"The World's STRANGEST TV pilots ever!!! Never Seen Before!"

"The World's STRANGEST TV pilots ever!!! Never Seen Before!"

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

"BATGIRL" (as portrayed by actress Yvonne Craig) WAS seen weekly on TV and she became the subject of many a teenage boy's fantasies in the 60's!

[@MIKELIN8]

Branded was an actual TV show which aired. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

[@tyrssen1]

Likewise, watched "Branded" all the time.

[@dadautube]

and it always opened with the portion shown here, every single episode ...

[@kenparnell4297]

Yep, me too.

[@keysersoze8069]

He even got his strpies back

[@colemanadamson5943]

Branded was a great show.

[@ferociousgumby]

Branded had one of the best openings/themes ever. Great premise, too. Chuck Connors has a face like an Easter Island statue.

[@rexlex1736]

I always thought Connors WAS an Easter Island statue.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Chuck Connors only ever had one expression "prelude to an ass-kickinhg"

[@greg1030]

Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017). Stoney Burke, first season Outer Limits, fourth season Fugitive.

[@mr.b.5589]

Heard regularly while I was in 4th grade... " stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, What do you do when you're stranded and you haven't got a roll"

[@modelmansteve9100]

@@mr.b.5589 the second verse is: " if you're a man you'll use you hand if you're a gal you'll use a towel

[@mtrich8113]

I remember the show" Branded "was an actual show that lasted 2 seasons.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Right on ! I have fond memories of watching it as a kid on Friday nights on ABC !!

[@mikekemp9877]

and referenced in the great lebowski

[@kevinmadden1645]

A season and one half.

[@sheilaholmes996]

I remember it too.

[@nomadman1196]

I remember in grade school kids singing the Branded theme song. Of course, with their own lyrics referring to being caught on the toilet without a roll. 👍

[@williambeutler9399]

I remember that, too. "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded, and you need another roll?"

[@LRTrack]

...and you can't reach the roll!

[@mrstacyj9496]

wherever you go for the rest of your life you must prove ... it's a knife!

[@scottareevesrecords]

This Batgirl certainly seems more watchable than the upcoming CW series. She needs to learn how to change into her costume more quickly, though.

[@2ndEndingVintage]

Batgirl Rocked. Period.

[@rainblaze.]

*periods .... And not afraid of leaks. What with those high kicks an all.

[@hatednyc]

This is absolutely AWESOME!! BATGIRL: If her skirt doubles as a cape does it mean she can only ever wear that one yellow skirt?!

[@johnmcclure40]

Either that or she has to make all her own skirts.

[@jimd072]

Branded DID make the TV. I watched it for a couple of seasons.

[@thebes56]

Me too.

[@paint1955]

So did Walter Sobchak!

[@scotcarr3390]

Pretty good show, as I recall. And another foray into TV westerns by Massachusetts native son, Chuck Conners.

[@judynichols2904]

I watched it too ,it lasted for two years !

[@williamwingo4740]

I remember it too. But I didn't get into it because I was in college with limited access to television; and besides, it was a blatant ripoff of "The Fugitive."

[@colinfield981]

Thanks for these. I recall that Branded went past just being a pilot, a series shown on Aussie TV in ca 1966. For Test Pilot I was interested to see the Ryan X-13, a real aircraft. I recognised it still under its tarpaulin, a very squat delta with huge tail as it was meant to be a VTOL tailsitter. From the tail number, this is prototype No2 which surprisingly still exists as of 2019 as a museum exhibit.

[@JaimeWulf]

I recall seeing "Branded" in the U.S back in the day so I think it got picked up here also... But I think it didn't last long... I always remembered that intro though... And as for "BatGirl" she was blended into "BatMan" instead of her own show...

[@owenoulton9312]

The sequence from Branded isn't a pilot, just the opening credits from the TV series.

[@surearrow]

>> That Batgirl is actually better than the current one of 2019.

[@charlesneely]

That's because OG batgirl.... and I say that? has something that the new one don't have and that is fucking Talent back when women were real women and you didn't have to worry about checking under the hood the one that we got now you kind of got to wonder?.. You like Crocodile Dundee check under the hood the new Batgirl is just another social justice Warrior and I say that Loosely if she's a woman. If you seen her in Orange is bet she's butt naked look like a man got a boy's butt I couldn't even flap to it not that you want to know

[@Pellefication]

This isn't the World's strangest TV pilots. It's USA's strangest TV pilots. It's a BIG difference!

