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 ".

In the pilot episode, " Caretaker ", USS Voyager departs station Deep Space Nine on a mission into the treacherous Badlands to find a missing ship piloted by a team of Maquis rebels, which the Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, Voyager < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s security officer, has secretly infiltrated.

They have five children, including the late Alan G. Poindexter, a NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle pilot on the STS-122 mission to the International Space Station, and the commander of STS-131.

Note that on the U. S. Space Shuttle, the term " pilot " is analogous to the term " co-pilot " in aviation, as the " commander " has ultimate responsibility for the shuttle.

In 1983, Ulf Merbold from ESA and Byron Lichtenberg from MIT ( engineer and Air Force fighter pilot ) were the first payload specialists to fly on the Space Shuttle, on mission STS-9.

He served as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, before accepting an assignment with the National Aeronautics and Space Council, while still remaining an astronaut.

Ford was the pilot for the Space Shuttle Discovery during its August 2009 flight.

The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968 ( the unaired pilot " No Place To Hide " and the 1998 reunion " Lost In Space Forever " bring the total number of episodes to 85 ).

They will be accompanied by their pilot, US Space Corps Major Donald West ( Mark Goddard ), who is trained to fly the ship in the unlikely event that its sophisticated automatic guidance system malfunctions.

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.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

William Cameron " Willie " McCool ( September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.

Michael John Smith ( April 30, 1945 – January 28, 1986 ), usually known as Mike Smith, was an American astronaut — pilot of the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was destroyed during the STS-51-L mission.

Meaney appeared in two Star Trek pilot episodes ( The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine ), a distinction shared only with Patrick Stewart and Armin Shimerman.

STS-9's six-member crew, the largest of any manned space mission at the time, included John W. Young, commander, on his second shuttle flight ; Brewster H. Shaw, pilot ; Owen Garriott and Robert A. Parker, both mission specialists ; and Byron K. Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold, payload specialists-the first two non-NASA astronauts to fly on the Space Shuttle.

STS-4 launched from Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on 27 June 1982 at 11: 00 am EST, with Ken Mattingly as commander, and Henry Hartsfield as pilot.

Commander Sisko, feeling that Quark's presence would encourage commercial tourism to boost the station's economy, exhorted Quark to stay, using his nephew, Nog as a bargaining chip, in the Deep Space Nine pilot episode, " Emissary ".

The State Space Commission nominated Tereshkova to pilot Vostok 6 at their meeting on 21 May and this was confirmed by Nikita Khrushchev himself.

In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was The City of New York ( a Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking ); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ( named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions ); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named " Stars And Stripes " ( now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum ); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia ( Byrd's birth state ).

The aftermath is depicted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II " and the battle in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pilot, " Emissary.

During the last mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, STS-134, a five-star insignia of Arnold's preserved in the National Museum of the United States Air Force was carried into space by shuttle pilot Gregory H. Johnson as a commemorative gesture to Arnold's legacy.

In " Emissary ", the pilot episode, the United Federation of Planets dispatches Commander Benjamin Sisko to take command of the space station Deep Space Nine.

Space pilot A. Leonov and Professor S. Kapitsa took part in the ceremony.

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.