In this original pilot of Desperate Housewives actress Sheryl Lee played the lead role (and narrator) of dead Mary Alice Scott. When the series was picked up she was released from the role. This would've been her second dead character after her famous role of Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks.

In this original pilot of Desperate Housewives the role of gardner John was played by actor Kyle Searles. After the series was picked up by ABC he was released from the role.

In the original pilot episode the role of Rex Van De Kamp played in this episode was actor Michael Reilly Burke but was let go after the series was picked up by ABC.

In the unaired version of the pilot, the final scene during which the camera pulls away from the girls after they discover Mary Alice's secret paper, a ghost-like version of Mary Alice is standing in the yard behind the girls. Also, even though it is the same shot in the original pilot and the aired version, the grass in Mary Alice's yard looks to be poorly cared for, but in the aired version, it has been digitally edited to look unnaturally healthy.

Season 1
1. 3 Oct 04 Pilot
2. 10 Oct 04 Ah, But Underneath
3. 17 Oct 04 Pretty Little Picture
4. 24 Oct 04 Who's that Woman?
5. 31 Oct 04 Come in, Stranger
6. 7 Nov 04 Running to Stand Still
7. 21 Nov 04 Anything You Can Do
8. 28 Nov 04 Guilty
9. 12 Dec 04 Suspicious Minds
10. 19 Dec 04 Come Back to Me
11. 9 Jan 05 Move On
12. 16 Jan 05 Every Day a Little Death
13. 23 Jan 05 Your Fault
14. 13 Feb 05 Love Is in the Air (a.k.a. What I Did for Love)
15. 20 Feb 05 Impossible
16. 27 Mar 05 The Ladies Who Lunch
17. 3 Apr 05 There Won't Be Trumpets
18. 10 Apr 05 Children Will Listen
19. 17 Apr 05 Live Alone and Like It (a.k.a. An Unexpected Song)