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- DirectorDon MedfordStarsArt HindleRobyn DouglassJohn van DreelenIn order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsLewis SmithMiguel FerrerSharon StoneIn this unsold post-apocalyptic TV pilot, a U.S. marshal and his by-the-book cyborg partner are tasked to escort two mail order brides to a remote desert area where their husbands work, but a local bandit leader has other plans for them.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsRay WiseWendy KilbourneVic PolizosUnsold TV pilot about a hardboiled special police agent prejudiced towards robots and his beautiful new female android partner hunting his nemesis, an escaped female terrorist known as Black Widow, in the noir future of 1999.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsCornelia SharpeJayne KennedyDon GallowayTwo beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsCharles RocketDorian LopintoHoyt AxtonAn android soldier and its 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.
- DirectorRon SatlofStarsTerence KnoxGary KasperAimee EcclesScientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyJeff LiebermanStarsRobert VaughnRobert PeraultDavid SelbyManhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
- CreatorKenneth JohnsonStarsMichael NouriCarol BaxterStephen JohnsonCount Dracula is alive and well and teaching college in 1979 under false identity. However, someone is still trying to stop his evil plans. Originally aired as part of NBC's Cliffhangers TV series which featured three revolving serials.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsSaul RubinekGerald S. O'LoughlinHank GarrettThe exploits of Dusty, a Los Angeles cabbie who longs to be a private detective. The pilot episode establishes how Dusty becomes the apprentice of world renown private investigator investigator Tim Halloran. Halloran uses Dusty's cab to follow a suspect and Dusty latches onto him, aids him, and soon becomes his assistant. In their first case together, Dusty and Halloran become involved with a kidnapped girl and missing drugs sought by mobsters.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsBurl IvesChristopher ConnellyMeredith MacRaeA family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsChristopher GeorgeWilliam WindomMarlyn MasonA scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
- DirectorRichard IrvingStarsDavid AckroydAnne SchedeenA MartinezA professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsPeter HaskellJoan BennettBarbara RushA young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave. He helps a girl investigate her brother's alleged murder.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAlex CordMariette HartleyTed CassidyA scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsJohn SaxonJanet MargolinTed CassidyA man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where women rule the world and men are slaves called Dinks. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJohn SaxonKathleen MillerKeene CurtisIn the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsKen WahlNancy AllenRobert CulpA road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDack RamboElyssa DavalosRichard LynchA writer, Andy Stuart, teams up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsGil GerardBernie CaseyWings HauserA cop becomes deaf in a fight, tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.
- DirectorSam O'SteenStarsVictor BuonoJoseph SirolaDon StroudA troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
- DirectorEdward M. AbromsStarsPaul HechtNancy KellyMeredith BaxterAn ex-Army intelligence agent is hired to impersonate a rich builder who has been marked for assassination. While impersonating the builder, he discovers a conspiracy to embezzle a land-development company.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsScott BakulaEllen BryJoey CramerWhen a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsScott BakulaDebrah FarentinoCharles KeatingA scientist's experiment conveys him to another lab where his body is fused with a mechanism that can't be easily extracted---its co-creator is holding the device's plans for ransom.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsBette DavisRobert WagnerDenholm ElliottA C.I.A. Agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsJames DarrenJohn CrawfordPatrick CullitonOn a blue alien planet, a man stands in an arena, watched by 5 alien beings. They are testing the man's mental and physical abilities. His identity is that of a man 27 years old, born in 1951 on planet Earth.
- DirectorNicholas SgarroStarsBob NeillTim O'ConnorVic MorrowA man whose father was an alien from another planet inherits his father's supernatural powers. He is assigned to guard a beautiful Indian princess who is on a state visit to America.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsJared MartinKatie SaylorRobert ItoTwo men and a woman, all friends and martial arts experts, visit Hong Kong, where they grew up. When the woman disappears, the men find out that she has been kidnapped by white slavers, and find themselves battling a gang of kung-fu killers in an attempt to rescue their friend.
- DirectorDavid JacksonStarsWilliam BumillerShanti OwenPage MoselyTwo intergalactic 'Microcops' chase a cosmic crook named Cloyd to Earth, where their size becomes cellular.
