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I'm starting this thread with the goal of creating as definitive of a listing of the works that Tracy had in development that never got made.  These projects may have had producers attached but they never actually went into tv/film production.   I would appreciate as many detectives as possible in gathering info for this goal, and I'll update this post over time.   I have not done much digging yet, to pull in the information that's been on different websites. 

• Kung Pow (2000 or 2001ish)
  TV series, he describes as "a very dark twisted, strange comedy" likened to
  "Batman meets Kung Fu meets The Prisoner."  He also says "a comedy for the usa network." In Starburst Magazine in 1998, it reports "quirky action-adventure comedy he’s creating for MTV."   Reported as "an MTV comedy slated to star Babylon 5‘s Ed Wasser" by Cult Times.
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• Dark City (Around 1995 or just before)
  a ninety-minute pilot created by Tracy, also for Gale Hurd and HBO, an 87-page script written.
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• Storm Riders
  A classic western with a unique twist. It was created by Tormé who will serve as Executive Producer along with Producer/Director Michel Dinner (The Wonder Years). Storm Riders is an HBO two- hour feature designed to set up a future one-hour series; it will be released theatrically across Europe.
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• Messengers of Deception
  Tormé wrote the screenplay for Messengers of Deception, a hi- tech thriller produced by Robert K. Weiss (Blues Brothers, the Naked Gun movies) for Universal Studios.   Adapted into a novel "Fastwalkers" after
  the movie project fell apart: https://www.amazon.com/Fastwalker-audio … amp;sr=1-2   The unabridged novel, though out of print, can also be found on archive.org.
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• The Black Whip
  a four-hour mini-series produced for FOX by Gale Ann Hurd;
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• Traps: The Drum Wonder
  the biography of drummer Buddy Rich (Rich, Torme, and Bob Dylan Executive Producers);
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• Doomsday
  TV Project with Howard Stern, bought by UPN. He says, "is an animated sci fi comedy for Film Roman (the Simpsons)." Re-examined by Marvel in later years.
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• Where the Hart Is
  TV Project with Daniel Knauf, 35-page pilot screenplay developed.
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• Script or Story for Picard S1
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• The True Tales of Terror (around 2000 or 2001ish)
  pilot for a tv show.  He says in an interview, "an anthology series that will be on either MTV or FX."  In a chat archived at, http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/torme15jun01.htm, we get:<tracy> just finished writing the true tales of terror pilot
  <tracy> its about the zodiak killer pretty cool stuff

  
  

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• Domination (around 2000 or 2001ish)
  "Domination is a very very ambitious sci fi thriller for warner brothers," he says.  In a chat he also says (http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/torme15jun01.htm): <tracy> Domination i think will be liked by most slider fans
  <tracy> that liked darker episodes
  <tracy> very ambitious project
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• Higher Power
  A sci-fi series
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• The Shadowman
  A horror show
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• A Barney and Betty Hill abduction film (title not known)
  About one of the most famous cases in UFO history
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• The Time Trial of Horror /  Time Travel / Orb (many working titles)
  A series about some kids who find a crashed UFO that had various potential titles
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• Avatar TV Show
  Presumably a tie-in to the James Cameron feature film.
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  Star Trek TNG Lost Episodes:
  https://earthprime.com/articles/universe-builder/
  Tormé recalls that he pitched two stories. One was “The Dream Pool,” which never got made, and the second was “The Blue Moon Hotel,” which was later produced, heavily rewritten, as “The Royale.”

  “That’s a bit of a heartbreak for me. I really believe it would have been a tremendous show,” says Tormé, who terms the final product almost unrecognizable. “‘The Royale’ was really my attempt to do a Prisoner show. The hotel was [The Village] and the astronaut living there was like Number Six. This is all allegory. Every day he woke up and lived this strange life inside the Vegas Hotel. Being among all these people, who weren’t really people. It was very surrealistic and kind of sad. Very touching and very lonely and he didn’t understand his own existence. It was like being in a Vegas casino in this barren alien planet. And the Enterprise people come aboard and realized there’s only one human being there — the astronaut — and you never see the alien entity, the hotel manager, until the end. That’s my Number One. The assistant manager was Number Two. It was a very complex and surrealistic story. It’s about loneliness and isolation.

  “What happened to ‘The Royale’ was that there was a stupid rule that said they had to utilize the cast more. The astronaut was too good a part and took away from our cast. They turned the astronaut into a skeleton in the bed. They decided to rewrite all the casino stuff. To me, it was like bad comedy.

  “I’ll give you a perfect example of someone who doesn’t know anything about Vegas writing a cliché Vegas scene. They came up with this whole thing about the book and [the trapped Enterprise crew] had to win enough money gambling to buy their way out of the hotel.

  “I just watched the whole show in complete horror. I had no idea what the show was about. I still don’t know what the show was about! I’m really sorry they couldn’t do the original. It was terrific. All through the first season, we talked about doing it. It was just a question of doing it right, spending the money and taking the time. When we were going to do it second season. I thought, ‘Great!’ and it turned into a disaster.”
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  Star Trek Episode Featuring Two Spocks
  Four page episode treatment available here:
  https://trekmovie.com/2018/09/16/read-u … wo-spocks/
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  Rule of Law Spin-Off Series
  <tracy> just did story for an outer limits its been shot already
  <tracy> called rule of law designed as a special more expensive ep
  <tracy> and as backdoor pilot
  http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/torme15jun01.htm
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• 701 the Movie - Dramatized Version (2015-17)
  This came at as a non-fiction documentary only, retitled The Phenomenon.  The plan was originally part doc, part scripted feature for theaters.  The budget, according to the imdb page was around $10m for the project, and their investor, per tracy's radio/podcast interviews, got in trouble with the feds for his mortgage business, so he couldn't put a dime in and they had to kill the dramatized version, which was why he was originally interested in doing the project to begin with.
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SLIDERS UNPRODUCED

