24 in 1994: the "lost pilot"

How did Jack Bauer ever get by without his magical Treo? We figure it must've involved a whole lot more eyeball threatening than he usually manages to cram into a season of 24. Also, according to CollegeHumor's "unaired 1994 pilot" episode, it involved a pager and some really bad early 90's hair. Consider yourself warned, video is after the break.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:47PM]

Best Engadget post ever.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2007 11:51PM]

Oh the days before broadband...and FireFox.

The sad thing is my parents still use AOL

[TP Posted Nov 10th 2007 1:07AM]

Excellent...

[IndiaTech Posted Nov 10th 2007 2:58AM]

One small thing though... If 24 was to be made in 1994, it would have starred Chuck Norris and NOT Kiefer Sutherland...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2007 1:55PM]

Funny stuff. I liked the running back and forth to the payphone.

And I saw a modern Honda Odyssey. Woops...

[zenbrane Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:42AM]

That is clearly not a real pilot, just a bad spoof. We had cds, digial imaging, and cell phones in 94.

[Jake Le Master Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:47AM]

Yeah but you billionaires were a very small demographic.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2007 12:21PM]

THREE FLOPPIES!!!! hahahhahah

But honestly, that was some of the worst acting I have ever seen... especially by the "We just installed Windows 3.1!" guy...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2007 1:36PM]

ah Myst, used fairly unconventionally here to disarm a bomb. haha, wonderful.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2007 2:33PM]

love how minesweeper is open on every single computer.

[Jf Posted Nov 10th 2007 5:28PM]

Got to love the crappy Nortel phone reference. Those things suck.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 2:33AM]

Thing is, the M3904 wasn't even out in 1994. Hell, I'm not even sure the M2616 was at that point. I think in 1994, Nortel was just integrating the Meridian systems into their line-up.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 8:45AM]

This video is a Damn Shit like 24

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:07PM]

What I thought was so funny was I still have the phone the president was using on my desk at work and I got it last year.

[tbyron Posted Nov 11th 2007 6:04PM]

23 is a silly show

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2008 2:28PM]

LOL. The full message for the collect call name made me chuckle.