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Turn-On
American surreal sketch comedy series
For other uses, see Turn On (disambiguation).
Turn-On is an American surrealsketch comedy series created by Digby Wolfe and George Schlatter that aired once on ABC on Wednesday, February 5, Only one episode was shown partially before being pulled from ABC's airing schedule, leaving another episode unaired. The show has since been considered one of the most infamous flops in TV history, with significantly low initial ratings and negative critical reception.
Turn-On's sole broadcast episode replaced the Wednesday episode of Peyton Place - in fact, it was even referenced on the show itself, where, in the opening, Tim Conway refers to the show as "Peyton Re-Place". Among the cast were Teresa Graves (who would join the Laugh-In cast that fall), Hamilton Camp, and Chuck McCann. The writing staff included Albert Brooks. The guest host for the first episode was Tim Conway, who also participated in certain sketches. Schlatter and Ed Friendly, who had previously been the producers of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, were contracted by Bristol-Myers to develop the show, and provided it to ABC for a projected week run after it was rejected by NBC and CBS.
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[edit]Turn-On's premise was that it was "the first comp
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US tv series (). George Schlatter-Ed Friendly Productions. Created by Friendly and Schlatter. Writers included Albert Brooks. Cast included Tim Conway (guest host), Teresa Graves, Ken Greenwald and Maura McGiveney. One episode. Colour.
A hapless effort to duplicate the success of George Schlatter's sketch comedy series Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (), Turn-On is widely regarded as the worst disaster in American television history. A few stations refused to air the first episode, others stopped airing it after the first commercial break, and the series was immediately cancelled; a second episode was filmed but never aired. Among other things, viewers were disturbed by its blindingly-rapid editing and emphasis on raunchy sexual Humour. The series is unfortunately relevant to sf because it is stated that its contents, and the order of their appearance, were being dictated by a briefly-observed Computer, making it an inadvertent commentary on the inability of artificial intelligence (see AI) to emulate the achievements of human beings. Indeed, one could discern in the series' flaws precisely the kind of flawed reasoning that might emerge from a machine knowing little about the human race: if people like fast-paced comedy, they will like
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