If the cartridge stylus is not perpendicular to the surface of the disk, the tone arm will skate across the surface of the record and pick up and turn off.
It doesn't slide across the record - just goes back up, over, and off.
Ok - on an automatic turntable the tonearm has a projection or nub that when the tonearm gets to the lead out grooves of the record, the projection hits a cam that triggers the arm return cycle. If that mechanism is not working properly and stuck the tone arm will always return to ground zero and then turn off the TT. Locate the gizmo, and un stick it so that the tonearm can properly play back a record. Not uncommon for the grease that is on those mechanisms to cake over time and just plain stick. Using alcohol and q tips clean off any and all grease gobs anywhere on the mechanisms beneath the tt. Or maybe there is a spring that keeps mechanism out of play till the end - if spring has stretched or fallen off spindle it could also cause the situation you described.
That return mechanism works whether you use it manually or use it automatically - it is just stuck in return mode.
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Did you try placing the needle on the record manually? Did it work okay then or did it do as you mentioned?
Testimonial: "It does the same thing manually."
It does the same thing if I manually set the needle on the record. It will go up, over, and off.
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This is marked SOLVED - can you please share what solved it?
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