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)
“The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
“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)