failed tv pilot
162 movies and shows
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Tue, 28 Jan 1975
A crusty old rancher hires three young women to pose as his daughters. However, the real father of one of the daughters finds out about it, and kidnaps her to hold her for ransom--which the rancher can't pay.
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Sun, 09 Mar 1980
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
Las aventuras galácticas de Jaime de Funes y Arancha
Mon, 01 Jan 2007
Pilot episode for a tv show that never got made, adapting César Velasco Broca's homonymous comic book.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Sat, 22 Aug 1987
An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.
If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now
Tue, 25 Jul 2006
A group of people from different backgrounds lives together in a temporary housing complex in Los Angeles.
Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon
Tue, 26 Aug 1969
Investigator Jonathon Fletcher and his assistant Sajeed Rau investigate an apparently haunted mansion at the request of the woman who has inherited it.
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Sun, 16 Jan 1977
A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Back to Backspace
Wed, 12 Nov 2014
A woman works in an alternate realm where computer deletions are dumped and dealt with accordingly.
A Matter of Wife... and Death
Thu, 10 Apr 1975
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Stormy Justice
Fri, 16 May 2003
Tony Clifton, one of Andy Kaufman’s many alter-egos, presides over some totally clueless plaintiffs and defendants in this brilliant and absolutely freaked out take-off on The People’s Court.
The Mini-Munsters
Sat, 27 Oct 1973
Animated telefilm based on characters from The Munsters. Originally aired as part of the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie series.
State Fair
Fri, 14 May 1976
Melissa and Jim Bryant live on an Iowa farm with their adult son Chuck, their adult daughter Karen, and their teenage son Wayne, who is a high school sophomore. Wayne is a talented singer and guitarist who dreams of country music stardom. Karen, newly separated from her husband, has recently rejoined the family with her own young son Tommy, who misses his father. This was a pilot film for a proposed television series that was not picked up.
The Amazing Screw-On Head
Sun, 20 Aug 2006
Based on the award-winning comic book by Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), The Amazing Screw-On Head chronicles the adventures of a Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power who serves under president Abraham Lincoln.
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Wed, 13 Sep 1972
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket and a thief to pose as his family.
Carrie
Mon, 04 Nov 2002
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
The Time Tunnel
Tue, 06 Jun 2006
In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
The Shadow of Death
Thu, 01 Jan 1976
Unsold British horror television pilot for a proposed series entitled "The Fearmakers" is a ghost story set in Warwick Castle.
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
Fri, 19 Nov 1971
Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.