Bojack Horseman

This week we dip back into Netflix to watch Bojack Horseman. A show about a Horse.
A horse who is a man. A man horse who is a former sit-com star. A former sit com star
who needs to write a memoir to save his career. Also talking animals are just a thing.

Notes:
Candy Machines
Vietnamese surnames
Is Lost In Translation a Christmas movie? (We don't answer this question)
REALLY Trying not to spoil future episodes on Alan
The continued theme of Patrick not thinking The Man in the High Castle is not good enough
but being too afraid of Diamanda Hagan to change anything.

South of Sunset

We've gone Flip City this week on Pilot Season. Because we're taking it to the limit one more time to watch
South of Sunset starring Glenn "That Guy From Eagles who isn't Don Henley That the Makers of His Show Had Heard Of" Frey (whose name pronunciation we never quite settle on).

This episode was suggested to us by Rich Thomas (@earthdog). If you want to suggest a podcast we could cover please do so in the comments or tweet at us!

Notes:
Too many Eagles References.
The state of the Unemployed Historian IMDB (or how Jill Bearup is no longer hosting Pilot Season)
3 Degrees of Don Johnson
Staying in a Sexmotel
Billy Joel and the slimming effect of pianos.
Alan talks about Roman Literature
The process of send lewd photos in the 90s.
A new That 70s Show/South of Sunset Head-canon is created
Vince McMahon's Actual T-Rex Skull
Juggalo Street Gangs.
The Man in the High Castle Follow Up
BONUS:
The Question that Broke Word Funk.

Veronica Mars

This week we dive into the introduction to the teen-noir world of Veronica Mars. Fanboy over Darran Norris and one of us bemoans the terrible third season of this great show.

   
• Alan hurt himself.
   
• New microphones.
   
• Tumblr Interludes.
   
• General gushing about how good Veronica Mars was.
   
• General gushing about Darran Norris and his many talents.
   
• How much more successful the Kane Software is than YouTube.
   
• Codecs and super fast uploads.
   
• TS Eliot references and shilling for this
   
• Fake ads.
   
• Hotel room towels placement.
   
• Alan dies.
   
• Guessing what video we filmed the day of the Veronica Mars kickstarter.
   
• Humanities Greatest Achievement
   
• Far too many references to Eagles songs.

Joey

After a battle with carpal tunnel syndrome it's the new episode of Pilot Season. This week we've packed up and moved to LA for Joey.

Also up for discussion:

• An embargo on the alleged Star Trek series Voyager
• Alan goes almost 45 seconds into a sci-fi discussion before mentioning Battlestar Galactica
• An update on the Black Eyed Peas
• Patrick fails an audition
• Frasier was Joey first and did it better
• Joey's viewing figures were a roller-coaster that only went down
• Patrick's email campaign to RTÉ
• Are spin-offs even successful these days?
• Post Friends careers
• Patrick gets a pick me up
• Alan is very wrong about James Michael Tyler's residuals.
• Who owns Central Perk?

Credits:
Hosts: Patrick Brogan & Alan Beirne
Executive Procrastinator: Alan Beirne

The dedication to Joey Ramone remains strong.

Mockingbird Lane

What's that going bump in the night? It's the new episode of Pilot Season. It's time to get spoopy with Mockingbird Lane.

Also up for discussion:

• Sexy Joey Ramone
• Patrick's Pen Podcast
• The Munsters vs The Addams Family
• Murder houses
• Danny Trejo Corner
• Eddie Izzard dresses to impress
• Gerry O'Connell can't read Bryan Fuller
• Gushing about Eddie Izzard
• Alan knows nothing about the Muddy Waters
• Bryan fights
• Further Munsters Vs Addams discussion

Credits:
Hosts: Patrick Brogan and Alan Beirne
Executive Producer: Alan Beirne
Directed by: Tommy Wiseau

Always dedicated to Joey Ramone

That 80's Show

Hello all,  Alan here.
Not only am I editing podcasts, I'm posting them to the site now too.

This week on Pilot Season we find out just what was acceptable in the Eighties in That 80's Show.

Topics discussed include:

• Patrick is a busy adult with many important things to do
• Alan has seen That 70's Show a lot
• Black and white portable TVs
• What happened to you?
• The one punk rocker in town
• Something called Music Television
• Frank Zappa's greatest invention
• The Alan Seal of Approval
• Patrick blames things on Tumblr
• Competition amongst Friends wikis
• Chekhov Nipple
• Huge 80's phones
• A bold pitch for a Hollywoodland remake
• Sexy deathbed Tom Waits

Don't forget to reach out to Patrick on Tumblr and Twitter with your history questions, or either of us with show suggestions.

