stevens@teklabs.UUCP (08/15/83)
According to the Book of Lists, A TV show called Turn On was the shortest lived series. It lasted only one show. Well, I must have been the only one who watched it because it only lasted one show. I remember being about 7 at the time. My brother and I watched it and we both liked it so much, we stayed up especially to see it the next week. Of course it never showed, so we assumed it was a special. Does anyone remember what its contents were? As I remember, it was the sort of thing you might see at the beginning of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Just weird junk made with Peter Max type drawings. I just remember one thing pretty clearly -- an airplane flied into a huge lightbulb and shattered it. Am I dreaming? What was this show really about? Steve Silberberg
jjm@hou5e.UUCP (J McParland) (08/16/83)
"TURN ON" was ABC's attempt to copy NBC's "Laugh In". Apparently, the public found it so repulsive that the switchboards at all the local stations were flooded by the middle of the show. It starred, among others, Tim Conway. Two sketches I remember clearly: two generals getting drunk at the Officer's Club complaining that they don't understand why kids are only interested in peace and pot (obviously contrasting their interests in war and booze), and a very well endowed young woman in a very low cut dress giving a political speech about how we must bring the left and the right together and eliminate the cleavage between them (left and right politcal parties, you see...) It was a very unfunny show, and deserved to be cancelled, as I remember. Jim McParland AT&T Information Systems - Holmdel, NJ harpo!hou5e!jjm
klein@houxt.UUCP (08/16/83)
Yes I saw Turn On also. It was on ABC I believe and was a feeble attempt to compete with Laugh-In. They said it would sweep Laugh-In under the rug. Boy was it bad. The TV screen was split into four with four different jokes being told simultaneously. The one and only guest was Tim Conway. NDK
ryl@ihlts.UUCP (08/16/83)
1) This topic should move to net.tv.
2) I'm posting here anyway.
Yes, I remember "Turn On". It aired one Tuesday in February
of 1971(?) at 7:00. ABC, I believe. The only thing I remember
about it was a skit with Tim Conway which went:
Woman: Do you love me?
Tim: Love you? How can I love you? I don't even know you.
For all I know, you're a pot-smoking [12 other scummy
things]
Woman: I am a pot-smoking [12 other scummy things]
Tim: I love you.
This was done in four squares, like the frames of a cartoon.
The whole show was like "Laugh-In" to an exponent of four --
very quick skits and lots of fast camera work. Definite drug
and sex overtones, which probably caused the outrage that
brought cancellation within days. Like "Green Acres", it
was a show years ahead of its time.
Bob "I was a teenage TV addict" Lied
...ihnp4!ihlts!ryltas@ariel.UUCP (08/16/83)
The only thing I remember from Turn On was something about the arguments that were then going on about the shape of the Paris Peace Talks table (remember THAT issue?). The Turn On folks suggested a swastika. Tom Skrobala ariel!tas