Episode Name The pilot episode is a kind of prototype to see if the series is popular and prepare the network to accept the idea. See definition 6 below: Without parts plt n. Operates or is licensed to operate a W flight. Marine Science A. The head of the ship. Guides or directs each other's action plans. The part of a tool, device or cable that guides or guides Wle.
Night light, like on the stove. A television show presented as a serial prototype aimed at achieving through the network. Serve as a pilot. Instead of a demon being sealed inside Naruto, the Demon Fox was his father, as Naruto himself was a fox demon that defaulted to human form.
Audio Plays. The Big Finish Blake's 7 audio "Warship" was intended at first to be another Liberator Chronicle , a two-person story lasting half an hour, but it grew into a minute full-cast special which would test the waters for a full-cast run. Game Shows. Needless to say, there's a lot. The Game Show Pilot Light has reviews on a very large number of pilots, both sold and unsold. Card Sharks filmed two pilots in with the same set, which pretty much resembled the show's final product.
The only difference was that 1 depicted a Money Cards loss and 2 depicted the highest possible win in the Money Cards which also happened once in the series. Two revivals one on CBS , one syndicated aired in the late s, apparently without pilots. There was also an unsold pilot which greatly altered the format, and another in that eventually became upgraded to the revival. The show was intended for licensing to various state lotteries and, while not selling in this specific form, surfaced in July as Illinois Instant Riches , spawning a plethora of lottery game shows based on the Cash Tornado format and changing the face of that subgenre.
Even longtime California Lottery stalwart The Big Spin began using a variant of the format in and began to be produced by Jonathan Goodson Mark's son in After Cash Tornado , lottery game shows became Minigame Games and considerably more varied as a result; even shows as recent as Monopoly Millionaires' Club owe their basic formats to this little pilot. Cash Tornado itself remained pretty much under the radar until , when Wink Martindale's group put up the show's sales presentation.
Notably, it was taped at Television City, used many set pieces from the pilots of what eventually became the Doug Davidson Price in '94, used a vamp of said version's theme as its own theme, and had longtime Price producer Roger Dobkowitz as a contestant playing Force Field, which is shown in its entirety on the sales presentation.
Following its demise, two pilots were made for a revival under original host Art Fleming. The first, in March , used a much different format which started off with each player playing as many questions as possible in 30 seconds apiece with no penalty for wrong answers before finishing off the rest of the board normally. After that, the lowest-scorer was eliminated, the two remaining contestants played an unaltered Double Jeopardy! Whoever had the higher score after this moved on to a Bonus Round with a 5x5 board, and had to get five right answers in a row within 90 seconds for a bonus.
The pilot omitted the timed portion of Round 1 and eliminated the time limit from the bonus round, but also ended the bonus round if three wrong responses were given. Under these radically changed rules, Jeopardy! The current Alex Trebek version, which began in , also had two pilots. Both returned to the original format of straight-up answer-question gameplay that's still in use today. The first had Jay Stewart announcing with the same set layout and music cues as the version, including pull-card clues in the maingame and like the original Fleming era whiteboards in Final Jeopardy!
The second had an Obvious Beta of the Season 1 set. The Joker's Wild had two pilots in hosted by Allen Ludden , the first having a panel of celebrities asking the questions. A third pilot comprised the last two-thirds of the awkward minute The Honeymoon Game , hosted by Jim MacKrell note the first third of said pilot was axed after the taping, replaced by a pitch film with creator Jack Barry explaining that it wasn't good; as it turned out, it was a lame Newlywed Game derivative.
Match Game had one for the more staid s format and at least two for the more familiar s format all hosted by Gene Rayburn , a week for a s revival that lasted one year Bert Convy hosted the pilots, but Ross Shafer hosted the series after Convy was diagnosed with a brain tumor , and an unsold pilot with Charlene Tilton and a radically-altered bonus round.
The last one evolved into a short-lived revival hosted by Michael Burger. At least three pilots one for What the Blank! The Price Is Right has had several. The pilot for the original series initially developed as Auction-Aire proved a disaster: the bid displays malfunctioned and Bill Cullen almost strangled himself on his microphone cord as the turntable he stood on revolved.
NBC wanted to buy out the show's contract and cancel it outright, but Bob Stewart asked for a leap of faith — 13 weeks, and if the show didn't click, NBC could cancel it. NBC agreed Despite negative initial reviews, Price managed to develop a following and was beating Godfrey pretty bad in the ratings by the end of February While Mark Goodson was developing the New version in , he and host Dennis James taped a pitchfilm on February 16 that consisted of the two discussing the revival, playing two mock pricing games which eventually became Take Two and Ten Chances , and showing a clip of Dennis filling in for Monty Hall on Let's Make a Deal.
Very few of the eventual show's elements were in place at this point, and neither CBS nor Bob Barker were involved yet.
Per the show's official records, the revival taped a pilot on August 15, , one day after the set was put up for the first time. Neither Bob nor Dennis served as host and it's not known who did , and the footage has seemingly been lost to time. It's pretty much become a Holy Grail as a result. The short-lived version hosted by Doug Davidson taped two pilots in July one hosted by Davidson, the other hosted by local Los Angeles weatherman Mark Kriski.
