Filler Video> The Best TV Shows That Never Were

“Somebody really wants us to watch Super Friends.”

I don’t have a topic for today. I couldn’t think of one by post time, so I’m tapping a filler video that sounds kind of fun.

TV pilots are basically a commercial to television networks and syndicated distributors (and now streaming services) for their show. They get a budget, try to prove their show is entertaining, and maybe make a series. Some pilots go on as is. Some have to be redone partially or completely. Some are tossed out but the show is allowed to try again. Then there are the ones that didn’t make it to air.

My parents and I once had the opportunity to be part of an audience survey involving two pilots. We went to I think a school with a bunch of other people, were shown to pilots that as I recall seemed pretty old, and were asked about the. One was a sitcom and the other was a drama that would have starred Tom Wopat of The Dukes Of Hazzard fame. Neither of them made it to a full show but it was interesting to be part of it and see these shows that probably nobody will ever get to see, though some unsold pilots have leaked onto the internet, so you never know.

Writer Lee Goldberg wrote a book about these pilots, and produced a TV special about them, which he shared on his YouTube channel and I now share with you. Would you have liked to have seen any of these shows be made? Not many of them I think. He seems to have picked the really bad ones. Enjoy?

I think some of these were released as TV movies.