Launching The Pilot

Launching The Pilot

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

Episodes

June 28, 2025 61 mins

Episode 397 is Battlestar Galactica (1978, part one)

Episode 1 part 0ne

When the Cylons trick the human fleet and destroy all its ships except the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama gathers up the remaining humans from the 12 colony worlds and leads them in search of the legendary 13th colony: Earth.

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Episode 396 is Bonanza (1959)

"A Rose for Lotta"

Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.

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June 12, 2025 49 mins

Episode 395 is Part 2 of Highway To Heaven (1984)

 

"Highway to Heaven part 2"

When Mark Gordon's investigation starts getting too close, Jonathan must reveal his true identity and purpose to Mark in order to successfully complete his assignment.

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June 6, 2025 63 mins

Episode 394 is Highway To Heaven Part one (1984)

"Highway To Heaven"

Jonathan Smith, an angel, arrives at a retirement home to help not only the occupants but also an employee named Leslie Gordon. However, Leslie's brother Mark, a jaded and bitter former police officer, is suspicious of Jonathan.

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May 30, 2025 42 mins

Episode 393 is So Haunt Me (1992)

"A Haunted House"

Recently made redundant from his job in advertising Pete Rokeby moves,with his wife Sally,teen-aged daughter Tammy,little son David and their dog to a much smaller house,which smells of chicken soup. Hearing noises in the night Sally investigates and meets the ghost of Yetta Feldman,a Jewish former occupant of the house who choked to death on a chicken bone twenty-one years earlie...

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May 5, 2025 52 mins

Episode 392 is part 2 of B J and the Bear (1978)

"The Foundlings" Part 2

B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

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April 18, 2025 67 mins

Episode 391 is B J And The Bear (1978)

"The Foundlings" Part 1

B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

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March 23, 2025 45 mins

Episode 390 is The DayOf The Triffids (1981)

"Episode 1"

Bill, who works at a farm for deadly plants called triffids, was temporarily blinded by one of them and is now in hospital. The hour approaches for the bandages over his eyes to come off, but a strange silence pervades the room.

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March 16, 2025 49 mins

Episode 389 is The Swiss Family Robinson (1974)

"The Arrival" In 1801, a family from Switzerland is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. All wash ashore safely except their younger son Franz, who is presumed dead.
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March 9, 2025 76 mins

Episode 388 is Lucan (1977)

"Pilot"

A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity.

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March 2, 2025 57 mins

Episode 387 is Mr Merlin (1981)

"Pilot"

Merlin, who nowadays operates an auto mechanics shop, meets Zac, who he takes on as his new apprentice in both sorcery and fixing cars.

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February 15, 2025 50 mins

Episode 386 is Sheena Queen Of The Jungle (1955)

"Crash in the Jungle"

Sheena rescues bush pilot Andy Howard, when his plane crashes in the jungle. Andy was delivering film containing rare footage of a secretive native tribe that had been filmed by Clare Graham, a documentary film maker. Andy is convinced that his plane was sabotaged

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February 9, 2025 63 mins

Episode 385 is Tracker (2001)

"Pilot"

 The guard's prison comes to Earth. He creates a body out of a billboard. He's dazed and disoriented, he encounters Mel who offers him a ride. The guard must now track down all the alien prisoners.

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January 26, 2025 74 mins

Episode 384 is Thriller (1973)

"Lady Killer"

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

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January 19, 2025 64 mins

Episode 383 is The Magician (1973)

"The Manhunters"

Someone is trying to kill Max Pomeroy, Tony Blake's friend. The investigation leads Blake to an alcoholic lady gambler in distress and the plot thickens in a casino.
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January 10, 2025 69 mins

Episode 382 is Mann & Machine (1992)

"Prototype"

Los Angeles Police Detective Bobby Mann is teamed with a cyborg cop named Eve to investigate the murders of international steel brokers. Eve finds evidence that implicates another cop, who is also Mann's childhood friend.

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November 15, 2024 64 mins

Episode is 381 Dream Wife (1965)

Actress Shirley Jones stars as Lisa Michaels -- a wife with a husband, a boy, and the ability to hear other people's thoughts. Whether she's trying to use it to have a better marriage, make her kid happy, and even trying to save other people's lives, she just can't quite seem to get things right.

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November 10, 2024 50 mins

Episode 380 is Deepwater Black (1997)

"Awakening"

Six crew are awakened from stasis to discovered they are aboard a spaceship alone and under attack from an alien spacecraft.

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October 30, 2024 64 mins

Episode 379 is The Ghost Busters (1975)

"The Maltese Monkey"

The Ghost Busters must stop the Fat Man and Rabbit from summoning the ghost of gangster Big Al Caesar, who will help them steal the stuff dreams are made of: the Maltese Monkey.

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October 26, 2024 41 mins

Episode 378 is Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

"The Man From The South"

A young American couple on holiday meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes them a macabre wager.

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