A perfect pilot episode is hardly ever seen, yet there are a few sci-fi shows that manage to achieve that by doing something simple but powerful. They provide the audience with a definite world, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In television history, few pilots have had a stranger journey than the first attempt at Star Trek. Today, the 1964 pilot episode ...

With the 15th anniversary of Game of Thrones coming, it's time for HBO to finally show fans the legendary unaired pilot.

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. A pilot episode has the difficult ...

If you ask Looper, there are several essential "Star Trek: The Animated Series" episodes fans have to watch. However, the show's pilot episode, "Beyond the Farthest Star," certainly isn't one of them.

Pilot episodes are difficult to perfect, but some fantasy shows successfully juggle strong world-building with gripping hooks, resulting in spotless openers. Pilots have a lot riding on them, ...