Credits:
Host: Jill Bearup
Executive Producer: Alan Beirne
Also appearing: Patrick Brogan

Dedicated to Joey Ramone

K9 and Company

This week's episode has been edited by Alan so you know who to blame for any mistakes, Patrick - for putting him in a place of responsibility.

It's K9 & Company, the 1980's attempt to launch a Doctor Who spin off.

Topics discussed include but are not limited to:

• 1980s Charity Single Doctor in Distress
• The pronuncation of pagan gods names
• Life before Facebook
• Rotary Phones
• The Demon Headmaster
• 70s Swingers in the 80s
• Kidnapping for witchcraft reasons
• Dedications to Joey Ramone
• Patrick's bass career in Convenient Heart Attack
• Ordnance Survey Maps
• Colour coding your sexual history
• How to pad out an episode to fifty minutes
• Alan's strong mystery opinions
• Shout out to our listener
• An explanation as to why the podcast was late last week

Adventure Time vs Steven Universe

This week we take on two Tumblr favs in Steven Universe and Adventure Time. We pit their pilots against each other and crown the true king of pilots of successful Cartoon Network shows.

MINISODE: The Muppets

We take a quick look at the pitch pilot for the new ABC Muppets series which debuts on 22 September 2015.

Emily's Reasons Why Not?

There were plenty of reasons as to why this Heather Graham vehicle failed.

Cop Rock

A musical about LA cops created by Stephen Bochco with music by Randy Newman!? How could this go wrong!?

The Amazing Screw On Head

Alan is live from a hotel room as we talk about Sci Fi's pilot for an animated show based on Mike Mignola's comic The Amazing Screw On Head.

Includes live commentary of Liverpool's loss to West Ham United and other tangents!

Popetown

We go down to Popetown. An animated sit com that aimed to be Father Ted meets South Park and failed to be either.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

We are joined by composer, chef, magician and physicist Robert Lucas to talk about Tina Fey's Netflix's series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

The Big Bang Theory (Unaired Pilot)

This week we look at the humble beginings of all your favorite Big Bang Theory characters like Sheldon, Leonard and of course Katie and Gilda. Wait.. who?

Naked Jungle

This week we talk about that time that we as a society allowed Keith Chegwin to be on television.

And to host a nude game show.

Nude.

The Man in The High Castle (Diamanda Hagan)

We're joined by Diamanda Hagan (Channel Awesome) to talk about the Amazon pilot for the Ridley Scott produced adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's The Man In The High Castle.

Lookwell

Adam West plays Ty Lookwell an actor who may not be a detective, but he played one on TV! And that makes him more than qualified to solve crimes... Or so he thinks.

The Adventures of Superpup

This week on Pilot Season a bizarre 1950s kids show pilot about a skittish, lazy journalist/dog who named Bark Bent and his alter ego Superpup.

Clerks

Clerks by Pilotseason on Mixcloud

This podcast wasn't even supposed to be here today!

The Coltons

This weeks backdoor pilot was episode of MacGuyver with hardly any Richard Dean Anderson but a lot of Froggy the Dog.

Tangents include: a brief discussion of how long, Touched by an Angel was on TV for,  the flaws in Fight club, Alan's MacGuvyer related claim to fame, Fat Grandma and what it really means to be President of Ireland (hint: night time zoo trips).

J. Digger Doyle

Get out your Hawaiian shirts and overly short shorts! This week we look at the backdoor pilot for J. "Digger" Doyle which is actually an episode of Magnum PI. Topics for discussion include how Tom Selleck looks like someone's divorcee dad, the fact Orson Welles does a guesting voice role and how the plot tries to undercut Digger at every chance it gets.

Coupling (US)

Friends meets Sex and the City in the US adaptation of Stephen Moffat's Coupling.

Payne (Fawlty Towers US)

In the late 90s, this Fawlty Towers adaptation had a very brief run as a midseason replacement.

Did it deserve better?

Other topics in include: Sit-coms we hated and more love for Heat Vision and Jack.

Days Like These (That 70s Show UK)

Imagine if you took That 70s Show and transplanted it from suburban Wisconsin to suburban Luton and halved the budget. Then you'd have this.

Other topics include: Cream cheese and how lame Ireland was in the 70s.

Red Dwarf (USA)

Oh Smeg! It's another failed remake of a classic British sit-com.

Doctor Strange

This week we go back to the 1970s. 1978 to be exact. A time of funk, mustaches and wizards. This week we look at Doctor Strange.

The Justice League of America

Imagine if Friends was about Superheroes and instead of jokes they had documentary style in character interviews. If you can picture that you've got an idea about what this is.

