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

Brian & Paul


    • May 30, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 52m AVG DURATION
    • 406 EPISODES


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    So Haunt Me (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 42:34


    Episode 393 is So Haunt Me (1992) "A Haunted House" Recently made redundant from his job in advertising Pete Rokeby moves,with his wife Sally,teen-aged daughter Tammy,little son David and their dog to a much smaller house,which smells of chicken soup. Hearing noises in the night Sally investigates and meets the ghost of Yetta Feldman,a Jewish former occupant of the house who choked to death on a chicken bone twenty-one years earlier and has seen off seventeen previous sets of house-holders. Pete and Tammy cannot see Yetta and think that Sally is hallucinating after a tiring day - but David can.

    B J And The Bear part 2 (1978)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 52:43


    Episode 392 is part 2 of B J and the Bear (1978) "The Foundlings" Part 2 B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

    B J And The Bear (1978)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 67:00


    Episode 391 is B J And The Bear (1978) "The Foundlings" Part 1 B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

    The Day Of The TriffIds (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 45:14


    Episode 390 is The DayOf The Triffids (1981) "Episode 1" Bill, who works at a farm for deadly plants called triffids, was temporarily blinded by one of them and is now in hospital. The hour approaches for the bandages over his eyes to come off, but a strange silence pervades the room.

    The Swiss Family Robinson (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 49:24


    Episode 389 is The Swiss Family Robinson (1974) "The Arrival" In 1801, a family from Switzerland is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. All wash ashore safely except their younger son Franz, who is presumed dead.

    Lucan (1977)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 76:17


    Episode 388 is Lucan (1977) "Pilot" A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity.

    Mr Merlin (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 57:33


    Episode 387 is Mr Merlin (1981) "Pilot" Merlin, who nowadays operates an auto mechanics shop, meets Zac, who he takes on as his new apprentice in both sorcery and fixing cars.

    Sheena Queen of the Jungle

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025 50:58


    Episode 386 is Sheena Queen Of The Jungle (1955) "Crash in the Jungle" Sheena rescues bush pilot Andy Howard, when his plane crashes in the jungle. Andy was delivering film containing rare footage of a secretive native tribe that had been filmed by Clare Graham, a documentary film maker. Andy is convinced that his plane was sabotaged

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    Tracker (2001)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 63:48


    Episode 385 is Tracker (2001) "Pilot"  The guard's prison comes to Earth. He creates a body out of a billboard. He's dazed and disoriented, he encounters Mel who offers him a ride. The guard must now track down all the alien prisoners.

    Thriller (1973)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 74:06


    Episode 384 is Thriller (1973) "Lady Killer" A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

    The Magician (1973)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 64:08


    Episode 383 is The Magician (1973) "The Manhunters" Someone is trying to kill Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. The investigation leads Blake to an alcoholic lady gambler in distress and the plot thickens in a casino.

    Mann & Machine (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 69:47


    Episode 382 is Mann & Machine (1992) "Prototype" Los Angeles Police Detective Bobby Mann is teamed with a cyborg cop named Eve to investigate the murders of international steel brokers. Eve finds evidence that implicates another cop, who is also Mann's childhood friend.

    Dream Wife (1965)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 64:32


    Episode is 381 Dream Wife (1965) Actress Shirley Jones stars as Lisa Michaels -- a wife with a husband, a boy, and the ability to hear other people's thoughts. Whether she's trying to use it to have a better marriage, make her kid happy, and even trying to save other people's lives, she just can't quite seem to get things right.

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    Deepwater Black (1997)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 50:33


    Episode 380 is Deepwater Black (1997) "Awakening" Six crew are awakened from stasis to discovered they are aboard a spaceship alone and under attack from an alien spacecraft.

    The Ghost Busters (1975)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 64:36


    Episode 379 is The Ghost Busters (1975) "The Maltese Monkey" The Ghost Busters must stop the Fat Man and Rabbit from summoning the ghost of gangster Big Al Caesar, who will help them steal the stuff dreams are made of: the Maltese Monkey.

    Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 41:45


    Episode 378 is Tales of the Unexpected (1979) "The Man From The South" A young American couple on holiday meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes them a macabre wager.

    Detectorists (2014)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 54:11


    Episode 377 is Detectorists (2014) "episode 1" Andy and Lance are members of the small but dedicated Danbury Metal Detecting Club (DMDC), who search for buried treasure with metal detectors. As boring club president Terry welcomes new member student Sophie Andy and Lance determine to look for the rumoured Saxon hoard on farm-land owned by eccentric Larry Bishop

    The Middle (2007)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 62:13


    Episode 376 is the unaired pilot of "THE MIDDLE" (2007) A look at the life of a lower-middle-class family living in the Midwest. Sue tries out for show choir with disastrous results. Frankie desperately tries to close a sale with disastrous results. Brick has trouble relating to his teacher with odd results.

