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- DirectorMark TinkerStarsDennis FranzDan GauthierCliff De YoungA New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the city's Mounted Division.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsTom SelleckRobert UrichMilt KoganTom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad the squad in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swindlers. Most of their time is spent dealing with penny-ante street-corner crooks. But their investigations start to reveal a larger con game in progress...
- DirectorRobert DayStarsJohn DenverMeg WittnerDavid RenanA retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. There, he investigates his friends murder, and drug smuggling. He also plays guitar and sings for his friends from time to time.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsLisa BoyleJohn CasperRobert CatriniUnsold TV series pilot about Gavin Travers, a beach cop who assists Daytona Beach lifeguards and drives NASCAR as a hobby. His love interest is Annie Gibson, an Air Force test pilot who wants to be an astronaut.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsGeorge NewbernAmy YasbeckFrank McRaeThe talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsChris MulkeyCatherine OxenbergDennis HaysbertA policeman and a female scientist team up to recover her latest creation, a cybernetic, crime-fighting dog.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsRobert FoxworthMike FarrellJohn VernonProject Questor is the brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik, who developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he has disappeared and half of the programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed in creating Questor. However, Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain. He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who is now suspected of having stolen the android.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsRay WiseWendy KilbourneVic PolizosUnsold TV pilot about a hardboiled special police agent prejudiced towards robots and his beautiful new female android partner hunting his nemesis, an escaped female terrorist known as Black Widow, in the noir future of 1999.
- DirectorChristopher CroweStarsJ.A. PrestonRoy BrocksmithJohn FinnRobosaurus arrives in this futuristic tale of a policeman's dangerous job in a violent city. The robot and the cop team up to fight a crusade against evil.
- DirectorMichael ChapmanStarsMark Lindsay ChapmanSusan BlakelyLisa BlountHumanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girlfriend.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsScott BakulaDebrah FarentinoCharles KeatingA scientist's experiment conveys him to another lab where his body is fused with a mechanism that can't be easily extracted---its co-creator is holding the device's plans for ransom.
- DirectorJohn AstinStarsTodd SusmanSteven PetermanEddie BarthA NY photographer shares his pad with an abandoned circus elephant.
- StarsKelly HuMatthew PerryRyan StilesAbout baggage handlers at Los Angeles International Airport in the year 2194.
- DirectorJeff MelmanStarsCraig BierkoChris EigemanJane LeevesThe adventures of the last human on earth, an evolved cat, a hologram and a senile computer stuck three million years in deep space.
- DirectorJames BurrowsStarsMarilu HennerDennis DuganMary GrossAbout a high-powered LA TV executive who returns to her hometown to try to revive the local TV station which is struggling in the ratings.
- DirectorMichael LembeckStarsRobert GouletJohn PutchHillary B. SmithB-movie star becomes a sheriff in a small town.
- DirectorPeter BonerzStarsHamilton CampMichael HuddlestonBeej JohnsonUnsold tv-series pilot featuring live actors in dog costumes.
- DirectorJack SholderStarsBrett CullenChelsea FieldWilliam SadlerEpidemiologist Dr. Linus, A.P. photojournalist Jack Mann and E.R. nurse Annalisse try to stop a demonic entity that's possessing people from unleashing a biological weapon during the Saint Patrick's Day parade.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDack RamboElyssa DavalosRichard LynchA writer, Andy Stuart, teams up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.
- DirectorRichard RothsteinStarsBud CortLori PettyMoses GunnA mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.
- DirectorDan LernerStarsJeri RyanDaryl AndersonChristopher BradleyA series pilot in which a womanizer is made female as punishment.
- DirectorBill BixbyStarsBill BixbyLou FerrignoMarta DuBoisWhen Banner is held as a witness to a violent crime linked to the Kingpin, the fugitive is helped by lawyer Matt Murdock who is also the superhero, Daredevil.
- DirectorJack SholderStarsMatt FrewerFinola HughesJeremy RatchfordThe new teenage students at a school for mutants (normal-looking humans with fantastic powers) try to stop an evil scientist from controlling the world's dreams.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsScott BakulaEllen BryJoey CramerWhen a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.
- DirectorNicholas CoreaBill BixbyStarsBill BixbyLou FerrignoJack ColvinHopefully on the verge of curing his Hulk condition, Banner meets his colleague, Don Blake, who is mystically linked to a Viking warrior, Thor.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsKim DarbyWilliam ShatnerDiane VarsiA teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
- DirectorMick GarrisStarsChris HebertPhil FondacaroJoe RegalbutoAn invisible creature befriends a 12-year-old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.
- DirectorStuart CooperStarsBobbie PhillipsEric LloydJohn AdamIn 2028, a super-killer female genetic creation with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJoseph BottomsMark DodsonMargarita FarrellWishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.
- CreatorGene RoddenberryStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyIn the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsJoe LaraKim CrosbyJames MedinaTarzan goes to New York to rescue the chimp Cheetah, who has been captured by an evil animal experimenter. There, he teams up with Jane, a cab driver and daughter of an ex-cop private eye, who help Tarzan free Cheetah and his friends.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsJoe PennyDana ElcarBeulah QuoLee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsAnthony HerreraSimone GriffethJi-Tu CumbukaMandrake, a famous magician, and his assistant Lothar come to the aid of an amusement-park owner who is being blackmailed by a madman who is killing the park's customers until he gets his money.
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsJoseph HackerKeith AndesMacon McCalmanA secret agent is trained by having his brain linked up to a computer. He is then sent on a mission to rescue a Russian sub commander. The Russian is a defector who has important secrets but has been captured by an agent of an enemy nation.
- CreatorSteven BochcoTerry Louise FisherStarsJohn RitterBarbara BossonFelton PerrySan Francisco cop Harry Hooperman inherits a run down apartment building. Not having the time to maintain the building Hooperman hires Susan as the person in charge. They begin a relationship.
- DirectorJohn Sacret YoungStarsMarg HelgenbergerGary DourdanBrett CullenA one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
- DirectorCharles BravermanStarsKeanu ReevesKiefer SutherlandLori LoughlinKeanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, and Billy Zane star as high-school students who start a vigilante group to combat crime in their neighborhood.
- StarsPaul NicholasJan FrancisSylvia KayA bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.
- CreatorStephen J. CannellRoy HugginsStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosThe cases of an easy-going ex-convict turned private investigator.
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsGabrielle AnwarPeter BensonSusie BlakeA normal teenager is transported to a Monty-Pythonesque medieval fantasyland where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
- DirectorIan ToyntonStarsSam BehrensSusanna ThompsonLisa JakubAfter a strange storm in the Carribean causes a boat to sink, a family finds itself stranded on an island in the "27th dimension".