Turn-On production. Many assumed the show's title was itself an implicit reference to Timothy Leary's pro-drug maxim, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". The network eventually replaced "Turn On" with a revival of "The King Family Show". The controversy led ABC to reject a pilot written by Norman Lear, stating that the lead character was "foul-mouthed, and bigoted", out of fear that it might anger its affiliates again. CBS liked it, picked it up as "All in the Family", and began airing it in 1971. In 2002, "Turn-On" was ranked number 27 on "TV Guide's" 50 Worst TV Shows of All
League for Spiritual Discovery be used as an aid to LSD trips), and underground newspapers to which the group subscribed. The League for Spiritual Discovery's belief structure was based on Leary's mantra: "drop out, turn on, tune in." Though the more popular "turn on, tune in, drop out" became synonymous with Leary, his actual definition was: ""Drop Out" – detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. "Turn On" – find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. "Tune In" – be reborn. Drop