Can you name the TV Shows by their First Episode?

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  • Everyone can name a show from a synopsis or list of characters. But can you name the show given what happened in its first (pilot) episode, and the year the show began.
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YearTV Show Synopsis
2006She is a head writer on a demanding, live TV program in New York City. However, things begin to get complicated when her new boss insists that a wild and unpredictable movie star joins the cast.
2007A pair of brilliant theoretical physicists meet a woman who shows them how little they know about the real world.
2007An average computer geek until he comes upon files of government secrets that are downloaded into his brain. He is soon scouted by the CIA and NSA to act in place of their computer.
2003A naval officer dies on board Air Force One of an apparent stroke after eating with the president. Secret Service, F.B.I. and N.C.I.S. all want to take charge of the investigation to determine if it was murder or natural causes.
2006A newcomer coach finds himself helming a promising high school football team, that has a real chance to make it to the top.
2003The main character's life is turned upside down when his brother and nephew move in with him
2005A documentary crew arrives at the offices of a paper supply company to observe the employees and learn about modern management.
2005When his best friend proposes to his girlfriend, the main character realizes he'd better get a move on if he hopes to find true love. He soon meets a girl in a neighborhood bar, but his eagerness threatens to scare her away.
1990After a woman dies during a visit to the emergency room to pick up some antibiotics on a hectic night shift, her father demands the police charge the hospital with murder. With rumors of a drunk doctor and little evidence, lawyers must prosecute a man who appears to be a living saint.
2006Ordinary people from all around the world are starting to suspect that they have abilities beyond those of normal humans.
2002The group of main characters are investigating a murder staged to look like a suicide with precious little evidence, as well as a case of a drunk who breaks into the house where he had been staying and is shot to death.
2006As the main character prepares for the opening of a new addition to his hardware store chain, he receives bad news about his father's health, and also deals with trying to balance the needs of his three wives.
2006The title character has always dreamed of working in the publishing world, but it seems as though there's no place for the non-thin and non-beautiful in the business. She really wants a job in that wonderful, yet cruel, world.
2004This crew of characters spends most of their time relaxing at their actor friend’s house, shooting hoops, playing rooftop golf and entertaining ladies at the pool. But to keep the lifestyle going, the actor must keep making movies, and his super agent believes he's found just the project, the action film 'Matterhorn.'
2004A sudden plane crash leaves at least 48 survivors stranded on a jungle island, forced to scavenge for survival from the wreckage of the plane quickly learning the island holds deep and dark secrets.
YearTV Show Synopsis
2001As the main character is thrown into the chaotic world of hospital life, we not only get to see the quirky characters that he encounters, but also hear the humorous commentary of thoughts streaming through his head.
2009The main character is an ill-starred high-school teacher and coach who hopes to change his luck by turning a prodigious physical endowment into a moneymaker.
2004One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, the narrator ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated POV.
2008Two people are found draining the blood from the vampire. The blood is known to enhance the healing process in humans and give a bit of a sex boost. The main character saves the vampire.
2005The main character enrolls in a rigorous surgical residency program where she will spend the next 7 years. Hours into the program, she finds out her one-night-stand is her boss.
2007While the main character struggles to control his problematic love life, he tries to keep the agency from losing a big tobacco account.
2004A young kindergarten teacher suffers from seizures collapses in her classroom after uncontrolled gibberish slips out her mouth and is taken to a doctor and his team of experts who identify it might be a tumor.
2009An optimistic high school teacher, tries to reinvent a high school club, challenging a group of outcasts to realize their true star potential, while facing harsh criticism from everyone in the school.
2006A forensic expert in blood patterns who works with the Miami Police Department, is also a serial killer and intrigued by a killer who has found a way to kill girls without leaving blood behind.
2007 A sex-addicted man sleeps with many women including a woman who is cheating on her enraged and muscular husband and a 16-year-old girl who he thinks is in college.
2005Drawing on the skills of her officers, the main character discovers her victim may be more than meets the eye. But when a former flame lends a hand, both her investigation and her private life take unexpected turns, leading her to a startling conclusion to the case.
2003Two local boys' lives collide when a twist of fate puts them on the same team and the half-brothers compete, not only for control of the court, but also for the heart of one of their girlfriends.
2001The main character encounters the first in a long line of humans mutated by strange green meteor rocks that accompanied him on his journey to earth.
2007The main character is busy spreading the news that 'it girl' has returned to Manhattan after a mysterious and self-imposed exile to boarding school.
2005The title character, a doctor is met with the task of uncovering the identity of a set of bones which have been deliberately hidden in a lake, getting help from a FBI Special Agent.
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