UNSOLD TV PILOTS COLLECTION - 40 DVDS
*Good to excellent averaging 8 in quality. A true collectors dream set.
DISC 1ALARM... Starring Richard Arlen, Chick Chandler, Dick Simmons. When a serial arsonist strikes in a residential neighborhood, Captain London and his assistant, McCuen, are detailed to prevent more blazes and apprehend the perpetrator. Their attention initially focuses on an unhappy mailman whose wife died in a similar fire the preceding year until London stumbles upon a clue that links the arsons;
ALARM... Starring John Hoyt, Dorothy Green John Hubbard and hosted by Fred Waring; stories of firemen in action. Boston, Massachusetts firefighters race to the rescue when the famous Coconut Grove, a nightclub overcrowded with wartime merrymakers, catches fire. While the dining area and dance floor are engulfed in flames, a stage actor celebrating his successful comeback tries to break through a small window so guests can flee through the rear of the building; THE BIG EASY... Starring William Devane;
DISC 2...
THE HEART OF HONOLULU... Starring Warren Stevens;
STEEL COLLAR MAN... Starring Charles Rocket, Hoyt Axton, Dorian Lopinto; An android soldier and it's creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and wants to destroy it), and find help from a truck driver with whom they help people;
MR. TERRIFIC... Starring Alan Young, Stephen Strimpell, Richard Gautier and Paul Smith; Stanley Beamish, the weakling proprietor of a Washington gas station, is also a top-secret super agent. When the Government's Bureau of Special Projects needs Stanley, he takes a pill that gives him an hour's worth of strength, courage and flying time;
DISC 3...
WESTERN UNION... Starring Richard Anderson;TAGTEAM... Starring Jesse Ventura, Roddy Piper and Phill Lewis; Tricky Rick MacDonald and Billy The Body Youngblood are two of the best wrestlers in the country. They are told to take a dive by the wife of a promoter. If they don't, she will make sure they are blackballed from wrestling. When they don't do what she says, they are fired immediately. They try many jobs without any success. When they stop a grocery store robbery, they get the idea to be cops. So begins a new chapter in the life of this tag team. Bad guys, watch out!!!;
WHERE'S POPPA?... (1979) Starring Elsa Lancaster (original Bride Of Frankenstein), Steven Keats, Allan Miller, Judith-Marie Bergan; directed by Richard Benjamin;
DISC 4...
333 MONTGOMERY STREET... Starring DeForest Kelley, Tol Avery, Joanna Barnes & Joanne Davis; Though it was not acknowledged in the screen credits, Jacob W. Erhlich's novel "Never Plead Guilty" was the source material for this pilot. Writer: Gene Roddenberry;
SIMON LASH... Starring Jock Mahoney; CHICAGO 2-1-2... Starring Frank Lovejoy, Roy Thinnes & Curley Bradley; A Chicago fire investigator attempts to apprehend the arsonist who has set a series of blazes in run-down buildings near the river. He suspects that the perpetrator might be part of the throng of onlookers that gawk at the firefighters battling the blazes. When a deaf woman is seriously injured in one of the torched buildings, the inspector redoubles his efforts to arrest the firebug before one of his blazes results in death. Original air date 4/30/57;
THE MARSHAL OF TRAIL CITY... Starring Wild Bill Elliott, Dub Taylor, Valley Keene; A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands;DISC 5... THE EMMETT KELLY SHOW... Starring Emmett Kelly;
A LIGHT IN THE FRUIT CLOSET... From Goodyear Theatre, Starring Jacklyn O’Donnell, Steve Dunne, Maggie Hayes; original air date 4/27/59;
SHOW WAGON... From Goodyear Theatre, Starring Jack Albertson, Luke Anthony, Connie Hines & Toby Michaels, original air date 2/29/60;I REMEMBER CAVIAR... From Goodyear Theatre, Starring Pat Crowley, Elliott Reid, Lurene Tuttle & Jack Mulhall; original air date 5/11/59;
BOYDEN VS BUNTY... From Alcoa Threatre, Starring Bert Convy, Robert Trumbull, Kathy Reed, Jimmy Bates, Raymond Bailey, Madge Blake, Helen Kleeb; original air date 5/18/59;
UNSOLD TV PILOTS COLLECTION - 40 DVDS
DISC 6...
