Contest: ENTER TV & Media Avatar Contest: Not Good Enough

[Orac]

Welcome to the all new TV & Media Avatar Contest!

This weeks theme is Not Good Enough or Too Shit for TV

Specifically I'm talking about TV shows that never made it past the pilot. SF&F are allowed.

Standard Avatar Contest Rules:

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You may enter as often as you wish.

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[Nerys Myk]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

In 1995, Touchstone Television tried to turn one of the greatest cinematic achievements ever into a horrible crime against humanity of a TV sitcom:

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[Orac]

Poochinski -- a dead cop is reincarnated as a dog then hunts down his murderer and bites him on the nadgers.

For your viewing pleasure, here's the failed pilot in it's entirety:

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[dahj]

Does this count?

 

[Orac]

Does this count?

I'm going to allow it.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Anyone complaining about the Justice League movie should take a look at the 1997 TV version.

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And here's the run of the failed WW attempts:

"Who is afraid of Diana Prince" (1967), starring Ellie Wood Walker & Linda Harrison

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"Wonder Woman" (1974), starring Cathy Lee Crosby

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"Wonder Woman" (2010), starring Adrianne Palicki

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[tharpdevenport]

"Coming to America"

Failed "comedy" sitcom pilot.

To paraphrase the film: when you think of garbage, think of this pilot!


From the American "Red Dwarf" pilot:

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Since others are posting SF&F and the initial thread didn't specify if that was allowed, I'm guessing it's okay.

Except it did.

Specifically I'm talking about TV shows that never made it past the pilot. SF&F are allowed.

 

[tharpdevenport]

My mind created a optical illusion where I didn't see that sentence end tag.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I've been there.

 

[Orac]

Heat Vision & Jack -- Jack Austin is a renegade astronaut who becomes the smartest man on Earth whenever he's bathed in sunlight. Together with his talking motorcycle "Heat Vision" they run for their lives from evil NASA. Blocked at every turn by adventure!

For your viewing pleasure, the entire pilot:
(with the dickhead directors intro, I pity the actors who had to work for that guy)

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[Orac]

Starstruck -- This Star Wars inspired sitcom tells the story of the Earth-born McAllisters and their family-run restaurant and hotel in space, catering to an intergalactic clientele of bizarre aliens, robots and other space travelers.

For your viewing pleasure, the failed pilot in its entirety:

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[Orac]

Last call for entries!

Poll goes up in approximately 24 hours...

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Okay, I still got some, but I don't want to dominate the contest that much, so I'm withdrawing these two ...

... as they'd end up splitting the WW vote, anyway, and I figure the Cathy Lee Crosby version is still the most popular of the three.

And for that, I'll give you ...

The Adventures of Superpup (1958)

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Hollywood Babbel-On (2014), based on the stage-show/podcast, because I'm totally okay with splitting the Kevin Smith-vote.

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[Orac]

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