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Cancelled Before It Began: Destination Space (1959)

The pilot for Destination Space was competing with Men Into Space for a slot on the CBS…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: David Gerrold’s The Star Wolf

David Gerrold’s The Star Wolf has not made it to television yet even though it has the…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Earth II (1971)

Earth II could have given us a true successor to Star Trek in the early ’70s, but…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Battlestar Galactica Blood & Chrome (2012)

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome could have launched another prequel series for the franchise, but Syfy had…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before They Began: The Lost Gene Roddenberry Shows of the ’60s and ’70s

Gene Roddenberry is best known for Star Trek, but in the ’60s and ’70s he tried to…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Irwin Allen’s The Man from the 25th Century (1968)

The Man from the 25th Century is an interesting relic from Irwin Allen that could have given…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Ten Failed Superhero TV Pilots From the 60s, 70s, and 80s

Superheroes have been all the rage for over a decade with the MCU movies still performing well…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex Sci Fi TV Retrospectives

Cancelled Before It Began: Justice League of America (1997)

The 1997 Justice League of America pilot arrived at a low point for superheroes on television and…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Parallels (2015)

2015’s Parallels offers a Sliders-meets-Lost type of premise, though without stealing too much from those shows, and…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Star Trek Final Frontier

Star Trek: Final Frontier was an interesting idea for an animated series set to carry on the…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Marvel’s Most Wanted (2016)

Marvel’s Most Wanted would have carried on the story of two popular characters from Agents of SHIELD,…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Steel Justice (1992)

1992’s Steel Justice is one of those sci fi TV pilots that did not fly because it…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex Sci Fi TV Retrospectives

Cancelled Before It Began: The Robinsons Lost in Space (2004)

The Robinsons: Lost in Space offered a dark take on the ’60s Irwin Allen camp-classic but never…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: Doorways (1993)

George R.R. Martin’s pilot Doorways had a similar premise to Sliders and could have beat that FOX…

Cancelled Before It Began John J. Joex

Cancelled Before It Began: The After (2014)

Chris Carter’s The After was an ambitious post-apocalyptic series that had potential, but Amazon lost faith in the…

Category: Cancelled Before It Began

Cancelled Before It Began: Destination Space (1959)

Cancelled Before It Began: David Gerrold’s The Star Wolf

Cancelled Before It Began: Earth II (1971)

Cancelled Before It Began: Battlestar Galactica Blood & Chrome (2012)

Cancelled Before They Began: The Lost Gene Roddenberry Shows of the ’60s and ’70s

Cancelled Before It Began: Irwin Allen’s The Man from the 25th Century (1968)

Ten Failed Superhero TV Pilots From the 60s, 70s, and 80s

Cancelled Before It Began: Justice League of America (1997)

Cancelled Before It Began: Parallels (2015)

Cancelled Before It Began: Star Trek Final Frontier

Cancelled Before It Began: Marvel’s Most Wanted (2016)

Cancelled Before It Began: Steel Justice (1992)

Cancelled Before It Began: The Robinsons Lost in Space (2004)

Cancelled Before It Began: Doorways (1993)

Cancelled Before It Began: The After (2014)

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