Turn on, tune in, drop out for NBC Radio's Talknet nighttime programming block of call-in advice shows. Another variation, "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out", was the title of a 1993 single by the band 'Freak Power'—the name itself being a reference to the hippie culture. Turn on, tune in, drop out "Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967 Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". It was also the title of his
Drop the Dead Donkey most previously had only been in single episodes. The ending contradicted the already thoroughly contradicted novel "Drop The Dead Donkey 2000" by Hamilton and Alistair Beaton (1994) , in which the company is almost destroyed in a bomb blast at the turn of the millennium. Five VHS videos, each featuring three selected episodes of "Drop The Dead Donkey", were released during the 1990s. There was also a sixth, called "The Writer's Choice", which featured six episodes plus 50 classic moments chosen by the writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume