Check our brand new site
TheRetroSite , although YouRememberThat will remain for quite some time we expect this new site to be our new home. Click over and create your account on the new mobile friendly and flexible site today!
|
|
 |
Turn-On is generally regarded as the worst television show ever to grace the airwaves of American TV. Created by Laugh-In producers George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, Turn-On lasted just one broadcast: Wednesday, February 5, 1969. At some ABC afiliates, as Tim Conway explains in this clip, it was yanked off the air before it was finished. Turn-On was similar to Laugh-In. It was 30 minutes of skits and backouts bridged together by weird electronic music. Most of the skits were overly suggestive by 1969 standards. (One featured a comely blonde about to be executed by a firing squad. The head of the squad said, 'This might sound unusual but WE have one final request!' Another skit featured a vending machine that dispensed birth control pills.) Good luck finding clips of this turkey. Apparently the master tape is locked away in a vault somewhere never to be aired again.
Tags:
Turn-On
ABC
worst
TV
show
Tim
Conway
Added: 25th March 2009
Views: 3898
Rating: 
Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
|
 |
I wouldn't mind watching this show. :~)
|
 |
I agree with Electricland. This show is so infamously bad that it makes you want to watch it.
That the same logic that compels people to rent DVDs of Plan Nine From Outer Space, Ishtar, and Gigli.
|
 |
This would be a good subject for a college course.
|
|
|
If the college course lasted longer than 30 minutes, it would last longer than Turn-On did!
|
 |
I am a proud owner of Plan Nine From Outer Space. :-D
Ive never watched it all the way through though. LOL
|
Add A Comment
Sorry, guests can't post comments!
|
|
Sponsored Links