Unsold Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Pilots (1954-present)
by GusF | created - 15 May 2013 | updated - 08 Apr 2022 | PublicMost of these would have been dramas but a few were intended to be sitcoms. Several of them were backdoor pilots.
Some would have been great, some would have been bad and some would have been so bad, they would have been good.
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1. The Shadow (1954 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not... See full summary »
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Tom Helmore, Paula Raymond, Frank M. Thomas, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 51
This has never been aired but has been released on DVD.
2. Captain Fathom (1955 TV Movie)
26 min | Adventure
While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a huge bomb lying on the ocean bottom. ... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice Kline, Gustav Della Valle | Stars: Don Megowan, Richard H. Cutting, Barbara Wilson, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 18
This has never been aired but has been released on DVD.
3. Here Comes Tobor (1957 TV Movie)
26 min | Sci-Fi
A young boy uses his esp to control a robot created by his wheel chair bound Uncle, and together they combat the forces of evil.
Director: Duke Goldstone | Stars: Tommy Terrell, Arthur Space, Bruce Cowling, Alan Reynolds
Votes: 41
This has never been aired but has been released on DVD. It was to have been a spin-off of "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" (1949), the first science fiction television series.
4. The Adventures of Superpup (1958 TV Movie)
22 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Super Pup, secretly the intrepid reporter Bark Bent of the Daily Bugle, must save his friend and co-worker Pamela Poodle from the clutches of the evil Professor Sheepdip.
Director: Cal Howard | Stars: Billy Curtis, Ruth Delfino, Angelo Rossitto, Frank Delfino
Votes: 233
This has never been aired on television but has been released on DVD.
5. Invisible Avenger (1958)
Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
Directors: James Wong Howe, Ben Parker, John Sledge | Stars: Richard Derr, Mark Daniels, Helen Westcott, Jack Donner
Votes: 262
This has never been aired on television but has been released on DVD.
6. Tales of Frankenstein (1958 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 28 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Anton Diffring, Helen Westcott, Don Megowan, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 350
This has never been aired on television but has been released on DVD.
7. Destination Space (1959 TV Movie)
51 min | Sci-Fi
From space pioneers to modernday missions, it's a thrilling look at man's quest to conquer space.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Harry Townes, John Agar, Charles Aidman, Whitney Blake
Votes: 200
8.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mr. Bevis
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Rod Serling, Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane
Votes: 3,036
9. The Adventures of Superboy (1961 TV Movie)
26 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Jimmy, Clark Kent and Lana Lang's friend, is ashamed that his father works as a doorman at the Smallville theater. His opinion changes when Superboy is able to thwart a robbery with Jimmy's... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: John Rockwell, Bunny Henning, Ross Elliott, Monty Margetts
Votes: 166
This has never been aired on television but has been released on DVD.
10.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Cavender Is Coming
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Jesse White, Carol Burnett, Howard Smith, Frank Behrens
Votes: 2,169
11.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Controlled Experiment
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A pair of Martians try to understand the human phenomenon of murder.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: Barry Morse, Carroll O'Connor, Grace Lee Whitney, Robert Fortier
Votes: 659
12.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Forms of Things Unknown
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two disparate women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a time machine that can bring back the dead.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Vera Miles, Cedric Hardwicke, Scott Marlowe, David McCallum
Votes: 635
The proposed series would have been called "The Unknown".
13.
Mister Ed (1961–1966)
Episode:
Moko
(1964)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A mischievous Martian visits the neighborhood. He has the power to change an individual's personality.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Alan Young, Connie Hines, Leon Ames, Florence MacMichael
Votes: 45
14.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Cage
(1966)
TV-PG | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett
Votes: 7,173
Easily the best known pilot on the list, this was made in November and December 1964 but was not shown until 1986.
15. Take Me to Your Leader (1964 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Unsold TV pilot about a human who plays host to traveling salesmen from Venus. An attempt to cash in on My Favorite Martian's success.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Jack Albertson, Jack Grinnage, Cheryl Holdridge, Will Hutchins
16. Barnaby (1965 TV Movie)
Comedy, Fantasy
Stars: Sorrell Booke, Frankie Kabott, Allan Melvin, Jan Shutan
Votes: 10
17. Dark Intruder (1965)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith, Gilbert Green
Votes: 475
18. Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)
Passed | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Secret agent tries to stop a scientist who has devised a bacterium that devours the body from within.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Peter Mark Richman, Wendell Corey, Carl Esmond, Barbara Bouchet
Votes: 1,538
19. Where's Everett (1966 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Arnold Barker starts every day by going out on his porch to pick up the milk and the newspaper but on this he brings in something different - an invisible alien baby who's been left on his doorstep.
