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The Pretty Little Liars pilot is perfect. Shocked it’s not even on this list. I would rank it as Number One.

The pilot episode of the OC is excellent and having it here so low is honestly mind-boggling. It is top 2, along with Friday Night Lights. Also, I love Gilmore Girls and Buffy is literally my favorite show, but they don’t have really strong pilots. Buffy in particular I’d say didn’t really know what it was in s1.

The OC will always be one of my favorite shows of all time and it being this low is outrageous. The pilot was superb that lead to a near flawless 1st season.

Shoutout also to Pretty Little Liars’ Pilot, to say that I can quote the living daylights out of that episode is an UNDERSTATEMENT! Such a classic! ☺️❤️

One Tree Hill not being on here is Criminal

Veronica Mars has a pretty awesome pilot!

Gossip Girl is only an honourable mention? Come on!

Dawson’s Creek?! Literally made the news with their pilot.

the o.c. was iconic, they don't make shows like this anymore

I’ve seen the OC pilot a thousand times, my all time favorite ❤️❤️❤️❤️

So Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill were only honorable mentions and no mention of Dawson’s Creek or PLL? Also… I never considered Gilmore Girls a teen drama. Her mom is older than I am even now and it focuses on her even more than Rory, or just as much.

The OC = instant click.

I love how "Freaks and Geeks" subverted expectations in its very first scene. When we see a jock and a cheerleader professing their love, we're led to believe that it's just another clichéd teen drama, until the camera pans down underneath the bleachers to show the Freaks, who are DEFINITELY more compelling!

Veronica mars?! all plots and cool characters on a such short time

Oh man, not even a football man myself, but Friday Night Lights had one of the greatest season 1s of any teen drama of all time!

Beverly Hills 90210 The Fox Show That popularized the teen drama genre and one of my heroes the late Luke Perry and Jason Priestley

Pretty Little Liars' pilot should be on this list, it's an amazing episode that sets the tone for 7 seasons of romance, mystery and drama ❤

How on earth is ONE TREE HILL and GOSSIP GIRL not at the top 10? So Euphoria gets #2 and those two iconic TV series that STARTED IT ALL only an HONOURABLE MENTION?? MS MOJO HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? That's just ridiculous 🤣🤣

The OC had the best first season of any teen drama

The OC pilot is my favorite

YES to so many of these but especially DEGRASSI!! I always tell people about how intense the pilot is! They dove in right away.

Nice job snubbing Smallville. That was the best Pilot for any WB/CW show and it proved it with the highest ratings for ANY WB series premiere. Also, where’s Dawson’s Creek? Those two shows carried The WB and to see them ignored? Wow what a slap in the face. Neither of them even get an Honorable Mention. That’s just wrong.

Solid list. But if I could add an honorable mention, it would be Riverdale. I know the show's gone way down in quality and plausible story. But that first episode really pulls you in with a lot of intrigue and lore that makes you wanna tune in for Ep2.

“Burns her bridges at her old high school…” You mean burns her gyms at her old high school

The fosters is an amazing show with an amazing pilot that perfectly presents the essence of the show. shocked me that wasn't even mentioned

How is Dawson’s Creek not on the list!? I would include pretty little liars as well

Pretty Little Liars not being on the list makes zero sense to me

Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah... How come The OC only got 7th position? It deserved number 1 for sure, or maybe, at least top 3. And One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl really did deserve more than just a honorable mention each...

I demand a recount. Gossip Girl has one of the BEST pilots in Teen Drama history: It perfectly sets up its 6 teen protagonist and establishes the rules of this world all while introducing the concept that they’re all being closely monitored by this anonymous blogger. And One Tree Hill had so much amazing backstory that the pilot felt like you already knew those characters and so you understood the weight of their decisions. I’m sorry but Never Have I Ever and On My Block don’t deserve to be on here.

I clicked on this video for The Vampire Diaries and wasn’t disappointed.