[@stevend.bennett427]

I'd watch Yvonne Craig in anything, and preferably in nothing! My dad's last job was working on the Stealth at Edwards.

[@bs13690]

Yvonne Craig was smoking hot.

[@kingbee1500]

Yes, SIR...Yvonne Craig, Anne Francis and Marlo Thomas had me locked on ABC for a couple of years solid!

[@samuelparker9882]

Yes. Batgirl would've DEFINITELY got it!!!

[@AusNetFan13]

Yes, she was hot in the one Star Trek episode.

[@derlinclaire1778]

Yvonne Craig was really pretty,and had a really nice shape.

[@jerryboucher5622]

@@derlinclaire1778 SHUT UP PREVERT

[@fromthesidelines]

Initially, William Dozier wanted to produce a "Batgirl" spin-off, and created a "demo film" to try to interest ABC in the idea. However, "BATMAN" began faltering in the ratings towards the end of the 1966-'67 season........and Dozier instead decided to add her to "BATMAN" in the fall of 1967, in a futile attempt to "resuscitate" the series [and round off the corners of Batgirl's mask, because Yvonne Craig said it left welts on her face after wearing it for long periods].

[@2ndEndingVintage]

worked for me....Batgirl was SMOKIN'....

[@miguelcastaneda7236]

Barry I. Grauman there was a bat girl back in 50s

[@lreking8929]

And have you seen this awful Wonder Woman demo? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIjMmoupZ9qIZ80

[@fromthesidelines]

Another effort by William Dozier to produce a "campy" superhero TV show. It never got past its brief "demo reel"; ABC gave it thumbs down. Just as well; THAT "Wonder Woman" would have been a total klutz- and an embarrassment to everyone {viewers included}.

[@Sheri451]

They show Branded every Saturday morning on MeTV.

[@WilAdams]

The actual 'plot' of Branded was a good one. At the time it aired, I was a kid, and because so many westerns were on TV--and my dad watched them ALL--I resented Branded, but now, as an adult--and not having been drowning in westerns--I really like the show. Poor McCord, he was so honorable and his reason for keeping silent and suffering the label of COWARD is really noble.

[@darkwood777]

As I recall, McCord became a spy for the president in the second season when the show was reworked to fit in with the other spy shows on the era. Everyone in the country still knew him by name to be a legendary coward although it was proven he didn't run away. This made it possible for him to root out criminal corruption without being suspected of working as a secret service agent.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

I remember when there were so many westerns I grew sick of them too. I wanted to watch Hammer films and Scifi movies. It took me yrs before I could watch a western and enjoy it.

[@freakywayne8790]

Branded is one of my favorite tv shows ever!

[@3dfreak2000]

One of the interesting pilots from the pilot's list is the one with test pilots :). BTW, the Batgirl was hot as hell.

[@kwacker45]

I'm from UK and even we had this great show, Branded

[@jubalcalif9100]

I think that's so cool that "Branded' was shown on British TV ! We had some British shows that played on American TV in the 60s, such as "The Avengers", "Secret Agent Man", "The Prisoner", "Man in a Suitcase" & "The Baron" !! The longest running one was "The Avengers" and when I was a kid in the 60s, my brothers & I loved watching it !!

[@tag427]

Damn Yvonne Craig was Hot!

[@jubalcalif9100]

She indeed was quite fetching in her day !!

[@hebneh]

For a real-life librarian, Batgirl certainly trashed her place of work and damaged or destroyed quantities of books - not something that librarians can do in such a callous and unthinking manner.

[@Lynxdoc]

You're right no human being with stack books like that.....

[@erichulett5597]

Do you know what "world's" means? Do you know what "strangest's" means? Do you know what "TV pilot's" means? Do you know what "never seen " means?

[@charlesbruno990]

Do you know what 250k views mean? Do you know what youtube monetization means? We've been duped.

[@zoesdada8923]

Do you know what clickbait means?

[@christocc]

Do you know what apostrophes are for? Apparently not, since you've used them incorrectly in every instance of your post.

[@erichulett5597]

@@christocc oh I guess the autocorrect added those and I didn't notice before hitting send. Good catch. But the point was there was nothing worldly about it it was only American, they were not all TV pilots , they were not really strange , and some of them had been seen by millions of people in their original release. And yes it is all about click bait.

