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- CreatorEd HaasNorm LiebmannStarsFred GwynneAl LewisYvonne De CarloA family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
- CreatorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsAlan ReedMel BlancJean Vander PylThe misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
- CreatorWalter R. BrooksSonia ChernusWalter BrooksStarsAllan LaneAlan YoungConnie HinesThe misadventures of a wisecracking talking horse and his human owner.
- DirectorAllen RifkinStarsJonathan DalyJoan Staley
- DirectorJim DrakeStarsMax CantorCatherine KeenerAlan KingComedy pilot about a businessman who decides to quit Wall Street, and teach business at his old alma mater.
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsErin Nicole BrownMatt ConnorsBob DenverOliver Hopkins is a struggling writer who turns his home into a day care center for kids to make extra money for his bills.
- DirectorStuart MargolinStarsDiana CanovaCarmine CaridiJay NovelloA widowed Italian-American father of indeterminate but substantial means attempting to raise two children in troubling circumstances, but in a mansion in a very nice part of town. Also in residence is his very religious and old-fashioned mother, who barely speaks English.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsBob DenverJonathan BanksDavid DoyleIn a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible.
- DirectorNick HavingaStarsShelley LongBarry Van DykeSteven KeatsAfter Jenny Clifford gets married, the ghost of her first husband comes back.
- DirectorJohn BowabStarsA.C. WearyIlene GraffErnie SabellaA comedy about a group of classic monsters sharing an apartment, their misadventures, and their interaction with each other and their therapist.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsJack AlbertsonJack GrinnageCheryl HoldridgeUnsold TV pilot about a human who plays host to traveling salesmen from Venus. An attempt to cash in on My Favorite Martian's success.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsOliver ClarkArt EvansEddie BarthTwo oddballs, one a black man called "The Dude" and one white, called "The Orphan" share a Culver City, California apartment.
- DirectorHal CooperStarsDalton CatheyLoyita ChapelAllen GarfieldAn unlikely friendship is formed by two men and a woman, all residents of a singles apartment complex.
- CreatorPeter S. FischerRichard LevinsonWilliam LinkStarsAngela LansburyWilliam WindomRon MasakProfessional writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher uses her intellect, charm, and persistence to get to the bottom of every crime she encounters.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsMax Baer Jr.Noah Beery Jr.Cal BelliniPilot for crime drama about Max Caulpepper, the owner of a Los Angeles security service, who attempts to solve the murder of a friend that may be linked to the theft of $20,000 from an aircraft company.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsSam ElliottNoble WillinghamGary BartonPilot for an adventure and comedy series starring Sam Elliott as the title character and Gary Barton as his sidekick. In the pilot, Evel Knievel must compete against a female motorcycle daredevil.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsJoe PennyDana ElcarBeulah QuoLee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsDee WallaceShelley FabaresHeather LangenkampUnsold TV pilot about four suburban housewives forming a neighborhood-watch program and trying to solve the murder of several local women who may have been involved with a crime ring.
- DirectorMichael ZinbergStarsJohn RitterBarbara BossonFelton PerryHooperman convinces Stern to involve the department in a joint organized crime investigation with a less than stellar private investigator; Smith's mother comes to visit, not knowing anything about her relationship with Hooperman.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Felton PerryJeff CoreyTwo black police officers, who are brothers, battle crime in a run-down section of Los Angeles, California.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsVincent PricePeter LorreWhitney BlakeMr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left Fist of David," a valuable but mysterious art object that was stolen from a Mexican church. Hager offers a bribe but Prentiss firmly rejects it and heads to Florida. In Florida, Prentiss meets up with his cohorts, Mr. Munsey and his secretary, and they set about to appraise the collection. However, Hager shows up again, since he is a neighbor, with a teasing shot of a bow and arrow. It appears all are interested in the "Left Fist of David." After a mistaken poisoning of a cat, Prentiss and Munsey become concerned, and fabricate a sculpture of a fist. Thinking the sculpture is real, Hager enters with a gun, ready to steal the object, but then discovers it's a fake. In a fight-out with Prentiss and Munsey, Hager fires his gun at the ceiling, where it hits a chandelier...
