Can you name the TV shows by their pilot episodes?

Episode	Show	Debut Year
Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii		1980
Oil		1981
Give Me a Ring Sometime		1982
Vint and the Kids Move In		1983
Brother's Keeper		1984
The Engagement		1985
Diary of a Perfect Murder		1986
Our Very First Show		1987
Life and Stuff		1988
Panic at Malibu Pier		1989
Prescription for Death		1990
Moving In, Moving Out, Moving On		1991
Romantic Improvisations		1992
The Good Son		1993
24 Hours		1994

Episode	Show	Debut Year
Virgin, Mother, Crone		1995
Brains and Eggs		1996
Welcome to the Hellmouth		1997
Something Wicca This Way Comes		1998
Death Has a Shadow		1999
The Pants Tent		2000
12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.		2001
The Target		2002
Yankee White		2003
33		2004
A Hard Day's Night		2005
Genesis		2006
Pie-Lette		2007
Strange Love		2008
No More Good Days		2009

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TV Shows by Pilot Episode Quiz

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Created Sep 25, 2009 in Television
Featured Oct 30, 2009
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	Kicking222:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 18:51 GMT		6 points
	"Pushing Daisies" = 5/5. Nuff said.

	candyman81cb:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 19:01 GMT		5 points
	happy to finally see flashforward getting some sporcle love

	Rackie:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 19:01 GMT		19 points
	I'll be honest, the only one I actually knew was 24 (but then that's not hard!). After that it turned into name some popular TV shows.

	Dynamo:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 19:24 GMT		6 points
	"33" was not really the pilot for Battlestar Galactica. The miniseries acted as the pilot, and "33" was the first produced and aired episode once it was picked up as a series.

	Jelle:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 19:43 GMT		8 points
	Very difficult, for most tv series I don't actually know the names of the episodes, unless I've been watching them online.

	Wildcat612:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 20:38 GMT		7 points
	This is a great quiz, but fairly difficult. Let's do one for the final episodes of shows. It would be equally fun and perhaps a little easier.

	PottyMouth:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 20:40 GMT		4 points
	Oil was the original name for Dynasty, didn't know they named the pilot that, until now.

	confused:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 21:06 GMT		2 points
	A lot of my misses seem apt in hindsight (Magnum, Baywatch, Roseanne) but my brain just wouldn't click in. Fun, but surprisingly hard.

	zalagreensbury:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 21:12 GMT		1 point
	Ahh, I loved 'Pushing Daisies' Emmerson Cod ^_^

	teapot37:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 21:17 GMT		-2 points
	Pretty sure Law & Order's pilot was "Everybody's Favorite Bagman".

	Thalia:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 21:29 GMT		0 points
	@Teapot... although it was originally intended to be the pilot, it was aired as the sixth episode. For the purposes of this quiz (and this is also why 33 is listed even though it was preceded by a miniseries), I listed what was aired as "Episode 1 of Season 1."

	Miana90:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 22:20 GMT		3 points
	Grey's Anatomy, 24, Charmed and ER. Very nice, I'm happy to see a tv quiz that lacks House and Simpsons.. I like them, but they just seem to be in every quiz.

	Yogowen:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 03:17 GMT		3 points
	@Thalia: then perhaps the wording should be changed to reflect that? A pilot isn't always the first aired episode, it's the episode that is produced for the network that gets the show ordered, etc.

	Thalia:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 03:29 GMT		5 points
	@Yogowen... after a contributed quiz is published, the author of the quiz can no longer change anything, so it's out of my hands now. I merely wanted to explain why I selected the episodes that I did for the ones that had been criticized (and if you read the comments from before it was published, you will note that I spent a lot of time and effort to find good ones for each year that weren't just called "Pilot"). I would have been more than happy to put a little disclaimer about the Episode 1.1 thing in the rules list at the top, but only the Sporcle gods are able to do that as far as I know.

	LightningWombat:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 03:37 GMT		3 points
	I only got 5 and I am very happy about that.

	juviejay:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 07:44 GMT		1 point
	I must have typed Dallas about five times thinking that "Oil" would naturally be the name of the pilot episode. Silly me.

	beatrixkiddo:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 10:08 GMT		7 points
	i'm guessing it's hard to find 30 pilot episodes of shows that aren't called 'pilot'.

	awesomegerbzy:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 20:13 GMT		3 points
	Can't believe I missed True Blood! But since most shows call their pilot "Pilot," I was glad that this quiz had a lot more variety than the usuals.

	Lin:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 06:09 GMT		1 point
	Was psyched that I got FlashForward's after thinking a while.

	Thalia:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 14:38 GMT		1 point
	Okay, at Wildcat's suggestion I have made a final episode quiz. This one is only for shows that ended this decade, but if people enjoy it I might make some more... http://www.sporcle.com/games/Thalia/TV_by_finale_2000

	Retracto:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 07:12 GMT		1 point
	Interesting choices. Finally I just gave up and started typing in a bunch of shows.

	dark_chocolate:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 15:44 GMT		2 points
	Great job for even FINDING ones that aren't called Pilot! Most I've heard of are.

	CraigBerger:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 21:26 GMT		2 points
	wow this quiz gave me a hard time

	Blackbelt737:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 00:17 GMT		-1 points
	I'm actually insulted that battlestar galactica is the show for 2004 instead of Lost...good quiz, but wasn't a big fan just because I never really watched any of the shows on here.

	SpiritOfSakura:	Jan 8th, 2012 at 18:43 GMT		1 point
	The only one I knew was Buffy. After that I gave up just to see the other answers. I probably wouldn't have guessed them.