[@TerryWHayes-yb3cj]

@@christocc: "Grammatical Perfection" Is Not Compulsory Here On "KZbin"™ (Or Anywhere Else On The Internet). There Are More Than Enough Libraries, Colleges, And Universities (As Well As Various Media Outlets And The Internet), To Supply The Needs Of Every Aficionado Of Correctly Spelled Words, Punctuation, And Proper Sentence Structure, For The Next 10,000 Years! ~ LOL .

[@dwindle]

Hottest batgirl EVER. Pleated skirt into a cape? Why don't all girls do that?

[@Vandal_Savage]

Batgirl - librarian by day, library destroyer by night! She totally totalled that library, she'd have been better off just letting the bad guys get away with it!

[@jacklowe3429]

Love Yvonne Craig. She deserved her own show.

[@ackamack101]

😂 You protector of books you! 😂

[@aj-2savage896]

When Kruschev came to the US the man he most wanted to meet was -- Chuck Connors, The Rifleman. Fact. Wait. Actually it was Brezhnev.

[@aj-2savage896]

@Joseph Lomeo Thanks

[@fredeinsel7983]

Chuck Connors was Gay

[@aj-2savage896]

@@fredeinsel7983 Who says so? Married three times and had four sons. Played in MLB AND NBA. No hint of being gay except on websites for actual gays who have mancrushes on him. Like you, maybe? He was in The Rifleman, not Chrisley Knows Best.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

"By this time his lungs were screaming for air." Oh, sorry, that was Sea Hunt, not Sea Divers.

[@50zcarsman]

I always wondered why the guys who fought Mike Nelson underwater didn't simply buy wire-reinforced SCUBA hoses, so that they couldn't be easily cut with a diving knife. If they had, his #1, #2, and #3 modes of attacking them would have been eliminated.

[@SciFiFan2012]

"Where'd she come from Batman?" "I don't know Robin, but she's cleaning this place up, not us."

[@PtolemyJones]

Gosh Batgirl was beautiful...

[@ProNorden]

#YvonneCraig ..major babe and very accomplished dancer ..was in a Star Trek episode or two.

[@zudemaster]

Wow, Chuck Connors sword was a piece of crap. He needs to go find himself a cool rifle to carry around instead.

[@hisxmark]

For a while, prime time was wall-to-wall westerns. Toward the end of that era, the only thing that distinguished them were strange weapons. That broken saber was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. And Connors only picked it up after his rifle had turned to rusted junk.

[@WeareRedSoxLovers]

Or maybe he should have just tried out for the Dodgers - or the Celtics.

[@floydlooney6837]

Those swords were ceremonial, indicating rank I think

[@mrbrown2186]

I think he should find a rifle that shoots a beam of light at sensors that eject a fake drinks can from a platform. Best part of my child hood ever. I'm 42 now and still looking for a replacement for my long list 'tin can alley'. I can still remember the commercial from the late 70s with him on, and I was about 5 when I finally got what I had wanted since I was about 2. I remember it costing about £7 at the time (roughly $14 in those days, about 1981/82) can't even get a working one for under £100 now!

[@peterlewerin4213]

It was a ceremony that was meant to literally strip an officer of his rank, commission, and status as a military man. To make it a bit more showy, and perhaps to insinuate that they had never deserved his rank in the first place, his badges, insignia, buttons, etc were taken off beforehand and replaced with a single stitch. The sword was also prepared in advance by filing it or re-tempering it to be brittle in one place. It was not a deceit, as everyone knew how it was done, but it was still a show. See: *cashiering*.

[@jondoe8889]

I remember 'branded'. I thought they painted a yellow stripe down his back in the intro, too? And that theme song - it sounds like Monty Python!

[@tomdis8637]

As kids, we sang “Stranded! Stuck on the toilet bowl....what do you do when you’re stranded - and you can’t reach the roll!” To the tune of “Branded” LOL

[@TheFiown]

I find it hard to believe that we actually watched this !

[@ChrisBullington]

For years my best friend had a BS story about Branded (this was before the Internet and easily-accessible information): he said Chuck Conners' character had an actual, physical brand on his forehead. While he was meant to receive COWARD an accident at the fort meant half the brand had to be melted down so he got only COW...The story started falling apart when he told me two different "accident" stories, then finally ended when I pressed him for more information about the show. Thank you for the Batgirl pilot footage. I have immense respect for Yvonne Craig and very much like the equal pay PSA she later did in character.

