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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. **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…
Episodes
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Flight 292 The Starlost
This week, Erin and Cam discuss three new(ish) shows and take a listener request. Get out your butter churns, and enjoy Harlan Ellison's THE STARLOST.
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Flight 291 Mulberry Street
This week, Erin and Cameron have a nightmare on MULBERRY STREET.
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Flight 290 Outpost in Space
This week, Erin and Cam S@!t Post on OUTPOST...IN SPACE!
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Flight 289 Now is Tomorrow
This week, Erin and Cam try to figure out the biggest mystery of all....what is the name of this show?
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Flight 288 Impulse!
This week, Erin and Cam suppress their dark urges and watch the unaired pilot IMPULSE! Plus, they challenge you to ruin a date!
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Flight 287 Darke of the Night
Hey there, you ghosts of the night. This week, Erin and Cam do their best impressions of professional Disc Jockeys and present the unaired pilot for DARKE OF…
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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…
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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…
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Flight 284 Green Hornet
Buzz buzz! This week, will Erin and Cam enjoy THE GREEN HORNET or will they get stung!
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Flight 283 Bloodlines (2013)
Bloodlines (2013) the show that asked: What if Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but racist?
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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!
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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.
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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!
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Flight 278 Mountain Man
This week, Erin and Cam make like deer and fawn over the one and only Critter Calhoun in Mountain Man.
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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…
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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…
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!
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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?
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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!
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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!
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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).
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Flight 263 K-9000
Could this be the start of Spot-GPT? Erin and Cam watched K-9000! Woof!
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Flight 262 South of Hell
This week, Erin and Cam watched SOUTH OF HELL. There will be cliches and they are legion.
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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…
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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…
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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!"
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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.
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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…
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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?"
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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…
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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…
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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."
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Flight 250 Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954) Sirens (1987)
This week, Erin and Cameron look at the VERY different lives of three professional women.
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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).
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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…
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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!
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?"
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Flight 240 The Owl
This week, Erin and Cam had a hoot and a holler as they watched the failed pilot for THE OWL!
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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…
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Flight 238 American Nuclear
This week, Erin and Cam have a meltdown discussing the failed 80s pilot AMERICAN NUCLEAR.
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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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Flight 236 ER (1994) vs The Pitt (2025)
This week, Erin and Cam are in critical care as they cover two shows: ER (1994) and The Pitt (2025). Be warned...one show will flatline.
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Flight 235 Secrets and Lies
G'day! This week, Erin and Cam navigate SECRETS AND LIES, a show with all the twists and turns of a nice suburban hiking trail.
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Flight 234 Women's Murder Club
This week, Erin and Cameron watch what they believe to be the most dangerous show they've ever watched: WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB! Listen -- if you dare!
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Flight 233 Land of the Giants
Sorry, this episode is late. Erin and Cam flew through a giant amorphous ball on a routine spaceflight to London. Enjoy THE LAND OF THE GIANTS!