Pilot Season Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dan Greenwald
A podcast discussing pilot episodes of various television series. We watch the old, the new, the obscure, and the failed. Hosted by Dan and Jen.
"In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings...A land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. The power...the passion...the danger...Her courage will change the world."
Let's go back 25 years to a time of strong women, campy fight scenes, and ambiguous relationships...
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Put together a washed up jock, his tomboy daughter, a buttoned up executive, her weird son, a sex-crazed grandmother and you'll be asking yourself...Who's The Boss?
Folks, it doesn't get more 90's than this...
"He was a cop, and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin—and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands...an outlaw hunting outlaws...a bounty hunter...a renegade."
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Feeling burned out? Home life got you down? Not getting any satisfaction from work? Then visit the Top Happy Spa! Their DNA rejuvenation therapy will change your life...
Believe it or not, we're walkin' on air We never thought we could feel so free Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be? Believe it or not it's just Dan and Jen talking about an 80's classic, THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO!
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It's a tale as old as time...boy meets girls, boy has sex with girls, boy eventually gets an STD. Who says romance is dead?
In the 90's, if you saw beautiful people in red swimsuits running along a beach, you were most likely watching BAYWATCH! Baywatch had it all...buff lifeguards running in slow motion, butts in thongs, big hair, high waisted pants and, of course, The Hoff!
Hazzard County, Georgia...home of fast cars, crooked cops, short shorts, and a couple of good ole boys named Bo and Luke who fought the system like two modern day Robin Hoods. Yee-haw!
What do rogue cops, gospel singers, drug dealers, and Randy Newman have in common? Two words: Cop Rock.
As of 2015, the Oxford Dictionary states that to "MacGyver" is to make or repair something "in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand", eg "He MacGyvered a makeshift jack with a log".
Come back with us to 1985 and witness how it all started...
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Y'know, it's not easy being a teenager. Your parents and teachers are always on your back, your social life is a disaster half the time, you're trying to discover who you are...but man, that Jordan Catalano, he makes it all worth it. And he leans great.
This 1993 syndicated action adventure show has it all! Boobs, bombs, bullets, high-waisted pleated pants, and Fabio!
In 1996, Independence Day is the biggest movie of the year, JTT is a teen heartthrob, Denzel is the Sexiest Man Alive, and Jagged Little Pill is the best-selling album...but if you're a freshman attending Boring High School, well, unfortunately EVERYTHING SUCKS!
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It's not easy being a teenager these days, especially when you find out your parents are part of a secret organization of evil...
The first episode of The Handmaid's Tale is simultaneously the best and worst 57 minutes of television you've ever seen. You've been warned.
Take one heavily armed helicopter, add a tortured, cello playing Vietnam veteran chopper pilot looking for his MIA brother, stir in a little bit of Ernest Borgnine, add a pinch of totally rad synthesizer theme music and you just made yourself a delicious batch of AIRWOLF.
It's the classic love story...boy meets girl, boy plots to kill girl, girl convinces boy to steal a car and run away together...
This week we took a trip to a little town called Stars Hollow, listened to Macy Gray, and drank crazy amounts of coffee...
After over 20 years of kicking supernatural ass, Buffy the Vampire Slayer gets the Pilot Season treatment. Will the 1997 episode hold up or will it disappear into a cloud of dust?
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"What happened to Goose?!?" "Who's this George Clooney guy?" "Hey, isn't that the Soul Glo guy from Coming to America?"
Those were all questions we were asking in September 1994 when ER premiered...
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*"I might fall from a tall building, I might roll a brand new car. 'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman That made Redford such a star..."
Lee Majors' "The Unknown Stuntman"...best 80's TV theme song ever? Discuss.
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We continue our tour of 90's television and boy did we pick a doozy of a pilot to talk about, the surreal crime/mystery drama from 1990 known as TWIN PEAKS!
Seriously though...*who killed Laura Palmer...?!?
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Will the Power of Three set us free? Listen to our review of this classic late 90's show and find out!
This episode's TV show...never happened...
We present The Jake Effect, a 2003 sitcom that was supposed to air on NBC, but was cancelled before it ever had a chance. Seven episodes of The Jake Effect eventually found it's way on the Bravo network under it's Brilliant But Cancelled lineup.
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**"What would you do if I sang out of tune Would you stand up and walk out on me ? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song And I'll try not to sing out of key..."
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*"What is it about society that disappoints you so much?"
*"Oh, i don't know. Is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, when when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or maybe it's that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit. the world itself's just a big hoax. Spamming with our running commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards."
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What's this? A recent-ish show from 2016? This one pulled on our heartstrings and tickled our funny bones.
Faster than a Starbucks Wifi network! More powerful than a strongly worded Tweet! Able to download multiple apps in a single bound! It's the...PILOT SEASON PODCAST!
penny dreadful
noun, plural penny dreadfuls. 1. a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence. 2. a psychological thriller filled with dark mystery and suspense, where personal demons from the past can be stronger than vampires, evil spirits and immortal beasts.
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"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team."
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We tackle another Netflix original program, the Judd Apatow rom-com, Love. Find out if we loved it or not.
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This episode spotlights not one, but THREE new pilots featured in Amazon's Pilot Season event. Viewers were encouraged to watch Jean-Claude Van Johnson, I Love Dick, and The Tick, and then complete a survey deciding which pilot would continue as an original series.
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This week's pilot is Orange is the New Black from Netflix. Think "Sex and the City" meets "Oz". Well, that's not exactly accurate, but you get the idea; women in prison. Now, go and listen, newbie!
This week we watched Fringe and it completely hooked us!
Who is William Bell?!? What is "the pattern"?!? Will we see Agent Scott again?!?
If you intend to watch this show, be prepared, because we SPOIL the hell out of this pilot episode!
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It's our first pilot from the 2000's, introducing the 2004 Trans-Atlantic romance/drama, NY-LON. You'll get to enjoy a pre-True Blood Stephen Moyer and a pre-Parks and Recreation Rashida Jones.
The year was 1985. Ronald Reagan was President of the United States of America, the Berlin Wall separated East and West Germany, and Bruce Willis still had hair...
Welcome to the first episode of the Pilot Season Podcast, the show that examines only the first episode in a television series. Old, new, obscure, or failed television shows...we want to see how they began.
First up, Cheers!
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