Set in the year 1582, the script of the pilot is roughly the same as the episode " Born to be King ", albeit with some different jokes, with some lines appearing in other episodes of the series.

In 1974 he played Nick Butler in the pilot episode of The Rockford Files.

He played a daredevil stunt pilot in an episode of the short-lived 1976 CBS adventure series Spencer's Pilots, starring Gene Evans.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

In March 2011, Elwes was selected to appear as Henry Detmer in the pilot episode of NBC's Wonder Woman.

Much of the material from their vaudeville act, including Lucy's memorable seal routine, was used in the pilot episode of I Love Lucy.

Segments of the pilot were recreated in the sixth episode of the show's first season.

The waterfall in the pilot episode was produced by making a model version of a library film of a waterfall available to Anderson and fading from the model to the film of a waterfall running, so the water seemed to appear by magic.

They were both written by Sylvia Anderson and the first one featured a short text story based on the pilot episode of the TV series.

Chapman and Douglas Adams wrote a pilot for a TV series in 1975, Out of the Trees, but it never went beyond the initial episode.

Although the pilot episode was made, there were difficulties selling the project.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Leave It to Beaver.

The pilot episode of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, " Broken Bow " ( 2001 ) describes the Klingon language as having " eighty polyguttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax ".

She also starred in the pilot episode of Eight Is Enough as Nancy Bradford, the role that, in the series, went to Dianne Kay.

In the pilot episode of the series, Bryce is enlisted by evil network CEO Ned Grossberg ( Charles Rocket, another non-original cast member ) to investigate the mental patterns of unconscious reporter Edison Carter, to determine whether or not Carter has discovered the secrets of the " Blipverts " scandal.

In the pilot episode, Grossberg is the chairman of Network 23, a major city television station with the highest rated investigative news show in town, hosted by Edison Carter.

* The pilot episode of Law and Order was similar to an actual event.

Abdul also co-produced a 2001 pilot episode of Skirts, a dramatic series that would have aired on MTV about a high-school cheerleading squad ; Abdul was also set to appear as the head coach.

Spenser was a former State trooper assigned to the Suffolk County DA's Office ( although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office, for example in Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire said he was a Boston Police detective ), and regularly seeks help from ( or sometimes butts heads with ) Martin Quirk ( originally a lieutenant, later a captain ) of the Boston Police Department.

# Promised Land ( 1976 ) ( Edgar Award, 1977, Best Novel ; adapted into pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire )

The pilot episode aired just weeks before the debut of Babylon 5.

The pilot episode, " Broken Bow ", takes place in the year 2151, halfway between the 21st-century events shown in the movie Star Trek: First Contact and the original Star Trek television series.

On May 14, 2001, shooting began for the pilot episode, " Broken Bow ", on stages 8, 9, and 18 at Paramount Studios.

The British director had no feature film experience, but had directed several episodes of Star Trek, including the popular Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " and the Deep Space Nine double-length pilot episode " Emissary ".

The first component of the term comes from " cybernetics ", which is derived from the Greek κυβερνήτης ( kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder ), a word introduced by Norbert Wiener for his pioneering work in electronic communication and control science.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

The character was initially depicted as the USS Enterprise's science officer for the original pilot, " The Cage " ( 1964 ).

However, following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the planned pilot episode entitled " In Thy Image " was adapted into a theatrical production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Mirkin produced a pilot for Jeff of the Universe, a " sarcastic " parody of the science fiction genre.

He also appeared as captain on two panel games, an ITV music quiz pilot called Pop Dogs, and the Channel 4 science fiction quiz show, Space Cadets.

* November 8-NBC airs the pilot episode of Rod Serling's science fiction anthology series Night Gallery, which would be picked up as a regular series for the 1970-71 television season.

Initial critical reaction to the pilot was positive and focused on the humor and the science fiction plot points.

He was also chairman of the 1966 World Science Fiction Convention in Cleveland, Ohio at which Gene Roddenberry previewed the two-hour pilot of his new series, " Star Trek ", for science fiction fans.

Nicholas John " Nick " Tate ( born 18 June 1942 ) is an Australian actor best known for his role as Eagle pilot Alan Carter in both seasons of the 1970s science fiction television series Space: 1999, as well as for playing the role of Gordon Hamilton's errant brother James in the 1980s soap opera Sons and Daughters.

He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

" Emissary " is the first and second episodes, comprising the pilot, of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Two Connecticut Whitehead fans said they heard about yet another photograph ; high school science teacher and pilot Andy Kosch and Connecticut State Senator George Gunther.

He was accompanied on the record-setting 34. 5-million-mile flight by Dr. Edward Gibson ( science pilot ) and William R. Pogue ( pilot ).

( born February 19, 1932 ) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who served as science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25 – June 22, 1973.

Searfoss served as STS-58 pilot on the seven-person life science research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching from the Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 1993, and landing at Edwards Air Force Base on November 1, 1993.

Number One, in " The Cage ", the original pilot episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek, was the unnamed intellectual, problem-solving second-in-command serving under Captain Christopher Pike.

In the pilot episode, Mark got a job as a substitute teacher for a high school science class.

In 1973, he was in another TV movie, a pilot for a proposed series called " The Stranger ," a science fiction film starring Glenn Corbett as an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with Jagger as a leader of a corrupt deceptive government known as " The Perfect Order ".

Babylon 5: The Gathering is the pilot movie of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

" Rising " is the pilot episode for season one of the military science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, a Canadian-American spin off series of Stargate SG-1.

In 2007, she played Cassie, the pilot in Danny Boyle's science fiction suspense film Sunshine ; followed by Scarlett Ross, an army medical officer in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's science fiction horror 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Boyle's 28 Days Later ; then appeared in the independent film Just Buried, a Canadian dark comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne.