Conway said in 2008 that "Turn-On" was "way ahead of its time. I'm not sure even if you saw it today that maybe that time has also passed." Bart Andrews, in his 1980 book "The Worst TV Shows Ever", stated that "Turn-On" was actually quite close to the original concept for "Laugh-In". "It wasn't that it was a bad show, it was that it was an awkward show," concluded author Harlan Ellison, a fan of counter-cultural comedy and a TV critic for the "Los Angeles Free Press" in 1969.