[@Laceykat66]

14:31 - "I wish I could help." "Well forget it little lady. This is a man's job. Why don't you go fix us a cup of that fine coffee."

[@50zcarsman]

"Get back in the kitchen, you airborne nocturnal female rodent."

[@sarge505050]

Ok. I remember Bat Girl, which lasted a few episodes, Yvonne Craig was so hot at the time, they couldn't let her outstrip the campy Batman series. She brought a certain seriousness to the character that outstripped the the original series.

[@davebaumeister3021]

Don't know what you were remembering, but there was never a "Batgirl" series. The thing on here is just a demo they did for studio execs to introduce the Batgirl episode. Batgirl was in every episode of the third season of "Batman."

[@TommygunNG]

What's so "strange" about Branded? It was a classic.

[@gymnastix]

TommygunNG You are correct, sir. "Branded" was indeed a television classic -- although not quite as classic as the first TV series starring Chuck Connors, "The Rifleman." And in-between "The Rifleman" ans "Branded" was the excellent one-season contemporary drama "Arrest & Trial," wherein Connors portrayed a criminal defense attorney in the legal part of that police and courtroom series. Anyway, another thing I remember about "Branded" was its memorable main theme music. And I can still recall an elementary school classmate's parody of the "Branded" theme song, the lyrics to which went something like this-- "Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded And you need another roll? To prove you're a man, You must wipe it with your hand. You must prove . . . you're a man. Strand-ed!" That TV theme parody from the playground set was in the same vein as this old Christmas chestnut-- "Jingle Bells, Batman smells. Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel. And The Joker got away - hey!"

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

gymnastix The composer was Dominic Frontiere, who somehow turned TV theme music into enough money to buy the Los Angeles Rams.

[@dabull136]

+DaveConleyPortfolio Not true! It was Georgia Frontiere who inherited the Rams ownership when her then husband Carroll Rosenbloom (her 6th husband at that point) who had traded ownership of the Baltimore Colts for the L.A Rams, died from a heart attack. Dominic Frontiere became her 7th husband and was in no way responsible for her Rams ownership!

[@yell50]

I agree nothing strange about branded. i loved watching this western as a kid, it is classic TV series.

[@DoubleMrE]

Yeah . . . "Branded" was a good show--not strange. But does anybody remember the take-off from the show's theme song? Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded, and you don't have a roll?

[@jimodonnelly7762]

2FYIs: 1) The Batgirl clip wasn't a pilot for a new series. It was made to pitch the new character for Adam West's series Batman to ABC executives who wanted to cancel the show. They liked her, and renewed the series for one more season. 2) I believe that Air Force clip is from the TV series Flight (1958), episode "Vertijet," starring John Agar. That's legendary character actor Dub Taylor as the sergeant.

[@1985OldSkool]

Yes it was. Branded aired on NBC from January 24, 1965 until April 24, 1966, with reruns continuing through September 4, 1966. The seires consisted of 48 episodes (the first 16 were in black-and-white), and was sponsored by Procter & Gamble.

[@zacharythax]

DAMN! She was hot in those glasses!

[@Timurlane100]

+Zachary Thax - She also made a very fetching, albeit crazy, Orion slave girl in a Star Trek episode.

[@donaldpetkus1637]

She was also the primary candidate for abduction bu Martians in the film Mars Needs Women. She wore glasses in that production as well. Quite attractive

[@jimellison777]

GREAT VIDEO............. I didn't think that all of them were that STRANGE!!!!!!! Branded was a TV show!!!!!!!

[@UNOwen1]

Yvonne Craig! Hell, they should've just made the series of her changing in2her Batgirl outfit, then the groovy 'Bat girl, bat girl' theme. Would've had millions of - male - viewers. Hell, I'm not straight, and I LOVE Yvonne Craig, I would've watched (had I been alive and living somewhere I could've seen it).

[@charlesneely]

Groovy man, Don't Bogart That Joint my friend it's nice to share those are better times back then

[@frankcabanski9409]

Go away LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ

[@runner6500]

Batman was my favorite comic book. I'll never forget how heartbroken I was the first time I saw that show, and how silly it was. I just couldn't believe they did that! I still have the emotional scars. LOL

[@Zauchi]

runner6500 Its a little different for me because the original Batman show was my first viewing of Batman, so it always remains a classic to me. lol Though wasn't the Batman series similar to the comics of the time?

