One of the most significant miracles of an episode in television history can be Lookwell.

"Look", for those who were not known, was a comedy pilot Starring Adam West It was produced by Lorn Michaels and co-written by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel. It was done in 1991, but despite its high concept and high quality, it never went to series. The pilot aired on NBC at the end of July of the same year as a TV film, but only those with VCR-RECORD fast-moving buttons were able to catch it before they disappeared on the air. Those who managed to capture the VHS immediately became swollen, are in charge of Adam West's exalted comical performance and its sense of humor.

Lookwell's premise was a little bow, as did fashion at the time. West was playing Ty Lookwell, a rich, retired TV actor who wanted to hang out around his home, decorated in the 1970s, ate puppies (a kind that could magically tighten your skin!) And watching repetitions of "Banigan", a policeman he once headed. Banigan is more or less forgotten than modern audiences, but was once popular enough to earn a lookwell honorable police badge. When Lookwell encounters some criminal mystery, he begins to fancy a real police detective and tries to resolve the case. The joke is that Lookwell, an ego-driven actor without the real concept of how the real world works, explores very badly. On a scene, for example, he tries to infiltrate a racing track with a driver of racing cars. For Lookwell, it means a leather helmet, old times glasses and a white scarf.

Adam West is an expert on playing subliminally unconscious characters, making him one of the best actors in his generation comedy. West said in several interviews that Lookwell is one of his proud moments and that he will always regret not going to the series.

Thanks to the gods of archiving online, Lookwell is easily found on YouTube. I encourage you to break for a moment, watch it, and then come back.

Funny, right? From the first scene where Lookwell audifies the role of Buzz McCool in "Happy Days: The Next Generation", until the last moments, when one police chief, Detective Kenny (Ron Phrasier), is mistreated to look at the view to believe that he has resolved the crime (he has not had). Kenés used to be a technical adviser to Banigan, and Lave believed they were friends. I love running that no one can remember the old Lookwell TV. Someone says he was at Benigan. No, he says. It was Georgeorje Kennedy. He is not even "Branniga". It was Hugh O'Brien. And, no, "Benigan" and "Brananiga" are not real representations for police officers. Although Johnon Wayne starred in Action thriller in 1975 called "Branniga!" And, yes, you recognized it. Sidekick at Lookwell, Asoneon, plays Todd Shield, the eventual director of classics as "in the bedroom" " and "Lake".

Asoneerson and Laitwell met because the first one was a student in Lookwell's acting class, a class that broke through Shakespeare, but using the episodes of Banigan as their basis.

The Lookwell pilot's plot is for a series of car theft, and Lookwell gets inspiration from strange places. It comes to the most stupid conclusions. "Cars have not been stolen at all!" He screams, as if he was deep. His masked are unconvincing, and Lookwell often ends up beating or arrested. His beggar masking is a hallmark. "Good evening, I have no home. Hi there! The pavement is my pillow." Comedy gold.

In interviews, O'Brien, Smigel and West everyone regretted the low rating and low interest in Lookwell.

In the now unwavering interview with Seattle's post-intelligent, O'Brien jokes that Lookwell has lost in the test of the test model in Nova Scotia. West said he made at least 12 unpacked pilots in his career, and Lookwell is the only one that feels sad. That interview was quotedAnd West said the pilot "could catch a little of my nonsense and the feeling of absurdity, so I really enjoyed it ... it's the funniest pilot never sold."

Said Smigel in Interview in 2004 with the AV Club That Lookwell was risky because it was, at the end of the day, maybe too much bow for the main audience. Indeed, Smigel himself is a little confused by his project. "I don't know how good it is," he said, but praised the comic talents in the West, asking Why didn't it become an even bigger starvet than it had already been. It was Smigel who explained why Glewell was never raised. Like so many shows before, "Look" was a shelter when Ann -Bi suffered a change of regime. When that happens, all the old regime pilots are ejected so that the new mode can start fresh. "If it takes some time to develop," Smigel said, "there is a good chance that the person who puts him in the move will be fired, or to withdraw, and the next person will not want to do so."

West may have missed Lookwell, but West was able to continue the "unclean detective" Shtick in a vague, but also a funny, 1993 comedy series called "Dangerous Theater". West starred in a segment called "Tropical Blow", a police officer like "Hawaii Pet-0", with news as the main detective. However, he was amazingly incompetent and drove his two partners crazy.

Okay, so maybe the "danger theater" is not a good makeup for Lookwell, as it can be even more even. But now you know about two lofty plays by Adam West you can catch them.