There’s a rumor of a sitcom about Hitler, Eva Braun, and their Jewish next-door neighbors called “Heil Honey, I’m Home!” that was yanked after one episode. I would pay good money to see the filmed run of that show.
Zone is a bit of a dicey call, because although only the first episode was ever produced and aired (before Takara decided to cut their losses), the rest of the story was told in Japanese manga and television magazines. It wasn’t so much cancelled as much as it changed media. 
Circa 1977, the Ten Network in Australia screened a sketch comedy show called “Ratbags” which lasted precisely one episode.
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It ain’t a rumor.
And oh yes, I so want to see it.
I wrote material for a Channel 9 show called *Comedy ???]/i] (warehouse, workshop, co-op or something). Although I was at the making of the show it went one better than the OP and never, as far as I know, aired …not even at 3.22 A.M
Technically, there were a whole rash of “busted pilots” that aired once and were never seen again.
The shows weren’t picked up by the network, but the pilot was broadcast as a cheap filler for summer airtime in the 60s, sometimes under an umbrella title such as “ABC Summer Theater” of “Vacation Playhouse.” The listing of Vacation Playhouse gives 21 pilots, only one of which (Glynis) was actually made into a series (another was rebroadcast).
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Tell me, did this show what I think it showed!? What time did it air? 2:00am?
It showed in prime time. IIRC at the time the station owner had it taken off the air they were showing footage of a couple caught… er… “coupling” in the background of an otherwise innocent video taken in a park.
I don’t think it counts. Although I think it was originally announced as a series, it ended up airing as a TV-movie.
Scott Plaid, if it weren’t for your The Cheat-like posting skills, that show would have been as lost as four-armed Grimace. And if you don’t think that it’s the best thing you’ve ever seen, done, or eaten, then you should have your eyes gouged out, your taste buds burned off, and all your, um, done…removed.
I thought Girlsclub lasted one episiode, but Jump The Shark claims it was two.
“No Soap, Radio”
I seem to recall hearing about something called the “Tom Swift and Nacy Drew Adventures” that would apparantly have been about the two of them teaming up to solve mysteries. Apparantly, despite getting his name first in the title, Tom Swift didn’t do much in the one episode of the show that was aired.
Also, does Heat Vision and Jack count? Only had one episode (Episode 14, no less) that was never aired. Produced by Ben Stiller and starring Jack Black as a former astronaut (not to mention the Smartest Man Alive) and Owen Wilson as Heat Vision, his talking motorcycle.
You aren’t thinking of the 1970s era Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Adventures are you? That ran for a full season.
One example I recall is the pilot (and only) episode of Alexander the Great, produced in 1964 and shelved… until a few years later when it was aired on an anthology show.
During the intervening years, the names of the stars had become a bit better known. A couple of blokes named William Shatner and Adam West…
Ah, nope. Was thinking of The Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour which aired once. On a Sunday afternoon, with no advertising and only limited coverage. 
You forgot to mention that Jack and Heat/Vision are being hunted by “former astronaut and NASA assassin Ron Silver” played by Ron Silver.
Ron Silver: If I feel even ONE bullet touch me, I’ll come back there and rip your lungs out of your chest.
Although it never aired it is regularly screened as part of the “Other Network” show in LA and New York. It’s a live show where they show unaired pilots and usually have the creators there to talk about them.
“Lookswell” was a detective show starring Adam West as a former TV detective whose show gets cancelled and not knowing what to do with himself… becomes a detective. His badge is a ceremonial one given to him by the city and instead of a card he hands out headshots. I thought it was never aired but I heard from a few different people that it aired once. Oh and Conan O’brien was one of the writers.
Good lord, how did these not make it into series?
ALFRED OF THE AMAZON
31 Jul 1967
starring Wally Cox as Alfred, Paul Hartman as Dr. Schwimmer, Mako as Simba, Allan Melvin as Willie, Susan Odin as Jennifer, Leon Askin as Herr Futterman.
The exploits of Alfred of the Amazons, a bumbling jungle adventurer and plantation owner who fights injustice in his spare time.
MAGGIE BROWN
23 Sep 1963
starring Ethel Merman as Maggie Brown, Susan Watson as Jeannie Brown, Walter Burke as McChesney, Roy Roberts as John Farragut, Mark Goddard as Joe Beckett, Marvin Kaplan as Marv.
Ethel Merman is Maggie Brown, a South Seas bistro owner, who has to keep 3000 sailors away from her gorgeous 18-year-old daughter.
YOU’RE ONLY YOUNG TWICE
3 Jul 1967
starring Ed Wynn as Prof. Hubert Abernathy, Ethel Waters as Carrie, Kathryn Hays as Betsy Fleming, Andrew Duggan as George Fleming, Andy Devine as Andy, Steve Dunn as Charlie, Jerry Van Dyke as George, Patricia Crowley as Joan, Dwayne Hickman as Lennie.
The story of Professor Hubert Abernathy, a scientist who invents a rejuvenation pill that makes people ten years younger - but only for a short time.