Pilot (Breaking Bad)

"**Pilot**"
"Pilot"
Breaking Bad episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 1
Directed by	Vince Gilligan
Written by	Vince Gilligan
Featured music	Full list "Come on Home and Have Your Next Affair With Me" by Stonewall Jackson; "Dirty South Hustla" by Carolina Slim; "Tamacun" by Rodrigo y Gabriela; "Mango Walk" by The In Crowd; "Dead Fingers Talking" by Working for a Nuclear Free City; "A Gosar" by SDK ft. Tori Papa; "Get Low" by Pudge; "Apocalypshit" by Molotov; "Out of Time Man" by Mick Harvey;
Cinematography by	John Toll
Editing by	Lynne Willingham
Original air date	January 20, 2008
Running time	58 minutes
Guest appearances
	Max Arciniega as Krazy-8; John Koyama as Emilio Koyama; Steven Michael Quezada as Steven Gomez; Marius Stan as Bogdan Wolynetz; Carmen Serano as Carmen Molina;
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"Pilot" (titled "Breaking Bad" on DVD and Blu-ray releases) is the series premiere of the American television crime drama series Breaking Bad. The episode was directed and written by series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan. It first aired on AMC on January 20, 2008.

In the episode, chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) and their teenage son Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte), he decides that he wants to spend his last years saving money for his family. After going on a drug bust with his brother-in-law and DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), Walt spots his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and later blackmails him into helping him cook methamphetamine in an RV.

The pilot received various nominations at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, with Cranston winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Gilligan earning a nomination for Outstanding Directing.