According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

In the 2010 French documentary, Le Jeu de la Mort ( The Game of Death ), researchers recreated the Milgram experiment with an added critique of reality television by presenting the scenario as a game show pilot.

Cinemax aired the UK pilot followed by a six-week run of highlights from The Max Headroom Show, a music video show where Headroom appears between music videos.

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 creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

During this period, Moe, Larry, and Shemp made a pilot for a Three Stooges television show called Jerks of All Trades in 1949.

First airing as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, the show aired in seven series until 1975.

The show centers on a fictional state police force led by former U. S. naval officer Steve McGarrett ( played by Jack Lord ), who was appointed by the Governor, Paul Jameson ( played by Richard Denning, though Lew Ayres played the Governor in the pilot ).

In the show, McGarrett oversaw State Police officers — a young officer, Danny Williams ( played by Tim O ' Kelly in the show's pilot but replaced in the regular series by James MacArthur ), Chin Ho Kelly ( played by Kam Fong Chun ) and Kono Kalakaua ( played by Zulu ) for seasons one through four.

The one-hour pilot for a revived show, called Hawaii Five-0 ( the last character is a zero instead of the letter " O "), aired September 20, 2010 on CBS, and as of October 2010, the series now airs Monday nights at 10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central time.

After two pilot episodes were produced in 1974 and 1975, the show premiered on September 13, 1976, and five seasons were produced until March 15, 1981, lasting 120 episodes.

The first comic book that directly referenced the Amazing Friends show was Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends # 1 ( December 1981 ), a one-shot that adapted the pilot episode, " The Triumph of the Green Goblin ".

Announcer Ernie Anderson, the narrator of the pilot episodes, died of cancer in 1997 before the show premiered, and he was replaced by Tom Kenny for the remainder of the series.

The original pilot episode clip was called the " Flagstones " ( which first appeared in 1959 as a 90-second promotion to draw advertisers to the show ) and was later reincorporated into the show's first episode ( third episode in original air date order ).

Gunplay is relatively rare on the part of the IMF, as its methods are more sophisticated and subtle like those used by con men to fleece the gullible, although several episodes in the early seasons ( for example, the second season episode " The Spy ," as well as in the pilot episode ) do show the agents shooting people when necessary ( usually underlings or enemy soldiers ).

The show is noteworthy in that Bixby insisted on doing all of the magic himself, without any trick photography, although it was not possible for this to be the case in the TV-movie / pilot.

In Summer of 2007, the song " Good Monsters " was featured in the pilot of the television show Eli Stone.

In the meantime, some YCDTOTV cast members continued to hone their on-camera skills through appearances in Bear Rapids, a Price / Darby pilot film that was never picked up, and Something Else, a local game show on CJOH with a format somewhat similar to the live and local episodes of YCDTOTV.

The show began as a black-and-white pilot episode filmed for CBS on April 21, 1965.

Creator Jennifer Saunders revived the show as a fourth series in 2001 after having written and submitted a pilot to the BBC entitled Mirrorball, which recruited nearly all of the original " Absolutely Fabulous " cast in new roles.

This was the only change in rules between the pilot and the actual show.

Peter Tomarken, who had just come off of a 13-week gig as the host of Hit Man on NBC, was tapped to be the host, and a pilot, which included game show pilot mainstay Jack Campion, and future PYL contestant Maggie Brown ( both of whom appeared on pilot # 3 of Second Chance ) as contestants, was filmed in May 1983.

In 1975, Williams later starred with Leslie Phillips, Lance Percival, Miriam Margolyes and others, in the short-lived radio sketch show Oh, Get On with It ( based on a pilot episode entitled Get On With It ), which also featured appearances by Rambling Syd.

Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.

For example, one courtroom scene in the pilot episode had the jury break into song, proclaiming their verdict on the defendant (" He's Guilty ") Gospel-style.

This consisted of a mock-up of the front fuselage of the Halifax, the pilot's flight controls being simulated through an analogue system that gave artificial resistance (" feel ") when the pilot moved the controls.

The pilot episode had a different character (" Bunny ") played by actress Nancy McCarthy.

The direct descendants of Abbott and Hamilton Gray include John Kimble Hamilton (" Kim ") Abbott, a political commentator and lobbyist and a WWII Royal Canadian Airforce pilot in the infamous " Demon Squadron ".

The original pilot of Star Trek (" The Cage ", later reworked into the two-part episode " The Menagerie ") included plot points similar to that touched upon in this episode, particularly the aspect of humans being put on display for study.

The British aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe developed the first practical man-carrying hovercraft, the SR. N1, which carried out several test programmes in 1959 to 1961 ( the first public demonstration in 1959 ), including a cross-channel test run in July 1959 piloted by Peter (" Sheepy ") Lamb, an ex-naval test pilot and the Chief Test Pilot at Saunders Roe.

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.

On June 12, 1942, Bong flew very low over (" buzzed ") a house in nearby San Anselmo, the home of a pilot who had just been married.

Examples are Bonnie and Clyde, A River Runs Through It, The World's Fastest Indian, Stand By Me, and the pilot episode (" Genesis ") of Quantum Leap.

" Battersea " was used in the 1999 pilot of NBC TV series Third Watch and in the end of the show's last episode (" Goodbye to Camelot "), in 2005.

* Roger Grosjean (" Fido "), a French Air Force pilot who worked for the British

Here, the pilot requests the regional air pressure, which is given as 1016 millibars for the Cotswold Altimeter Setting Region (" ASR ") ( one of twenty ASRs into which UK Lower Airspace is divided ).

The role of Adam Klaus was originally cast to Anthony Head in 1997 in the pilot episode (" The Wrestler's Tomb ").

(" The malfunction of the pitch horizon scanner circuit component of the automatic control system dictated that the pilot manually control the spacecraft attitudes during this event.

Rounds include " true or false ", the filmclip round, the impressions round and " The Dove from Above " (" The Blue Suitcase " in the pilot, and later briefly replaced by " The Crow From Below ", " The Vest From the West ", " George Dawes from the Upper Floors ," " Donald Cox – The Sweaty Fox ," " The Fly From Upon High " and " The Beast From The East " using the head of Ron Atkinson as well as various other one-off ideas ).

Seen in both (" The Pony Remark ") and in the pilot which Jerry and George create for NBC.

She is briefly reassigned to SHADO HQ when it is suggested that she may be romantically involved with Interceptor pilot Mark Bradley (" Computer Affair ").

In the Luftstreitkräfte the medal was nicknamed (" Der blaue Max "/" The Blue Max "), after Max Immelmann, who was the first fighter pilot to receive this award.

But as it turns out, the crash was deliberately set up, as the pilot contacts his superior (" Mr. Big "/" Shark King ") via walkie-talkie.

The Enterprise-D also appears in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (" Emissary "), and the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise (" These Are the Voyages ...").

According to Zabel and Friedman's original plan, the pilot and first season ( given the overall title " Official Denial ") would cover the period from 1961 to 1969, the second season (" Progenitor ") 1970 to 1976, the third season (" Cloak of Fear ") 1977 to 1986, the fourth season (" New World Order ") would cover 1987 to 1999, and the fifth and final season (" Stroke of Midnight ") would break from the decade-spanning format to encompass the apocalyptic final conflict against the invaders, taking place from 2000 to 2001.