Supposedly, the bonus round of Cash was the only part of the format that execs liked. The franchise would later have no fewer than ten pilots recorded between and that went unsold. Second Chance taped three pilots in November , which led to a short-lived run in The most notable difference is that there were no ways to get extra spins. The show's revival, Press Your Luck , taped a pilot in May It had only a single Whammy animation redrawn for the series , a Big Board color scheme mostly consisting of blue and green slides, a different logo, and a similar-sounding theme "Flash", by Keith Mansfield.
Whammy taped two pilots in February one with Peter Tomarken hosting, the other with Todd Newton at the helm. While Todd was chosen for the series, the editing job on the Tomarken pilot has led some to theorize that he was never actually being considered for the revival. The revival had two pilots, and NBC accidentally aired the second one on the east coast instead of the series premiere. This was notable as Richard Kline hosted the pilots, but Gordon Elliott was the actual host of the series for a few months, at least and the set was entirely different.
Wheel of Fortune had three pilots. The first was Shopper's Bazaar , hosted by Chuck Woolery. It featured a vertical Wheel, a much larger emphasis on prize-buying over gameplay even in comparison to the shopping rounds used until , a phone that delivered clues to the contestants, no Bankrupts, a confusing scoring system, and a rather easy first attempt at a Bonus Round.
More info on this pilot can be found here. The second and third were much closer to what made it to air, but were hosted by a drunk Edd "Kookie" Byrnes.
When the show finally made it to air in , it used a slightly altered Byrnes format with Chuck as host. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? What made these relatively unique was that they were aired during Season 1 as episodes 58 and 62, respectively with a disclaimer at the start noting that there were some differences.
Among the differences Rockapella wore street clothes. They continued to do so in the first few tapings of the actual series. Host Greg Lee was introduced as "The man who will lead the investigation", instead of as "Special agent in charge of training new recruits". Lee also didn't have his hat off for the main game, and was standing to the right of the main monitor as opposed to the left.
The gumshoes started off with points, and a correct guess would cost them 10 while an incorrect one would cost them an additional 5. The wagering for the final clue was instead of It was never used again, being replaced by a phone tap conversation between Carmen and the crook.
In the final round, there would be audience members supporting the gumshoes. This trend continued in the first few tapings of the actual series. In both pilots, it didn't matter which order the gumshoe had to find the loot, warrant, and crook in for the final round. As long as he or she found them in one turn, that was all that mattered. By the time production began on the actual series, it was changed so that the gumshoe had to find them in the right order, as police officers do the same thing in real life when looking for a stolen person, place, or thing.
In both pilots, the gumshoe sending the crook to jail wasn't used at all. Instead, it just cut to Greg and the winning contestant at the final round. The United States was the only map used for the endgame in the pilots, and state flags were used as markers. The likes of the maps of Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America would eventually be added to the show.
One episode of the actual series was shot so early that they didn't have the Africa map ready it, and the endgame had to be filmed a few weeks later into production of Season 1. In the pilots, the endgame featured sound effects from the Nickelodeon game show Double Dare.
Instead of "Do it, Rockapella! When presented to potential networks, the pictures would be flipped through while the tape played back. A second pilot was produced this time as a regular kinescope once the show was sold to CBS — yes, that means the show had more pilots than actual episodes!
Live-Action TV. Tina Fey herself has said "if I never see that pilot again, it will be too soon". Also notable in that the scenes with Jenna were refilmed before it aired, replacing Rachel Dratch with Jane Krakowski.
Ironically, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , another NBC show that started in and takes place behind the scenes at a sketch comedy show , is generally considered to have had a great pilot and quickly gone downhill from there. Incidentally, in her book Bossypants , Tina Fey , while proclaiming her own negative opinion of the 30 Rock pilot, cited Cheers as an example of a sitcom with a great pilot. The pilot episode of The , viewed in light of the rest of the series, seems like a Lighter and Softer version of the show, with very clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and a lot more focus on the teen characters having the fun and getting the hots for each other.
Standard advice from fans of the show is not to judge it based on the pilot, but watch until episodes three, four, or five to see what the show's really like. The pilot episode of Alias was 69 minutes long, and originally aired commercial-free. Are You Being Served? The pilot of Arrested Development was shot in an actual model home which featured an elegant sweeping curved staircase leading to a barren unfinished attic. Babylon 5 : Name a problem a Pilot Movie could have, and it's there.
The creator re-edited it several years later to make it stink less. The radical changes in characterization and the transformation of Delenn from an androgenous Uncanny Valley dweller to an exotically attractive female are the major differences.
Bar Rescue taped one in It aired in as "The Lost Episode"; of note is the fact that star Jon Taffer didn't wear his usual sportcoat.
Being Human : Notable in that two of the three main characters, as well as the big bad of the first season, were recast between the pilot and the start of the series. Also notable for having been broadcast as a pilot: it was among three pilots shown on BBC3 before any of them had been commissioned as series.
