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I thought I saw a pilot for SPACE PRECINCT with a different cast. What happened? The original pilot for SPACE PRECINCT was shot in 1986 and was the last Anderson-Burr production. It was then called SPACE POLICE and starred Shane Rimmer as Lt. Chuck Brogan and Catherine Chevalier as Officer Cathy Costello. Like THE INVESTIGATOR, it was a live-action/puppet combination and was well-received upon screening but was never financed. An edited financing film, put together from the pilot by Anderson and narrated by Ed Bishop, was shopped around to various networks and production houses, again with no luck. Finally, in 1993, Anderson sold Grove Television Enterprises on the idea of producing a series based on this idea. A new pilot was shot, much of the concept revamped (most of the puppets were abandoned in favor of humans in alien costumes ala STAR TREK:DEEP SPACE NINE), and finally SPACE PRECINCT was sold into U.S. syndication in 1994.