Preview Tonight is an American Anthology series television series that aired on ABC in the summer of 1966. The 60-minute episodes consisted of unsold television pilots.
Background
The practice of television executives of ordering dozens of pilots for proposed television series each year – far more than their networks could possibly broadcast as series – created a sizable body of unsold pilots that had never aired.
Packaging these unsold pilots in
anthology series and airing them during the summer provided television networks with a way of both providing fresh programming during the summer rerun season and recouping at least some of the expense of producing them.
[ Along with Summer Fun, Preview Tonight was one of two such series to air on ABC during the summer of 1966.][ Stars appearing in the series included Van Williams, Hal Holbrook, Jessica Walter, Robert Reed, and Bert Convy.][
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Broadcast history
Preview Tonight ran for five episodes over the course of five consecutive weeks in the summer of 1966, airing on ABC from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday evenings.[ It premiered on August 14,][ and its last episode aired on September 11.][
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