The pilot episode is set some 400 years later in 1583.
In the pilot episode, he is described as a nine year old.
In the show's pilot episode, he has just turned 26, which makes his birth year 1934.
Play continued until all six (7 in the pilot episode) questions were played.
The pilot episode had been completed in about 6-7 months.
The pilot episode features several differences from the rest of the series.
Maybe this was the pilot episode; that's probably why I hadn't heard of it before.
During its first two months, the pilot episode reached over 178,000 views.
The first series begins nine months after the pilot episode.
He made his first appearance on 29 May 1950, the show's pilot episode.