PILOTS
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Kate Mulgrew, Meredith Salenger and Glenn
Ford
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MY
TOWN
Pilot
(Comedy-Drama), 60 min
Broadcast
5/25/86 on ABC
8:00
- 9:00 PM ET
Although
not picked up as a series this aired as the second feature of
"The
Disney Sunday Movie"
First
feature - "Casebusters"
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Wheelerville, Ohio, is a small town where people seeking to start new lives
can get that chance. The idea came from Lucas Wheeler, the banker and descendant
of the town’s founder, and the unsold series was to relate incidents in
the lives of the people who attempt to rebuild their lives as seen through
the eyes of Amber Wheeler, Lucas’s pretty granddaughter. In the pilot episode,
Cynthia and Hal Fisher come to Wheelerville to fulfill a dream-starting
a diner. Other Regulars: Tug Wheeler, Amber’s brother (they are orphans
who live with Lucas); Mrs. McDaniel, Lucas’s housekeeper; and Laura Adams,
the school teacher.
Cast: Glenn Ford (Lucas Wheeler), Meredith Salenger (Amber Wheeler), Parker
Jacobs (Tug Wheeler), Mary Jackson (Mrs. McDaniel), Kate Mulgrew (Laura
Adams).
Guest Cast: Laraine Newman (Cynthia Fisher), James Widdoes (Hal Fisher),
Elya Baskin (Mrs. Slovak), Richard Erdman (Fletcher Mays), Illana
Martin (Laura), Elizabeth Ward (Patty), Amy Lynne (Mary Lynn), Ellen Geer
(Mother).
Executive Produer-Writer: Gil Grant. Producer: John Garbett. Director:
Gwen Arner. Music: Craig Safan.
CARLY
MILLS. Pilot (Comedy), 30 min., Unaired, Produced for ABC for the
1986-87 season. Production Company: MTM Enterprises. Director: Rod Daniel.
Executive Producer: John Steven Owen. Producer: Rod Daniel. Writer: John
Steven Owen. Kate Mulgrew is a traditional, old-fashioned mother, married
to an overworked college professor (Jack Bannon), who has chosen to be
a housewife and raise their four children because she wants to.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (as Carly Mills), Jack Bannon (Evan Mills), Matt
Adler (Pete Mills), Amanda Peterson (Trisha Mills), Hannah Cutrona (Brigid
Mills), R. J. William (Jeffy Mills), Betsy Randall (Maggie Wallace), Rebecca
Rush (Cynthia James).
LIFE
IN DESIRE. Pilot (Comedy), 30 min., Unaired, Produced for Fox in 1990.
Shortly after she is released from a psychiatric institution, a wealthy
New York women (Diana) decides to get away from the hustle and bustle of
the city and find a simpler life. She moves to Desire, Louisiana, population
5,000, and the unsold series was to relate her misadventures as she attempts
to begin a new life in a town where the folks are sweet and the living
is simple.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Diana Summerfield), William Daniels (Beauford Braxton),
Lane Davies (Buzz Braxton), Nancy Lenehan (Miss Penelope Levec), Kelly
Connell (Reverend Claude Hooper), Sarah Abrell (Taffy Hooper).
Producers-Writers: Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming. Director: Lee Shallat.
Source of Pilot Information: Unsold Television Pilots
1955 through 1989 by Lee Goldberg - Experimental Television, Test Films,
Pilots and Trial Series, 1925 through 1995 by Vincent Terrace