• Heat of the Moment
  "Near the end of my tenure, I was writing my second script of the year, and I think it would have been the best script I’d ever done. It was called Heat of the Moment, and it was actually a show where Rembrandt is killed, Quinn and Wade are getting married, and they’re stuck on a world that’s doomed because of something happening with the sun. At the very end of the episode, our Sliders arrive, and you realize you’ve been watching other Sliders the entire time. It had Conrad Bennish, Jr. who was a millionaire on this world because he’d invented the ‘ice hat’, which people wore to keep their heads cool, so he was this great millionaire entrepreneur, and he starts working with the Professor again, which is a throwback to the episode Last Days. ”I loved that show, and thought it was going to be a great one to go out with, but near the time I finished, the word came down [that John Rhys Davies was leaving]. I’d put all this work into the script, and they were saying, ‘Can’t you rewrite it and put the new female character into it?’ and I said no I couldn’t. That was really the last straw for me.”  EarthPrime.com article sharing the story: https://earthprime.com/etcetera/heat-of-the-moment/  And more here: https://theslidersvault.angelfire.com/h … oment.html

  more here as well: http://leminuteur.free.fr/us/itwtormeus.htm :
  Tracy Tormé: I think it would have been our best show. It's a shame! The Sliders landed on world falling into the sun slowly. Bennish is a millionare who invented the ice hat to keep everyone cool. He goes to work with Arturo again, like in Last Days, also one of my favourite of old shows, now that I think about it. Rembrandt goes on dangerous journey to help his brother. Quinn and Wade realizing they will die on this world decide to get married. Bennish and Arturo fail. Bennish world is doomed, and the Sliders trapped. Rembrandt is killed on journey. Arturo goes to Quinn and Wade wedding, but doesn't tell them about their friend's death. Quinn and Wade get married with only two days of life left on that planet. And final shot is of our Sliders arriving for two min on this planet, and we discover we were watching other sliders through entire show.

  He also spoke about it at DragonCon.  DoC reports on that here: https://archive.is/N38t
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• Slide Effects
  In a 2009 interview, Tormé revealed how he would have repaired his series if given the chance.  "I was looking through the pile of Sliders production stuff and found a small piece of paper dated November 1996,” he says. “It was a note to myself; I guess back at that time I was also jotting down ideas that would make season four if it ever happened."

  https://earthprime.com/interviews/tracy-torme-2009/

  https://earthprime.com/etcetera/slide-effects-2/
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• Sliders Lost Episodes
  https://archive.is/N38t

• Beauty World
  DoC reports: "Once again, not much is known about this tale. Another episode Tracy Tormé worked on, this episode would have featured a world where beauty had a different meaning (a homage to the famous Twilight Zone tale where our definition of beauty was considered ugliness)."   
  https://archive.is/N38t#selection-247.0-255.263 Per http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/torme15jun01.htm: <tracy> was pretty much what youd expect world where looks are elevated over substance
  <tracy> as i recall we spent quite a bit of time on it but ultimately abandoned it
  

• Blood and Splendor
  DoC reports: This Tracy Tormé script was completed but never produced due to cost considerations in the special effects area. The script was finally produced in 1996 as one of the Acclaim Sliders comics specials"
  https://archive.is/N38t#selection-247.0-255.263

  The comic can be found here: https://earthprime.com/sliders-comics/
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• The Long Slide Home
  A concept aimed at giving fans closure that could be released as a PDF on EarthPrime.com as well as other Sliders site(s) and potentially, could be brought to Universal to ask them to include it on the DVD.
  As Tracy told EarthPrime.com founder Matt Hutaff, per reporting on this forum:
  "The Long Slide Home" is in the works... I'm calling it my 'officially unofficial final episode of SLIDERS' and I intend it to be placed on your site and the other site mutually in hopes all fans will come by it. I've been thinking about contacting Universal to possibly place it on a SLIDERS DVD. I have outlined the idea completely for 'The Long Slide Home'. It's very 'fan friendly' because it has no boundaries and to my knowledge wraps up a lot and teases as well... It's not a SLIDERS movie... just something for fans as unproduced closure."
  More info in ireactions'  comment in this thread, including story concept: https://sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php … 292#p15292 as well as an additional post here: https://sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php … 305#p15305
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• Sliders Reboot (2021-)
  - Jerry  calls tracy late 2013, after the Funny or Die Sliders spoof gets internet chatter.  They hadnt spoken in a decade;  Jerry tells Tracy he wants to do Sliders again and is excited over the reaction to the Funny or Die video.  Tracy follows up with Jerry in January of 2014 to talk further.  Jerry and Cleavant meet during the pandemic (2021?).  John puts out calls for who owns the sliders rights and even emails the head of Comcast, which seems to help eventually get something going.  Jerry puts in a call to Universal that goes unreturned.   Tracy meets with Cleavant (not sure how many times).  Tracy and John reconnect, and John has kind words for Tracy about their time together.  A former FOX exec gets involved and as well as Jacob Epstein and Robert Weiss.    They have at least 3 meetings with Universal, two positive and productive, the third a bit of a clunker.   The world where time moves slower from The Guardian is a key component in explaining why the characters may jump in age even though the series will pick up where the guardian left off.   At least two original cast members are in the pilot; one may be dead (or are they?).

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Many thanks to

https://earthprime.com for original sourcing as well as archiving

http://www.earth62.net/crewbios/crewbios.htm

https://stason.org/TULARC/tv/sliders/02 … ncept.html

https://earthprime.com/articles/slide-rules/

http://leminuteur.free.fr/us/itwtormeus.htm