Launching The Pilot

Oct 30 2024 300 ep. 54 mins 270

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Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email [email protected]

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The Ghost Busters (1975)

Oct 30 2024 64 mins

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)

Oct 26 2024 41 mins

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)

Oct 12 2024 54 mins

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)

Oct 04 2024 62 mins

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)

Sep 29 2024 52 mins

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)

Sep 08 2024 71 mins

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)

Aug 29 2024 59 mins

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)

Aug 22 2024 62 mins

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 tak

House M.D (2004)

Jul 06 2024 73 mins

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)

Jun 28 2024 68 mins

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 st