Pilots and Petards Podcast is on a quest. We are determined to find the best and worst pilots ever. We will keep a running list of pilots as we review and analyze. Here is the current list of the best pilots of all time.
The running list of pilots from best to worst:
- End of the Fing World
- This Is Us
- Breaking Bad
- One Punch Man
- True Detective “The Long Bright Dark”
- Black-ish
- Better Call Saul “Uno”
- Dexter “Dexter”
- Pose “Pilot”
- The Handmaid’s Tale “Offred”
- The Shield
- Killing Eve
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel “Pilot”
- My Name Is Earl
- Greenleaf
- X-Men the Animated Series
- Game of Thrones “Winter Is Coming”
- The Wonder Years
- This Close
- Russian Doll “Nothing in This World Is Easy”
- Barry “Chapter One: Make Your Mark”
- Rick and Morty
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- The Good Place “Everything Is Fine”
- Dead to Me “Pilot”
- The Leftovers
- Umbrella Academy “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”
- Big Little Lies “Somebody’s Dead”
- You “Pilot”
- Young Justice “Independence Day”
- A Million Little Things “Pilot”
- The Punisher
- Friday Night Lights
- Bodyguard “Episode 1”
- Westworld “The Original”
- South Park
- The Crown
- Cheers
- Sex Education “Episode 1”
- Alias Grace
- The Haunting of Hill House “Steven Sees a Ghost”
- The Boys
- Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan “Pilot”
- Castle Rock “Severance”
- Manifest “Pilot”
- Cobra Kai
- Lost
- Sopranos
- Boy Meets World
- Married with Children
- Good Omens “In the Beginning”
- I Feel Bad “Pilot”
- Law and Order SVU
- Freaks and Geeks
- Dawson’s Creek
- Altered Carbon “Out of the Past”
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt “Kimmy Goes Outside”
- Vader Episode 1: Shards of the Past
- Deadly Class “Pilot”
- Huge in France “Episode Un”
- Cloak and Dagger “First Light”
- Glee
- Supernatural
- Justified “Fire in the Hole”
- Single Parents
- Doom Patrol “Pilot”
- Firefly
- One Tree Hill
- Wonderfalls
- The Cool Kids “Pilot”
- Rel “Pilot”
- Batman Beyond
- New Amsterdam “Pilot”
- Ally McBeal
- DC Titans “Titans”
- The Rookie “Pilot”
- Six Feet Under “Pilot”
- PEN15 “First Day”
- Alex Inc
- Dream On “The First Episode”
- Sons of Anarchy “Pilot”
- Spawn “Burning Vision”
- 7th Heaven
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
If you have any feedback about the best pilots of all time, leave us a comment below.
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Mo has to watch Supernatural to be fair. She doesn’t have to review just hoist or not.
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I agree!
Unfortunately Mo has a raging NB for Glee. So Supernatural will unlikely advance, but for future rankings it would help to swing that split decision.
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How Is freaks and geeks already on this list
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And yet Breaking bad is not…
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End of the Fucking world is a mini-series adaptation of a novel, and it’s so short and focused it’s really just a movie cut up. There was no pilot, a pilot is a testing grounds, so I don’t really think it belongs here.
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Hmm, Jzakko that is a fair point. None of our other pilots fit that description. It did air as the first episode of a series and it ended with room for another season. I’ll discuss it with the gang.
I think that could be said about a lot of shows. Does it matter that they stretch a story out? Friday Night Lights was a movie retold as a series, same with Buffy.
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For real, Rick and Morty is da best. Should be #1.
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