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Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email launchingthepilot@gmail.com

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English


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T and T (1988)

5/3/2024
Episode 366 is T and T (1988) "Extortion in Chinatown" When a Vietnamese grocer is roughed up by a Chinese extortion gang, T and T. get involved.

Duration:01:00:04

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The Fugitive (1963)

4/26/2024
Episode 365 is The Fugitive (1963) "Fear in a Desert City" After being on the run for 6 months, Richard Kimble falls in love with a beautiful woman who has a young son. She also has a physically abusive, estranged husband, that wants Kimble out of town, or dead.

Duration:01:14:05

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MSW:Hit, Run and Homicide

4/18/2024
Episode 06 of Murder She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide We are back with another Jessica episode, I'm joined with Joanne to chat about this season one episode. Jessica and the police are baffled by a seemingly driver-less car that suddenly appears in Cabot Cove and runs down a visitor who had fired local inventor Dan O'Brien.

Duration:00:28:47

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MSW-Loversand others Killers (18/11/84)

4/12/2024
Episode 5 of Murder she wrote "lovers and other Killers" While in Seattle for a series of lectures, Jessica is drawn into a dangerous case involving young secretary David Tolliver accused of killing his wealthy older lady friend Allison Brevard

Duration:00:38:53

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The Wizard (1986)

3/22/2024
Episode 364 is The Wizard (1986) An eccentric inventor has adventures battling evil around the world. "El Dorado" U.S. assigns one of their best agents Alex Jagger to protect The Wizard. On Alex's first day, Simon (Wizard) meets a boy who has cancer. Simon learns that unless he gets a transplant he won't last long and the only possible donor is his brother who's an archaeologist. So Simon drags Alex to where his brother is so that he can go back and help the boy. But his brother is being held captive by his benefactor who wants to keep the treasures that was found for himself.

Duration:01:04:46

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Red Shoe Diaries (1992)

3/14/2024
Episode 363 is Red Shoe Diaries (1992) Jake yearns to understand the secret life of his late fiancee. To find the answer, he solicits the most heartfelt, passionate, and intimate entries in other women's diaries. "Safe Sex" A woman looking for release from the pressuring job finds a man looking for the same thing. Protection and no names are the rules of the Tuesday and Thursday affair. The woman puts spice into the affair as well as the man until the woman snoops through the man's mail and finds his name breaking the rules. The affair is broken off until they re-unite weeks later and start over again with a normal relationship.

Duration:00:54:40

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992)

2/29/2024
Episode 362 is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992) Unaired Pilot Bill and Ted are forced to get jobs at a local hardware store, Nail World, to buy a new amp, but they insult the store manager's daughter and must go back in time to fix this, inadvertently giving life to a noir comic book femme fatale.

Duration:00:57:12

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Mr and Mrs Smith (1996)

2/16/2024
Episode 361 is Mr & Mrs Smith (1996) "Pilot" Both assigned to the same target, a spy squares off with an international assassin.

Duration:01:21:14

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Red Lights and Siren (1956)

2/9/2024
Episode 360 is Red light and Siren (1956) A U.S. Marine sergeant on a 3 day pass is hitchhiking home. He is pick up by an angry, aggressive man who viciously attacks him. The detectives have only a few leads.

Duration:01:00:56

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Avatar The Last Airbender (2005)

2/1/2024
Episode 359 is Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) "The Boy In The Iceberg" In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

Duration:00:57:01

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Captain Planet and The Planteteers (1990)

1/26/2024
Episode 358 is Captain Planet and The Planteteers (1990) "A Hero For Earth" Five teenagers work together to encourage enviromentally responsible behavior and combing thier powers unleash earth mightest hero, Captain Planet

Duration:00:49:01

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Goodnight Sweetheart (1993)

1/19/2024
Episode is Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) "Rites Of Passage" Tv Repairman, Gary Sparrow takes a wrong turn back in time to 1940's war torn London.

Duration:01:15:45

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Land Of The Giants (1968)

1/12/2024
Episode 356 is Land of the Giants (1968) "The Crash" On June 12, 1983, a sub-orbital aircraft named the Spindrift flying from Los Angeles is pulled into a space warp which transports its crew and passengers into another dimension

Duration:01:00:37

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It’s a Dog’s Life (msw episode 4)

11/30/2023
Episode 4 of Murder She Wrote "It's a dog's life" There's in-fighting and backstabbing galore when wealthy Denton Langley snubs his family and leaves most of his estate to a dog, which is discovered after his fatal fall from a drugged horse.

Duration:00:38:18

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Hooray for Homicide (MSW episode3)

11/17/2023
So jump back in to Murder she Wrote with episode 3 Hooray For Homicide, a bit of a solo endeavour while my co host recovers. Might change the format a bit as I go forward.

Duration:00:26:49

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Retro Man From Atlanis

11/13/2023
A retro episode back from 2016 Man From Atlanis (1977) Until we are back up and running here is some retro fun? A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.

Duration:00:36:06

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One Piece (2023)

11/3/2023
Episode 355 is One Piece (2023) "Romance Dawn" A boy named Monkey D. Luffy embarks on a journey to attain the greatest treasure: the one piece. After the former pirate king's public execution 22 years ago, the world has entered a great pirate era, and Luffy aims to be at the top.

Duration:01:11:12

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Ghosts US (2021)

10/27/2023
Episode 354 is Ghosts US (2021) "Pilot" Married New Yorkers Samantha and Jay Arondekar believe that their dreams have come true when they inherit a beautiful country house from Sophie Woodstone, Sam's great aunt, only to find that it is falling apart and inhabited by ghosts who died on the mansion's grounds and are now bound to the area, appearing as they did at the times of their deaths, until they can reach the afterlife. Jay cannot see or hear the ghosts, but Sam can after a near-death experience.

Duration:01:12:30

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Tabatha (1976)

10/20/2023
Episode 353 is Tabatha (1976) This is the first of two pilot made of the spin off of Bewitched "Pilot" Tabitha receives a visit from her brother Adam. Meanwhile, she falls in love with her co-worker Cliff and reveals her identity as a witch to him.

Duration:00:53:47

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Pan Am (2011)

10/13/2023
Episode 352 is Pan Am (2011) "Pilot" Dean takes on his first assignment since his promotion, piloting the Clipper Majestic on its inaugural New York to London flight. Bridget is supposed to be his lead stewardess, until she's a no-show for the flight. Grounded purser Maggie is called in to fill in for her. On the same fateful flight, Kate adds another dimension to her work as she takes on her first assignment from U.S. intelligence. Her stress is compounded when she discovers that newly minted stewardess, Laura, her sister, is also working the same flight.

Duration:01:09:12