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Cat, a fugitive from a parallel Earth ruled by aliens, lands on "our" Earth in the middle of a freeway, causing an accident.
Doorways
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Die 4. Dimension, Millennium
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21 Apr 1993
- TV ABC
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I’d like to imagine, had this gone to series, every episode they would meet a new version of Kurtwood Smith who subsequently dies.
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me in 1994: hahaha nice tv pilot, george! what are you gonna do? create a new series? that has fantastic world building? and intelligent storytelling? and compelling characters?! i’d like to see that hahaha
me again in 2011: well he certainly showed me
me again again in 2019: ….hahaha
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Before Jerry O'Connell & friends thrilled us on the hit TV show Sliders, George Newbern was lost in multidimensional space in this failed TV pilot written by overrated hack George R.R. Martin.
The plot is nothing spectacular... Newbern is caught up protecting a woman from another dimension who's fleeing some people who enslaved her, & maybe an alien too... it's never explained. Anyway, they go from alternate Earth to alternate Earth, trying to outrun their pursuers & return home. The special FX were pretty bad, but that can be forgiven since this is just a pilot. There's a short appearance by a pre-Matrix Carrie Ann Moss, & Kurtwood Smith has a rather big part, so there's at least that to enjoy.
All in all, it was ok, but can see why it didn't get picked up for series.
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My dinner was hot and I needed a flick fast. This ultra random choice turned out to be far better than probability says it should. Not to say it's good, but serviceable. Like an early draft of a pilot for Sliders... written by George R. R. Martin I shit you not. The dude only has 3 film credits as a writer on the site, all with under 100 views, and I choose one of them out of the main SF list 🤷♂️.
Unfortunately this must have been an actual pilot episode because it doesn't have an ending. So I wouldn't recommend it. Though as a fan of the TV show Sliders I was amused to see the theme. Not as a ripoff, but actually a couple years before that successful TV show came out.
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D is for Doorways on Prime Video
Don't feel to bad for this interesting failed ABC tv pilot sci-fi curio. If heard that the writer George R. R. Martin landed on his feet Also the concept of sliding from one alternate universe to another would take off as well.
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A decent made-for-TV movie, clearly a pilot episode that never goot to be a series. A proto-"Sliders", it really needed those other episodes to come to a satisfying conclusion.
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For a 1994 sci-fi TV pilot this ain’t… too bad. Written and produced by George R R Martin? Whaaat? It has some good ideas and some really badly execution but I hung in there and enjoyed it for what it was. Has a legit great line:
“Nobody kills me twice!”
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This would have been one star of not for the recumbent bicycle gang.
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I’ve not seen a single episode of Sliders, but I’m willing to bet they never had a Big Wheels©️ biker gang.
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Man. Can you even imagine a time when they would have felt like they had to explain the concept of a multiverse to the audience more than five times?
Completely banal-in-2023 1993 tv-movie-pilot. If you ever feel like losing ten minutes, just ask me about the time I watched “George R.R. Martin’s Doorways” and watch me go off. It’s bad, but I will give a shout to Kurtwood “there’s a Biff Tanner in every age” Smith.
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