The Best TV Shows That Never Were--an ABC Fall 2002 special

[Pavan]

Coming Soon--The Best of the Worst: Hey, do you remember that '80s Aaron Spelling TV show called Velvet, about four aerobics instructors (including Mary-Margaret Humes, aka Mrs. Leery on Dawson's Creek) who are really only working for "Polly Bergen's VelvetInternational" health spas as a cover for their jobs as secret agents?

Or that 1977 sitcom called Great Day, starring Happy Days' Al Molinaro, about what fun it was to be a skid row bum in New York City? And what about Shivers, that 1989 CBS gem about a divorced man (Beverly Hills, 90210 dad James Eckhouse) who, with his two children, moves into a house haunted by a Revolutionary War-era troublemaker (Mark Lindsay Chapman) and his girlfriend?

Well, unless you are Dawson's mom, Big Al from Happy Days or Papa Walsh from 90210, those shows are--mercifully--not a part of your coach potato database. They are actually pilots that never aired and the subject of an ABC fall 2002 special called The Best TV Shows That Never Were.

The special, which according to an ABC source may turn into a series, is based on author and entertainment writer Lee Goldberg's book Unsold TV Pilots: The Greatest Shows You Never Saw (published by iUniverse.com), an addictive collection of the, ahem, "best" of the bad high-concept TV pilots that, in most cases, never saw screen time.

By the way, if the name Mark Lindsay Chapman sounds familiar, he's the actor who, in the '80s, was set to portray John Lennon in a telepic of the slain Beatle, until a commotion ensued when it was pointed out that he shares a couple of names with Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman.

[Sitcomwriter]

When I first clicked this I thought it was a joke.Then I saw your name and NOT Wink Williams' so I guess it's true!

Yay! This is going to be great!

I hope we'll see clips too!