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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: TV Trivia Question - Need Answer
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 12:45:31 EDT
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> (If you are not in an area where you can watch American TV, just
> skip this article. Our system allows posting only to the world.
> Accept my apologies for our dinky system.)
> 
> There is a question that came to my mind a few months ago that is
> keeping me awake at nights.
> 
> "What was the name of this show?"
> (1) It debuted in the 1969 or 1970 season.
> (2) It was meant to be a copy of Laugh-in.
> (3) I believe it was on ABC. It was definitely on some other network
> 	than the one Laugh-in was on.
> (4) It was so offensive to everyone's intelligence that it was taken
> 	off the air after one episode, and never again appeared
> 	on TV to my knowledge.
> (5) When ABC aired the first episode, their phone lines were jammed
> 	from outraged callers.
> (6) It is, to my knowledge, the only TV series to last only 1 episode.
> (7) One or more of the above clues may be false, due to my faulty memory.
> 
> I don't recall watching the first episode of this series. Does anyone
> out there recall what this program was, and did anybody watch it?

The show was "Turn-On."  I don't have my TV trivia book with me, so I can't
look up the exact dates, but I do know that Tim Conway was a guest star.

                            -- Walt


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