Unaired Pilot
From Charmed
This Pilot is an episode of the series Charmed that never aired.
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[edit] Episode Information
- Season 0
- Episode No. 0
- Written By Constance M. Burge
- Directed By Bruce Seth Green
- Original Airdate Unaired
[edit] Summary
Prue and Piper are living in their grandmother's house after her death, and Phoebe joins them after leaving New York destitute. Prue quits her job at the museum after her ex-fiancé steals her project, and Piper gets a job at a restaurant. Led by their childhood spirit board, Phoebe finds the Book of Shadows in the attic and reads the incantation that brings the three sisters their powers. Prue becomes reacquainted with her old childhood love, Andy. Just as they are learning that they are the Charmed Ones, they have to fight a warlock who has been killing witches all over San Francisco and stealing their powers... and the warlock turns out to be Piper's boyfriend Jeremy. The three sisters get a cat from one of the murdered witches. Prue has the power to move objects, Piper to freeze time and Phoebe to see the future.
[edit] Starring
- Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
- Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
- Lori Rom as Phoebe Halliwell
- Chris Boyd as Inspector Andy Trudeau
[edit] Guest Stars
- Eric Scott Woods as Jeremy Burns
- Matthew Ashford as Roger
- Chris Flanders as Chef Moore
[edit] Co-Stars
[edit] Notes
- This unaired pilot was shot in the actual Manor that is shown on the show. Only the attic was a set because the attic in the original house is locked off .After replacing Lori Rom, the show moved to the sound studio where the attic was set.
- This unaired pilot is basically the same as the first episode Something Wicca This Way Comes except for the characters Phoebe, Andy and Darryl; the first two were portrayed by different actors and the last didn't exist.
- Jeremy creates a snake-kind version of his while still being downstairs. The snake has Jeremy's head and turns into a whirlwind when he hits them. This was left out the aired version.
- Lori Rom left Charmed because of personal reasons. Executive producer Aaron Spelling asked Alyssa Milano, whom he knew from Melrose Place, to replace Rom as "Phoebe" and she accepted.
- In this epsiode Prue, Piper, and Phoebe hang onto pole in the attic, but in the first episode, Something Wicca This Way Comes, there is no pole in the attic.
- The Unaired Pilot is 30 mins. long as it was just to present Charmed. After hiring Alyssa Milano they taped all scene's of Lori Rom again and added more to make it and hour long show.
- The unaired pilot features totally different music then Something Wicca This Way Goes.
- This episode includes the Book of Shadows however the page that gives the girls their powers is far less impressive and simple, this could be due to the fact that this episode was merely for selling to the WB and less effort was put into design. The spell itself had differences as well. So were the words "Gods" and "Work" first "Spells" and "Gift".
[edit] Quotes
- Prue: Piper, the girl has no vision, no sense of the future.
- Piper: I really think Phoebe's coming around.
- Prue: Well, as long as she doesn't come around here I guess that's good news.
- Phoebe: The Book of Shadows. (She turns the page and starts reading.) Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of spells are invoked here, the great gift of magic is sought. In this night and in this hour, I'll call upon the ancient power, bring your powers to we sisters three, we want the power, give us the power.
- Phoebe: According to the Book Of Shadows, one of our ancestors was a witch, named Melinda Warren.
- Piper: And we have a cousin who's a drunk, an aunt who's manic, and a father who's invisible.
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