Director: Gene Nelson | Stars: Alan Alda, Patricia Smith, Doreen Miller, Nicolas Coster
20. The Solarnauts (1967)
25 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A special force known as the Solarnauts is dedicated to keeping the solar system safe from alien threats.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: David Garfield, Derek Fowlds, John Ringham, Alex Scott
Votes: 91
21.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Assignment: Earth
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Robert Lansing
Votes: 3,704
I really think that we missed out on a great series with this one.
22. Shadow on the Land (1968 TV Movie)
100 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Marc Strange, Jackie Cooper, John Forsythe, Gene Hackman
Votes: 149
23. The Man from the 25th Century (1968 TV Short)
17 min | Short, Sci-Fi
On a blue alien planet, a man stands in an arena, watched by 5 alien beings. They are testing the man's mental and physical abilities. His identity is that of a man 27 years old, born in 1951 on planet Earth.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: James Darren, John Crawford, Patrick Culliton, John Napier
Votes: 43
24.
Premiere (1968)
Episode:
Out of the Blue
(1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Drama
Aliens from an overcrowded planet are sent to Earth to see if there is suitable for colonization. They meet a friendly physics professor who tries to explain the strange customs of human beings.
Director: Sherman Marks | Stars: Shirley Jones, John McMartin, Carl Ballantine, Marvin Kaplan
25. Fear No Evil (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Lynda Day George, Carroll O'Connor, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 420
26.
Premiere (1968)
Episode:
Braddock
(1968)
30 min | Drama
In the near future, a private eye uses the latest technology gadgets to track down evil-doers.
Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Tom Simcox, Stephen McNally, Karen Steele, Lloyd Bochner
27. Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon (1969 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror
Investigator Jonathon Fletcher and his assistant Sajeed Rau investigate supernatural incidents that the local authorities either cannot or will not tackle.
Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Cal Bellini, Thayer David, Marj Dusay, Louis Edmonds
Votes: 132
28. Fear No Evil (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Lynda Day George, Carroll O'Connor, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 420
29. Ritual of Evil (1970 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama, Horror
A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Anne Baxter, Diana Hyland, John McMartin
Votes: 294
30. City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV Movie)
G | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit the underwater city called Pacifica. They find they must defend the city against hostile alien forces.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert, Burr DeBenning
Votes: 757
31. Earth II (1971 TV Movie)
G | 100 min | Sci-Fi
When Earth II, an orbiting research space station, is menaced by a Red Chinese nuclear weapon, its 2,000 inhabitants take action to disarm and dispose of the missile without resorting to violence.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Gary Lockwood, Scott Hylands, Hari Rhodes, Anthony Franciosa
Votes: 388
32. Escape (1971 TV Movie)
73 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Christopher George, William Windom, Marlyn Mason, Avery Schreiber
Votes: 110
33. The People (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 688
34. Lights Out (1972 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror
A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Joan Hackett, Laurence Luckinbill, Louisa Horton, Kathryn Walker
Votes: 31
35. The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972 TV Movie)
75 min | Crime, Thriller
A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave. He helps a girl investigate her brother's alleged murder.