The public response to Being Human 's pilot ensured it was picked up. The Big Bang Theory had two pilots, the second one being the first episode of the series and the only characters to transfer over is Leonard and Sheldon. The "genius characters" premise was still intact, but the story had them meet a girl named Katie on the street having a hard time and invite her to have dinner with them, eventually taking her in as a roommate. They have another female friend and co-worker Gilda, who is just as intelligent as them, and has an admitted crush on Leonard.
Katie has a tough exterior and rooming with Leonard and Sheldon would help her to soften up. Test audiences hated Katie, but Leonard and Sheldon were extremely well received. Many lines of dialogue were reused in the first few episodes and much of the series proper was taking consideration for the failure of the first pilot: They made Penny as a new neighbor making the dinner invite more natural and is warm, friendly and bubbly to avoid the Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist that was Katie.
Leonard and Sheldon were a hit, so they made two more with Howard and Raj. Gilda was dropped, presumably to offset the gender balance more, but some of her traits were given to recurring character Leslie Winkle. Sheldon was very similar in personality to Leonard, just more neurotic and once had sex with Gilda.
The series made him asexual, The Comically Serious and with a "blinders on" approach to social conventions. The set design was overhauled, creating the spiral stairway with the broken elevator and making the guys' apartment very clean and tidy.
The original set was a standard sitcom set with an "L" shaped hallway and was more run down. The pilot for The Bob Newhart Show gave Bob Hartley the extra job of heading his apartment building's Action Board when the writers feared his psychologist practice wouldn't supply enough storyline possibilities.
Also, Bill Daily was not in the pilot, but interestingly the actor who filled his position of Wacky Neighbor would later return to play his brother Warden Gordon Borden in an episode of the series. Bones : Notable in a bad way, with dialogue that clunks like a jackhammer and lead characters that come off as completely psychotic. These problems rapidly improve in the regular episodes. The pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was made with virtually no budget and was never intended for the airwaves; it was just to give the WB network an idea what the show might be like.
The pilot's been widely circulated online, but series creator Joss Whedon has kept it from being officially released. He really thinks it's a piece of crap. Doctor Who had a pilot episode actually several, since they re-made it several times, using the same script which, despite being a British show from , survived.
It was similar to the first episode, but with different costumes, a scene with Susan drawing a bizarre inkblot, and a statement that the Doctor and Susan come from the 49th Century.
Because it was produced after the series was accepted rather than to sell the series, it may not technically be a pilot by some definitions. The unaired Dollhouse pilot "Echo" was deemed too confusing, as it threw viewers right into the deep end with the show's high-concept premise and began showing the Dollhouse's organisation falling apart right from the get-go. Instead, the network ordered that the show's first five episodes would be mostly-standalone stories showing the Dollhouse functioning more-or-less as it's supposed to before the cracks start to show in episode six.
ER : Written in and filmed in with only minimal changes to the script, this is an extreme example of the gap between pilots and regular episodes. A male doctor was even changed into a woman - without altering his dialogue. Notable also in that it ends with the suicide of a character—Nurse Carol Hathaway—who would turn up alive and well in the fall and stay with the show for six seasons.
The pilot for Evening Shade is notable for being double the length of an average episode, something normally reserved for dramas rather than sitcoms. Although few series nowadays of any type go for the extended pilots, with Lost the most high-profile exception. The consequence of this action was that viewers didn't get introduced to the characters, the universe, and the plotlines the proper way, and Firefly was canned halfway through its run.
The first pilot of Full House was largely identical to the first official episode "Our Very First Episode" with nearly the entire cast in place, with the very obvious exception of John Posey essentially a stand-in for an unavailable Bob Saget as Danny Tanner. Game of Thrones had an original pilot, the script for which made it online.
In it, we get a few scenes viewers wished had been retained, such as a heart-to-heart between Arya and Jon Snow, a confrontation between Robb and Joffrey that was heavy with foreshadowing, a less "rapey" wedding night for Daenerys and Drogo, and a scene in which Jon Arryn actually utters his infamous final words.
However, Sansa had no lines whatsoever, Hodor is not included and the scene where John asks Benjen to take him with him to the wall dissatisfied many fans. The original pilot episode of Gilligan's Island was drastically different, most notably that the Professor was played by actor John Gabriel and was portrayed as more of a sex symbol , and that the characters of Ginger as we know her and Mary Ann did not exist at all. The three aforementioned characters did not score well with test audiences, so they were rewritten and replaced by Russell Johnson, Tina Louise and Dawn Wells.
Star Trek had two pilots, because the studio liked it, but wanted changes before picking it up and the original pilot didn't air originally , Firefly had a pilot that was shown later on during its run because the studio didn't like it as the first episode. Dollhouse's pilot was cut up and used in other episodes.
And Buffy's pilot, well, let's just forget that ever happened Let's get this thing off the ground and see if it'll fly. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. KutuluMike KutuluMike 35k 1 1 gold badge silver badges bronze badges. I was under the impression that the word pilot was actually a back-translation of "pilot light", which itself comes from pilot, meaning to go ahead.
EO cites "pilot light" earlier than "pilot episode" but it implies that the two simply share a common origin. Thanks for posting an answer. Is there any chance you could provide a source for it? According to this answer on Quora One of the definitions of "pilot" is "1.
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