ABC did an occasionally amusing show last night called The Best TV Shows You Never Saw, basically failed pilots that were submitted to the networks. Most of the ideas were so mind-bogglingly dreadful that you wondered how a reasonable set of human beings could have even proposed the idea, let alone persuaded some good actors (like Scott Bakula, Robert Urich, Lou Gossett, etc.) to appear in them.

I was annoyed to see that Roddenberry's Questor Tapes had gotten lumped into the mix--while it needed some smoothing out, I thought the idea had promise. This show edited some key scenes to make it sound like Questor was only after sex. (Well, that figures. It's network television, after all.)

The scary part was that at times it got difficult to tell apart the actual failed pilots and the television shows being promo'd by ABC for their new fall season...

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