The Great American Dream Machine was a weekly satirical variety television series, produced in New York City by WNET and broadcast on PBS from 1971 to 1972.
[citation needed] There were also occasional short films presented on the show, most of them "experimental" or documentaries about artistic endeavours.
One notable skit focused on the different size descriptions on cans of food, that at a time prior to significant government regulation and standardization of labels.
[3] According to Efron, the company subsequently changed the recipe to replace artificial flavorings with concentrated lemon juice.
John Lennon praised the show in a 1972 radio interview, saying "But this Great American Dream Machine that they have on [New York-area public TV station] Channel 13 is as good as, if not better than, anything that's on British TV, including Monty Python's Flying Circus, which is not as heavy as the Dream Machine".
[4] A 4-DVD set from S'More Entertainment, featuring most of the episodes of this series (given at a length of 777 minutes, or approximately 13 hours), was released on September 29, 2015.