Shows that weren't picked up for a series/never came to be.

[ChrisIII]

New Warriors. They have let Milana Vayntrub voice squirrel girl for some cartoons and web stuff though.

[Indian Ink]

Married with Children had a pilot for a spin off.

Radio Free Trumaine. Steve Rhoades was the dean of the university and expelled to of the college radio DJs. Marcy shows up and does this protest or something. It didnt go over well with network heads and it became a Married With Children episode rather then its own series.

There was also another in Married With Children with a young Matt LeBlanc. Can't remember exact details, I think he was a boxer/workman and his father wanted to move up in the world.

[Indian Ink]

Don't know the title, but Leonard Nimoy was in an Occult/X-Files like pilot film in the seventies. Loved it at the time. Don't know what I'd think of it now.

[Gaastra]

Buffy cartoon pilot.



Gremlins had a cartoon pilot gizmo and the gremlins that has never aired also.

They had a youngblood pilot that fox passed on also.

[ChrisIII]

One of the more bizarre attempts to bring Gundam to the United States was a show that would market the "SD" Gundams (Gundams/other mobile suits that are "super deformed"/"chibi", made cute etc) called "Doozy bots"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8um1N78AhY

[williamtheday]

Evil Roy Slade was a tv movie starring John Astin. A satire about westerns, each week, Slade would win a gunfight with the Special Guest Hero of the week. Dick Shawn was the first lawman who lost.

[The One and Only]

There was also another in Married With Children with a young Matt LeBlanc. Can't remember exact details, I think he was a boxer/workman and his father wanted to move up in the world.

Top of the Heap. It got picked up ,was a mid-season replacement following Married on Sunday night's.

[caj]

Top of the Heap. It got picked up ,was a mid-season replacement following Married on Sunday night's.

And Top of the Heap spun off Vinnie & Bobby, also starring Matt LeBlanc along with Robert Torti and Joey Lauren Adams. It only lasted 7 or 8 episodes about two buddies sharing an apartment, chasing girls, and flexing their biceps. It was a pretty lame show, which is why it only lasted a few episodes.

[Gaastra]

Archie pilot.

[Gaastra]

They tried again on archie and it failed also.

[Mark Trail]

Archie pilot.

They tried again on archie and it failed also.

I'm not sure if "To Riverdale and Back," (aka, jokingly, "Archiesomething") was also intended as a pilot or a standalone movie:

[Immortal Weapon]

Battletoads had a TV special in 92 that served as a pilot for a series. It was meant to compete with Ninja Turtles but it was never picked up

[Madam-Shogun-Assassin]

The second Lock & Key pilot for Apple+

"Civil", a drama based around a second American Civil War, set in the very near future. It was supposed to be on TNT but they chickened out.

There was another pilot similar to Civil, but it centered around a black family that was private military contractors that would escort people through the war torn American south in the near future or present day. It never got picked up. I'm still upset about that.

There's also "Parallels (film) - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_(film). It was supposed to eventually be a Netflix series produced by Neil Gaiman. Basically a modern take on sliders, but with a whole building acting like a Tardis.

[Batfleck89]

They were supposed to do a Bruce Wayne series before smallville back in 1999 that would have been about Bruce before becoming batman and would have been in the same vein as smallville but they decided to do smallville instead. And also powerpuff the powerpuff girls live action series that apparently had a bad pilot script although they are still working on that one supposedly. And another one is cruel intentions they were supposed to bring back Sarah Michelle gellar as the bad girl from the original film and Ryan phillipes characters son was supposed to be the main character of the show but it never got picked up by NBC.

[skyvolt2000]

ABC had quite a few in the 90s that actually got aired around the time of the 1994 NBA Finals.

The rap group Kid & Play had a pilot-with them as detectives.

The rap group Salt & Peppa had one too.

Tisha Campbell and Desmond Richmond (Bud from Cosby Show) had one in Moe's World. Richmond played a dead kid who watched over his family.

A show about a black kid being told he was going to die-I have trouble remembering the name but it has a comic book link. It featured what I would suspect was the porotype for Icon from Milestone action figure. Yes Milestone had started work on figures back then and the prototype designs were made (and recently sold on Ebay of the art work).

The tv movie Journey to the Center of the Earth was meant to be a tv pilot. Of note Tim Russ was in the cast.

The Floppie Dogs special from 1986 was a pilot.

The 1986 Earth Star Voyager was a pilot movie.

The Prairie Dogs from Bravestar was suppose to have a series but Filmation got sold before it could happen.

The Facts of Life had 3 episodes that were pilots. One had Richard Anderson, one would have starred Natalie as the series ended (her living with other folks in Florida) and the last episode was a pilot for Blair and the sold with Seth Green and Blossom (Amy Fowler) herself.

Punky Brewster had one-that would have been about Finster Hall.

The 80s R&B group The Boys has a pilot starring them as orphans brothers. Debbie Allen directed and promoted the pilot on Arsenio Hall's show.

The Chi's Jacob Latimore had a pilot that would have been a spinoff of Reed Between the Lines (the series before Tracey Ellis Ross did Blackish).

I want to say Bow Wow had one filmed.

The original version of What's Happening-while the final version was inspired by Cooley High-the first pilot was inspired by American Graffiti like Happy Days was.

The 1986 set of cartoons known as Super Sunday were all pilots-Inhumaniods, Big Foot & Muscle Machines, Robotix and Jem. Only Jem made it to a series of 65 episodes.

Of course Star Trek in the 1970s that became Star Trek the Motion Picture with remaining material finding it was to to The Next Generation (scripts) and Discover (the ship).