I posted the above and a couple days later, this appeared on youtube!
Although I did attend a taping session in the summer of '77 of Laugh-In, I've never seen any of the six 1977-78 episodes. Until this one!
One station pulled TURN-ON off the air before it ended. I believe in Ohio. Several stations on the West Coast decided not to air it at all. Otherwise, all the other affiliates ran the entire episode. It wasn't offcially canceled until February 10th, two days before the second episode was to have...
Yes, I remember watching it and I taped the soundtrack of the whole episode with a tape recorder. For a week or two afterward the TV Guide kept saying it would be on, but it wasn't of course, and back then how would you know why unless someone else might've heard? At some point later I found out...
I remember one Sunday night, February 9th, 1964, my sister and I had a big argument because she wanted to watch The Beatles on Ed Sullivan (8pm-9pm) and I wanted to watch Grindl (8:30pm-9pm). (I just looked it up and the episode to be shown was titled Dial G for Grindl.) Well, my sister won out...