[James2001]

This is something I've read about for years, but not actually seen until now, the infamous Turn-On:

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Cancelled by ABC after one episode in 1969 (or during the first episode depending on whose story you believe), supposedly due to its sexual content. Not that there's much in there that seems particularly shocking today... feels more juvenile by today's standards- like having the word sex flashing on screen for 2 minutes while two people make lusty faces at each other- something that might get adolescents giggling but doesn't seem remotely shocking or controversial, or even clever or amusing, now.

After years of hearing about the show and it being an enigma, seeing the actual thing feels a bit of a let down, not anywhere near as shocking as I imagined (1969 US TV audiences must have had really low boundaries), but really, really strange, even incomprehensible at times. Even without the sexual content, the whole thing feels too bizarre to have survived anyway, it cuts between things so fast and the music and sound effects are so strange that people wouldn't have stayed watching. I had a headache after watching!


They've also uploaded more- the second episode that was completed but never broadcast, and a "lost" episode that was uploaded last week and seems to have been cobbled together from footage shot for the incompleted episodes, deleted footage from the first 2 episodes, and possibly footage from elsewhere (there's a fair amount of videotaped material on colourful sets, whereas the two completed episodes are entirely on film and on a white background, possibly indicating it was originally shot for something else).

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