Heat Vision and Jack
Ben Stiller directed Jack Black as an astronaut and Owen Wilson as a talking motorcycle, but Fox left the completed pilot stranded online.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- near release
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A completed unaired comedy-science-fiction television pilot created by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab.
The deliberately absurd pilot followed a solar-powered genius, his motorcycle friend and an actor playing himself through a parody of 1980s adventure television.
Existence timeline
Fox backs the unusual genre-comedy concept.
Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Ron Silver take the central roles.
Ben Stiller directs a complete television episode.
Fox decides not to place the programme on its schedule.
The unaired pilot spreads through screenings and online copies.
Why it ended
Fox declined to order a series, and the finished pilot never entered normal broadcast or commercial distribution.
Last confirmed trace
Creator-hosted material, convention screenings and widely circulated video copies preserve the completed episode.
What it left behind
Its afterlife helped establish its creators and performers as cult-comedy figures even though the programme itself was never born.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to near_release under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.