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Peter Haskell, Joan Bennett, Barbara Rush, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 175
36. Madame Sin (1972)
Not Rated | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
A C.I.A. Agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 1,160
37. Genesis II (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodrigues
Votes: 1,119
38. Baffled (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles
Votes: 440
39. The Stranger (1973 TV Movie)
100 min | Sci-Fi
An astronaut finds himself on a planet that's (almost) exactly like Earth.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Sharon Acker, Lew Ayres
Votes: 671
40. Poor Devil (1973 TV Movie)
73 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A young down on his luck resident of Hell (Sammy Davis, Jr.) is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down on his luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Sammy Davis Jr., Christopher Lee, Jack Klugman, Adam West
Votes: 195
41. The Norliss Tapes (1973 TV Movie)
72 min | Horror
An investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins
Votes: 1,548
42. The Questor Tapes (1974 TV Movie)
96 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Project 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... See full summary »
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Lew Ayres
Votes: 838
43. Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan, Verna Bloom
Votes: 1,501
44. Planet Earth (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where women rule the world and men are slaves called Dinks. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary
Votes: 892
45. The Tribe (1974 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the last Ice Age, a family of Cro-Magnons battle a tribe of primitive Neanderthals for survival.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Victor French, Warren Vanders, Henry Wilcoxon, Adriana Shaw
Votes: 29
46. Wonder Woman (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Andrew Prine, Ricardo Montalban
Votes: 1,472
47. Strange New World (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Sci-Fi
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: John Saxon, Kathleen Miller, Keene Curtis, James Olson
Votes: 390
48. Search for the Gods (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Two young people search for a valuable medallion, which they believe will prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Kurt Russell, Stephen McHattie, Victoria Racimo, Raymond St. Jacques
Votes: 196
49. Time Travelers (1976 TV Movie)
78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
During an outbreak of a contagious disease in 1976, two scientists are sent back in time to 1871, when a Chicago doctor apparently had the cure for it.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Sam Groom, Tom Hallick, Francine York, Booth Colman
Votes: 529
50. The Day After Tomorrow (1975 TV Movie)
52 min | Family, Sci-Fi
The crew of the lightship Altares are lost in space when the craft is struck by a meteor shower and goes out of control.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Brian Blessed, Joanna Dunham, Nick Tate, Katharine Levy
Votes: 137
51. Brenda Starr (1976 TV Movie)
90 min | Adventure
A newspaper reporter trying to track down a hermit-like billionaire goes to the Brazilian jungle, where she finds herself in the middle of an extortion plot, voodoo and supernatural occurrences.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Jill St. John, Jed Allan, Sorrell Booke, Tabi Cooper
Votes: 58
52. Exo-Man (1977 TV Movie)
95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
Director: Richard Irving | Stars: David Ackroyd, Anne Schedeen, A Martinez, José Ferrer
Votes: 182
53. Spectre (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
A criminologist and occult investigator recruits an old friend to assist in his current case. A sister of a prominent British businessman believes her brother dabbles in the black arts. The two investigate the matter.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 708
54. The Man with the Power (1977 TV Movie)
93 min | Sci-Fi
A man whose father was an alien from another planet inherits his father's supernatural powers. He is assigned to guard a beautiful Indian princess who is on a state visit to America.
Director: Nicholas Sgarro | Stars: Bob Neill, Tim O'Connor, Vic Morrow, Persis Khambatta
Votes: 71
55. The World of Darkness (1977 TV Movie)
60 min | Thriller
After a near-death experience from a vehicle accident, a sportswriter finds that people in the afterlife are able to contact him and cryptically suggest that he help someone they know.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Granville Van Dusen, Beatrice Straight, Tovah Feldshuh, Gary Merrill
Votes: 20
56. Dead of Night (1977 TV Movie)
76 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three horror stories about a vintage car that transports its driver back to 1926, the mistress of an old Victorian mansion who is scared of a vampire and a mother tormented by her dead son who she has brought back to life.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., E.J. André, Ann Doran, Christina Hart
Votes: 1,625
57. The Possessed (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: James Farentino, Harrison Ford, Claudette Nevins, Eugene Roche
Votes: 712
58. Good Against Evil (1977 TV Movie)
84 min | Horror
A writer, Andy Stuart, teams up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Dack Rambo, Elyssa Davalos, Richard Lynch, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 599
59. Stick Around (1977 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
It's the year 2055 and things are better for the human race, except for Vance. The Keefer family deals with daily life in the future and their older and malfunctioning robot servant, which Vance is tired of.
Director: Bill Hobin | Stars: Andy Kaufman, Fred McCarren, Nancy New, Cliff Norton
Votes: 50
60. Dr. Strange (1978 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Action, Fantasy
A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
Director: Philip DeGuere Jr. | Stars: Peter Hooten, Clyde Kusatsu, Jessica Walter, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 2,140
61. The World Beyond (1978 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror, Thriller
A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island. An episode called "Monster" from the TV-series "The World Beyond".
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Granville Van Dusen, JoBeth Williams, Barnard Hughes, Richard Fitzpatrick
Votes: 201
62. The Clone Master (1978 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Sci-Fi
In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Art Hindle, Robyn Douglass, John van Dreelen, Ed Lauter
Votes: 129
63.
Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode:
The Girl from Ilandia
(1978)
TV-G | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
While out on his yacht, newspaper man Simon Penrose finds a young girl on a raft. She has no I.D. but wears mysterious, difficult to remove jewelry. Simon calls in his old friend Diana ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Harry Guardino, Julie Anne Haddock
Votes: 196
64. Captain America (1979 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A recipient of an experimental body enhancement chemical retaliates against his would be killers as a star spangled superhero.
Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Reb Brown, Len Birman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Robin Mattson
Votes: 2,413
65. Samurai (1979 TV Movie)
70 min | Action, Fantasy
Lee 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.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Joe Penny, Dana Elcar, Beulah Quo, James Shigeta
Votes: 65
66. The Power Within (1979 TV Movie)
74 min | Fantasy
A daredevil pilot becomes a human dynamo after being struck by lighting and is then pursued by enemy agents determined to find out the secret of his superhuman strength.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Art Hindle, Edward Binns, Joseph Rassulo, Eric Braeden
Votes: 58
67. Vampire (1979 TV Movie)
88 min | Horror
Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the ... See full summary »
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold
Votes: 483
68. Starstruck (1979 TV Movie)
30 min | Sci-Fi
The story, set in the twenty-second century, follows the adventures of the McCallister family, owners of McCallister's Midway Inn, a hotel-restaurant-saloon on an orbiting way station somewhere between Earth and Pluto.
Director: Alfred Viola | Stars: Beeson Carroll, Tania Myren, Meegan King, Kevin Brando
Votes: 17
69. Topper (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A recently deceased couple try, any way they can, to get into heaven rather than wander the Earth as invisible souls with no purpose.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Kate Jackson, Andrew Stevens, Jack Warden, Rue McClanahan
Votes: 173
70. Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The star spangled hero must battle a villain's plan to poison America with a chemical that horrifically accelerates the aging process.
Director: Ivan Nagy | Stars: Reb Brown, Connie Sellecca, Len Birman, Christopher Lee
Votes: 1,768
71. America 2100 (1979 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX.
Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Karen Valentine, Jon Cutler, Mark King, Sid Caesar
Votes: 10
72. The Ultimate Impostor (1979 TV Movie)
97 min | Action
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Joseph Hacker, Keith Andes, Macon McCalman, Erin Gray
Votes: 41
73. Doctor Franken (1980 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Jeff Lieberman | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Robert Perault, David Selby, Teri Garr
Votes: 63
74. The Aliens Are Coming (1980 TV Movie)
100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien mother ship hovering in Earth's atmosphere is the base for an attempted alien invasion of Earth.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Tom Mason, Eric Braeden, Melinda O. Fee, Fawne Harriman
Votes: 222
75. Ghost of a Chance (1980 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
After Jenny Clifford gets married, the ghost of her first husband comes back.
Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Shelley Long, Barry Van Dyke, Steven Keats, Gretchen Wyler
Votes: 14
76. K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend (1981 TV Movie)
50 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
One time companion of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith returns to Earth and carries on with her journalist career. Now, in 1981, she has managed to rebuild her career and has come, a matter of ... See full summary »
Director: John Black | Stars: Elisabeth Sladen, John Leeson, Bill Fraser, Ian Sears
Votes: 668
Had it been successful, it would have been the first spin-off of "Doctor Who".
77. The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire (1981 TV Movie)
96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The hero is given his mentor's bow (the Heartbow) which chooses its new owner when passed on. It fires arrows that blow up like grenades, but can only be wielded by the one chosen to wield ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Corea | Stars: Lane Caudell, Belinda Bauer, Victor Campos, Kabir Bedi
Votes: 452
78. Mysterious Two (1982 TV Movie)
100 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: John Forsythe, James Stephens, Priscilla Pointer, Robert Pine
Votes: 158
79.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Beyond Witch Mountain
(1982)
Unrated | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Based on the film, Escape to Witch Mountain. Tony and Tia leave Witch Mountain to look for their Uncle Bene, and they all fall into the clutches of the evil Deranian. They have to use their special powers to outwit him.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Eddie Albert, Tracey Gold, Andrew Freeman, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 215
80. 13 Thirteenth Avenue (1983 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A comedy about a group of classic monsters sharing an apartment, their misadventures, and their interaction with each other and their therapist.
