Twin Peaks: The Pilot Episode custom cover art

February 2, 2002

The very first release of Twin Peaks on DVD was a Taiwanese DVD of the pilot episode. Next up was the Twin Peaks Season One DVD set in several countries. Unfortunately, due to rights issues, the box set in the US and Canada was missing the pilot episode! This made a lot of people import the Taiwan pilot episode DVD, but the cover art to that DVD was erroneous and just plain bad.

I made this custom cover to look similar to the Season One DVD set. The necklace, torn prom photo, and "dead" photo underneath were added to make this cover slightly different from the boxed set, but still keep it visually similar. The back is completely different from the Season One back.

My custom cover was so popular that it even started showing up on bootleg DVDs in Los Angeles. It caused some people to erroneously think I was involved. It happened because I had the high-resolution image available on some custom DVD cover sites.

This cover was created before a season 2 set, or the complete series set were produced. Also interesting to note, more recent showings of the series have changed their numbering scheme so that what they call episode 1 is the pilot episode (so what was episode 1 is now listed as episode 2, etc.).

You can view the larger, flat version of this cover on its Deviantart page.