Unsold Television Pilots

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : Backinprint.com
ISBN 13 : 9780595189649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsold TV Pilots written by Lee Goldberg and published by Backinprint.com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable encyclopedia.” —TV Guide “A must-browse for media freaks.” —USA Today “Irresistible and enthralling.” —Hartford Courant “Full of fool’s gold and genuine TV treasures.” —The New York Post The three hundred best and worst TV series ideas— known in the industry as “pilots”— that never made it to primetime. From the adventures of a Samurai D.A. to the antics of an invisible alien baby, Lee Goldberg details the greatest shows you never saw.

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511590679
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsold Television Pilots written by Lee Goldberg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A television pilot is a sample episode of a proposed weekly series. An unsold pilot is much, much more. It's fresh faces and old favorites lining up for a one-night stand with the viewing public. It's producers, writers, directors, and network executives scrambling to keep up with the changing trends in American taste. It's the betting stub you're left with after your horse has lost the race...The networks are in the entertainment business and lucky for us consumers, even the business-behind-the-business is entertainment. Pilots may be lunacy, but as long as they make them, as long as they sneak into primetime, we can all pretend we can run a network" --

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : McFarland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780899503738
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsold Television Pilots written by Lee Goldberg and published by McFarland Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsold Television Pilots is a detailed compilation of all the unsold television series concepts that, from 1955 through 1988, reached the development stage at the networks--but didn't sell. Pilots are listed by year and title and include production credits, plot synopsis and when applicable, air dates. The Introduction explains what a pilot is, and how the television marketplace works now and has worked in the past. An exhaustive index (actors, writers, directors, producers and pilots) and separate lists of pilots that are based on movies, pilots that are continuations of cancelled series, and pilots that are spin-offs of characters from other series are also included.

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474459
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2012 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work, the most complete guide to aired and unaired television pilot films ever published (or made available in any way), contains 5,190 alphabetically arranged programs, each with storyline information, performer and character cast listings, producers, air dates (where applicable), genre, and network or cable association. Also included are the unaired versions of pilots that became a series (like 90 Bristol Court, Hazel, The Middle and Perfect Strangers) and the updates of aired series that were never telecast (e.g., The Robinsons: Lost in Space, the 1997 version of Hawaii Five-0, the 2011 Wonder Woman and the 2001 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl).

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633495
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the years 1945–2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that never went into production, and those that became series but with a different cast, such as The Green Hornet, The Middle and Superman. Rarities include proposed shows starring Bela Lugosi, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert and Mae West, along with such casting curiosities as Mona Freeman, not Gale Storm, as Margie in My Little Margie, and John Larkin as Perry Mason long before Raymond Burr played the role.

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : Cutting Edge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781511590747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best TV Shows That Never Were written by Lee Goldberg and published by Cutting Edge Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEST TV SHOWS THAT NEVER WERE"The Best Bathroom Reading EVER," - San Francisco Chronicle"A must-browse for media freaks." -USA Today"Irresistible and enthralling." -Hartford Courant"Full of fool's gold and genuine TV treasures." -The New York Post This lively and entertaining book looks at the three hundred best and worst TV series ideas-known in the industry as "pilots"-that never made it to primetime from 1955-1990. From the adventures of a Samurai D.A. to the antics of an invisible alien baby, Lee Goldberg reveals the most astonishing, funny, and bizarre shows that never were. "You'll slap your head in disbelief-try not to hurt yourself-at the idea of John Denver as a singing FBI agent. You'll wonder whether Joe Penny as a samurai district attorney would have been funnier-unintentionally-that John Belushi's 'Saturday Night Live.' For tube-historians, this is a must see." - People MagazineThis book was previously published as "Unsold TV Pilots: The Greatest Shows You Never Saw" and "Unsold TV Pilots: The Almost Complete Guide To Everything You Never Saw on TV"

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780806512426
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsold TV Pilots written by Lee Goldberg and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone who has ever laughed at the television industry's knack for dreaming up wacky ideas, here is the ultimate TV reference guide. It's all here--from Groucho Marx playing billionaire J. Paul Greedy to Norman Lear's "McGurk", in which actors dressed in dog suits barked one-liners at each other. Includes over 300 annotated listings and a complete index of actors, writiers, directors, producers, and pilots.

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : Backinprint.com
ISBN 13 : 9780595194292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsold Television Pilots, 1955-1988 written by Lee Goldberg and published by Backinprint.com. This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best bathroom reading ever!” —San Francisco Chronicle “The shows that got away—luckily.” —Hollywood Reporter “Packed with amusing failures.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Irresistible and enthralling.” —Hartford Courant “Full of fool’s gold and genuine TV treasures.” —The New York Post Finally in paperback! This two-volume set will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about the thousands of TV series ideas rejected by the networks since 1955—who made them, who starred in them, what they were about, and why they ultimately failed.

Author : Robert Goldsborough
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453266372
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archie Meets Nero Wolfe written by Robert Goldsborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “excellent” novel that goes back to 1920s New York to reveal how the famed detective first met his incomparable sidekick (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks—with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being “trigger-happy,” he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective’s assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it’s the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate, that introduces Goodwin to the man who will change his life. Goodwin knows there’s only one detective who can help find Tommie: Nero Wolfe, the stout genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street. Together, they’ll form one of the most unlikely crime fighting duos in history—but first Goodwin must locate Tommie and prove that he deserves a place by Wolfe’s side. In this witty story about the origin of a legendary partnership, Robert Goldsborough gloriously evokes the spirit of Nero Wolfe’s creator, bestselling author Rex Stout, and breathes new life into his beloved characters.

Author : Jon Abbott
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454016
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions written by Jon Abbott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of 1980s television was shaped by a man who stayed behind the scenes. Stephen Cannell's reluctant white knights--put-upon private eye James Rockford, World War II fly-boys the Black Sheep Squadron, hapless superhero Ralph Hinckley, fugitive mercenaries the A-Team, and maverick cop Hunter--traversed the television landscape from the 1970s to the 1990s. Cannell changed the face of the action-adventure genre, updating the crime-show format with a hybrid of rebellious morality, juvenile wit, intelligent sarcasm, and radical conservatism. This book discusses in detail the programs of the writer-producer and lists every episode of his award-winning productions from the early 1970s to the early '90s. The book features publicity photos and descriptions of unsold pilots.