![]() They were just too early and too lily-white. Who knew there would ever be a S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series? Well, apparently Fox did. In any event, following the wild success of the animated X-Men TV series, Fox tried to make a few live-action projects, which didn't work out. This one was a favorite of mine, at the tender age of 15, although I haven't dared watch it (or the next installment on the list) later in life to see how misguided I may have been. This 1989 animated pilot didn't make it to air, but did inspire both the popular X-Men video game and the 1992 X-Men TV series that aired Saturday mornings on Fox. Trial., made in 1989, also features Daredevil and Thor, making it one of the earliest attempts to cross over superhero characters in live action. Neither worked, but both are available on video if you look. Two TV movies - Return of The Incredible Hulk and Trial of The Incredible Hulk - were produced over the years that were meant as attempts to restore the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno Hulk to the success of the 1970s. Captain America was a bit disappointment and Spider-Man was a total nightmare." Those are the only experiences I've had with live action television. Strange would have done much better than it did in the ratings except that it aired opposite Roots. ![]() "I've become good friends with the writer/producer Phil DeGuere. "I probably had the most input into that one," Stan Lee said of the show. The porno-stached Sorcerer Supreme did appear in a TV movie/pilot in 1978, and it's been widely available almost ever since because of a VHS release. The show got pretty good response from fans there was a comic book adaptation and hit home video in 1997. This one was an attempt at launching a TV series but, again, the ratings didn't support it. There have been a number of attempts to translate Archie to a live-action series, almost none of which have been particularly good, but they've generally been feature films made for video. Things probably weren't helped any by the fact that Crosby played a version of the character similar to the Denny O'Neil "'70s feminist" Wonder Woman who appeared in the comics at the time and has been mocked pretty often ever since. The pilot aired and did alright, but not good enough for the network's taste, and while Crosby may have been offered the Carter version of the character (she claims she was, but nobody else has commented on it as far as I can tell). This blonde Wonder Woman, played by Cathy Lee Crosby, appeared on TV just a year or so before the Lynda Carter edition. This one has the distinction of being the version of the character to have two different people play Diana Prince and Wonder Woman. Those five minutes can be found on YouTube (see below). ![]() This was the first, of which only a small piece was ever filmed before the network killed it. In the time before Lynda Carter took the gig and Wonder Woman became a genuine success story on TV, there were a few attempts to make a movie out of it. Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? You can see the pilot on DVD as part of the Smallville Complete Series box set. Very weird.įollowing the success of The Adventures of Superman, they started production on a series that starred a younger Superman and Lana Lang the pilot didn't perform, though, and the other 12 episodes they had scripted were never shot. Actually just a Superman series, told with dogs instead of people. The pilot was shot using the sets from The Adventures of Superman and starring little people in dog costumes, approximating that show but, you know, with dogs. While this one might seem like a self-evidently bad idea, it actually got produced.and is available on Blu-ray, as part of the big Superman box set that also includes the five major motion pictures starring Superman. Obviously, we've had a few of those lately ( Locke & Key, Powers, etc.), and so we thought, "How many of those have there been in comics?" Here's as complete a list as we've been able to put together of pilots that were ACTUALLY FILMED, not just planned, and didn't make it to series, in ROUGH chronological order.Īnd yes, be warned: Many of these are pretty awful. Last night, we talked a little about Adrianne Palicki, the star of a failed Wonder Woman pilot episode for NBC that generated a lot of buzz before failing completely to connect with audiences or the network and going no further than the pilot stage.
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