Launching The Pilot

Brian Sear

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Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email launchingthepilot@gmail.com

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368 episodes

The Wizard (1986)

Episode 364 is The Wizard (1986) An eccentric inventor has adventures battling evil around the world. "El Dorado" U.S. assigns one of their best agents Alex Jagger to protect The Wizard. On Alex's first day, Simon (Wizard) meets a boy who has cancer. Simon learns that unless he gets a transplant he won't last long and the only possible donor is his brother who's an archaeologist. So Simon drags Alex to where his brother is so that he can go back and help the boy. But his brother is being held captive by his benefactor who wants to keep the treasures that was found for himself. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0749840/?ref_=ttep_ep1

1h 4m
Mar 22, 2024
Red Shoe Diaries (1992)

Episode 363 is Red Shoe Diaries (1992) Jake yearns to understand the secret life of his late fiancee. To find the answer, he solicits the most heartfelt, passionate, and intimate entries in other women's diaries. "Safe Sex" A woman looking for release from the pressuring job finds a man looking for the same thing. Protection and no names are the rules of the Tuesday and Thursday affair. The woman puts spice into the affair as well as the man until the woman snoops through the man's mail and finds his name breaking the rules. The affair is broken off until they re-unite weeks later and start over again with a normal relationship.

54m
Mar 15, 2024
Bill and Ted Excellent Adventures (1992)

Episode 362 is Bill and Ted Excellent Adventures (1992) Unaired Pilot Bill and Ted are forced to get jobs at a local hardware store, Nail World, to buy a new amp, but they insult the store manager's daughter and must go back in time to fix this, inadvertently giving life to a noir comic book femme fatale.

57m
Feb 29, 2024
Mr and Mrs Smith (1996)

Episode 361 is Mr & Mrs Smith (1996) "Pilot" Both assigned to the same target, a spy squares off with an international assassin.

1h 21m
Feb 16, 2024
Red Lights and Siren (1956)

Episode 360 is Red light and Siren (1956) A U.S. Marine sergeant on a 3 day pass is hitchhiking home. He is pick up by an angry, aggressive man who viciously attacks him. The detectives have only a few leads.

1h 0m
Feb 09, 2024
Avatar The Last Airbender (2005)

Episode 359 is Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) "The Boy In The Iceberg" In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

57m
Feb 02, 2024
Captain Planet and The Planteteers (1990)

Episode 358 is Captain Planet and The Planteteers (1990) "A Hero For Earth" Five teenagers work together to encourage enviromentally responsible behavior and combing thier powers unleash earth mightest hero, Captain Planet

49m
Jan 26, 2024
Goodnight Sweetheart (1993)

Episode is Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) "Rites Of Passage" Tv Repairman, Gary Sparrow takes a wrong turn back in time to 1940's war torn London.  

1h 15m
Jan 19, 2024
Land Of The Giants (1968)

Episode 356 is Land of the Giants (1968) "The Crash" On June 12, 1983, a sub-orbital aircraft named the Spindrift flying from Los Angeles is pulled into a space warp which transports its crew and passengers into another dimension

1h 0m
Jan 12, 2024
It’s a Dog’s Life (msw episode 4)

Episode 4 of Murder She Wrote "It's a dog's life" There's in-fighting and backstabbing galore when wealthy Denton Langley snubs his family and leaves most of his estate to a dog, which is discovered after his fatal fall from a drugged horse.

38m
Nov 30, 2023
Hooray for Homicide (MSW episode3)

So jump back in to Murder she Wrote with episode 3 Hooray For Homicide, a bit of a solo endeavour while my co host recovers. Might change the format a bit as I go forward.

26m
Nov 17, 2023
Retro Man From Atlanis

A retro episode back from 2016 Man From Atlanis (1977) Until we are back up and running here is some retro fun? A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.

36m
Nov 13, 2023
One Piece (2023)

Episode 355 is One Piece (2023)   "Romance Dawn" A boy named Monkey D. Luffy embarks on a journey to attain the greatest treasure: the one piece. After the former pirate king's public execution 22 years ago, the world has entered a great pirate era, and Luffy aims to be at the top.

1h 11m
Nov 03, 2023
Ghosts US (2021)

Episode 354 is Ghosts US (2021) "Pilot" Married New Yorkers Samantha and Jay Arondekar believe that their dreams have come true when they inherit a beautiful country house from Sophie Woodstone, Sam's great aunt, only to find that it is falling apart and inhabited by ghosts who died on the mansion's grounds and are now bound to the area, appearing as they did at the times of their deaths, until they can reach the afterlife. Jay cannot see or hear the ghosts, but Sam can after a near-death experience.

