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Topic: Failed TV Pilots

21st Jan 2023, 2:57 PM
	23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points	Whyperion wrote: There is quite a lot of Dr Who poss related (Nation's problem was he retained rights to Daleks rather than assigning them to the BBC , which was clever but it meant for money he was chasing Dalek spin offs and inventing more space adversaries). Yeah it was complex. The pilot I referred to was something Nation tried to interest a US network in producing, too. He ended up using characters from it in a serial he wrote for the main show (Dalek Master Plan). Further to the point of what constitutes a pilot or backdoor pilot, during the Steven Moffat era of the show a number of episodes (most notably ones featuring a group of Victorian detectives called the Paternoster Gang, but also River Song and others) were formatted and presented just like backdoor pilots, but reportedly Moffat had no intention of actually doing spinoffs from them. So someone could choose to index, say, The Snowmen or The Crimson Horror (episodes with the Paternosters) as backdoor pilots, even though they weren't. I still like the idea of indexing pilots but how wide a net should be cast?

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