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A '''television pilot''' (also known as a '''pilot''' or a '''pilot episode''' and sometimes marketed as a '''tele-movie''') in [[Television in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] and [[Television in the United States|United States television]], is a standalone [[episode]] of a [[television series]] that is used to sell a show to a [[Television broadcasting|television network]] or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like [[pilot studies]] serve as precursors to the start of larger activity.
A successful pilot may be used as the [[series premiere]], the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot (although an increasing number of such series have their first episodes [[List of television episodes titled Pilot|titled "Pilot"]]). On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or special.
A "[[#Backdoor pilot|backdoor pilot]]" is an episode of an existing series that heavily features supporting characters or guest stars in previously unseen roles. Its purpose is to introduce the characters to an audience before the creators decide on whether or not they intend to pursue a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] series with those characters.
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