THE MIGHTY ‘O’... Starring Craig Stevens & Alan Hale;
STARR OF THE YANKEES... (aka Starr, First Baseman, 1965, 30 mins) Starring Martin Milner, Steven Boyd, Stuart Whitman and David Thursby; New York Yankee rookie Joe Starr (Martin Milner) attempts to make a comeback after being injured when he is hit in the head by a baseball during a game; BUNCO... Starring Robert Urich, Tom Selleck & Milt Kogan; Tom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad, in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swindlers. Most of their time is spent dealing with penny-ante street-corner crooks. But their investigations start to reveal a larger con game in progress;
DISC 7...COOL & LAM... Starring Billy Pearson & Benay Ventua and created by Earle Stanley Gardner under the pseudonym of A. A. Fair; light-hearted pilot for a proposed 1958 CBS detective series. Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a detective agency while her dimunitive junior partner Donald Lam provides the legs and padded expense account. In the pilot, Lam's investigation of infidelity leads to murder;
DING HOWE AND THE FLYING TIGERS... Starring Richard Denning; RIO... Starring James Best and Adam West;DISC 8...WHO GOES THERE... Starring Pat Hingle, Ben Blue & Lisa Gaye;
WITCHCRAFT... Starring Blanche Yurka, John Baragrey, Darren McGavin and Robert Middleton; Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set eyes on Marie again. Louis enlists the help of his old friend Fred to break the witch's spell so the young lovers may finally marry. However, Madame Tirelou proves more powerful than non-believer Fred bargained for;
BATGIRL... Starring Yvonne Craig, Adam West and Burt Ward; At the Gotham City Library, Barbara Gordon helps Bruce Wayne find a book on butterflies so he can prove a point to a friend, a millionaire explorer. As Bruce and his youthful ward, Dick Grayson, are leaving they spot the villainous Killer Moth and three of his henchmen and, suspecting they are up to no good, determine to return as their superhero alter-egos, Batman and Robin. While the Caped Crusaders are donning their costumes, the criminal quartet knock out the millionaire, lock Barbara in an alcove and prepare to spirit their victim away. When the Dynamic Duo attempt to capture the crooks, they are encased in Killer Moth's silk cocoon. Is this the end of our Gotham City heroes? And why does a beautiful librarian have a cowl and a cape hanging in a convenient closet? (1967);
DICK TRACY... Starring Ray MacDonnell, Monroe Arnold and Jay Blood; Eve Plumb appears in the opening credit sequence of this pilot episode but does not appear in the episode itself. "The Plot to Kill Nato" was to be used as the episode title had this pilot gone to series;
WONDERWOMAN... Starring Ellie Wood Walker; At the height of the popularity of "Batman" (1966), producer William Dozier produced this short film in hopes of getting approval from Warner Brothers to produce a pilot episode for a "Wonder Woman" series, based on the comic book. Unlike "Batman," which was campy adventure, "Wonder Woman" was going to be a straight comedy series, along the lines of "Captain Nice." The resulting short written by several writers on the Batman series failed to win Dozier that approval;
DISC 9...
KEEFER... Starring William Conrad, Michael O'Hare and Cathy Lee Crosby; A U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II (1978);
HARRY'S GIRLS... Starring Larry Blyden, Dawn Nickerson and Susan Silo; Harry Burns is the leader of a old-style vaudeville troupe consisting of three girls, Rusty, Lois, and Terry. Their old-fashioned style dance numbers are out of style in the US, but they've found a new audience in Europe. Now Harry has to balance the demands of the stage with his new role as the girls' chaperone;
DISC 10...
THE BEST DEFENSE... Starring Steven Landesberg, Rita Moreno and Clint Howard; ala "Barney Miller" and "Taxi" type sitcom. This situation takes place behind the scenes in the DA and Public Defender's office, jail and courtroom and the many situations that can arise. Steve Landesberg plays the lead public defender. Rita Moreno is the judge, and Clint Howard is the criminal defendant;
THE BUREAU... Starring Adam Trese, Andrea Roth and Dan Hedaya;
CLASS OF '55... Starring Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, Louise Lasser, John Carcher; 1972 comedy;