TV shows, both upcoming and long since passed, that I'd like to watch. Or at least see an episode or two.

Is there a show not listed that you love? Pop over to my other list: "Bad Surge's TV (& such) That's Good" If you don't see your favorite show there either, feel free to berate me in the comment section. 

Have you seen one of the shows on this list? Tell me what you thought about it!

Every year, a number of television pilots are filmed -- "test episodes" for potential new shows. Some of them get ordered to series, and those pilot episodes often become episode #1 of the new show. Others, however, are unable to hurdle that barrier and remain unsold -- not picked up as a full television series.

Note that "unsold" does not necessarily equate to "unaired" -- many of the pilots listed here have aired on tv, either as a backdoor pilot (shown as a tv movie, or as an episode of an already-running tv show from which it was intended to spin off) or "burned off" (aired as a tv movie or a one-off episode among the summer reruns, or incorporated into one of several anthology tv series that consisted entirely of rejected pilots). Others have seen the light of day as extra features on DVDs, or straight-to-video releases, or in a few cases were even bumped up to theatrical releases.

I've started moving ones I've seen and/or have (i.e., I know they're at least marginally available) to the top of the list -- so far that's #s 1-976.

Sources: Unsold Television Pilots, Lee Goldberg. Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004 and 2005-2009, Alvin H. Marill. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2007 and Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2019 and Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018, Vincent Terrace. Various selective-subject (science fiction, animation, etc.) TV books. Various internet resources - IMDb, TCMDb, TheFutonCritic, etc. etc. etc.

(A work in progress.)

Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, and Lucas Grabeel in High School Musical (2006)

Noah Wyle in The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)

Charles Manson in Will You Kill for Me? Charles Manson and His Followers (2008)

Benoît Debie, Vincent Maraval, Gaspar Noé, Pascal Saint-James, Ian Scott, Edouard Weil, Jean-Charles Manuel, David Bohm, Naila Moore, Emmanuel Francois, Sonia Maggini, Sabrina Ferkalifred, Eric Alberini, Norman Thuleau, Mitch, Benjamin Aymerich, Brahim Chioua, Geneviève Lemal, Denis Bedlow, Stella Rocha, Rodrigo Teixeira, Sonia Mariaulle, Samantha Benne, Richard Blondel, Milka Manson, Angell Summers, Karl Glusman, Anna Polina, Lourenço Sant'Anna, Nikita Bellucci, Ricky Mancini, Tony Caliano, David Krampz, Karine Martin, Julie Valmont, Erik Chantry, Jean-Baptiste Roux, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin, Juan Saavedra, Xamira Zuloaga, Isabelle Nicou, Ugo Fox, Omaima S., Kelly Pix, and Laurie Beurier in Love (2015)

Films and TV made in British Columbia, including principal photography and/or VFX

Andy Serkis and Amiah Miller in War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

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