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Piloting the Pilots

Ambivalent television viewers, Erin and Cam, soar the small screen skies for the best, and worst, television pilots.

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  1. 322

    Flight 286 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

    This week, Erin and Cam make some BIG changes! Welcome to our new cult/manosphere podcast! NO AI TRAINING: Without limiting the author's and publisher's exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this podcast, its audio files, transcripts, or show notes to 'train' generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited. The copyright owner reserves all rights to license uses of this work for AI training and development of machine learning language models.

  2. 321

    Flight 285 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Un-aired Pilot)

    This week, Erin and Cameron dive deep into the Hellmouth and discuss the most terrifying thing to come out of the 90s...SUBLIME. Oh, and also they talk about the crazy un-aired pilot of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER!

  3. 320

    Flight 284 Green Hornet

    Buzz buzz! This week, will Erin and Cam enjoy THE GREEN HORNET or will they get stung!

  4. 319

    Flight 283 Bloodlines (2013)

    Bloodlines (2013) the show that asked: What if Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but racist?

  5. 318

    Flight 282 Timeslip (1985)

    This week, Erin and Cam take a TIMESLIP back to 1985.

  6. 317

    Flight 281 Close Encounters

    Hello, darlings! This week, Erin and Cam watch failed sitcom CLOSE ENCOUNTERS in which they say NOTHING AGAINST Eva Gabor! Have a nice flight!

  7. 316

    Flight 280 Sea Divers

    Ahoy! This week, Erin and Cam go downstairs to the bottom of the sea with two interchangeable white dudes. At least they aren't TOTAL creeps.

  8. 315

    Flight 279 Hey, Jeannie

    Today, Erin and Cam cross the East River over and over again as they navigate the 1950's sitcom pilot for HEY, JEANNIE!

  9. 314

    Flight 278 Mountain Man

    This week, Erin and Cam make like deer and fawn over the one and only Critter Calhoun in Mountain Man.

  10. 313

    Flight 277 The Andrews Sisters

    This week, Erin and Cam have a date with THE ANDREWS SISTERS and wonder why everyone was dating duds. Like, your grandfather was statistically a dud. Look it up.

  11. 312

    Flight 276 Archie (1964)

    Step right up! Everyone grab your chocolate malts and get down to the teen social! This week, Erin and Cam watched the of its time/out of its time comic book adaptation of ARCHIE (1964)

  12. 311

    Flight 275 Fargo (2003)

    This week, Erin and Cam are in for a cold reception when they watch the FIRST attempt to adapt FARGO to the small screen. It does not go well....

  13. 310

    Flight 274 Assignment: Mexico

    This week, Erin and Cam are pleasantly surprised by...the woke 50's?!? They watched ASSIGNMENT: MEXICO and so should you.

  14. 309

    Flight 273 American Family / Adventures in Babysitting (1989)

    This week, Erin and Cam (FOR SOME REASON) chose two more sitcoms from the 80s and 2000s. God have mercy on their souls.

  15. 308

    Flight 272 Changing Patterns Legally Blonde (2003)

    This week, Erin and Cam watch two shows (CHANGING PATTERNS and LEGALLY BLONDE [2003]) Good? Bad? The jury's is still out...

  16. 307

    Flight 271 Skysurfer Strike Force / UltraForce

    This week, Erin and Cam delve into the realm of 90's superhero cartoons. Grab a box of sugar smacks and a bottle of YooHoo for SKYSURFER STRIKE FORCE and ULTRAFORCE (ULTRAFORCE!!!!)

  17. 306

    Flight 270 Silent Force

    Erin and Cam have done it again! That is, find a television show so obscure there are no IMDb reviews on it. Be the change you want to see in the world! Go review it!

  18. 305

    Flight 269 Salvage 1

    Welcome to Piloting the Pilots Flight 269 (Nice). This week, Erin and Cam scavenge the depths of Salvage 1 -- a junkyard sci-fi show starring Andy Griffith and animal poaching.

  19. 304

    Flight 268 Lawless

    It's a return to Erin's favorite decade -- the 90s! This week, Erin and Cameron watch the one and done pilot for the Frank Lupo produced LAWLESS!

  20. 303

    Flight 267 Timecop (1997)

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! Erin and Cam start off the year with fireworks with the dreadful television adaptation TIMECOP. Surely, it can only get better from here. Right?

  21. 302

    Flight 266 Alf's Special Christmas

    Oh boy...so, it's Christmas time. Time for some really sad puppets. Erin and Cam watched ALF'S SPECIAL CHRISTMAS!

  22. 301

    Flight 265 The Carol Channing Show

    How do? Yeah. This week, as promised, Erin and Cam watched THE CAROL CHANNING SHOW (1966) and got more than they bargained for -- a history lesson! Enjoy!

  23. 300

    Flight 264 Blitt Happens (2003) / Clarissa: NOW! (1995)

    Erin and Cam are back with what might be the most cursed double feature ever compiled. This week: BLITT HAPPENS (2003) and CLARISSA: NOW! (1995).

  24. 299

    Flight 263 K-9000

    Could this be the start of Spot-GPT? Erin and Cam watched K-9000! Woof!

  25. 298

    Flight 262 South of Hell

    This week, Erin and Cam watched SOUTH OF HELL. There will be cliches and they are legion.

  26. 297

    Flight 261 Curse of the Corn People

    Sorry for the delay, but Erin and Cam are back with a true horror classic -- economic anxiety. This week, they watched CURSE OF THE CORN PEOPLE. Plus, Cameron spills the tea about the 8-year-old, mediocre white kids in more SOCCER TALK!