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsEsther RolleKene HolidayFrank ConverseA maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real-life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.
- DirectorGary ShermanStarsJohn ForsytheJames StephensPriscilla PointerTwo aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsJames RemarLoryn LocklinPenny Johnson JeraldA cop teams up with a psychic to track down a serial killer.
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsGreg EviganDeborah WakehamMitchell RyanAn astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsBruce AbbottBill MaherRebecca SchaefferA cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his great grandfather to capture a master criminal.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsKim DarbyWilliam ShatnerDiane VarsiA teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsJames FarentinoHarrison FordClaudette NevinsA former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsArt HindleEdward BinnsJoseph RassuloA daredevil pilot becomes a human dynamo after being struck by lighting and is then pursued by enemy agents determined to find out the secret of his superhuman strength.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsRobert FoxworthMike FarrellJohn VernonProject Questor is the brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik, who developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he has disappeared and half of the programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed in creating Questor. However, Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain. He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who is now suspected of having stolen the android.
- DirectorDean HargroveStarsLarry HagmanJenny O'HaraNicholas ColasantoA Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsJoe PennyDana ElcarBeulah QuoLee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
- DirectorRichard LangStarsBilly Dee WilliamsParker StevensonJohn P. RyanTwo television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
- DirectorJonathan R. BetuelStarsDavid BeecroftRichard LawsonClaudette NevinsA San Francisco police detective is rendered voiceless and vows revenge when his family is murdered by a serial killer.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsGlenn CorbettCameron MitchellSharon AckerAn astronaut finds himself on a planet that's (almost) exactly like Earth.
- DirectorHal NeedhamStarsChristopher MayerSusanna DaltonSam J. JonesA group of Hollywood stunt performers are recruited by former U.S. Intelligance agent Dirk Macauley (Corbett) to retrieve a stolen laser gun from a notorious arms dealer in this pilot to a proposed TV series.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsSam GroomTom HallickFrancine YorkDuring an outbreak of a contagious disease in 1976, two scientists are sent back in time to 1871, when a Chicago doctor apparently had the cure for it.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsJim HagerJon HagerLillian GishTwo identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsJoseph HackerKeith AndesMacon McCalmanA secret agent is trained by having his brain linked up to a computer. He is then sent on a mission to rescue a Russian sub commander. The Russian is a defector who has important secrets but has been captured by an agent of an enemy nation.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsJason MillerRichard LynchE.G. MarshallVampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
- DirectorRichard LangStarsLeah AyresShari BelafonteMary-Margaret HumesA female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, match wits with a group of criminals who have kidnapped a top defensive specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJoseph BottomsMark DodsonMargarita FarrellWishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsGranville Van DusenBeatrice StraightTovah FeldshuhAfter a near-death experience from a vehicle accident, a sportswriter finds that people in the afterlife are able to contact him and cryptically suggest that he help someone they know.
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsGranville Van DusenJoBeth WilliamsBarnard HughesA golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island. An episode called "Monster" from the TV-series "The World Beyond".
- DirectorJoel ZwickStarsKaren ValentineJon CutlerMark KingTwo everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsGeorge CarlinMolly HaganTimothy StackThe ghost of a private detective teams up with an unemployed dancer to find the identity of the woman known as "The Lady in Black" who killed him.
- StarsNancy DolmanDaren KellyMillie SlavinWhen Hollywood private detective Ben Landon (William Windom) is murdered while investigating a case, his adult children Holly and Nick (Nancy Dolman, Daren Kelly) decide to keep his agency going. Ben returns to Earth as a ghost to help his children run the agency, and be the father he never was to them.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsSammy Davis Jr.Christopher LeeJack KlugmanA young down on his luck resident of Hell (Sammy Davis, Jr.) is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down on his luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsChris MulkeyCatherine OxenbergDennis HaysbertA policeman and a female scientist team up to recover her latest creation, a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGeorge NewbernAmy YasbeckFrank McRaeThe talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.
- DirectorJames QuinnStarsRobert WuhlLouis GussTraci LindAn unsuccessful reporter finds his luck changing when he becomes the owner of a talented dog.
