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The TV Pilot Graveyard: Best Mates Sitcom Pilots

In this instalment of the ‘TV Pilot Graveyard’, we’re celebrating the unbreakable, often dysfunctional, bond of friendship – or at least, the sitcom pilots that tried to.

The ‘best mates’ sitcom is a cornerstone of comedy, built on shared experiences, mutual exasperation, and that one friend who always gets you into trouble. But for every ‘Friends’ or ‘Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps’, there are countless duos, trios, and quartets who never got past their first episode. Join me as we explore the friendships that fizzled out before they even began – and ponder why these comedic friendships hit the cutting room floor.

The TV Pilot Graveyard: Four Never-Seen Flat-share Sitcom Pilots

The ‘TV Pilot Graveyard’ is the series where we unearth the pilot episodes that never quite made it to our screens. In this video we’re diving into the chaotic world of the flat share sitcom. From mismatched personalities crammed into questionable living arrangements to the endless saga of who’s doing the dishes.

This subgenre has been a fertile ground for comedy – and, as you’ll see, a surprisingly large number of rejected ideas. Get ready to meet the aspiring actors, the struggling artists, and the perpetually unemployed who almost became your favourite roommates, but instead, ended up in the TV Pilot Graveyard.

Lost Laughter: The Sitcom Pilots You’ll Never See

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.

A Tribute to the cast of Dad’s Army

They were the ‘Home Guard’ that captured the heart of a nation. At its peak, ‘Dad’s Army’ had ratings of 18 million, with nine seasons from 1968 to 1977, plus a radio version, a stage show, and two films.

Today, we’re looking past the ‘stupid boy’ and the ‘doomed’ catchphrases to uncover what really happened to the heroes of ‘Dad’s Army’.