1775 was a 1992 pilot episode

Television pilot

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 for a CBS

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 situation comedy, similar in style to the BBC

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 situation comedy Blackadder

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. Set in colonial Philadelphia during the run-up to the American Revolution

American Revolution

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, the series was to follow the exploits of innkeeper Jeremy Proctor and his family. The series was not picked up by CBS.

Plot

Innkeeper Jeremy Proctor needs funds to send his daughters to a ball (which will hopefully lead to marrying one of them off). He thus tries to borrow the money from his brother-in-law, George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

, but to no avail.

Cast

• Ryan O'Neal
  Ryan O'Neal
  Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal , better known as Ryan O'Neal, is an American actor best known for his appearances in the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place and for his roles in such films as Paper Moon , Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon , A Bridge Too Far , and Love Story , for which he received...
  
   - Jeremy Proctor
• Lesley-Anne Down
  Lesley-Anne Down
  Lesley-Anne Down is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs...
  
   - Annabelle Proctor
• Sarah Koskoff - Maude Proctor
• Judith Jones - Eliza Proctor
• Danielle Harris
  Danielle Harris
  Danielle Andrea Harris is an American film and television actress, best known as a scream queen for her roles in several horror films, four of them in the Halloween series: in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Jamie Lloyd and in Halloween and...
  
   - Abby Proctor
• Gregory Sporleder
  Gregory Sporleder
  Gregory Sporleder is an American actor notable for playing military men in films such as The Rock, Black Hawk Down and Renaissance Man, as well as Calvin Norris in the HBO series True Blood- Personal Life :...
  
   - Bert
• Adam West
  Adam West
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   - George Washington
• Jeffrey Tambor
  Jeffrey Tambor
  Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development and Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show.-Early life:...
  
  - Colonial Governor