  27. 296

    Flight 260 Werewolf (1987)

    Erin and Cameron are back with more scare fare for the 'Ween. (I'm trying it out) Hopefully you don't find Reagan-era nightclubs too terrifying. Oh, or werewoofs.

  28. 295

    Flight 259 Shivers (1989) / So Here's What Happened (2006)

    Erin and Cam are in the thick of spooky season and they might be ready to turn back after watching a couple of particularly disturbing failed sitcoms.

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    Flight 257 Two For the Money (1952) / The Millionaire (1955)

    This week, Erin and Cam try not to lose their lunch as they whip through two very troubling show from the 50s. Plus: "SOCCER TALK!"

  31. 292

    Flight 256 Dream Wife

    This week, Erin and Cam ponder the evil eldritch magic that compels amazing sitcom wives to settle for the most mediocre white men imaginable.

  32. 291

    Flight 255 Johnny Garage / There Goes the Neighborhood

    They promised they'd give sitcoms a rest. They lied. This week, Erin and Cam getting over seasoned with the salt of the Earth with Johnny Garage and There Goes the Neighborhood. Enjoy?

  33. 290

    Flight 254 Kiss Me G... / Mabel and Max

    This week, Erin and Cam ask the age old question: "Do you want to be that asshole?"

  34. 289

    Flight 253 Planet of the Apes (1974) Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975)

    Ook ook, everyone! This week, Erin and Cameron traverse the extremely confusing timelines and multiverses of The Planet of the Apes franchise with the two 70s shows that killed the series (that is -- until Tim Burton and Marky Mark resurrected it so they could kill it off again) Enjoy!

  35. 288

    Flight 252 Chase

    This week, Erin and Cam join an "elite" "force" "of" "detectives" as they try to stop snake flinging cult leaders from smuggling diamonds to Mexico (or something)

  36. 287

    Flight 251 Cher

    Erin and Cam have got you babes -- in your earholes! This week, they turn back time and explore the television genre of "comedy variety show."

  37. 286

    Flight 250 Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954) Sirens (1987)

    This week, Erin and Cameron look at the VERY different lives of three professional women.

  38. 285

    Flight 249 Sheena Queen of the Jungle (1955) Sheena (1984)

    This week, Erin and Cam crash landed in a quagmire of problematic media as they dissect SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE (1955) and SHEENA (1984).

  39. 284

    Flight 248 Hey Dad! / Daddy's Girls

    Um...Erin and Cam are Back! After an unscheduled hiatus, the pilots are back for their belated Father's Day episode! They watched the inexplicably long running Australian comedy HEY DAD! and the (it's gross even to type) DADDY'S GIRLS... Barf. They discuss a bunch of other stuff too...

  40. 283

    Flight 247 Ice Planet

    This week, Erin and Cam catch a chill from the early 2000s Canadian/German sci-fi tv pilot movie:ICE PLANET. Chill out and listen!

  41. 282

    Flight 246 EXO-Man

    "I. Am. EXO-MAN?" Hmmm...It doesn't have quite the same ring as "I am Ironman," but could it be just as metal? Erin and Cam torque all about it on today's episode.

  42. 281

    Flight 245 Badlands 2005

    Howdy, pardners! This week, Erin and Cam take you to the future-past with mind bogglingly prescient pilot flop: BADLANDS 2005

  43. 280

    Flight 244 Baffled!

    This week, Erin and Cam careen into the spooky world of 70s fashion and Formula One racing in the post-Star Trek Leonard Nimoy vehicle: BAFFLED! (Emphasis theirs)

  44. 279

    Flight 243 Steel vs Sweet Magnolias

    Erin and Cam are more nervous than a long tailed chair in a room full of rocking cats (or something like that)! It's time for another versus episode! This week, they watch the unaired 1990 spinoff pilot to the hit film STEEL MAGNOLIAS and the Netflix show SWEET MAGNOLIAS!

  45. 278

    Flight 242 Private Eye

    This week, intrepid gumshoes Erin and Cam are on the case of the forgotten film noir revival show: PRIVATE EYE. Will they like what they see or will they get conjunctivitis?

  46. 277

    Flight 241 Get Real

    This week, Erin and Cam watch the forgotten 90's family drama GET REAL. Despite starring an Oscar winner and nominee, does it "achieve coolness?"

  47. 276

    Flight 240 The Owl

    This week, Erin and Cam had a hoot and a holler as they watched the failed pilot for THE OWL!

  48. 275

    Flight 239 VR.5

    All you Lawnmower Men and Women, throw on your Oculus Rifts and prepare yourself for some good old fashioned misogyny -- 90s style! This week, Erin and Cam watched: VR.5!

  49. 274

    Flight 238 American Nuclear

    This week, Erin and Cam have a meltdown discussing the failed 80s pilot AMERICAN NUCLEAR.

  50. 273

    Flight 237 Walker Texas Ranger (1993) vs Walker (2021)

    Yee-haw! This week, Erin and Cam are home on the range with another vs episode: WALKER, TEXAS RANGER (1993) and WALKER (2021).

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Ambivalent television viewers, Erin and Cam, soar the small screen skies for the best, and worst, television pilots.

HOSTED BY

Erin and Cameron

Produced by Piloting the Pilots

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Ambivalent television viewers, Erin and Cam, soar the small screen skies for the best, and worst, television pilots.

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