ABC Network - Young Guy Christian - “Pilot“ - WLS Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 5/24/1979) 📺

From the “Failed TV Pilots“ department, here’s another such show, Young Guy Christian, as transmitted over the ABC Network via Chicago’s WLS Channel 7. (It aired right after a repeat of the Mork & Mindy episode “Mork the Tolerant,“ the original January 18th 1979 broadcast of which can be found here: ) An apparent spy/adventure spoof, this never-would-be series starred Barry Bostwick (looking almost like a cross between Ron Hunter and Rod Blagojevich with John Travolta hair) in the title role of an inept spy and Playboy socialite, plus a pre-Cheers Shelley Long (as Mia Mishugi; this pilot’s failure will ensure three more years of John M. Smyth and Homemakers ads from her that would air all over Chicagoland, before she finally made the national big time on said program), Richard Karron (as a junkman), and Pat Morita (Happy Days and Mr. T & Tina - but before “The Karate Kid“) as Professor Mishugi. The rest of the cast included