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Pilot: Directed by Linda Day. With Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison, Amanda Bearse. Peggy forces Al to sacrifice a basketball game and spend a torturous evening in conversation with new neighbors, idealistic newlyweds Steve and Marcy Rhoades.
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- Comedy
- Linda Day
- 1987-04-05
Unaired Pilot: With Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Tina Caspary, Hunter Carson. A unaired pilot of Married with Children.
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- 1987
- Comedy
- Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Tina Caspary
Aug 11, 2021 · Married with Children Unaired Pilot Opening Scene. No Watermark Clips. 5.61K subscribers. Subscribed. 280. 38K views 2 years ago.
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A down-on-his-luck shoe salesman named Al Bundy, unhappily married with two children, is forced to choose between going to a basketball game or joining his lazy wife, Peg, in meeting their new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades.
Peggy Bundy is sitting at the kitchen table clipping coupons, when Kelly Bundy crosses the kitchen and sits down on the couch in the living room to do her homework. Behind her her brother Bud Bundy jumps out of a pot plant, grabs her hair, pulls her head back, and draws a rubber knife across her throat, saying "Die, commie bimbo!" Peggy looks at th...
Regular Cast
1. Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy 2. Katey Sagal as Peggy Bundy 3. Christina Applegate as Kelly Bundy 4. David Faustino as Bud Bundy 5. Amanda Bearse as Marcy Rhoades 6. David Garrison as Steve Rhoades 7. Buck the dog as Buck Bundy(uncredited)
Recurring Cast
1. Ritch Shydner as Luke Ventura
Guest Stars
1. Linda Dona as Tawny 2. Victor DiMattia as Arnold(as Victor Di Mattia) 3. Diana Bellamy as Customer #1 (Nancy) 4. Sue Ann Gilfillan as Customer #2 (Lisa) 5. Holly Fields as (uncredited) 6. Dee Giffin Scott as Peggy's Shopping Friend (Uncredited)
Kelly:Let go of my hair, you little psychopath!Bud:Die, commie bimbo!The original Pilot version taped on December 12, 1986, was different from the broadcasted Pilot. The producers weren't happy with the original child actors Tina Caspary (as Kelly) and Hunter Carson (as Bud). Therefore they reconsidered the casting and finally chose Christina Applegate (as Kelly) and David Faustino (as Bud), so the scenes including ...
Title
1. Pilot is the common title for a first episode of a series as it is taped and pitched to the network before the series gets picked up.
Trivia
1. The 1987 airing premiere of this pilot was also the premiere of the Fox Network; it was followed by The Tracey Ullman Show pilot. 2. On its premiere night the pilot was repeated twice, airing at 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm. 3. On April 22, 2012, FOX re-aired the episode in recognition of the show's 25th anniversary. 4. This is one of the only two episodes that lists the writer/director credits at the beginning of the episode instead of at the end. The other is "Peggy Loves Al, Yeah, Yeah, Y...
Cultural References
1. When Al hears his neighbors' first names for the first time, he asks Peggy, "What is their last name, Gorme?" This indicates that the Rhoades' first names "Steve and Marcy" could be a reference to "Steve and Edie" aka Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme, a husband-and-wife singing team who do light songs. 2. When Kelly's date arrives, his van horn plays a slightly altered version of "Danger Ahead (Dragnet Theme)", the opening theme song for the police procedural television series, Dragnet. 2.1....
External Links
1. Pilot at the Internet Movie Database 2. Unaired Pilot at the Internet Movie Database 3. Pilot on Bundyology 4. Pilot - As Broadcast Script PDF 5. Pilot - Second Draft Script on albundy.net 6. Pilot - Final Draft Script on albundy.net 7. Pilot - Illustrated Transcript on albundy.net 8. #01 Pilot - MWC Podcast on Horrorphilia
"Married... with Children" Pilot (TV Episode 1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Married... with Children is an American sitcom created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt for the Fox Broadcasting Company, broadcast from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. It is the longest-running live-action sitcom ever aired on Fox.
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"Pilot" is the series premiere of Married... with Children. It is the first program to air when FOX debuted its primetime television schedule on April 5, 1987, alongside The Tracey Ullman Show. Both shows' episodes would air three times that day. The original unaired version of the pilot had the...
