ABC Network - Young Guy Christian - "Pilot" - WLS Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 5/24/1979) 📺
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- From the "Failed TV Pilots" department, here's another such show, Young Guy Christian, as transmitted over the ABC Network via Chicago's WLS Channel 7. (It aired right after a repeat of the Mork & Mindy episode "Mork the Tolerant," the original January 18th 1979 broadcast of which can be found here: • ABC Network - Mork & M... )
An apparent spy/adventure spoof, this never-would-be series starred Barry Bostwick (looking almost like a cross between Ron Hunter and Rod Blagojevich with John Travolta hair) in the title role of an inept spy and Playboy socialite, plus a pre-Cheers Shelley Long (as Mia Mishugi; this pilot's failure will ensure three more years of John M. Smyth and Homemakers ads from her that would air all over Chicagoland, before she finally made the national big time on said program), Richard Karron (as a junkman), and Pat Morita (Happy Days and Mr. T & Tina - but before "The Karate Kid") as Professor Mishugi. The rest of the cast included Charles Tyner as Doctor Gasss, plus Linda Lawrence (as Ava), Alfie Wise (as a guard) and Mitchell Group (as a gang leader).
Includes:
Part of ending Mork & Mindy credits (with voiceover promo for Young Guy Christian by Bill Rice)
Recording then cuts into Angie preemption notice (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Show opening title sequence (technical note: at about the 24 second mark, the audio had a major drop in volume. This continued for about the next minute and a half of the recording. I don't believe this was a recording error; I think it was something either at the TV station or network. In any case, I did my best to boost the gain and do heavy noise reduction to get rid of the resultant hiss so as to attempt to keep the volume consistent)
Commercial: Coppertone - "Flash 'em a Coppertone Tan"
Recording cuts out of other ad and goes right into Act I of this pilot, which reveals the culprits behind this:
Written and Produced by Jerry Belson, Michael Leeson
(to think Belson went from Dick Van Dyke and the TV series adaptation of The Odd Couple to this)
Directed by Stuart Margolin
(what, acting in The Rockford Files wasn't enough?)
Commercials for:
Milk Mate chocolate flavored syrup
Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper - with the "Helping Hand"
Promo for Welcome Back, Kotter and "Hot Rod" for Friday (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Bill Rice)
Animated ABC ID (with lower-third station ID at bottom)
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Snickers - "There's a Wild Bunch of Peanuts in Every Snickers Bar"
1980 Omega from Oldsmobile
Episode epilogue, leading into incomplete end credits (with voiceover promo for Carter Country and Alan King's Third Annual Final Warning by Bill Rice, who's in the middle of reading off the latter title when this recording ends), as follows (after the rest of the cast is shown):
Music by Murray MacLeod and J.A.C. Redford
Director of Photography - Michael W. Watkins
Edited by Richard Bracken
Assistant Editor - Sidney Wolinsky
Casting by Lynn Stalmaster and Associates, Toni Howard
Unit Production Manager / First Assistant Director - G. Warren Smith
Second Assistant Director - Bruce Hanson
(those last two positions are shown for only five or so frames before the recording ends)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, May 24th 1979 during the 7:30pm to 8:00pm timeframe.
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Despite all the thumbs down in the comments, I liked it.
There's nothing like a really good spy movie parody.
And this is nothing like a really good spy movie parody.
I am VERY happy and gratefull that you posted this Shelley Long gem. Hoping for her Ghost of a chance (another failed pilot) to be found complete once in the near future as well.
Laugh track is WEIRD on this. I guess they figured it wouldn't read as funny without it.
Three or so years later Bostwick would headline another so bad-its-good movie which in itself seemed like a parody..MEGAFORCE.
Megaforce is the real G.I. Joe movie, not that CG Rise of Cobra crap from 2009. Prove me wrong.
Lupin the Third? Anyone???
Accurate!
This is so breathtakingly bad that it's beautiful. And how they crammed that studio audience into there...right?
love failed tv pilots rare gems thanks
Did that just happen? Those aren’t tremors you’re hearing. That’s Buck Henry and Don Adam’s rolling around in their grave. Actually I did appreciate the effort. Thanks for that little Gem or should I say cubic zirconia.
Directed by Stuart Margolin...aka Angel!
Aka Evelyn Martin!
@@commentingcollector Nice Recall !!!
@@PugetSoundFlyer Thanks, I figured Rockfish Fan would appreciate that. Still my all time favorite show!
Coppertone level 2 and 4 in that commercial... The days before people worried about skin cancer. Do they even sell sunscreen aka suntan lotion with that little protection anymore?
That stuff was completely useless on sunburn victims like me!
@@LB-gz3ke You are supposed to put it one BEFORE going in the sun not after.
@@theman4884 Gee, thanks. I never thought of that.
I am going to steal the opening line. "This is James Francis, Rich, young, Beautiful.." naaaa wouldn't work
This was trippy, the cast is an interesting combo of iconic Tv actors. Reminds me a little of Get Smart, but in space?
Thanks. I have been looking for this for years. That disco fight scene is awesome.
