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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series

…execs approached Jennett, who had written for their hit show Recess, to develop a few of the series in consideration. From the Heritage titles mentioned, he chose to write pilots…

Batman: The Complete Animated Series

…approval process was expected, due to the negotiations being made between multiple partners, the show was greenlit before the pilot was shown to anyone. The pilot did achieve one thing,…

Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2

…series pilot earlier this year with high hopes and so far they have been fulfilled. However, once the pilot episode has flown, the series must start up with the usual…

The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons

…wrong. Next is the Animatic For The Unaired Pilot (7:33), as well as the Animatic For The Power (11:15). The Original Pencil Tests From Saerom (0:38) are from the pilot,…

Robotech: Complete Original Series

…any DVD, the numerous amount of it is however staggering, but the true prizes are the original English pilots for Super Dimensional Fortress Macross and Genesis Climber Mospeada. The pilots…

Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1

…the early Boskos did indeed use Warner music, the practice would reach its height in the Merrie Melodies series. Harman-Ising had made a short pilot film, never released to the…

Plastic Man: The Complete Collection

…a very well produced mini-documentary. The goofier aspects of this series of Plastic Man were obvious influences on later comic-spoofs, especially noticeable in the included 2006 Plastic Man Pilot Episode…

Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition

…Andrews and Dick Van Dyke would do the same in Mary Poppins! The first “pilot” film, Alice’s Wonderland (touched on but not included here), set up the routine, showing how…

The Venture Bros.: Season One

…together, starting with Publick’s conception of the project as a comic book from Money Press (publishers of Rex Steele). The show’s Pilot: The Terrible Secret Of Turtle Bay (25:04) appears…

The Flintstones: The Complete Series

…Swimming Pool (a typical neighbor dispute that may have set up both characters as too obstinate), was still finding Barney Rubble between his appearance in the original Flagstones pilot and…

Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One

…October 2014, before moving to Disney XD. The pilot was first shown as a one-hour special, called Spark Of Rebellion, though it is presented as two separate episodes on the…

Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series

…wrote the pilot and the show’s Bible. He was a talented writer who had already written for fantasy in Thundarr The Barbarian and Trollkins. Evanier was asked to write a…

Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942

…usually when featured in a compilation like this, was the pilot film that tried out the concept. Released on September 26 1941, it was an instant smash, with theater owners…

Wonder Woman

…the island to be seen, so that the sole surviving pilot can crash land relatively safely. This is of course Air Force pilot Steve Trevor, and he finds his safety…

Space: 1999: Season One

…to take place entirely off Earth. They also wanted an American to direct the pilot, to make sure that the show would cater to American sensibilities. Additionally, they wanted Martin…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six

…the character was previously handled in animation. From the then-recent Suess book, it might have been the pilot for a series, but as such this was the only other time…

The Blazing Dragons of Monty Python’s Terry Jones

…second season story editor Erika Strobel, “Gavin had written a series bible (concept, characters etc.) as well as a pilot script.” So Jones and Scott would be credited as the…

More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect

…like a childhood dream. So, Jesse and I built up our reel, pitching for some pilots and TV shows, that kind of thing, and Lee got us a few pitches…

From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story

…characters succeed overseas. It was the Smurfs’ publisher, Dupuis, through their animation division, who contacted NBC with a 2- or 3-minute pilot short. At the time, the head of NBC…

The Best Of Bravestarr

…story, clarifying for younger viewers what we had learned in each story. The new “Best Of Bravestarr” DVD includes the pilot movie Bravestarr: The Legend on the first disc (running…

The Muppet Show: Season Two

…brilliant writing and performing, the second season of The Muppet Show apparently did not rate too much in the extras department. Certainly, the appearance here of the second Muppet pilot,…

Skyland set for global preview

…Skyland, airing either the hour-long pilot or a 75-second clip this November. The series is described as “a sci-fi action adventure series that follows a heroic young brother and sister…

2014 San Diego Comic-Con schedule highlights

…full pilot screenings of forthcoming Warner Bros. shows The Flash, Constantine, and iZombie along with the premiere of a new episode of Teen Titans Go! THURSDAY Jack is back! With…

TaleSpin: Volume 2

Disney (1990-1991), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 13, 2007), 3 discs, 617 mins, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $34.99 Storyboard: Baloo pilots a…

Bravestarr: Volume One

…see this included, but delightfully so. This was a spin-off pilot from Bravestarr, which makes this one of the very last projects produced by Filmation— which, as far as I…

Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2

…it was done as a potential spin-off pilot. I got a real kick out of seeing classic Astro Boy done up in color, presented here with English subtitles. Just as…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Four

…Volume Three). In this DVD, Chip and Dale costar with Donald in no less than eight cartoon shorts – Corn Chips (1951), Test Pilot Donald (1951), Out of Scale (1951),…

A Conversation with Ben Balistreri

…(the Story Editor on all those shows) had written the pilot episode for Crash while Danny was still being developed. Steve Silver and I got to create the look for…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One

…first Harman-Ising Bosko and Foxy shorts (including the full Lady Play Your Mandolin), the Snafu and Hook wartime series, a public health film, commercials, a really cool television pilot and…

The Wind Rises

…a young boy, Jiro Horikoshi has aspirations to fly, but his weak vision means he will never qualify to be a pilot. In early 20th Century Japan, airplanes are seen…