movies i want to remember after seeing the trailer

Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood in King of California (2007)

Dope movies for dope folks, dopey movies for dopey folks

Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass in The One I Love (2014)

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.)

Jamie-Lynn Sigler in Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)

A list of unique old and new comedy's that I think everyone should take the time to possibly enjoy... with at least one good laugh it's all fun.

Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

Anna Faris and Jon Heder in Mama's Boy (2007)

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