Malcolm in the Middle/Pilot

Pilot
Season 1, Episode 1
Airdate	January 9, 2000
Production Number	10012-99-179
Written by	Linwood Boomer
Directed by	Todd Holland
— N/A	1x02 → Red Dress
Malcolm in the Middle — Season One

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Pilot is the first episode of the first season of Malcolm in the Middle.

Jane Kaczmarek (Lois), Bryan Cranston (Hal), Christopher Kennedy Masterson (Francis), Justin Berfield (Reese), Erik Per Sullivan (Dewey), Catherine Lloyd Burns (Caroline Miller)

and Frankie Muniz (Malcolm)

Guest Starring: Merrin Dungey (Teacher)

Guest Starring: Craig Lamar Traylor (Stevie Kenarban), Vincent Berry (Dave Spath)

Co-Starring: Martin Spanjers (Richard), Landry Allbright (Julie), Will Jennings (Eraserhead), Dylan Kasch (Crony #1), Austin Stout (Spath's Victim), Nicholas Pappone (Nervous Kid), Ibrahim Muhammad (Another Kid)

Trivia

The Show

• Francis' name tag says "Wilkerson". This was originally going to be the family's last name, but Linwood Boomer decided against giving them one.

• This episode originally ran over three minutes longer.

Behind the Scenes

• Linwood Boomer's Emmy Award-winning script was published in Emmy: The Magazine of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 22:5 [October 2000, 1–31).

Quotes

• Malcolm: You want to know what the best thing about childhood is? At some point, it stops.