Lookwell

Fernsehfilm
1991
30 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,2/10

580

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Deborah Richter and Ami Rothschild in Lookwell (1991)

Parody Satire Comedy Crime Mystery

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.

Regie
- E.W. Swackhamer
Drehbuch
- Robert Smigel
- Conan O'Brien
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,2/10

580

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- E.W. Swackhamer
Drehbuch
- Robert Smigel
- Conan O'Brien
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Upon later cult success, the pilot was, as co-creator and co-writer Robert Smigel later stated in a retrospective interview concerning the series, the subject of a film offer from an unnamed studio. The offer was of no interest to Smigel, however, as the studio wished to recast the lead character of Lookwell with that of a bigger star, namely Nicolas Cage. The offer in the end, of course, fell through, because, according to the writer, without Adam West it simply 'wouldn't work'.

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Ty Lookwell: Did you do that shopping I asked you to do?
Hyacinthe: I tried, but the store said they don't make that hairspray anymore.
Ty Lookwell: Those fools.

Alternative Versionen
When this pilot was re-aired in 2003 on the Trio network, a few cuts were made to fit in the 22 minute time slot. The biggest difference was the deletion of the epilogue in which Lookwell announces to his class that Jason and Miss Royster were sent to jail for stealing the car. Then, he introduces his two new students who are the Samoan prisoners that Lookwell met earlier in jail. Finally, he shows the class another scene from "Bannigan".

Verbindungen
Featured in The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996)

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Ausgewählte Rezension

10/10

Lookwell: The funniest show you never saw

Some time ago, the cable network TRIO aired the pilot for LOOKWELL as part of its "Brilliant But Cancelled" series. I TiVoed it and have watched it many times since.

Ty Lookwell is the role Adam West was born to play, which is good as it clearly was written for him. The writing plays to West's strengths as a comedian, particularly his surreal delivery of lines that no one else could say without cracking up.

It might have been exhausting to keep this going week after week, but I sure would have liked to see them try.

Someone should assemble a "great unsold pilots" DVD series; LOOKWELL could certainly headline the comedy edition.