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On February 5th, 1969, ABC premiered a television pilot for a comedy series titled '''''Turn-On'''''. The cast included Teresa Graves, Hamilton Camp, Mel Stewart, Chuck McCann, and guest host Tim Conway. Many people across America complained about the show and its sexual and religious content. Co-creator of the show Ed Friendly decided to respond to the complaints by interrupting the live broadcast of the show and stating that "the remainder of this program will not be seen this evening, or ever". The screen then cut to black and the show was never broadcast again. | On February 5th, 1969, ABC premiered a television pilot for a comedy series titled '''''Turn-On'''''. The cast included Teresa Graves, Hamilton Camp, Mel Stewart, Chuck McCann, and guest host Tim Conway. Many people across America complained about the show and its sexual and religious content. Co-creator of the show Ed Friendly decided to respond to the complaints by interrupting the live broadcast of the show and stating that "the remainder of this program will not be seen this evening, or ever". The screen then cut to black and the show was never broadcast again. | ||
[[File:02-turn-on.w570.h712.jpg|thumb|300px|Behind the scenes photo. A ''Turn-On'' dancer, seen using a primitive form of motion capture to render the stick figure on the monitor. The footage would later appear on YouTube. Photo: Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images | |||
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Eventually, the pilot fell into obscurity until one day in the 1980s, when ABC News aired a news report featuring footage from the show and subsequently revealed that the second episode of ''Turn-On'' had been recorded, though not broadcast. Additionally, according to Andrew Sandoval's book ''The Monkees: The Day-By-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation'', The Monkees made an appearance in a different unaired episode, meaning that more episodes of the show may have been filmed. | Eventually, the pilot fell into obscurity until one day in the 1980s, when ABC News aired a news report featuring footage from the show and subsequently revealed that the second episode of ''Turn-On'' had been recorded, though not broadcast. Additionally, according to Andrew Sandoval's book ''The Monkees: The Day-By-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation'', The Monkees made an appearance in a different unaired episode, meaning that more episodes of the show may have been filmed. | ||
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On February 5th, 1969, ABC premiered a television pilot for a comedy series titled Turn-On. The cast included Teresa Graves, Hamilton Camp, Mel Stewart, Chuck McCann, and guest host Tim Conway. Many people across America complained about the show and its sexual and religious content. Co-creator of the show Ed Friendly decided to respond to the complaints by interrupting the live broadcast of the show and stating that "the remainder of this program will not be seen this evening, or ever". The screen then cut to black and the show was never broadcast again.
Eventually, the pilot fell into obscurity until one day in the 1980s, when ABC News aired a news report featuring footage from the show and subsequently revealed that the second episode of Turn-On had been recorded, though not broadcast. Additionally, according to Andrew Sandoval's book The Monkees: The Day-By-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, The Monkees made an appearance in a different unaired episode, meaning that more episodes of the show may have been filmed.
According to an article for Vulture, only two episodes were produced before the shows premier. [1]
Availability
While the two known episodes can be viewed at The Paley Center for Media in New York City, it is unknown if any other copies are available elsewhere, and the episodes can not be viewed outside of the Center.
Besides the news broadcast available below, only one other clip from the series is known to be available: one of the interstitial "dancing" animations. These interstitials were especially notable as some of the first uses of both computer graphics and motion capture in television history, and were produced using the ANIMAC video synthesizer. It can be found on Scanimate DVD-1, a disc compilation of clips generated by both ANIMAC along with its successors CAESAR and Scanimate. The DVD is sold online by Dave Sieg, engineering historian, and owner and caretaker of the last functional Scanimate unit.[2]
On Mar 1, 2021 another clip was uploaded to YouTube by user BlueFrog. The clip appeared to be from the first episode featuring a skit between an actress and guest host Tim Conway.
Apr 18, 2021 YouTube channel Ultimate History of CGI uploaded a clip of animation titled Turn On! Dancer (1969) - First dance motion capture the clip featured footage of the motion capture used on the first (one of the earliest examples).
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Reference
- ↑ [https://web.archive.org/web/20191113033757/https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/turn-on-sketch-comedy-tv-history.html Vulture - The ’60s Sketch-Comedy Show That Crashed and Burned Into TV Infamy By Charles Bramesco.] Retrieved 21 Jul '21
- ↑ Scanimate's official website, where the DVD is sold. Retrieved 23 Aug '19