And that’s what you missed on GLEE

Msmojo this video was so amazing keep up the good work

The Moment you realize you are now more Lorelais age then Roryies. Gosh I'm getting old 🤣🙈

very very great epic list I like it a lot very great job mis mojo one of my very favorite list ever ❤

I disagree with this list. Buffy imo is one of the best TV series of all time but it’s pilot wasn’t too engaging - some of these pilots beat it by a long shot. Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, and Glee aren’t even my favorite shows, but I can admit to the fact that their pilots were engaging especially the ones only mentioned as honorable. OTH and GG had so much conflict and interesting characters that I wanted to see more! Idk if it’s just me, but I couldn’t get through the first 10 minutes of Friday Night Lights - maybe I should rewatch.

Lol the jokes during the Buffy part, “burning bridges at her last school” “her guardian angel”, I was dying 😂🤣😂

I see Ryan. I klick.

Skins should be at least honorable mention

While Friday Night Lights is a great show, I really don't think I would classify it as a teen drama. A teen drama to me is one where the focus of the show is on the teens. I really think that the focus of FNL was the Coach. Just because there were teens in the cast doesn't make it a teen drama.

My favorite pilots: 1. Glee 2. Euphoria 3. Friday Night Lights

Pretty little liars should be on this list

They need a top 20 of this list! You misted so many good shows

Yeah I was watching the Freaks And Geeks Pilot awhile back on Paramount Plus It looks promising

for me it's young royals! i was hooked on july 1st from the very first minutes and am still obsessed to this day.

No Smallville or Veronica Mars?

I can appreciate Euphoria being at #2 though, the show and Zendaya's performance are amazing 💜💜

Buffy’s pilot was ok but to put it number 3? Then you put one tree hill and gossip girl in honorable mention? It should be the other way around.

I will add the original version of Roswell.

Part of Season 1 was filmed at my high school in Pflugerville Tx ( home of the Panthers) my sophomore year. Some of my friends even got to be in a couple of episodes and the redid the locker room

Atypical. It sets up everything perfect and makes it clear the writers did their homework. Also, Love Victor’s pilot was good

I LOVED Freaks & Geeks!!!! It's FINALLY on Hulu.

Every time Degrassi doesn't make into the top 10 of a teen drama list another piece of me dies.

Vampire Diaries is my jam! Let's not forget Dawson's Creek 💕

Friday night lights is iconic

Yesss, Friday Night Lights! So good

everytime i see the word tv pilot i think of friday night lights’, it’s so amazing and perfect that it should be on top of every list

also teen dramas switched at birth and the fosters yes gilmore girls and glee had me hooked but gossip girl few seconds in that pilot was bored out of it

Welcome to the Hellmouth - hells yeah baby!! I've seen it more times than I'd like to admit 🥰

Hoped Degrassi made it but it should of been fully listed. It's such a rollercoaster of drama

I figured TVD was on here. I'd liked to seen it higher just because I'm biased lmfao

I rooted for "Dawson's Creek" as it's my favorite show but I feel like its memory overall it fades and comes only slightly, is like...people forget it existed and hasn't carried on to newer generations (my perspective)... I'd like to add though the pilot of "Felicity" is pretty good! I don't know if it counts as teen drama because is set in college but it falls on this category, right? there's no "young adult drama" category.

How can your number 1 teen show be about 30 sometime football coach

For me I was hooked from the pilot episode of My So-Called Life and a show called Get Real. I also liked Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared.

‘Friday Night Lights…’ a great tv pilot that made everyone fall in love with Taylor Kitsch (and Coach and Tammy Taylor too). Never got the BFD about Gilmore Girls, would rather have seen OTH or PLL on the list.

