Best Television Pilot Episodes?

I've been rewatching Deadwood and am once again amazed at how stellarly put together the pilot episode is. To set up the characters, relationships, story and tone so well, and get you deeply hooked in 1 hour, is such a brilliant achievement to me.

Does anyone have examples of exceptional pilot episodes for tv programs?

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Mad Men has a great pilot and, though I think I'm in the minority here, I still think the Community pilot is pretty fantastic.

It's a minority opinion to love the Community pilot? Really? It's fantastic.

I've actually seen it called a weak start quite a few times. I have no idea why, it's one of my favourite Community episodes, period.

Yeah, it's a very good episode in a vacuum, and when you consider that it has to establish the characters in a short period of time, the degree of difficulty vaults it into the top tier easily.

Babylon 5's pilot is pretty good.

Firefly
Lost
Twin Peaks
Battlestar Galactica

These. Didn't care about Firefly though.

It's not the best show on TV, but The Walking Dead had a fantastic pilot episode, so good in fact that the proceeding episodes seldom match it's quality.

Twin Peaks,Breaking Bad,Game of Thrones,Firefly, and of course Mad Men have exceptional pilots as well.

Breaking Bad is definitely up there. How do you stop watching after an opening like that?

I believe the first episode of The Office (US) was pretty good, but it's been a while.

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Not strictly a pilot episode, but a made for tv movie that was then made into a series:

The Night Stalker

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I take it you're referring to the Beginning TV movie.

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Breaking Bad, Lost, Walking Dead were all excellent.

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