We all love a good British sitcom, don’t we? But for every hit show, there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of ideas that never make it past a single episode. The pilot.
There are some well-documented failed pilots, shows based on intriguing ideas but, for various reasons, they didn’t get commissioned. But what about the really forgotten ones? The phantom pilots of British television. The ones from decades past, some before the Internet chronicled every single detail. We know the titles, who wrote them, maybe who was in the cast … but the stories? They’re lost to the mists of time.
In this video, we’re going on an archaeological dig into the forgotten sitcom pilots of the 1970s and 1980s, to try and discover what they could have been.