OC and Buffy GG Gilmo Girls Veronica Mars all great? :)

"Pretty Little Liars not getting a honorable mention is a crime" -A

Interesting picks. Two comedies make the list of top teen drama pilots (Gilmore Girls and Glee; being an hour long doesn't make them dramas), but the top notch pilots for My So-Called Life, Party of Five, Felicity, Pretty Little Liars, and The Fosters don't even qualify for an honorable mention. My So-Called Life, Party of Five, and Felicity were a couple of decades back, and were never big hits, so I suppose it's a combination of recency bias and popularity that bump them back, but . . . no Pretty Little Liars? Yeah, it eventually fizzled under the weight of fan service and focusing too much on the soap opera elements at the expense of horror/thriller elements, but that was later. The pilot was awesome.

Good video

Vampire Diaries had the very best best BEST soundtrack. It's almost like all the songs from the late 2000s to the early 2010s were written for this show. From Ed Sheeran's Give Me Love, Birdy Skinny Love to Wait by M83. The songs made the moments, the moments made the story and the story was epic.

The fact that „Skins” isn’t on the list is preposterous!

You all must have forgotten that 6 month media campaign in 1997 before Dawson's creek premiered. Still one of the best pilots to set the stage for what the show was, as I've ever seen for any genre of show.

My so called life should be on here!

The OC is so superior. Iconic.

Wtf, Veronica Mars?

The original Roswell pilot is one of the strongest! It’s always overlooked!

Buffy the Vampire is sooo good!!

The Euphoria pilot will be one that I will never forget 😭✋

No teen Wolf ?

I think the original Roswell should be on here to.

I personally thought the pilot for Friday night lights was boring. I recently watched it on Netflix but I just couldn’t get into it. I definitely would not put that as a number one.

I love the glee pilot

Ok wow… appreciate the work as always but there’s some faults here… first off Dawson’s Creek and Pretty Little liars should replace Shadowhunters and Degrassi in the HM, they capture the tone and intrigue of what both shows will be about too well. And as much as many were surprised at how good Vampire Diaries turned out to be in its first season with its twist and turns, the pilot has no business being on this list, a lot of interactions are forced and it even features some awful elements that were soon dropped (like that thing with the mist… what was that?) it should be replaced with One Tree Hill. As a series One Tree Hill wouldn’t rank higher than any of them but the pilot is a thing of beauty in the teen drama genre. If you say Friday Night Lights makes the whole sports team more endearing… well yeah, it’s supposed to as opposed to OTH; you’re supposed to root for shy but confident Lucas (which CMM actually portrays pretty well) and root against the privileged kids and his half brother on the team he’s reluctant to join. The whole family dynamic is explained and foreshadowed very well, the game between him and Nathan for a place on the team could be a series finale but instead launches the whole story, and his has great (should be iconic) foreshadowing lines like when he says ‘I’ll be seeing you’ to Peyton. Or the poem he recites at the end when he finally walks into the gym and all eyes are on him. As a series OTH doesn’t match up with a lot of the series on this list don’t get me wrong, but if you’re ranking pilots, then rank the quality, intrigue and setup of the pilots, not the series they turned out to be.

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_Welcome to the Hellmouth/The Harvest_ wasn't the _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ pilot. The network saw a half hour version of those two episodes referred to as the Unaired Pilot to decide whether or not to greenlight the series or not. It's why _Welcome to the Hellmouth/The Harvest_ are titled. Because they were rewritten, renamed, and reshot for the audience as a two hour event and considered the first two true episodes, but not an actual pilot.

LOVE euphoria 💜💜💜

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose

Degrassi 🙌🏽

To me, My So-Called Life is the definition of this list, so is Party of Five, two perfect teen drama pilots.

Now count how many of the actors on these shows were well past their teenage years. 😂

This should have been a top 20

I agree ❤️🤗

One tree hill is my favourite teen pilot episode.

stefan jumping off that house will never not be iconic

The Vampire Diaries ❤ Glee ❤ Degrassi ❤ Gossip Girl ❤

Buffy was so unique😍

If it was overall shows then friends would be on #1. With the iconic entrance of Rachel in her wedding dress, like come on!!

What is it so mysterious about Elena's parents' death? They drove off a bridge and drowned....

what about end of the fucking world!!! That is an awesome pilot!