Ernie Klopman meet widowed tailor Morris Beekman and happy spinster Mae Allen. Merrill demands that Julie seat Cleo Bagby at his table, but she's Gopher's girl and a stowaway.

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49:34

Cheers (1982)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/03/04

Episode 328 is Cheers (1982) The regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name. "Give Me a Ring Sometime" Diane Chambers Makes her home at Cheers When her fiance leaves her.

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49:33

Extraordinary (2023)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/02/18

Episode 327 is Extraordinary (2023) Jen, a young, self-aware woman who lives in a world where everyone has a superpower except her. "Have Nots" Lacking a superpower, Jen resolves to find it herself following a series of humiliating incidents.

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49:17

Our Flag Means Death (2022)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/02/11

Episode 326 is Our Flag Means Death (2022) "Pilot" Aristocrat-turned-pirate-captain Stede Bonnet is put to the test when his crew encounters a British naval vessel.

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49:15

Man To Man With Dean Learner (2006)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/02/03

Episode 325 is Man To Man With Dean Learner (2006) Live from his luxury apartment in London's glittering East End, Dean Learner (Club owner, Celebrity Manager, Entrepreneur and Publisher of high-class gentleman's magazines) invites you to meet some of his closest friends, Man to Man. Dean Invites His Close Personal Friend Garth Marenghi On The Show To Talk About His Life, His Career And His New Book

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01:01:00

Hollywood Starr (TJ Hooker)

Launching The Pilot ·

2023/01/28

Episode 324 is T J Hooker Hollywood Starr (backdoor pilot) The weekly adventures of tough-as-nails veteran police officer Sgt. T.J. Hooker, who rides the beat with his rookie partner Vince Romano. "Hollywood Starr" A routine arrest leads Hooker and detective Dani Starr to a mob involved in pornography, murder and jewel theft.

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01:07:01

Willow (2022)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/12/23

Episode 323 is Willow (2022) 20-30 years after the advents of which led to the defeat of Queen Bavmorda "The Gales" Tir Asleen receives an important delegation from Galladoorn, but a sudden attack by the mysterious Gales prompts Queen Sorsha to seek help from an old friend.

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01:12:57

Reacher (2022)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/12/16

Episode 322 is Reacher (2022) "Welcome To Margrave" Jack Reacher, recently discharged from the Army, travels to Margrave, GA where he discovers that the idyllic town is a cesspool of corruption. After it becomes personal, he vows to burn it down.

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01:03:50

Young Sheldon (2017)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/12/09

Episode 321 is Young Sheldon (2017) Meet a child genius named Sheldon Cooper (already seen as an adult in The Big Bang Theory (2007)) and his family. Some unique challenges face Sheldon, who is socially impaired. "pilot" 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper learns that having a brilliant mind doesn't always help growing up in Texas.

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01:18:00

The Sandman (2022)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/12/02

Episode 320 is The Sandman (2022) "Sleep Of The Just" While searching for an escaped nightmare in the waking world, Morpheus falls prey to Roderick Burgess, an occultist looking to summon and imprison Death.

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01:07:42

Mission Impossible (1988)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/11/25

Episode 319 is Mission Impossible (1988) "The Killer" Former IMF team leader Jim Phelps returns when his friend and protégé is killed. He would learn that his friend was in the midst of identifying a master criminal who is only known by the name Scorpio, so Scorpio sent his killer

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01:14:13

Renegade (1992)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/11/18

Episode 319 is Renegade (1992) "Renegade" In the series pilot, Det. Reno Raines (Lorenzo Lamas) becomes a fugitive from justice when, in the series opener, his investigation of illicit police activity leads a corrupt lieutenant

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54:10

Dick Turpin (1979)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/11/11

Episode 317 is Dick Turpin (1979) "Swiftnick" Mary Smith, owner of the Black Swann inn is in debt to Sir John Glutton. Her son Nicholas tries to gather together the money by taking up the guise of the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin. Unfortunately for him, his first victim turns out to be the actual Turpin. When Nicholas is captured by Captain Spiker his mother, an old acquaintance of Dick, asks Turpin to take her son under his wing

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52:09

The Adventures Of Robin hood (1955)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/11/04

Episode 315 is The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1955) "The Coming Of Robin Hood" Sir Robin of Loxley returns to England from fighting in the Crusades to discover that the notorious Sir Roger DeLisle has been given his family's lands and castles, and has had Robin declared an outlaw.

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01:10:46

Nightmare Cafe (1992)

Launching The Pilot ·

2022/10/29

Episode 316 is Wes Craven's Nightmare Cafe (1992) Frank Nolan and Fay Peronivic find themselves in a mysterious all-night café following a brush with death, but they soon learn that they did, in fact, die, and have been brought back to life by the café. Frank and Fay are given the opportunity to correct something in their lives that went wrong the first time

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