Rare|Blazing Saddles: TV Pilot| Black Bart 1975

This should have been a series. It's a fun show and all that shooting the men in the feet goes especially with Westerns. Please tell me of similar TV shows and movies! 818 588 0377

This is just offensive on so many levels.

I've read that Mel Brooks didn't like sequels and had it in his Blazing Saddles contract that a sequel couldn't be made unless a TV series was made first (his thought being that Blazing Saddles type humor would never be allowed on TV, thereby preventing any movie sequel). This pilot was a flop, and was planned that way by Warner Brothers in order to fulfill Brooks' contract and allow the studio to produce a Saddles movie sequel. Meanwhile, by the time all this got done, studio marketing told producers that the market for such humor had dried up, so the sequel was abandoned. Of course, what I read could have been wrong, but it sounds about right.

Warner Brothers made FOUR (4) YEARS of this series that NEVER AIRED!!!!

I like this. I hope the whole series comes to light someday.

Ha pretty funny! Thank you for showing this.

Saw it when it was broadcast back in 1975, failed pilots in those days were burned off thru out the summer months.

Compared to the movie this is awful.
And the canned laughter that followed each not at funny at all joke was painful.

Why oh why wasn't this show made and released. Hilarious!

Lou Gossett is the best thing in this terrible pilot

Rest in Peace Lou Gossett Jr.

Originally "burned off" on April 4, 1975 as part of CBS' "FRIDAY COMEDY SPECIAL" {a showcase for "busted" sitcom pilots}.

Is that Steve Landesberg playing Reb?