- DirectorDonald PetrieStarsTom WilsonWendee PrattBradley MottUnsold television pilot based on the 1989 film. Detective Scott Turner and his unlikely canine partner Hooch are assigned to investigate the thefts of strange objects around town.
- DirectorRichard RothsteinStarsBud CortLori PettyMoses GunnA mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.
- DirectorBobby RothStarsLewis SmithJames LaurensonRobert PicardoAn alien lands on Earth and decides that he needs to take a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can get back to his home planet.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsKate JacksonAndrew StevensJack WardenA recently deceased couple try, any way they can, to get into heaven rather than wander the Earth as invisible souls with no purpose.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLouis JourdanLynda Day GeorgeCarroll O'ConnorA psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsLouis JourdanAnne BaxterDiana HylandA psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsJames Whitmore Jr.Tom SelleckJoseph RuskinSatan's bug, a deadly pathogen, is being developed in a secret German laboratory underneath a vineyard in an occupied French village during World War II. A team of Allied operatives must infiltrate the lab with the help of local gypsies and steal it.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsJohn DenverMeg WittnerDavid RenanA retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. There, he investigates his friends murder, and drug smuggling. He also plays guitar and sings for his friends from time to time.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsTom MasonEric BraedenMelinda O. FeeAn alien mother ship hovering in Earth's atmosphere is the base for an attempted alien invasion of Earth.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsGranville Van DusenMorgan FairchildLen BirmanTwo U.S. Secret Service agents are lured on a bizarre search for their rookie partner who has mysteriously disappeared.Two secret agents set out in search of a missing comrade.
- DirectorTony WharmbyStarsBrandon LeeDavid DarlowMiguel FerrerA modern-day descendant of Caine hopes to turn his estranged son away from a life of crime.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsChristopher GeorgeWilliam SchallertMichael BaseleonA government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsAndrew ClarkeGeorge RoseKevin TigheSimon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsRobert ConradRoss MartinPaul WilliamsWest and Gordon come out of retirement to find out who is replacing world leaders with lookalikes. They go to Arizona where the son of their old enemy is found, and with his arsenal of weapons, is a bigger threat than his father ever was.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsRobert ConradRoss MartinJonathan WintersRobert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
- DirectorGreg BeemanStarsJustin HartleyLou Diamond PhillipsDenise QuiñonesA young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe underwater.
- DirectorStephen HerekStarsPeter KowankoJohn Rhys-DaviesG.W. BaileyA young boy can transfer his body energy into ESP and heal sick people. While the subject of scientists' studies, he runs away to try to find out about his past and why he is the way he is.
- DirectorJohn BlackStarsElisabeth SladenJohn LeesonBill FraserOne time companion of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith returns to Earth and carries on with her journalist career. Now, in 1981, she has managed to rebuild her career and has come, a matter of days before Christmas, to her aunt Lavinia's (a famous scientist) house in the sleepy English village of Moreton Harwood to write a book and to rest after her world-travelling assignments. However, her journalist's nose sniffs out another mystery when she arrives to find Aunt Lavinia gone, and nobody knows where she is, but the local rumour is that she was the victim of a local witch coven. Worshipers of a pagan goddess Hecate gather to celebrate a festival by ritually murdering a friend of Sarah's. She needs help - and she gets it from a box from her friend "The Doctor." Inside the box is a metal robotic but almost human-like talking dog called K-9 that is built for Sarah Jane personally and together Sarah and K-9 sets out to solve the mystery and stop the killing of Sarah's friend.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsJayne BrookMike ErwinBrad JohnsonFifteen years after his daring raid turned the tide of an extraterrestrial invasion of the Earth, Col. John Robinson is retired from active service with grand ceremony. Hoping to repair damaged relationships with his estranged family, he volunteers them to take part in a multi-family colonization project bound for a newly-discovered star system. En route, the massive mothership is attacked by the same aliens he defeated so many years before. As alien forces board the ship, John and pilot Major Don West detach the Robinsons' landing pod and escape with the family through a nearby wormhole, becoming lost in space.
- DirectorMarcus NispelStarsParker PoseyVincent PerezThomas KretschmannWhen a detective begins investigating a series of horrific murders, she is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.