This is what happens when your most famous role involves wearing fishnet stockings and (apparently) making out with Tim Curry.
20:37 we're in the 70s now.
This was deliberately made to be over the top stupid. I can see why it at least got filmed.
Awkward at times but hysterical in others. Along with "Quark", YGC is ahead of its time. And now, I'm going to watch several episodes of "Spin City" . 😁
Yeah, that pretty much describes Quark. Pretty funny in parts but uncomfortably unfunny in others.
I haven’t seen this in 42 years! Disco fighting Barry Bostwick was worth waiting for.
And, Angel from The Rockford Files directing. It’s a pilot of who’s who. I can honestly say I wasn’t watching that night & missed it. I’m all the better for it. LOL!!!
What a weird show! Very 70's!
Not as bad as I expected from all the talk about it, particularly the main character (who's a little dense and very self-centered, but not actually incompetent as most reviews claim). In fact, in some ways, it feels a little ahead of its time. If you hadn't given the airdate, I'd have thought this to be a mid-eighties show with a few 1970s pop culture jokes (a la Sledge Hammer) instead of 1979.
I'm just surprised I don't have even vague memories of this. Did it air at 9 pm? (My bedtime was 9 pm back in those days)
'A little dense and very self-centered.' Sounds almost like a description of Ron Hunter, no? ;-) Whose ego would no doubt have disqualified him from any spy work.
But this aired at 8:30 Eastern, 7:30 Central. So depending on where you were, it was closer to your bedtime.
After Mork and Mindy, 7:30pm Chicago time.
I think it also ran a couple times on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. I think I saw it more than once.
This was a "failed TV pilot"? No surprise...
Shelley Long has been playing that character of the blonde misunderstood sidekick forever. Diane Chambers on a boat. She is soooooo young!
The guy had a laser in his hand the whole time??? No wonder it tanked! lol
And no word as to what company produced this. Sheesh!
Note that the type font used for this pilot is exactly the same as on _VEGA$_ .
Viacom.
20:36 - 21:10 is officially the greatest scene in failed -pilot history!
I agree. I have been searching of this for that scene alone.
Looking for the very rare sitcom pilot for "All Together Now". It aired in the summer of 1983 or 1984 on CBS or NBC.
I remember that one. I remember I changed the channel on it when I found out it was a homosexual show (the guy who starred in "Boone"). It aired Saturday, June 30, 1984 on NBC.
Ouch. One show that doesn't last long enough (Angie) gets pre-empted for one that didn't get beyond the pilot.
You've proven yourself to be as good as a man, now go wait with the women. The more things change the more they stay the same.
hehehehehe this is funny too bad they cancelled it i do hope the full what there is of it is out there somewhere
Historically interesting but not something that would have been a big hit back then.
Omg I thought that said young gay Christian.
@8:03Whoever wrote this didn't do much fact checking. They didn't give directions on latitude and longitude, but to the North those coordinates are in remote areas of Denmark to the West and Sweden to the east while to the South both sets of coordinates are in the Antarctic ocean. These are about as far from the Caribbean as you can get.
I typed "Denmark," where I should have put "Iceland". This is still a long way from the Caribbean.
The reason it failed was because of that stupid laugh track...
Nah. The laugh track is how you know its a comedy. The Office should've had a laugh track. /s
Even though this pilot had good ratings after "MORK & MINDY", the network had already passed on it for the 1978-'79 season.
"The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year"
They lost me at the opening credits. I only stayed with it long enough to see a pre-Cheers Shelley Long, and a post-Happy Days, pre-Karate Kid Pat Morita.
They lost me at the title.
@@mrawesome3915 How did you end up here without looking of it? I have been looking for it for years and only now found it.
Thank god this didn't get picked up. If it did and if it ran for several years, Shelly Long wouldn't have been on Cheers, and Pat Morita wouldn't have been on Happy Days. 😊😊
Pat was on happy days a few years before this, though he did come back later.
Actually, if this had been picked up, John M. Smyth / Homemakers would have likely had to get a new spokesperson for their ads.
and he wouldn't have been on the karate kid, thank god this one didn't get picked up.
Imagine the network pitch for this: Saturday Night Fever meets James Bond.
Awful
fascinating
Measum of TV Chicago Can you find the extremely rare NBC failed once aired TV pilot called The Paul Williams Show? It aired in June 27th 1979 and aired everywhere even in Chicago! I hope you have the full broadcast
And I thought Delta house was the worst TV show ever. ABC really did make a pile of stinkers there in the late seventies.
I liked Delta House.
Actually all three networks had as many horrible ideas as good ones. That was why some of the lamest concepts were allowed to have multiple seasons.
@@Panwere36 Are things any better today?
@@theman4884 , it should always be hit and miss. Now, though, things that never should air are allowed multiple seasons because they pander.
Well, it was better than "Out of the Blue"...
Out of the Blue was worse than this?! 😳
Museum of TV Chicago
I would like to know if you have $20,000 Pyramid originally aired on June 22, 1977, 78 or 79 on KABC Channel 7 in Los Angeles; can you please let me know via notifications via RUclips.