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From: jjm@hou5e.UUCP (J McParland)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Turn On
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 09:10:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 09:10:10 1983
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	"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
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