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Television pilots within a series.. This category includes pilot episodes that were not broadcast as the series premiere.. It also includes backdoor pilots, i.e. films or miniseries that serve as a proof of concept for a full series, but may be broadcast on their own even if the full series is not picked up.
The final episode, "Comedy Cowboys", was intended as a backdoor pilot for a new series. In this two-part episode, new characters Honcho, The Mystery Maverick, and the Posse Impossible, appear and help to clear Hong Kong Phooey of a crime. These characters later appear in their own continuing segment, "Posse Impossible" on CB Bears.
A backdoor pilot is a film or miniseries that serves as a proof of concept for a full series, [9] but may be broadcast on its own even if the full series is not picked up. [10] The term may also be used for an episode of an existing television show that serves to introduce a potential or already planned spin-off. Such backdoor pilots commonly ...
The two-part episode Knight Rider episode "Mouth of the Snake", [1] was a backdoor pilot for a 1984 series to be called All That Glitters. Rejected by NBC, the lead character and actor were recycled for a short-lived 1985–1986 series titled Code of Vengeance , in it, David Dalton ( Charles Taylor ), a Vietnam veteran -turned- drifter ...
The season-two finale, "Carrick O'Quinn", was a backdoor pilot for a Renegade spin-off series with O'Quinn played by Don Michael Paul. In the Carrick O'Quinn episode, O'Quinn was head of a police commando squad, which accidentally blinded a judge named Sarah Jessup, a friend of Reno's, while trying to rescue her from danger.
A spin-off in television is a new series containing characters or settings that originated in a previous series, but with a different focus, tone, or theme. For example, the series Frasier was a spin-off of the earlier series Cheers: the character Frasier Crane was introduced as a secondary character on Cheers, and became the protagonist of his own series, set in a different city, in the spin-off.
The episode, which noticeably has little appearance of Magnum or any other regular characters, acted as a backdoor pilot for a proposed spin-off series starring Lucking. However, the series was never picked up, although Bellisario stripped down the "adventures of an ace pilot" concept and worked it into Airwolf (1984–1986).
The story is told from the perspective of an online reality show created by Rick Jones to foster public acceptance of the Hulk as a hero and not a monster. The "show" is filmed by drones that accompany the Agents of the Supreme Military Agency of Super Humans (S.M.A.S.H.) everywhere they go.