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Turn-onTurn-On was a TV series created by Ed Friendly and George Schlatter, producers of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and picked up by ABC after it was rejected by NBC and CBS. Production executive Digby Wolfe described it as a "visual, comedic, sensory assault involving...animation, videotape, stop-action film, electronic distortion, computer graphics -- even people." Turn-On is notable for being the first show to ever be cancelled by its network before the first episode had finished airing. Its sole episode aired on Wednesday, February 5, 1969. In some markets, including Denver, the show went to a commercial break and simply never came back. Many other stations made the decision to never air it again immediately after the first episode finished. ABC pulled the plug completely within a week, and as part of its cancellation agreement they agreed to store the tapes in their vault and never air it again. Some claim that the show was cancelled because it was too extreme for America's tastes at the time. The only episode which aired featured rapid fire gags featuring sexual innuendos and it turned people off instead of turning them on. However television critic Harlan Ellison, who has long held a taste for the extreme and pushing the envelope, maintained that it was simply a very bad derivative of Laugh-In. Turn-On has been consistently called one of most notorious flops in television. External links
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