[@runner6500]

Zauchi No not at all. The only thing similar was the "Pow!", "Zapp!" kind of stuff. The corny dialogue was too much for me. I was just a 12 yr. old kid. You have no idea the anticipation I had that entire summer. I don't want to talk about it anymore.

[@kennethholland9021]

Same here; I didn't know 'bout the comic till I saw one in a display at the checkout counter of the local grocery store and asked my mom to get if for me (a giant-size 3D issue with a Batman story featuring the Penguin, backed by a Tommy Tomorrow); I remember thinking that it wasn't a very good rendition of the TV show!

[@joansmith6092]

I only liked Superheroes in comic books when they had their own powers. Batman had no powers at all. Not even ESP. But, l saw the 1st episode and thought, "Isn't that nice of the Joker? From the vending machines he was giving school students piles of silver dollars!" I was starting the 6th grade, in 1966.

[@alanjr333]

Wow...the pilot to the Ed Wood Crossroads Avenger with Tom Keene?? Never thought Id see it at all!! Thanks.

[@guitarmdpittsburgh7139]

Batgiirl was a regular on the Batman series . . . Branded ran for at least 1 season

[@johninsalisbury2010]

i would have liked batgirl as a show

[@POPPASHANGO]

The only memory I have of Branded was the boys singing the theme in Stand By Me

[@890mikes]

I watched Branded with my dad as a kid in England. Dad loved the show.

[@PtolemyJones]

I enjoyed Branded. I always thought of it as a prequel to a the Rifleman, even though I guess it aired after.

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

Don't recall SEA DIVERS, but THE AQUANAUTS made the grade for several years. With Ron Ely and Jeremy Slate.

[@HolidayDecorator]

#1 Batgirl was never a spin off, just the character added to the Batman series, and the video shown here is the very same one that introduced her as Batgirl on the Batman Series. Most of the others I watched as a child, so none of these are even remotely the 'world's strangest". Most of these actually aired only for a few episodes, but were canned early, so they were very short lived. Some made it for two to three months before being canned by the network associated with that particular series. They were canned because they were usually up against a more popular, long running series that folks watched, so some of these never got the ratings needed to stay running.

[@Sammiric]

Branded, lost? It's on ME TV Saturdays.

[@thomrobitaille3942]

I can remember watching Branded when I was young. It was a decent TV series, as good as most of the other westerns that were popular then.

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

Good that Batgirl had time to hang up her normal top....before saving Batman/Robin!

[@robroy5573]

Unforgettable classic on screen words, Pow!... Splatt!... Boff!... Zlonk!... Zlopp!...

[@TheOneTrueKaliban]

Yeah. I haven't been in all that many donneybrooks, but have never heard the sound, "Zlopp!" at any of the few I've witnessed.

[@50zcarsman]

Maybe CNN should super-impose titles like these at appropriate places during contentious Congressional hearings, eh?

[@yelloworangered]

My Dad always pointed out that if you broke a sword over your leg like that guy does in the Branded segment, you'd have a broken leg. I guess bending the sword a bit and yelling "ouch" wasn't as dramatic.

[@michaelgow6792]

It's Mrs Kravitz who lived next door to Darren and Samantha.

[@IamZardoz]

"Stranded! Stranded on the toilet bowl! What do you do when you're stranded, and you cant reach the roll!" Amazing what you can remember from half a century ago.

[@nickhill8612]

Haha I just thought about Jingle bells Batman smells

[@kathleenking47]

@@nickhill8612 Robin laid an egg Oh what fun it is to ride In a wrecked up Chevrolet

[@nickhill8612]

@@kathleenking47 Yeah lol haha

[@blaisineful]

Branded was a great show.

[@Laceykat66]

+Karen Kinsey And what is this "never seen" ?? Branded was on.

[@Optimalillusion]

It was even referenced in an episode of "Married With Children."

[@jimodonnelly7762]

+swasey1952 The clip from Branded was the pre-title sequence in every episode.

[@Jeffrey314159]

+Optimalillusion Yes, that episode where Al Bundy was stripped of his security guard uniform for loosing the High School Football Trophy

[@jimodonnelly7762]

Jeffrey314159 Now that sounds funny.

