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 1-676.

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.)

All 77 minutes or longer. Ongoing List. Includes non-English movies.

Jill Eikenberry in Cast the First Stone (1989)

Trailers for these movies were narrated by the legendary Don LaFontaine, one of if not the most prolific voice over artist in the movie and television business during 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, whose name today is synonymous with charismatic and epic voice over narration in big budgeted Hollywood movie trailers, which often leads to mix ups when people mistake the voices of other legendary Hollywood movie trailer narrators like Hal Douglas for Don's.

Trailers Narrated by Classic Trailer Narrator Don LaFontaine (list in progress)

Danny DeVito in Other People's Money (1991)

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

Sandra Bullock and Craig Sheffer in Fire on the Amazon (1993)

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