- DirectorChristopher CroweStarsJ.A. PrestonRoy BrocksmithJohn FinnRobosaurus arrives in this futuristic tale of a policeman's dangerous job in a violent city. The robot and the cop team up to fight a crusade against evil.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Millie SlavinNoble WillinghamWestern spoof concerning the adventures of a black Sheriff and his fast-drawing sidekick fighting corruption and bigotry in the old west. Based on Blazing Saddles (1974).
- DirectorFélix Enríquez AlcaláLewis TeagueStarsMatthew SettleKimberly OjaJohn KassirAn evil Weather Man intent on destroying New Metro City with a series of malevolent meteorological mishaps? Can the super-powered (and semi-employed) Justice League of America save the day? Or will New Metro be drowned in a humongous tidal wave?
- DirectorJack SholderStarsMatt FrewerFinola HughesJeremy RatchfordThe new teenage students at a school for mutants (normal-looking humans with fantastic powers) try to stop an evil scientist from controlling the world's dreams.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsMargaret ColinLila KayeConnie BoothSherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
- DirectorKenneth JohnsonStarsAnthony HigginsDebrah FarentinoMark Adair-RiosSherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had used on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsCathy Lee CrosbyKaz GarasAndrew PrineA super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
- DirectorP.J. HoganStarsAlec NewmanMarley SheltonJessica ChastainIn this unaired pilot, Victoria Winters arrives at Collinwood on Halloween night. What better way to celebrate than to wake a family member who has been asleep for 200 years? Attempted reboot of this horror classic.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsAdam WestRon FrazierAnn WeldonThe former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.
- DirectorParis BarclayStarsEddie CibrianMario Van PeeblesKaDee Strickland"The Street Lawyer," based on John Grisham's book about an attorney who leaves his high-priced firm to work for the less fortunate.
- DirectorBen StillerStarsJack BlackOwen WilsonRon SilverAstronaut on the run with special powers and his talking motorcycle must deal with a malevolent artificial life form that's possessing people and turning them into dust, as well as NASA's hitman and real life actor Ron Silver.
- DirectorTerry HughesStarsBarry Van DykeRebecca YorkBrendon BlincoeA television movie based on the popular comedy Mr. Mom (1983) released one year later.
- DirectorGregory HoblitStarsMichael Reilly BurkeKevin DunnGiancarlo EspositoNYPD detective Alex Franco is brain-dead after an "accident" arranged by wife-murderer Harlan Kroger. Taken off life support, his heart continues beating, and he is cryogenically frozen for the next 66 years. Awakened in the year 2069, to find his wife dead, his son an aging vegetable, and his grandson a cop, Franco pleads for the right to do what he does best: police work. Secretly hoping to bust the 99 year old Kroger, he adjusts to the complex world of the future, and learns that being a detective is easy in 2069 - as long as you like working in a police state.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsKerwin MathewsDiana Van der VlisNorman FellA professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted office building.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsJerry O'ConnellPortia de RossiCharity WakefieldGrandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vampiress. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman's only child, Eddie, has his werewolf tendencies surface in puberty, forcing the family to relocate to their famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address.
- DirectorJeffrey ReinerStarsPedro PascalAdrianne PalickiElizabeth HurleyIt's the modern day, and being Wonder Woman is complicated. Diana is leading a triple life - running a large corporation out of costume and fighting crime in costume in one identity.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsRobert ConradShelley WintersBroderick CrawfordA detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
- DirectorDaryl DukeLeslie H. MartinsonStarsRoss MartinRichard HaydnLouise SorelCharlie Chan investigates a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsRalph BellamyKiel MartinJack KruschenA young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named 'Black Pearl' along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken nazi treasure. But there are people also looking for the sunken treasure, people that will stop at nothing to gain access to the medallion.
- DirectorAlan RafkinStarsAnthony PerkinsLeigh Taylor-YoungJoshua John MillerBlocked novelist Anthony Strack is desperate enough to plot suicide. Before he completes the deed, he is visited by unearthly beings, whose presence helps him to write again.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsErnest BorgnineStephen R. HudisJudy GeesonAn alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsDavid ConradAndrea RothMax BakerIn 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.