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsSteve IhnatRafer JohnsonGary ClarkeAn elite squad of police detectives who report directly to the police commissioner handle the city's toughest and most sensitive cases
- DirectorEddie GarciaStarsTony FerrerRosemarie GilMarissa Delgado
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsJared MartinKatie SaylorRobert ItoTwo men and a woman, all friends and martial arts experts, visit Hong Kong, where they grew up. When the woman disappears, the men find out that she has been kidnapped by white slavers, and find themselves battling a gang of kung-fu killers in an attempt to rescue their friend.
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsEd O'NeillMatthew LauranceJames HandyNYPD Detective Popeye Doyle investigates the death of a local prostitute which soon leads him and his partner into a web of international intrigue and foreign assassins.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsAdam WestRon FrazierAnn WeldonThe former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsNani AsingSusan BacklinieCarl Byrd
- DirectorLeo PennStarsTelly SavalasMorgan StevensJa'net DuBoisA flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsGeorge GrizzardReni SantoniSusan HowardA prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
- DirectorLeonard J. HornStarsLloyd BridgesAnne FrancisRalph MeekerThe captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsKevin DobsonLara ParkerMarie WindsorThis adventure is set in the South Pacific and chronicles the struggles of a group of airplane passengers to survive after their jet crashes upon a lonely island.
- DirectorHollingsworth MorseStarsWarren BerlingerDanie-Wade DaltonRusty GilliganA plane full of children and young teens on the way to a swim meet, crashes into the ocean, leaving them and the crew stranded on an unknown island.
- StarsWalter CronkiteDaniel SchorrWinston BurdettA long-running documentary series concerning the news and cultural events which shaped the 20th century. It also offered interpretations of the meaning of certain events, and placed wars and assassinations within the wider context of their era. The host was Walter Cronkite. In 1967, the series was renamed to "The 21st Century". Its new focus was predictions about future events.
- StarsOrson WellesOrson Welles recounts various stories from his life while drawing sketches of the events.
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsTom KeeneTom TylerLyle TalbotThis Pilot was about the Adventures of the "Tucson Kid", an insurance investigator who travels to any town where a suspicious insurance claim has appeared.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsBette DavisRobert WagnerDenholm ElliottA C.I.A. Agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
- DirectorNicholas SgarroStarsBob NeillTim O'ConnorVic MorrowA man whose father was an alien from another planet inherits his father's supernatural powers. He is assigned to guard a beautiful Indian princess who is on a state visit to America.
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsGreg EviganDeborah WakehamMitchell RyanAn astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
- DirectorRichard IrvingStarsDavid AckroydAnne SchedeenA MartinezA professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
- DirectorPhilip DeGuere Jr.StarsPeter HootenClyde KusatsuJessica WalterA psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
- DirectorNicholas CoreaStarsLane CaudellBelinda BauerVictor CamposThe hero is given his mentor's bow (the Heartbow) which chooses its new owner when passed on. It fires arrows that blow up like grenades, but can only be wielded by the one chosen to wield her. The hero is a member of a nomadic tribe wiped out by the Draikian Empire's forces. He attempts to find the wizard Lazar-Sa who might be able to help him. He is joined by a thief looking for adventure and cash, and the daughter of a goddess, Estra, looking to revenger herself on Lazar-Sa for crimes against her mother.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsArt HindleRobyn DouglassJohn van DreelenIn order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsLeonard NimoySusan HampshireRachel RobertsA US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsSammy Davis Jr.Christopher LeeJack KlugmanA young down on his luck resident of Hell (Sammy Davis, Jr.) is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down on his luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.
- DirectorNick CastleStarsTerrence MannJeff YagherMelora HardinA musical-comedy unsold pilot made by CBS in 1990. Macho Ira and sensitive George are two polar-opposite brothers who own an auto-repair shop in Southern California. Both men quickly fall for Amy, a beautiful widow who has inherited the local donut shop previously owned by her no-good estranged husband. Amy plans to sell the place and move with her daughter Jenny to Paris, only to find that her ex-husband had "hocked the place up down to the powdered sugar", forcing her to put off her dreams and run the place herself. Geneva was the sassy waitress at the coffee shop, and Chili the rapper-narrator-dancer on crutches. Some of the pilot's extremely memorable numbers include "Donut Hole" (Geneva, Jenny and the Customers), "Don't Tell Me I Can Really Care" (George and Ira) and "Ain't It Always the Way" (Amy, George, Ira and Geneva).
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsVictor FrenchWarren VandersHenry WilcoxonIn the last Ice Age, a family of Cro-Magnons battle a tribe of primitive Neanderthals for survival.