Director: John Bowab | Stars: A.C. Weary, Ilene Graff, Ernie Sabella, Paul Kreppel
Votes: 10
81. The Invisible Woman (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible.
Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Bob Denver, Jonathan Banks, David Doyle, George Gobel
Votes: 90
82. Wishman (1983 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Mark Dodson, Margarita Farrell, Robin Gammell
Votes: 40
83. Condor (1985 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 73 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Unsold 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.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Ray Wise, Wendy Kilbourne, Vic Polizos, James Avery
Votes: 197
84. The Steel Collar Man (1985 TV Movie)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An android soldier and its creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and wants to destroy it), and find help from a truck driver with whom they help people.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Charles Rocket, Dorian Lopinto, Hoyt Axton, Chuck Connors
Votes: 27
85. J.O.E. and the Colonel (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Scientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.
Director: Ron Satlof | Stars: Terence Knox, Gary Kasper, Aimee Eccles, William Lucking
Votes: 97
86. Northstar (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Sci-Fi
An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Greg Evigan, Deborah Wakeham, Mitchell Ryan, Mason Adams
Votes: 191
87. Space Police (1986 TV Movie)
52 min | Action, Crime, Family
A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organised crime.
Director: Tony Bell | Stars: Shane Rimmer, Catherine Chevalier, Desirée Erasmus, Jeff Harding
Votes: 54
A second, successful pilot led to "Space Precinct" in 1994.
88. Annihilator (1986 TV Movie)
99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girlfriend.
Director: Michael Chapman | Stars: Mark Lindsay Chapman, Susan Blakely, Lisa Blount, Brion James
Votes: 459
89.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
I-Man
(1986)
Unrated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Scott Bakula, Ellen Bry, Joey Cramer, John Bloom
Votes: 334
90.
The Greatest American Hero (1981–1983)
Episode:
The Greatest American Heroine
(1986)
TV-14 | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The aliens tell Ralph to find a suitable replacement for himself when his secret identity is revealed to the world. Much to Bill's disgust he selects a woman to be his successor.
Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Mary Ellen Stuart
Votes: 126
91.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Fuzzbucket
(1986)
Unrated | 46 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
An invisible creature befriends a 12-year-old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Chris Hebert, Phil Fondacaro, Joe Regalbuto, Wendy Phillips
Votes: 426
92. Fluppy Dogs (1986 TV Movie)
TV-G | 45 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A band of dimension hopping humanoid dogs need the help of two kids to return home.
Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Marshall Efron, Carl Steven, Cloyce Morrow, Hal Smith
Votes: 350
93.
CBS Summer Playhouse (1987–1989)
Episode:
Infiltrator
(1987)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A 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.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Scott Bakula, Debrah Farentino, Charles Keating, Michael Bell
Votes: 30
94. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987 TV Movie)
100 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
An alien lands on Earth and decides that he needs to take a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can get back to his home planet.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Lewis Smith, James Laurenson, Robert Picardo, Bruce McGill
Votes: 382
95. Bates Motel (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Richard Rothstein | Stars: Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Gregg Henry
Votes: 1,768
This was intended as a sequel to "Psycho".
96.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Earth Star Voyager: Part 1
(1988)
Unrated | 240 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A select group of young cadets in the twenty-first century is sent off on a spaceship to find a new home for humanity when Earth is deteriorating.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Duncan Regehr, Brian McNamara, Julia Montgomery, Jason Michas
Votes: 655
97. Out of Time (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his great grandfather to capture a master criminal.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Bruce Abbott, Bill Maher, Rebecca Schaeffer, Kristian Alfonso
Votes: 252
98. Badlands 2005 (1988 TV Movie)
48 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In this unsold post-apocalyptic TV pilot, a U.S. marshal and his by-the-book cyborg partner are tasked to escort two mail order brides to a remote desert area where their husbands work, but a local bandit leader has other plans for them.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Lewis Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Sharon Stone, Caitlin O'Heaney
Votes: 63
99. The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Hopefully on the verge of curing his Hulk condition, Banner meets his colleague, Don Blake, who is mystically linked to a Viking warrior, Thor.
Directors: Nicholas Corea, Bill Bixby | Stars: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Lee Purcell
Votes: 3,607
The proposed series would have featured Thor.
100. Remo Williams: The Prophecy (1988 TV Movie)
48 min | Action, Comedy
While Remo and his teacher work their missions, an elite assassin targets Remo.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Jeffrey Meek, Stephen Elliott, Carmen Argenziano
Votes: 249
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