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.)

Kristin Chenoweth, Skyler Gisondo, and Katrina Bowden in Hard Sell (2016)

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

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

Salma Hayek, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Maria Bello, David Spade, Kevin James, and Maya Rudolph in Grown Ups 2 (2013)

Bill Pullman, Jenna Elfman, Martha MacIsaac, Josh Gad, André Holland, Benjamin Stockham, and Amara Miller in 1600 Penn (2012)

Movies (including TV series/TV Movies and web series) that I have submitted to IMDb.

Listing all pilots for the Major Broadcasting networks that are/were in contention for a series pickup later this year or 2014.

Note: This is a list of pilots that are/were in contention, not a list of new series for 2013-14...some of the pilots listed here were very good but did not make it past the Pilot stages...some are still in contention....they are ALL listed here.

List of Television Pilots for the 2013-14 TV season

Ming-Na Wen, Clark Gregg, Iain De Caestecker, Nick Blood, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, and Elizabeth Henstridge in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)

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