Darkman

Did you know that Sam Raimi made a movie called Darkman? Well... There was also an attempt at a TV show based on Darkman - and we use the term "TV show" loosely.

"HOW CAN THERE BE LAW WHEN THERE IS NO JUSTICE!?"

Pryde of the X-Men

In 1989 Marvel made a pilot for an X-Men cartoon. In it Professor X invites a 14 year old Kitty Pryde to his mansion, Nightcrawler creeps on her and an unusually Australian Wolverine actively hates her.

Tag Team

We finish up our month of Wrestling based pilots with Tag Team - where Roddy Piper and Jessie Ventura are a tag team banned from wrestling for not throwing a match who become unlikely cops.

Plus we start our rankings of all the pilots we've watch so far!

Star Trek - "The Cage" (w/ Leon Thomas)

Leon Thomas of Renegade Cut joins us ahead of the revival of his series Attack of the Trek to talk about the original Star Trek pilot "The Cage". There's no Kirk, no McCoy, no Chekov not even a Yeoman Rand in sight. But we do get a disturbingly emotive Spock, a Doctor with a medical bag filled with booze, a female first officer and a guy who just stands by the turbo lift for no reason.

WWF Shotgun Saturday Night

This week we take a look at the debut episode of Shotgun Saturday Night! This was the WWF's attempt at doing an edgy, late night show and it's totally culturally sensitive and not at all denigrating to women.

Theme: Hustle by Kevin McLeod (http://incompetech.com)

Wrestling Society X

Our road to WrestleMania continues! This week Alan returns and goes in blind to his first wrestling programme in over a decade. It's Wrestling Society X - MTV's over eager hyper active attempt at a wrestling show. Prepare for CGI explosions, hyper active ring announcers, Zack Wylde and the man Alan dubbed "Tesco Brand Marlyn Manson".

The XWF (w/Jason Mann)

It's the road to WrestleMania so what better way to celebrate then looking at failed attempts at wrestling TV shows? This week Alan tags out to be replaced by Jason Mann who is the host of Wrestlespective, The Alfred Hitchcast and The Over and Back podcast. Patrick and Jason get IN YOUR FACE as they talk about the XWF.

Jason Mann on Twitter.

Wrestlespective on Twitter.

Theme: Hustle by Kevin McLeod (http://incompetech.com)

Jason's Podcasts:
Wrestlespective Radio
The Alfred Hitchcast
The Over and Back

Show Notes:

The XWF In Your Face Promos
XWF Ep 1

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (KTMA)

OK, so we're slightly cheating this week. Since there's no full pilot available for MST3K we're going to be looking at the 4th episode of the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 series from Minneapolis-St. Paul area channel KTMA TV 23. Also this is the first time we look at the humble beginnings of a show that would go on to be become a classic series.

Theme: Hustle by Kevin McLeod (http://incompetech.com)

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Notes:
MST3k Ep. K04 - Gamera vs Barugon

MST3k Vs. Gamera DVD Collection

 

Heat Vision and Jack

After a 2 week hiatus because Alan went to China for a holiday, Pilot Season returns! And the recording of this podcast was the first time our hosts had spoken since his return. So, naturally, this weeks show includes a brief discussion of a China and tobogganing down The Great Wall of China. After that we get into the 1999 pilot Heat Vision and Jack. It's a pastiche of shows like The Six Million Dollar Man, Knight Rider and The Incredible Hulk that was co-created by Dan Harmon, starring Jack Black as a solar powered genius, Owen Wilson as his motorcycle Heat Vision and Ron Silver as Ron Silver, actor and NASA agent out to get Jack's super powered brain.
Theme: Hustle by Kevin McLeod  (http://incompetech.com)

Notes:
Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
Heat Vision and Jack (Daily Motion)

Clarissa Now

This week we talk about the pilot for the failed spin off to the series Clarrissa Explains It All. Melissa Joan Hart's Clarissa Darling is 18, she's in New York and she's got an internship at a newspaper. ... That's about it. There may be tangents.

Poochinski

This week on Pilot Season: Peter Boyle is a dog now, man! When slovenly but talented detective Stan Poochinski is killed in the line of duty his soul transfers into a dog.

The IT Crowd (US)

The Insert Witty Name Show has been retooled!  Welcome to Pilot Season, the show where we look at first and sometimes only episodes of TV shows!

Following Heil Honey, I'm Home we take a look at the US remake of the British sitcom The IT Crowd - and Alan blindsides me with history questions I don't know the answer to. The jerk!

Pilot Season: Heil, Honey I'm Home!

For the month of January we're taking a look at series of TV pilots. The first being the "perhaps the world's most tasteless situation comedy" - 1990s "Heil, Honey I'm Home" a sitcom about Hitler and his Jewish neighbors.