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.

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 2001, there was an attempt to revive the Bonanza concept with a prequel, Ponderosa, with a pilot directed by Simon Wincer and filmed in Australia.

The Gossip Girl episode " Valley Girls " was supposed to be a backdoor pilot for a prequel spin-off series starring Brittany Snow as a young Lily van der Woodsen ; the series was to be set in the 1980s.

This leads to a minor continuity error in the B5 film In the Beginning, in that Delenn's appearance in overall series continuity begins feminine in this prequel, becomes masculine in the pilot, and returns to feminine in the series.

This painting scheme has continued to be reproduced in both the prequel series " Macross Zero " ( 2002 ), on Focker's VF-0S experimental Valkyrie, and more recently " Macross Frontier " ( 2008 ), where the pilot Ozma Lee, as the senior leader of Skull Squadron, has the markings on his VF-25S.

He played X-wing pilot Wedge Antilles in all three original Star Wars movies, a series that would in its prequel star his nephew Ewan McGregor.

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.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

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.

In the powerboat part of the multihull spectrum we find a range of boats from small single pilot Formula 1 power boat series to the large multi-engined or even gas turbined power boats that are used in the off-shore powerboat racing series and that are piloted by 2 to 4 pilots.

The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.

ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis / Lakeside to produce the series for US audiences.

The film was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U. S .- based ABC television network.

Theora Jones was played by Amanda Pays and first appeared in the British-made television pilot film for the series.

In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway.

The book is based on the teleplay for the TV pilot of the series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures by Burt Armus.

The 1996 pilot to the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures also features Pellucidar, as well as the character Jana from the book Tarzan at the Earth's Core.

* " Scorpio " ( Flashpoint ), the pilot of the TV series Flashpoint