Television pilot costs even if the network chooses to not order the show. Sometimes, a made-for-TV-movie is filmed as the pilot, but because of actors not being available, the series intro is reshot and the first reshot episode is considered the pilot. The original "Cagney & Lacey" movie co-starred Loretta Swit (of "M*A*S*H" fame) as Chris Cagney, but when she could not get out of her contract, they reshot it with Meg Foster, who after the first season was replaced with Sharon Gless; therefore, the original movie is not considered a pilot, and is not included in the series collections on DVD.
Wayne Rogers Rogers appeared as an FBI agent in the 1975 NBC-TV movie "," as Michael Stone in the 1980 miniseries "Top of the Hill", and as civil rights attorney Morris Dees in 1996s "Ghosts of Mississippi." He also starred in the short-lived 1976 period detective series "City of Angels" and the 1979–1982 CBS series "House Calls," first with Lynn Redgrave (both were nominated for Golden Globes in 1981, as best actor and best actress in TV comedy, but did not win) and then later with actress Sharon Gless (coincidentally, one of the "House Calls" co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the