Shows can run for five, ten, maybe 20 seasons, but a good pilot is what gets them there. Here are 35 of the greatest TV pilots of all time.

ABC has handed a pilot order to Do You Want Kids?, a comedy starring Rachel Bloom, who wrote it with her husband Dan Gregor.

Sometimes, all it takes for a good TV show to become iconic is a great first impression. Which TV pilots should be considered as some of the greatest of all time? More or less the "first episode ...

To determine the best TV pilots in history, 24/7 Tempo reviewed data on audience reviews for pilots from IMDb, an online movie and TV database owned by Amazon, ranking them on IMDb user ratings as ...

The fact is, pilot season was already so disrupted there was not much left to disrupt, strikes or no strikes. After all, last pilot season saw the broadcast networks pick up just six shows out of ...

Pilot season has long been television’s petri dish. The custom began in the early 1960s to bring big advertising dollars to prime-time TV.

Even so, the May "upfront" presentations - heralding a new crop of fall TV to advertisers and the world - remain. This half-century-old rite perpetuates the need for pilots to sustain it.

While TV networks traditionally commission dozens of scripts for pilot episodes, only some are actually produced and far fewer turn into series. Now several studios say they will cut back on ...