    Terry and the Pirates (1952)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 52:51


    Last on with suspect sound is episode 375 Terry and the Pirates (1952) "Macaco Gold" Hotshot Charlie's plane, with its cargo of gold bullion, is hijacked by the Dragon Lady's operatives while en route to Japan. Terry Lee and Chopstick Joe deduce that the gold could only be disposed of it the Portugese colony of Macao and Terry flies there to attempt to recover the precious cargo.

    Time Banits (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 71:19


    A big of an audio disaster has my laptop deicided to switch to my build in mic, which is only little better than a cup on a string. Base on the 1981 film "Kevin Haddock" A boy struggles to make the most of everyday life-until a bumbling gang of thieves lands in his bedroom.  

    Star Maidens (1976)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 59:35


    Episode 373 is Star Maidens (1976) "Escape To Paradise" Medusa, torn from orbit around Proxima Centauri by a comet, was sent careering through space. Ages later, with Medusa now in orbit between Uranus and Neptune, Adam and Shem escape the autocratic all-female Medusan society and head to earth.

    Small Wonder (1985)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 62:41


    Episode 372 is "Small Wonder" (1985) "Vicki's Homecoming" Genius United Robotronics cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson, brings home for assembly and long-term field beta testing Vicki, or V.I.C.I. (Voice Input Child Identicant): a secretly constructed robotic domestic aide in the form of a 10-year-old girl, to whom housewife Joan takes a shine while 10-year-old son Jamie instantly takes advantage of Vicki as a maid to clean his room and do his homework.

    House M.D (2004)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2024 73:26


    Episode 371 is House M.D. (2004) "Pilot" Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.

    Tag Team (1991)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 68:21


    Episode 370 is Tag Team(1991) Tricky Rick MacDonald and Billy The Body Youngblood are two of the best wrestlers in the country. They are told to take a dive by the wife of a promoter. If they don't, she will make sure they are blackballed from wrestling. When they don't do what she says, they are fired immediately. They try many jobs without any success. When they stop a grocery store robbery, they get the idea to be cops. So begins a new chapter in the life of this tag team

    She Spies (2002)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2024 70:01


    Episode 369 is She Spies (2002) Three cute, humorous women are taken out of prison to work for the government as spies - a crime fighting unit. "First Episode" An ex US presidential candidate, who's been given his own TV talk show, might be assassinated. The 3 cute ex cons get to prevent this as their first job as a unit.  

    Captain Z-Ro (1955)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 50:04


    Episode 368 is Captain Z-Ro (1955) "Christopher Columbus" Captain Z-Ro goes back to 1492 in order to put down an attempted mutiny happening on board Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria.

    The Powers Of Matthew Star (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024 67:30


    Episode 367 is The Powers Of Matthew Star (1982) "Jackal" Matthew Star appears to be a typical teenager, but in actuality is an alien who is a member of the ruling family of his planet, who are endowed with powers like telekinesis and telepathy. When his home planet was invaded, his parents gave him when he was a baby to one of their trusted emissaries, who went to Earth because it's almost like their home world.  

    T and T (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 60:04


    Episode 366 is T and T (1988) "Extortion in Chinatown" When a Vietnamese grocer is roughed up by a Chinese extortion gang, T and T. get involved.

    The Fugitive (1963)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2024 74:05


    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.

    MSW:Hit, Run and Homicide

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 28:47


    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.

    MSW-Loversand others Killers (18/11/84)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 38:53


    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

    The Wizard (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2024 64:46


    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.

    Red Shoe Diaries (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 54:40


    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.

    Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 57:12


    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.

    Mr and Mrs Smith (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 81:14


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

    Red Lights and Siren (1956)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2024 60:56


    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.

    Avatar The Last Airbender (2005)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 57:01


    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.

    Captain Planet and The Planteteers (1990)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 49:01


    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

    Goodnight Sweetheart (1993)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 75:45


    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.  

    Land Of The Giants (1968)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 60:37


    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

    It's a Dog's Life (msw episode 4)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2023 38:18


    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.

    Hooray for Homicide (MSW episode3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 26:49


    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.

    Retro Man From Atlanis

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 36:06


    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.

    One Piece (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 71:12


    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.

    Ghosts US (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2023 72:30


    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.

    Tabatha (1976)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 53:47


    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.  

    Pan Am (2011)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2023 69:12


    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.  

    My Friend Flicka (1955)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2023 53:51


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

    Grange Hill (1978)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 60:19


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

    Police Woman (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2023 67:48


    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.

    VR.5 (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2023 67:12


    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.

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