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Irwin Allen, Creator Of "Lost In Space" And "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", Created These Two Lost Science Fiction Television Pilots: "The Man From The 25th Century" And "City Beneath The Sea", Here Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format At 9.1 MBPS As A MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! #TheManFromThe25thCentury #CityBeneathTheSea #IrwinAllen #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionOnTelevision #ScienceFictionOnTV #SciFi #SciFiOnTelevision #SciFiOnTV #TelevisionPilots #TVPilots #PilotEpisodes #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD

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THE MAN FROM THE 25TH CENTURY (Color,k 1968, 27 Minutes.)
Originally conceived as a spin-off of Irwin Allen's Lost In Space, and oddly similar to the Supermarionation series "Captain Scarlet" that aired a year earlier, this pilot features a live action cast and a story based on the alien abduction of a young man trained by his captors to be a killing machine designed to destroy earth's space defense weaspons system.

CITY BENEATH THE SEA (Color, 1970, 11 Minutes.)
This is Irwin Allen's demo reel created to sell this idea of a tv series to television studios. The concept was not bought initially, but a few years later, Allen produced a two-hour telefilm for NBC; this film again failed to get picked up as a series, but it has remained a cult favorite amongst sci-fi and Irwin Allen fans ever since. It's the story of a 21st century underwater city, Pacifica, and its struggle against alien forces.


Irwin Allen, American television, documentary and film director and producer with a varied career, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre (June 12, 1916 - November 2, 1991) was born Irwin O. Cohen into a poor Russian Jewish immigrant family in New York City. His most successful productions were The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). He also created several popular 1960s science fiction television series, such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants. Irwin Allen died in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California of a heart attack, aged 75. He is buried in the Garden of Heritage 5, upper level wall, crypt 39 in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Science Fiction On Television: Science fiction (Sci-fi) first appeared in television programming during its infancy in the late 1930s, a time now called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allowed creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. Irwin Allen, creator of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, has been a primary influence upon science fiction on television.

A Television Pilot, also known as a Pilot, TV Pilot or a Pilot Episode, and sometimes marketed as a Tele-Movie) is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its creation, the pilot is meant to be the testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. In the case of a successful television series, the pilot is commonly the first episode that is aired of the particular series under its own name -- the episode that gets the series "off the ground". A "backdoor pilot" is an episode of an existing successful series that heavily features supporting character(s) or guest stars in previously unseen roles. Its purpose is to introduce the characters to an audience before the creators decide on whether or not they intend to pursue a spin-off series with those characters. Television networks use pilots to determine whether an entertaining concept can be successfully realized and whether the expense of additional episodes is justified. A pilot is best thought of as a prototype of the show that is to follow, because elements often change from pilot to series. Variety estimates that only a little over a quarter of all pilots made for American television proceed to the series stage.