That reminds me, The Mini Munsters.
"This movie was created with hopes of developing an animated spin-off of the original Munsters series[2], but it was not picked up as a series. "
WALTER was a proposed MASH spinoff where Radar had decided to sell the farm and move to St. Louis to become a police officer. He tries to kill himself but is talked out of it by Victoria Jackson. Yes, really.
CBS burned this off in the summer of 1984, and it didn’t air on the west coast due to coverage of the DNC in San Francisco. Remember that AfterMASH will still on the air at the time, so CBS thought they could go to that well again.
The producers of The Office attempted to spinoff Dwight, but NBC didn’t pick it up. Making lemonade out of lemons, the pilot was reworked into the Season 9 episode The Farm.
‘The Bakery’ was going to be a cop show, circa 1989, about a Southern California police station that was, temporarily, located in a converted bakery.
The gimmick was, they’d start looking into a crime and learn it had links to a case from back in the ‘60s — which another set of cops (who’d, uh, just started working out of a converted bakery) had investigated; so we’d then watch the ‘60s cops for a while, all vintage clothes and antique cars, as they do a decent job back when but leave a couple of loose ends — which is why we then watch the ‘89-era cops maybe finally solve that case, while making some progress on their own.
But you can bet that (a) they’ll end up leaving some loose ends that far-off future cops in 2001 will investigate, even while (b) 21st-century cops keep getting assured that, oh, hey, this whole converted-bakery arrangement is just temporary.
There was one Babylon 5 spinoff that got a single season and then was cancelled (Crusade), and a pilot for another series Legends of the Rangers that actually fits this thread. I don’t think either of them were up to the level of the original series. Crusade had a weird ‘lets make a D&D party’ vibe going on, complete with retconning a Thief’s Guild into the station just because. Legend of the Rangers seemed to be an OK concept, but I think the utterly baffling decision to make space combat into 3d hovering virtual reality kung fu just tanked it completely. If that phrase sounds nonsensical to you, watch a clip of it: Legend of the Rangers - Space Battle - YouTube
I presume the Get Smart movie was something of a pilot for a new series. I would have watched it.
I don’t see how. Steve Carell and Ann Hathaway are movie stars.
There was a made-for-TV movie adapted from the Marvel comic book series ‘Generation X’ which was an X-Men spinoff. I believe they’d hoped to follow the movie up with an ongoing tv series but it was so poorly received they scrapped those plans.
Respectfully submitted for your perusal, possibly the only evidence for Paul Williams as ‘Marvin the Martian’. (And this has nothing to do with the WB character.) This came from the book on unsold pilots.
A year before the Lynda Carter version, there was a pilot with Cathy Lee Crosby as Wonder Woman, and Ricardo Montalban as the villain. It bears little resemblance to the classic comics–she’s blonde, her costume is quite modest, and there is little to indicate any super-powers–but it’s not much worse than the Lynda Carter series.
Before Lynda and Cathy Lee, there was **this **short pilot from 1967, brought to you by the producers of ***Batman ***and The Green Hornet (who else?):
Look what just popped up in my Facebook feed: Alan Alda adopting an invisible baby from outer space, Dwayne Hickman as a Manhattan lawyer with a 140-year-old client, Dwayne’s younger brother Darryl starring in a live action Flintstones…
What a wonderful time-waster this site is. I had completely forgotten that Majel Barrett was Lumpy Rutherford’s mom on Leave It to Beaver! 
Oh, well. Back to work… *Sigh!" 
As someone else said, it was Assignment Earth, but it was not the final TOS episode. That (dis)honor went to Turnabout Intruder, when Kirk had his body swapped with his old lover and she wanted the Enterprise.
I actually watched We’ll Take Manhattan. It was incredibly awful. I think the only reason I watched it was because it starred Dobie Gillis.
Are you thinking Buffy, Season 8? Because that kinda almost happened.
No, an actual Buffy animated series.
I doubt any amount of polishing could make** this 1967 turd** from Irwin Allen shine:
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I doubt any amount of polishing could make** this 1967 turd** from Irwin Allen shine:
[/QUOTE] I'm not sure. Add Patrick Troughton and you might have a passable Doctor story for that era.