The Best TV Shows That Never Were

[sabotai]

Is anyone else watching this? Holy crap. And I thought the stuff they actually put on TV was bad. It's amazing people actually paid to have these pilots made! The half-man, half-machine Scott Bakula GoBot one still has me laughing!

[MrBug708]

Dinsoaurs! They need to bring back that show!

[Aylmar]

Not the mama!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Not the mama!

Bam ! Bam !

[psychedelicate-girl]

Oh my favorite was the one with the people dressed in dog suits. Really, really BAD dog suits. This was from Norman Lear? What was HE smoking?

[MikeVic]

Dinsoaurs! They need to bring back that show!

I remmeber that show!! Whatever happened to it? I remember them having the figures you could buy, and their own game and stuff...

[GrantDawg]

I thought the worse one was the boy being reincarnated into a toy that then helped his father fight crime. Who in the heck thought that was a good enough story to actually make a pilot?

How many people remember the Daredevil pilot? Or the Thor one? I do.

[Fritz]

I miss holmes and yoyo

[Ksyrup]

I think this new Father of the Pride show is going to go the way of Dinosaurs (both the show and the real ones). It looks beyond stupid.

[Ksyrup]

I read an article about this, but didn't see it. Was this a one-time show, or a series? Looks like someone else has picked up on the theme of showing TV pilots and run with it:


While "Best TV Shows" revels in the worst of the worst, there's also a semiregular forum in town for celebrating the ones that got away. The Other Network is an offshoot of the Un-Cabaret stand-up comedy showcase staged at Hollywood's Knitting Factory and other nightclubs.

Greg Miller, producer of Un-Cabaret with partner Beth Lapides, says that they focus on finding passed-over pilot gems and unaired episodes from small-screen auteurs a la Judd Apatow, Bob Odenkirk and Todd Holland.

Among the crowd-pleasers that have run as part of the Other Network's screening series include the notorious Fox pilot "Heat-Vision and Jack," helmed by Ben Stiller and starring Jack Black as an ex-astronaut and Owen Wilson as the voice of his talking-motorcycle sidekick, and "Lookwell!" the early 1990s detective drama spoof starring Adam West (a pilot hall of famer if there ever was one) that was penned for NBC by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel.

The Other Network screening series was born a few years back when Miller and Lapides produced a pilot for a Lapides-hosted MTV talk show and were crushed when the channel didn't share their enthusiasm. (The major studios and talent guilds have been remarkably supportive in granting their blessings for Other Network screenings, Miller adds.)

"We had that postcoital kind of thing where we knew our pilot was great and we wanted to show it to people," Miller says. "Then we realized that we knew all these writers who'd disappear for nine months while working on a pilot -- we figured they'd want to show their work, too."

The Other Network recently traveled to Montreal for screenings at the Just for Laughs comedy festival, and Miller says they're also close to striking a DVD distribution deal with Shout! Factory to further spread the overlooked wealth.

[Ksyrup]

Double dola.

They didn't, by chance, do a bit on the Dr. Ruth sitcom pilot that I happened to see years ago, co-starring someone like Mr. T or Hulk Hogan, did they? I can't find any info on it, but I swear it happened. In fact, when I read about it, I made sure to watch it, because I knew it would be bad and would never see the light of day again.

Also, anyone remember this show?

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EDIT: In case you happen to read the above-linked page, I'm looking for the other side of the story, the one about how this guy had a restraining order placed on him by the Sagal twins. Creeeeepy!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Ksyrup -- Well, you're not crazy.

http://www.ivillage.com/relationships/experts/drruth/articles/0,,587920_591489-3,00.html
{scroll down a bit in the bio & you'll see Dr. Ruth's House

And of course, once you have the name ...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0162295/

[Ksyrup]

I guess that's it, although I could SWEAR there was some other B-list celebrity in it. I guess not. The one thing I remembered about it was the "odd couple" effect of Dr. Ruth and whoever the other person was. Maybe that's what I dreamed up, or I got this one confused with another stupid show.

[Suicane75]

Ksyrup -- Well, you're not crazy.

http://www.ivillage.com/relationships/experts/drruth/articles/0,,587920_591489-3,00.html
{scroll down a bit in the bio & you'll see Dr. Ruth's House

And of course, once you have the name ...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0162295/


I will pay money for a tape of this show.

[Ksyrup]

If you like this title, we also recommend...
Legally Blonde (2001) (http://imdb.com/title/tt0250494/)


Hehe.

[CamEdwards]

I liked "Fuzzbucket". Wish I could have seen that show in its entirety.

[sachmo71]

Fuzzbucket, I love you!