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.
John Schuck Yoyonovich in the short-lived series "Holmes & Yoyo;" both it and "McMillan & Wife" had been created, and were produced, by Leonard B. Stern for what is now NBCUniversal Television. He starred in ABC's 1979 TV holiday special "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't," a.k.a. "The Night Dracula Saved the World," as the Frankenstein Monster. (He would again use the Universal International Frankenstein-monster makeup format in "The Munsters Today;" see below.) In 1979 John starred in a short-lived TV series version of "Turnabout", in which he and Sharon Gless played a couple named Sam and Penny, who swap bodies. Some installments