[@speedlearner]

Wait. Batman has the bat computer and he doesn't know who Batgirl is? He needs to update his computer.

[@WAQWBrentwood]

speedlearner Damned Windows 65! 😀

[@paulcoy9060]

Alfred knew, but wouldn't tell Bruce. Could have been a great beginning of the Bat Family.

[@Steve_Green]

This is meant to be her debut in public.

[@joansmith6092]

The bat computer never told him who Green Hornet is either.

[@charletonzimmerman4205]

Talk about "Dishonorable Discharge" Branded!

[@VerneStatts49]

Yvonne Craig was so hot as Batgirl.

[@tessseract]

Verne Statts Incredibly so.

[@OjaiRoy]

+Verne Statts Yes she was! RIP Batgirl.

[@OjaiRoy]

+Verne Statts 1:18 HOLLY BATGIRL!

[@millardfarqhuar1990]

+Verne Statts Even better as Marta ( the green girl ) on Star Trek

[@OjaiRoy]

+Millard Farqhuar I don't watch Star Trek and did not know she was on there. I Googled Marta and oh my!!!!! Thanks for the info Millard! markosun.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/abatx.jpg

[@RolandSleight]

Branded with Chuck Conners was an actual show. Maybe they never showed the pilot , but that opening was correct

[@backbaconnbeer]

Crossroads Avenger Was Written/Directed By Ed Wood Jr

[@luisreyes1963]

Can you imagine Ed Wood making a TV series? Frightening. 😱

[@collegeman1988]

Ladies and gentlemen, Yvonne Craig in Mrs. Rogers' Neighborhood . . . uh, sorry, Batgirl!

[@waynemarlowe7537]

it might have been nice to tell us the TITLES of these shows...

[@karlstuber6399]

I think they found a beta tape of these and their research was not extensive.

[@mbugal]

I see nothing "strange" let alone "strangest" about any of these pilots and "Branded" was a successful show which opened with the scene shown here every episode. The rest were pretty much normal TV fare in the 1950's.

[@ciecie1959]

while batgirl wasn't a show, she was added as a character to the batman tv show.

[@mbugal]

@@ciecie1959 I guess I should have excluded her from the list, but I'm not completely sure this was ever a pilot but merely her introduction episode on "Batman". Has anyone ever seen a full pilot with titles, etc? I never have and I'm usually up on that sort of thing.

[@mottknil1372]

Stranded Stranded on the toilet bowl . What do you do when your stranded and can’t reach the roll?

[@Gamble661]

I was a kid when Branded was aired and we had different lyrics for the opening song, sung to the same music: "Stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl, what do you do when you're stranded and you don't have a roll. You must prove you're a man cause you wipe it with your hand". Yes, we were very witty and somewhat disturbed children back then.

[@TimeStrider]

Yvonne, Yvonne, Yvonne, you can kick the crap out of me any time you want!

[@OjaiRoy]

+Chuck Freeman 1:18 HOLLY BATGIRL!

[@Laceykat66]

+Chuck Freeman 50 Shades of batgirl?

[@TimeStrider]

Laceykat66 Yes indeed!

[@mottknil1372]

What are you? A sicko.

[@peterxyz3541]

Wow......film making technic......and the dialog...and the lighting of that Air Force series.........."Test Pilot"

[@hopemoore]

A skirt that turns into a superhero cape? That's better than skirts in real life!

[@hydrolito]

Chuck Connors star of The Rifleman and Branded, both of which are still rerun on TV. Branded original run Jan. 1965- Sept.1966 for 48 episodes.

[@newzbug11]

Hate to tell you bud, but I loved Batgirl

[@josepha.correiaiii8855]

I remember Branded staring Chuck Conner's he alway carried the broken sabre as a reminder and a close in weapon, it came before he stared in the rifleman and the Batgirl character was added to the regular Batman series. As for the other two I have no clue.

[@klaustrumputin-trudeau4142]

not before but after the rifleman youngster.

[@cartmanrlsusall]

a lot of these are on hulu

[@SagaSagaVGM]

The hell is Branded doing mixed in with these shows? It's a classic. Really Crossroads Avenger is about the only one I'd even remotely call "strange" here, due to it being a failed Tom Keene vehicle, and the fact that Ed Wood directed it.

