The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer (Unaired episodes)

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer was an American sitcom that aired on UPN in 1998, starring Chi McBride as a Abraham Lincoln's Black English butler, Dann Florek as The President, himself and Max Baker as Nibbled, Desmond's assistant.

The sit-com was very likely influenced by the BBC serie Blackadder the Third, starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Curtis and Hugh Laurie, in which Atkinson played the smart, witty, dishonest unlucky man, Tony Robinson as the comic fool and Hugh Laurie as the very rich but dumb man. These roles mirror the ones that McBride, Baker and Florek have in the sit-com.

Nine episodes were recorded, but only four aired because the serie caused a lot of controversies: many felt it took the issue of American Slavery too light heartedly. Additionally, poor ratings and the fact that President Lincoln was depicted as a fool may have contributed to the early cancellation of the show.

The episodes that aired have not been seen since the original airing date, and the unbroadcasted one have never been made available to the public ever, though synopsis for episodes #5 and #7 are available. Videos of episodes #1, #2 and #4 have been leaked on the net by people who recorded the original broadcasts, but episode #3 doesn't seem to have circoulated much, additionally.

While there's no reason to think that the master tapes of the episodes do not exist anymore, the sit-com was so controversal and unpopoular (often listed today as one of the worst examples of televison) that it won't be likely released on DVD anytime soon.