From: epwise@yahoo.com   
      
   Don Del Grande  wrote in   
   news:jh0fo75hje0t1vfarq207ket4mgp4dclep@4ax.com:   
      
   > Wiseguy wrote:   
   >   
   >> Don Del Grande wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Fox has announced that, instead of airing "Bart Stops to Smell the   
   >>> Roosevelts" on 4/22 at 7:00 Eastern, they will air, as part of their   
   >>> 25th Anniversary celebration, the pilot episode of "Married...with   
   >>> Children" (which did air as the show's first episode).   
   >>   
   >>Pilots usually do air first.  A better explanation is that it was FOX's   
   >>first prime-time broadcast episode.   
   >   
   > They do now, but I definitely remember a time when they did not air in   
   > the show's regular season slot (although I probably have to go back to   
   > the 1970s for an example - then again, "the version I heard was," this   
   > was actually the second pilot; Ed O'Neill wasn't in the first one).   
   >   
   > -- Don   
   >   
      
   That was the case in many shows including All in the Family and Three's   
   Company but still the final pilot was aired first.  I believe throughout TV   
   history pilots have been shown first and throughout TV history there have   
   been exceptions (Star Trek, The Munsters, The Bob Newhart Show).   
      
   More historically relevant is what I said, that is, that it was the first   
   prime-time broadcast for FOX regardless of what episode it was.  I had   
   forgotten however that FOX showed it three times that night: 7, 8 and 9 PM   
   ET.   
      
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