Shows that weren't picked up for a series/never came to be.
 

One thing I think some people don’t realize is how many TV shows never make it past the pilot. Even getting a network to greenlight a pilot for your show is a major accomplishment, as sometimes, a show will be scrapped before it even gets to air, or never makes it past production For every show that gets picked up, many more shows don’t even get past the pitch.

So, let’s have a thread discussing shows that didn’t make it past their pilot episodes, and faded into obscurity.

There was going to be an animated Buffy series called, appropriately enough, Buffy: The Animated Series. Unfortunately, it never got to air.

Battletoads. I don't care, I liked it and it could have a fun season or two alongside all the similar shows like Biker Mice and Toxic Crusaders.

the Modifyers (2007) had potential, but considering what happened to one of the creators, more episodes are unlikely

There was that Space Usagi pilot, didn't get picked, although they do have that Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles that came out on Netflix recently.

Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura did a pilot called "Tag Team" about wrestlers who became cops, or some such. That's pretty obscure.

The most famous Marvel example was "Pryde of the X-Men", which featured Wolverine with an Australian accent. It was the basis for the popular X-Men arcade game of the time.

There was also the Bill Bixby MCU where the intent was to use an annul Incredible Hulk TV Movie to launch backdoor pilots for other heroes like Thor, Daredevil, She-Hulk etc, as well as bring closure to things like the Nicolas Hammond Spider-Man. Two of those movies got made, but Bixby eventually died so they stopped.

And the Daredevil pilot that was supposed to spin out of his Hulk movie cameo got turned into "Dave Dragon", which also didn't get picked up. But it's the same actor and (terrible) costume as "Daredevil" from the Hulk thing, they just tried to go ahead and do the show without the Marvel license but it didn't work.

Mutanimals didn't even get a pilot episode.

There was a litle-known TV sitcom (early 90's, if memory serves) called Scorch, about a teenage dragon who crash lands in a weather reporter's back yard during a storm, and ends up as his "puppet" side-kick on the news. It only lasted for about 6 episodes, despite being pretty funny. (Think if Jeff Dunham had been a weatherman with Peanut-as a dragon- as his "weather buddy" on the news!)

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