Launching The Pilot
Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email launchingthepilot@gmail.com
Episodes
Episode 365 is The Fugitive (1963)
"Fear in a Desert City"
After being on the run for 6 months, Richard Kimble falls in love with a beautiful woman who has a young son. She also has a physically abusive, estranged husband, that wants Kimble out of town, or dead.
Episode 06 of Murder She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide
We are back with another Jessica episode, I'm joined with Joanne to chat about this season one episode.
Jessica and the police are baffled by a seemingly driver-less car that suddenly appears in Cabot Cove and runs down a visitor who had fired local inventor Dan O'Brien.
Episode 5 of Murder she wrote
"lovers and other Killers"
While in Seattle for a series of lectures, Jessica is drawn into a dangerous case involving young secretary David Tolliver accused of killing his wealthy older lady friend Allison Brevard
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 tha...
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 ...
Episode 362 is Bill and Ted's 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.
Episode 361 is Mr & Mrs Smith (1996)
"Pilot"
Both assigned to the same target, a spy squares off with an international assassin.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 can...
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.
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...
Episode 351 is My Friend Flicka (1955)
"One Man's Horse"
Flicka is stolen by an outlaw whose horse has gone lame.
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