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Turn-On
Genre Sketch comedy
Created by Ed Friendly
George Schlatter
Starring Tim Conway (guest host)
Teresa Graves
Hamilton Camp
Mel Stewart
Chuck McCann
Bonnie Boland
Maxine Greene
Ken Greenwald
Debbie Macomber
Maura McGiveney
Robert Staats
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 2 (1 episode unaired)
Production
Executive producer(s) Ed Friendly
George Schlatter
Producer(s) Digby Wolfe
Running time 24–25 minutes
Release
Original network ABC
Original release February 5, 1969 (1969-02-05)

Turn-On is an American sketch comedy series that aired on ABC in February 1969. Only one episode was shown, leaving one episode unaired, and the show is considered one of the most infamous flops in TV history.

Turn-On's sole episode was shown on Wednesday, February 5, 1969, at 8:30 pm ET. Among the cast were Teresa Graves (who would join the Laugh-In cast that autumn), musician and future Disney and Hanna-Barbera voice actor Hamilton Camp, and longtime children's show host, character actor, and voice artist Chuck McCann. The writing staff included a young Albert Brooks. The guest host for the first episode was Tim Conway.

The show was created by Ed Friendly and George Schlatter, the producers of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Bristol-Myers contracted with them to develop the show, and provided it to ABC for a projected 13-week run after NBC and CBS rejected it. A CBS official confessed, "It was so fast with the cuts and chops that some of our people actually got physically disturbed by it." Production executive Digby Wolfe described it as a "visual, comedic, sensory assault involving animation, videotape, stop-action film, electronic distortion, computer graphics—even people."


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