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 From Marvel Comics Pryde of the X-Men is a one-shot animated television pilot from 1989 featuring the X-Men. A series, for which this episode was intended as a pilot, never materialized. The title is a pun based on the name of Kitty Pryde, one of the characters. Marvel Productions/Sunbow Productions produced the pilot X-Men episode for NBC. The single episode aired infrequently in syndication during the Marvel Action Universe series and was later released on video.   Check Out: Chris Claremont Returns to the X-Men with an All-New Story Starring Nightcrawler, Mystique, and More In The Spotlight: Uncanny X-Men #163 (Marvel)(1982) The Debut of 'X-Force' 30 Years Ago This Week Great Classic Comics: X-Men #1 October 1991 Marvel Comics Retro Saturday Morning: The New Fantastic Four (1978)(NBC) Crusader Rabbit and Rags in Crusader vs The State of Texas (1950) The Groovie Goolies in When I Grow Up (1971) Flash Gordon in A Planet in Peril (1979) Josie and the Pussycats in The Nemo...

 Rarely does a single scene in a popular movie inspire a television series, yet CBS created a sitcom based on the cantina scene from Star Wars called Starstruck complete with aliens, little fuzzy critters that are a direct rip-offs of  the Tribbles from Star Trek and two robot rip-offs of R2D2 and C-3PO  from Star Wars complete with British accents. Here is your plot: “Starstruck (Pilot; Comedy; CBS; June 9, 1979). Ben McCallister, a widower, and his children, Kate, Masrk and Rupert operate McCallisters Midway Inn, a hotel-restaurant-saloon on an orbiting space station ‘somewhere between Earth and Pluto.’ It is the 22nd century and the proposal was to relate the problems encountered by the family. Ezra and Abigail are Ben’s parents; Amber is the lounge singer; Delight is the waitress.”   There are little to no laughs in Starstruck, the humor is mostly centered around awkward interactions between the human characters and the aliens and robots. One gag centered around...

Six years before Gal Gadot became Wonder Woman actress Adrianne Palicki donned the satin tights in a pilot for a TV series produced by Warner Bros for NBC. The makers of the program, writer David E Kelley and director Jeffery Reiner wanted to take the character in a totally new direction by making her a lot more like Batman or Wolverine and a lot less like the traditional Wonder Woman that the fans had loved for decades.  In other words a badass Wonder Woman. The pilot episode scored so poorly with test audiences the show was scrapped entirely. From the footage that is out there it is easy to see why.  My Favorite part of that second clip is when Wonder Woman lassoes a woman, drags her down a hallway, picks her up off the grand and slams her against the wall like Darth Vader.  Interestingly enough there is a contingency of fans who view the show as the Wonder Woman series that should have been made. Obviously there are fans of a grittier style of Wonder Woman w...