Turbo Grom
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Post by Turbo Grom on Jul 15, 2007 13:41:21 GMT -5
Is it just me or this episode last for about 90minutes? And I heard that there are actually two versions of Pilot episode ( ) and I'm confused
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Post by skipsquat on Jul 16, 2007 16:48:46 GMT -5
Turbo Grom, the pilot was indeed a 90 minute t.v. movie. I feel fairly confident in saying that there was no other version of the pilot. (If there was one, I never saw it.)
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Turbo Grom
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Post by Turbo Grom on Jul 17, 2007 15:54:08 GMT -5
Wait, are you trying to say that the first idea was actually a movie? And that because it was so popular they created TV show?
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Post by lin212 on Jul 17, 2007 19:45:46 GMT -5
Yes, the pilot was a 2 hour movie (including commercials) that aired on Sunday night. The first regular episode was shown the following Tuesday.
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Post by honeyblondenoggin on Jul 17, 2007 19:47:10 GMT -5
Turbo Grom ~
In the US, especially in the 80s, often times TV networks would produce a TV movie of a proposed regular TV series. That is called the "pilot." If that did well in the ratings, then the network would order more regular-length shows to be produced.
That is the case here. A TV-movie version of the show was produced, and then 5 more episodes were run that first season. In fact, Moonlighting was a "mid-season replacement," that is, the TV season in the US starts in the autumn (usually September) and runs through May. Sometimes TV shows do so badly in the ratings that they are cancelled mid-season, somewhere in Dec-Feb, and there are these "mid-season replacement" shows to fill those bad shows' time-slots. That is why season 1 is SO short.
Does that answer your question?
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Turbo Grom
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Post by Turbo Grom on Jul 18, 2007 4:33:41 GMT -5
honeyblondenoggin thank you a lot! That explains everything (I really didn't know what is actually the 'pilot'). TNX a lot once more!
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Post by honeyblondenoggin on Jul 18, 2007 8:18:17 GMT -5
Happy to help, Turbo. I figured you might not completely understand all the terms because you are not from the US. If you have the Moonlighting DVDs, there is a special feature on the first disc of the first two seasons that goes "behind the scenes" of the pilot, the casting, all that good stuff. The featurette is called something like "Not just a day job, the Moonlighting phenomenon, part 1." I don't know if there is a difference in content between the US version of the DVDs and others. But if you have this, you should watch it to get the inside scoop!
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Turbo Grom
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Post by Turbo Grom on Jul 18, 2007 10:27:49 GMT -5
I don't have it but I'll try to find it somewhere. TNX a lot.
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Post by Johanna on Jul 23, 2007 11:28:23 GMT -5
Is it just me or this episode last for about 90minutes? And I heard that there are actually two versions of Pilot episode ( ) and I'm confused Sometimes you stumble upon places where they divide the Pilot into two parts, just to make it two equally long episodes. Then if you see "The Pilot 1" and "The Pilot 2", you have seen the whole pilot, 90 minutes of fun. ;D The featurettes such as The Moonlighting Phenomenon are indeed on the European DVD's, it's only the commentary track on the actual episodes that aren't.
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