@@TheRoomfull lol this comment was from over a year ago before it was shown that there weren’t any episodes beyond the pilot produced. It’s just confusing. But now it seems like a urban legend. Oh well lol
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.
@@TheRoomfull not according to star Lou Gossett Jr, he's given interviews where they said they did 4 years of it they treated it as a proper series. Mel Brooks also said that 4 seasons existed but only saw 3 or so episodes just enough to get the memo that Warner Bros. had better lawyers then he did.
@idgamingfederation202 Nope still false. Aside from the pilot, none of the other rumored episodes of Black Bart had ever been released, with all of them reportedly being kept within the CBS vault due to an alleged dispute with the Screen Actor's Guild. However, these episodes would later be proved to not exist at all, with all the information about the alleged production of the series being traced back to a single post made by Facebook user Ormsby's Cinema Insane on June 6th, 2015. This post was taken entirely at face value at the time of its initial upload, with the information presented within it being subsequently spread to other online publications and treated as though it were the truth. However, the Facebook post would later be amended on July 2nd, 2020 to confirm that it had been written as a joke and that none of the information present within it was factual. All the anecdotes supposedly made by Brooks and Landesburg about Black Bart had been entirely made up, and no episodes of the series beyond the initial pilot had ever been produced.[2]
I like this. I hope the whole series comes to light someday.
In this age, we can only dream
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}.
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.
It wasn’t a failed pilot, there are actually several season WB made for 4 years so they could keep the rights to black Bart and blazing saddles
@@JL0ndon Nope.
@@TheRoomfull lol this comment was from over a year ago before it was shown that there weren’t any episodes beyond the pilot produced. It’s just confusing. But now it seems like a urban legend. Oh well lol
@@JL0ndon Myth.
@@MrGoogster yeah that’s what i said…
Lou Gossett is the best thing in this terrible pilot
He really gave it his all.
Steve Landsburg was pretty good as deputy he went onto star on Barney miller among other things
Why oh why wasn't this show made and released. Hilarious!
Coz white people are salty.
Is that Steve Landesberg playing Reb?
Yes it is !
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.
That's why he never did sequels of Robin Hood and Spaceballs
Wasn't the town Bart was Sheriff of Rock Ridge??
@@Lee-Darin Mel Brooks never directed _any_ sequels.
Warner Brothers made FOUR (4) YEARS of this series that NEVER AIRED!!!!
You’re kidding
@@yokohama1949 YUP 😮💨
Not true.
@@TheRoomfull not according to star Lou Gossett Jr, he's given interviews where they said they did 4 years of it they treated it as a proper series. Mel Brooks also said that 4 seasons existed but only saw 3 or so episodes just enough to get the memo that Warner Bros. had better lawyers then he did.
@idgamingfederation202 Nope still false.
Aside from the pilot, none of the other rumored episodes of Black Bart had ever been released, with all of them reportedly being kept within the CBS vault due to an alleged dispute with the Screen Actor's Guild. However, these episodes would later be proved to not exist at all, with all the information about the alleged production of the series being traced back to a single post made by Facebook user Ormsby's Cinema Insane on June 6th, 2015. This post was taken entirely at face value at the time of its initial upload, with the information presented within it being subsequently spread to other online publications and treated as though it were the truth.
However, the Facebook post would later be amended on July 2nd, 2020 to confirm that it had been written as a joke and that none of the information present within it was factual. All the anecdotes supposedly made by Brooks and Landesburg about Black Bart had been entirely made up, and no episodes of the series beyond the initial pilot had ever been produced.[2]
Compared to the movie this is awful.
And the canned laughter that followed each not at funny at all joke was painful.
yeah, laugh track is unnecessary. Some trimming/editing and remove the laugh track, it could become something... else.. I guess.