Queer as Folk (U.S.)
Pilot
TV Flash files “Pilot” as a desk essential hour — Queer as Folk (U.S.) (2000–2005) on Showtime, season 1, episode 1, aired 2000-12-03, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 83 in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2000-12-03 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Queer, There and Everywhere” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pilot”. Pilot Americanizes Russell T Davies's dare: Pittsburgh community epic, sex basic cable wouldn't air, early-2000s identity TV that refused to whisper.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pilot sit in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 83 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Queer as Folk (U.S.) S01E01 air?
Pilot aired 2000-12-03 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need the U.K. Queer as Folk first?
Helpful, not required. The Showtime series Americanizes Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic with its own five-season life.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Showtime Americanized Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic: club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn't air. Queer as Folk is early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper — still a landmark whenever LGBTQ series get a history lesson.
The first useful permission is volume: friends and lovers in a Pittsburgh gay community dealing with sex, politics, parenting, and the club scene — unapologetic for its time on U.S. television. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman's Showtime series (2000–2005) Americanized Russell T Davies's U.K. dare into a multi-season community epic. Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige, Scott Lowell, and Michelle Clunie hold a circle that basic cable still would not have aired. Club nights, activism, explicit firsts as…
Filed against
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- Scott Lowell as Ted Schmidt
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- Michelle Clunie as Melanie Marcus
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