[@stephensmith6660]

It was strange at the time, as the X-13 I believe was one of the first Vertijets. But yeah, your right on the mark.

[@chrisstokes8163]

me too...I loved it

[@exitscreaming]

The Batgirl scene here was adapted into the classic Hitgirl hallway scene from Kick Ass

[@ciecie1959]

read my comment to mike bugal.

[@pretorious700]

You just don't see millionaires in the public library much anymore.

[@marknsprmo]

by the time bat girl got dressed, the bad guy was in Argentina eating steak......

[@paulppchristman5827]

The pilot for Wallace & Grommitt must have been mighty strange. The pilot for South Park probably was, too. The pilot for The Prisoner was also quite bizarre. But the clips in this vid are about as strange as a Norman Rockwell painting.

[@robertcombs55]

These Pilots are better than anything on TV today.

[@torresongs2]

Why were these never seen before?

[@snarkus63]

"Crossroads Avengers" (8:59) was created by Edward D. Wood,Jr. (Plan 9 From Outer Space).

[@randysmith7045]

it is on DVD

[@246spyder]

@@randysmith7045 Plan 9, said to be the worst movie ever made. Also Bella Lagusi died during the filming and the replacement always held the cape over his face like a mask.

[@randysmith7045]

@@246spyder Plan 9 is better then most of the crap made today

[@246spyder]

@@randysmith7045 You'll get no arguments here.

[@nicfewer8393]

I think that is Walter "Dub" Taylor in Test Pilot at 4.40.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Yep, that's him ! One of the busiest and most beloved character actors in movie/TV history ! You have a keen eye !

[@williamwingo4740]

That's him, all right. Fresh from handcuffing Andy Griffith to the gas pump in "No Time for Sergeants," and a few years away from selling gas to Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot." "That ain't it...that ain't it." Also played the Titan, NV post office clerk opposite Bridges in "Hearts of the West."

[@MaskedMan66]

The "Batgirl" pilot has been seen, mainly on DVD extras and bootleg VHS tapes.

[@rickr442]

I talked about 25 years ago with Adam West, he spoke quite fondly of the Batgirl actress’ ‘dancers body’. His energy suggested there had been some ‘shared experiences’.’.

[@kevinmadden1645]

Adam West and Burt Ward took part in many orgies with cast members during filming.

[@robertbowman984]

"Branded" was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production for NBC. This is the same production company that produced The Price is Right, Match Game and To tell the truth!

[@paint1955]

Did Batman call him “insidious insect”? ... no wonder he’s our greatest crime fighter!

[@SunnyGirlFlorida]

Batgirl must take time to hang up her clothes before fighting crime.

[@robertphillips6296]

I remember Bat Girl and Branded but none of the others. The last one reminds me of Sea Hunt.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Reminds me of the various lists type videos we find on KZbin " Amazing things we never knew existed" mostly about well known things most of us no about, and " 1 Hit wonders" containing many singers and groups who'd had multiple hit record's" Now we have, " Unseen unaired pilot TV shows" containing well known TV series's. Might as well throw in Bonanza and Happy Day's as well lol

[@actionsub]

Would you believe the person behind "Crossroad Avenger" was Ed "Plan 9 from Outer Space" Wood? That was his attempt to break into television production.

[@luisreyes1963]

Thank God Ed Wood didn't succeed. 😌

[@jubalcalif9100]

And he clearly failed miserably...

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@luisreyes1963 You got that right !

[@CuffColl]

"Hey! Hey -- catch!" Liked that. CuffColl.

[@vassa1972]

The Batgirl one was pretty cool for the time period I'm guessing it was supposed to be a spin off series from batman to keep people interested. Too bad it didn't get on tv

[@cnault3244]

For a librarian, she doesn't have much respect for proper treatment of books.

[@Leadeshipcoach]

C Nault lol! I was thinking the same thing!🤣

[@scubasteve9358]

The show Test Pilot was before my time but I know at any age I would have been thoroughly addicted to the show. 😎👍

[@Baritone45]

Branded was on ME TV awhile back.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I remember that ! Sadly, they didn't show it for very long. They mix up their schedule a lot. Though not enough....there are so many great 50s and 60s shows they could present (The Naked City, The Defenders, Ben Casey, etc) but they too often stick with the same old stuff (Bonanza, Wagon Train, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, etc).