Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, and The Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter (1970)

made-for-TV movies and short that spawned a series (or not). Note: Most do not depict airplane or boat pilots.

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.)

Richard Dreyfuss and Gina Carano in Daughter of the Wolf (2019)

A list of American TV pilot episodes and one-off movies, mainly the older ones.

Various feature length pilot episodes and one-off movies from American TV.

Peter Falk, Nina Foch, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, and William Windom in Prescription: Murder (1968)

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

Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, and B.J. Novak in The Office (2005)

This isnt all of them, its just a few of the many

MY RATINGS FOR ENGLISH FILMS 10. TOP 100 9. TOP 400 8. TOP 1000 7. TOP 3000  6. Watchable. 5. Few good scenes. 4. It is a movie. 3. Gore, negatives. 2. Animal Abuse. 1. Graphic Animal Abuse.

 First view: highest rating of 8. Second view: highest rating of 9.

James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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