THAT was really a line used in a promo for this "Series That Wasn't'. I lived in the Los Angeles area at the time, and since KABC-TV was and is owned and operated by the ABC Television Network, the entire excruciating half-hour WAS aired on Channel 7 (KABC-TV), since the station's parent company, was ABC, back when "ABC" stood for the "American Broadcasting Company" (which is now owned by the Walt Disney Company, Inc... so now the letters "ABC" don't really stand for ANYTHING... exactly the way "CBS" no longer stands for "the COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM", and the name of that company now is just "CBS, Inc". The rumors are true - "TURN-ON" actually WAS canceled in the middle of the first episode... on the West Coast, anyway. ABC had paid for it, and they already knew how well it had done on the East Coast and Midwest (and that, friends is why you see airtimes listed as "9:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM Central"), but they gave it one last chance before they pulled the plug. Good idea, but nobody actually understood the things the Executive Producer, George Schlatter (of "Laugh-In" fame) was trying to describe to the people who actually made this thing. It's been said that "Nobody starts out to make a bad show", and I'm sure that's true here... but the viewers didn't move as fast as this show did. It wasn't until the days of MTV being brand-new in the 1980's that the TV audience had caught up with the speed at which "Turn-On" zoomed by. It was just too unfunny and too fast to make much of an impression on the TV Audience.
Review of Turn-on
Turn-on
(1969– )
"ABC's 'Turn-On', featuring A Cast Of Dozens... Hundreds Of Dollars Spent in Production...
16 October 2020