1h 12m
Oct 27, 2023
Tabatha (1976)

Episode 353 is Tabatha (1976) This is the first of two pilot made of the spin off of Bewitched "Pilot" Tabitha receives a visit from her brother Adam. Meanwhile, she falls in love with her co-worker Cliff and reveals her identity as a witch to him.  

53m
Oct 20, 2023
Pan Am (2011)

Episode 352 is Pan Am (2011) "Pilot" Dean takes on his first assignment since his promotion, piloting the Clipper Majestic on its inaugural New York to London flight. Bridget is supposed to be his lead stewardess, until she's a no-show for the flight. Grounded purser Maggie is called in to fill in for her. On the same fateful flight, Kate adds another dimension to her work as she takes on her first assignment from U.S. intelligence. Her stress is compounded when she discovers that newly minted stewardess, Laura, her sister, is also working the same flight.  

1h 9m
Oct 13, 2023
My Friend Flicka (1955)

Episode 351 is My Friend Flicka (1955) "One Man's Horse" Flicka is stolen by an outlaw whose horse has gone lame.

53m
Sep 08, 2023
Grange Hill (1978)

Episode 350 is Grange Hill (1978) "Episode One" The new comprehensive looks intimidating for the new kids starting at Grange Hill.

1h 0m
Sep 01, 2023
Police Woman (1974)

Episode 349 is Police Woman (1974) "The End Game" The police are after a gang of bank robbers made up of 3 men and 2 women. The gang has been very successful and done very little to identify themselves. They have very few leads until Pepper uncovers a clue which leads them to Las Vegas where they believe the gang is from. Soon Pepper, Crowley and other officers are undercover staking out various banks in the hopes of being inside when they strike next.

1h 7m
Aug 24, 2023
VR.5 (1995)

Episode 348 is VR.5 (1995) "Pilot" A tech wizardwith tragic past discovers that she can use her VR techto bring poeple into her VR world via phone and see or alter their subconsciousness.

1h 7m
Aug 17, 2023
The Outer Limits (1963)

Episode 347 is The Outer Limits (1963) "The Galaxy Being" A scientific technician working at a radio station makes first contact with an energy alien from the Andromeda galaxy. An underling's disobedience brings it to Earth.

1h 0m
Aug 10, 2023
Retro LTP Batman (1966)

Retro LTP recorded in  2016 BATMAN (1966) "Hi Diddle Riddle" While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.

1h 6m
Aug 04, 2023
Retro The Flash (1990)

Retro LTP episode The Flash (1990) Look back at our 8th Episode from 2016 "Pilot" A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing  biker gang as a superhero. Can Barry run fast enough to save the day.

56m
Jul 27, 2023
Probe ( 1988 )

Episode 346 is Probe (1988) "Computer Logic" A misanthropic scientist and his quirky new secretary attempt to shut down an artificially intelligent computer that has decided to start killing people. 

1h 6m
Jul 21, 2023
Jason King (1971)

Episode 345 is Jason King (1971) "Wanna Buy a Television Series?" In order to interest a television mogul in buying his stories for the small screen,novelist and adventurer Jason King describes to the man a typical plot involving his hero Mark Caine. Caine meets a girl who has been given plastic surgery to resemble the deceased Michele who died in a fire. She is taken by two crooks to meet Bellini, a fence of Michele's acquaintance,supposedly suffering from amnesia,to find out where he has hidden his private stash of valuables. Caine is aware that the girl will be killed once she has served her purpose and steps in to rescue her. 

51m
Jul 13, 2023
Halt and Catch Fire (2014)

Episode 344 is Halt and Catch Fire (2014) I/O The Texan company Cardiff Electronics gets a new employee from New York. He's apparently working for IBM, but after he gets the new job it gets clear that he has a hidden agenda, and is not exactly what he claims to be. 

1h 10m
Jul 07, 2023
The Adventurer (1972)

Episode 343 is The Adventurer (1972) "Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice and Miss Me Once Again" The Adventurer "Gene Bradley" (Gene Barry) plays the most dangerous role of his career...as stand-in for a potential murder victim.

46m
Jun 29, 2023
Ghost Story (1972)

Episode 342 is Ghost Story (1972) "The New House" A young couple move into a home that is haunted by a young girl

50m
Jun 22, 2023
X-Men (1992)

Episode 341 is X-Men (1992) Animated adventure with some Mutants "Night Of The Sentinels (part 1)" A young teenager has been rejecting her mutant powers ever since she discovered them. But when giant robots track her down, it's up to the X-Men to save her.

41m
Jun 16, 2023
NCIS (2003)

Episode 340 is NCIS (2003) "Yankee White" Aboard Air Force One a Naval officer dies after eating with the Potus, then a Marine officer (connected with AF1) also dies in Georgetown in the same way. Abby identifies the cause, and Gibbs thwarts an attempt to assassinate the PotUS. 

50m
Jun 09, 2023