Episode 198: Gimme Five by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

Dead Pilots Society · Apr 27, 2026 · 55m

Episode 198: Gimme Five by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

This month’s second dead pilot from Carter Bays and Craig Thomas is Gimme Five.

Best known as the co-creators and longtime showrunners of How I Met Your Mother, Carter and Craig previously wrote for The Late Show with David Letterman and produced American Dad. They co-wrote this pilot with legendary writer Peter Tolan, whose credits include The Larry Sanders Show, Rescue Me, Analyze This, Analyze That, and many more.

Here's the log line. It's 1985, and Gimme Five is the number two family sitcom in America. But behind the scenes of this…