PILOT (TITLE UNKNOWN)
Air
date: Never aired
Story by: Savage Steve Holland and Darren Star
Teleplay by: Darren Star
Directed by: Andy Tennant
Bill and Ted need a new amp so they can play at the homecoming
dance at San Dimas High. They seek employment at a hardware store called
Nail World only to be chased off by the manager, Mr. Keilson, when they refuse
to date his daughter. After repairing the antenna to their phone booth
with Mr. Keilson's discarded Crime Stories comic book they find themselves in
the monochromatic comic world and save a gangster's moll, bringing her back to
San Dimas with them. They soon learn that if they don't return her to the
pages of the comic book her boyfriend will be murdered, only she's taken off in
a Yellow Cab. This episode ends in a cliffhanger and it's unclear whether
or not the second half of it was ever filmed.
NAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
Air date: 6/28/92
Written by: Clifton Campbell
Directed by: Christopher T. Welch
After Mr. Kielson takes the credit for a promotional idea Bill and Ted came
up with that impressed the general manager of Nail World, he accidentally uses the phone
booth and ends up in the days of King Arthur, where he steals the credit for pulling the sword
from the stone and finds himself as King of England, and in deep trouble with some angry
medieval adversaries.
AS THE DUDE TURNS (THE LIVES THAT WE LIVE)
Air date: 7/5/92
Written by: Clifton Campbell
Directed by: Christopher T. Welch
Missy refuses to perform her wifely duty of "making lunch" when her
favorite male soap opera character announces he plans to have a sex change operation.
In frustration,
Mr. Preston takes back his garage to renovate a classic car, leaving the dudes without any
rehearsal space unless they can travel into the soap opera and change the character's mind about
wanting to be a babe.
IT'S A TOTALLY WONDERFUL LIFE
Air date: 7/12/92
Written by: Adam Markowitz & Bill Freiberger
Directed by: David Nutter
A major blunder by Rufus puts the Two Great Ones futures into jeopardy when
Ted gets sent to military school and the dudes go their separate ways; Bill becomes a
money-hungry yuppie and Ted turns into an overzealous, unscrupulous cop. The most heinous thing is
they have also become mortal enemies!
HUNKA HUNKA BILL AND TED
Air date: 7/19/92
Written by: Steve Hollander & Paul Bernbaum
Directed by: Kristoffer Tabori
Bill and Ted bomb miserably in their attempt to win an Elvis impersonation
competition, so they go back in time to assist the real Elvis, trying to convince him to never
give up his dream of becoming a singer. But their efforts prove to be more harmful than helpful
when they bring the King back to the future and he loses his own impersonation contest.
DESTINY BABES
Air date: 7/26/92
Written by: Joel Surnow
Directed by: Kristoffer Tabori
After failing to win the affection of their 'Destiny Babes', Bill and Ted go
back in time to enlist the advise of the world's greatest lover, Casanova, in the ways of winning
women, and quickly learn the famous lover not only attracts women but irate husbands as well.
DEJA VU
Air date: 8/2/92
Written by: Clifton Campbell & Bruce Kirschbaum
Directed by: David Nutter
Ted doesn't understand the animosity his music teacher shows toward him,
until he finds out
about a longstanding feud between the woman and his mother over a past
romance with Captain Logan, which takes the dudes back to the sixties where they're shocked to
discover Ted's dad was once a hippie.
STAND UP GUY
Air date: 8/9/92
Written by: Eric Paul Jones
Directed by: Todd Holland
The dudes seek intelligent enlightenment when they call on Albert Einstein,
but the prolific scientist confesses he would prefer to be a stand up comic and makes the
decision to give up scientific research and try out at the local amateur comedy night in town.
Arte Shaw guest stars
as the famed genius.
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