Unused Projects
A number of Jack Laird's projects were never produced or broadcast:
- At the time of his death, Laird was working on a television series based on stories by thriller writer Robert Ludlum
- In 1967, he created an unsold comedy pilot about two elderly, retired superheroes who must once again don their leotards to do battle with a super-villain who has been set free and has vowed to destroy the world.
- In 1972, he worked as producer on one of the pilot episodes produced for Biography, an unsold TV series. Four pilots were completed and eventually appeared as TV movies, but Laird's episode about Houdini was never filmed.
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