10 Epic TV Shows That Never Made It To Our Screens
5. Mr & Mrs Smith
Remember that film where Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt fell in love both on screen and off of it? Well, 2005's Mr & Mrs Smith was actually based on the fleeting 1996 CBS series of the same name.
So - after the film managed to drag in a decent amount of dollar from fans around the globe - an attempt at a spin-off TV show shocked just about nobody.
The television series would be set six months after the events of the film and focused on the lives of John and Jane (played by Martin Henderson and Jordana Brewster) after the former contracted killers left marriage counseling.
Disappointingly, critics would pan the 2007 pilot and claim that it deserved to be 'locked away in the network's vaults'. This response - coupled with Henderson and Brewster's mediocre chemistry - led to ABC deciding to scrap the series before it ever had a chance to be aired on their network.
When the box office returns for the assassin-couple feature were as impressive as Mr & Mrs Smith's, ABC were surely just a few decisions away from creating something actually worth watching.
The full unsold pilot can be found above, so you can make your own mind up as to whether this potentially brilliant non-starter deserved a second chance.