3. Jake's Journey
Despite the central pitch of a young boy being sent back in time to medieval times as sounding a little, I dunno, lame, there's much about Jake's Journey that compels the mind to wonder at what could have been had it been properly produced. Actually, there are two things in particular that the mind is compelled to wonder about; specifically "Graham Chapman" and "Hal Ashby". In 1988 the director of Harold & Maude and one of the greatest ever comic minds teamed up to try and shop around this fish out of water tale of a young boy transported to a strange time, surrounded by a cavalcade of Pythonesque knights and absurdist medieval situations...they roped in Peter Cook and Rick Mayall to star (alongside Chapman himself), but alas, it was not meant to be. CBS passed on the project due to their concern that American's wouldn't gel with the British humour on display. Then, both Chapman and Ashby, the selfish bastards that they were, decided to up and die on us, totally levelling any future hope for the project.