Premiere is an American anthology television series that aired on CBS during the summer of 1968.
The practice of television executives of ordering dozens of pilots for proposed television series each year – far more than their networks could possibly broadcast as series – created a sizable body of unsold pilots that had never aired.
[2] Premiere aired hour-long dramas in six of its episodes;[2] among them was "Call to Danger," which was made years earlier as the pilot for the 1966–1973 series Mission: Impossible.
[2] Stars appearing in Premiere include Alan Alda, Peter Graves, Dustin Hoffman, Shirley Jones, and Burt Reynolds.
In "Out of the Blue," airing at 10:00, aliens from an overcrowded planet looking for another world to colonize travel to Earth to observe its culture and meet a friendly physics professor who tries to explain what they view as strange human customs to them.