Reviewing TV pilots old and newish, on twitter Launching The Pilot @LaunchingTPilot, email launchingthepilot@gmail.com
Episode 227 is Land of the Lost (1974)
Episode 226 is Callahan (1982)
Starring Hart "I was Ellis in Die Hard" Bochner and Jamie Lee Curtis
in this tongue and cheek action adventure one off pilot.
Episode 225 is Ashes To Ashes (2008)
When DI Alex Drake is shot and lands in 1981, she comes face-to-face with DCI Gene Hunt, the relic of old-fashioned policing she read about in Sam Tyler's reports. Alex thinks she is in a coma and needs Hunt's help to go after Layton, the man who shot her in 2008. She is confident she knows the rules of the game, but with no contact from the outside world Alex has to contend with a terrifying possibility.
Episode 224 is Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004)
On this episode I'm joined by Em of Verbal Diorama movie podcast as we go to a Darkplace.
Liz's first day on the job corresponds with Dagless' friend Larry Renwick staying at the hospital as a patient, which results in a portal to Hell opening beneath Dark Place.
Episode 223 is Sapphire And Steel (1979)
A big thank you to Robert Tunbridge for let use his own song "sapphire and Steel" as my outra to this episode
Assignment 1 part 1
On an ordinary evening, a mother and father sing nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen before bed. Their teenage son Robert becomes alarmed when all the clocks in the house stop working. He hurries upstairs to find that his parents have vanished. Left alone with Helen and no neighbors nearby, Rob calls the police for help. But a pair of strange, time-traveling agents named Sapphire and Steel arrive instead and inform Rob that they are his only hope in getting his parents back.
Episode 222 is The US Pilot of Life On Mars (2008)
The Unaired US pilot :Detective Sam Tyler working on a murder case in the present day is hit by a car and wakes up in 1972.
Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt
Jason O'Mara as Sam Tyler
Episode 221 is Life On Mars (2006)
2006 DCI Sam Tyler wake from a car accdent and finds himself in 1973 and must figure out how he got there in order to get back and save his girlfriend.
Episode 220 is Holmes And Yoyo (1976)
Detective Alex Holmes is teamed with a new partner, Gregory 'Yoyo' Yoyonovich, to catch a car thief. Holmes thinks there is something odd about Yoyo who he discovers is a robot, but decides to keep the knowledge to himself.
Episode 219 is FLAY OTTERS I mean Fawlty Towers (1974)
I'm joined by Gidgit Von La Rue of the Retro Cinema Podcast
and we talk about the first episode of Fawlty Tower.
"A Touch of Class"
Basil is delighted when a member of the aristocracy chooses to stay at the Fawlty Towers.
Episode 218 is I Dream Of Jeannie
The Lady in the Bottle
American astronaut Tony Nelson splashes down near a deserted island and finds a bottle that contains a beautiful genie named Jeannie. After helping him get rescued he sets her free the end......?
