Canceled Before The First Episode Finished Airing
- Turn-On (February 5, 1969)
- ABC variety comedy series; a racier derivative of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the show alarmed broadcast officials and sponsors who immediately perceived the show as offensive due to its strong sexual and political humor. At least one station did not return to Turn-On after the first commercial break, and others in later time zones refused to air the program at all. ABC canceled the show before airing another episode.
- Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos (September 4, 1992)
- A one-off special which was a spin-off from Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, hosted by Doug Mulray. Kerry Packer, owner of the Nine Network, was informed of the show's content by friends whilst at a dinner; he tuned in to watch the show on TCN-9, and was so offended by its content that he phoned the studio operators and shouted: "Get that shit off the air!" After a commercial break, the network cut to a rerun of Cheers citing technical difficulties. It was eventually shown after Packer's death in a repackaged version on August 28, 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the words canceled, episode, finished and/or airing:
“There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“... until the shopkeeper plants his boot in our eyes,
and unties our bone and is finished with the case,
and turns to the next customer, forgetting our face
or how we knelt at the yellow bulb with sighs
like moth wings for a short while in a small place.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)