| 12 Spt |
Anthology (Episode 1) |
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Liverpool:
The Childhood Years | Discovering Rock and Roll | John, Paul & George:
The Beginning of the Beatles | First recordings, 1958-60 | Stuart Sutcliff
| Early Tours | Pete Best |
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Hamburg
| Growing Pains | Stuart Sutcliff Leaves | The Cavern | Decca Sessions
| George Martin | Ringo Arrives | "Love Me Do" | "Please
Please Me" — "We're No. 1!" |
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| 19 Spt |
Anthology (Episode 2) |
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Racing
up the Ladder | Touring Britain, 1963 | London, 1963 | Early Television
Appearances | Voice Clips from Abbey Road Studios | Reflections on Sudden
Fame |
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Beatlemania
| Royal Variety Performance | Second Album: With the Beatles |
Olympia Theatre, Paris, 1964 | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Reaches
No. 1 in the U.S. |
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| 26 Spt |
Anthology (Episode 3) |
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Arrival
in the US, February 1964 | First Appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show | The Coliseum Concert, Washington, DC | Reception at the British Embassy
| Miami Beach | Second The Ed Sullivan Show Appearance | Return
to England | "They're going to put us in the movies!" |
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Filming A Hard Day's Night | In His Own Write | World Tour, 1964
| World Premier of A Hard Day's Night | Liverpool Homecoming |
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| 3 Oct |
A
Hard Day's Night |
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Director Richard Lester's and writer Alun Owens' take on the insanity surrounding the Beatles, with a side plot about Ringo |
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| 10 Oct |
Anthology (Episode 4) |
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First
major US tour, summer 1964 | Meeting Bob Dylan | The Pressures of Touring
| Feedback: "I Feel Fine" | Recording Beatles for Sale |
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Filming Help! | "Yesterday" | NME Poll Winner's Concert, 11 April
1965 | George Talks about His Songs | "Ticket to Ride" | The
Beatles Receive the MBE |
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| 17 Oct |
Help! |
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Richard Lester's attempt to place the Beatles in fictional dangerous situations involving standard plot devices of sixties popular imagination: high-tech spy tools, blood-thirsty orientals, and mad scientists. |
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| 24 Oct |
Anthology (Episode 5) |
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Shea
Stadium concert, 15 August 1965 | Meeting Elvis Presley | New Musical
Directions | Rubber Soul and Revolver | "Yellow Submarine" |
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"Tomorrow
Never Knows" | Technical Limitations in the Studio | LSD | "Day
Tripper" | "We Can Work It Out" | Taped TV Promotional
Films | "Paperback Writer" | "Rain" | World Tour,
1966 |
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| 31 Oct |
Anthology (Episode 6) |
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Trouble
in the Philippines | "Eleanor Rigby" | Touring Takes Its Toll
| The Last Concert: San Francisco, 19 August 1966 | Individual Directions
| The Making of "Strawberry Fields Forever" |
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"Penny
Lane" | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | "A Day
in the Life" | Reaction to Sgt Pepper | Drugs Reflect the
Times | "Baby You're a Rich Man" |
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| 7 Nov |
Anthology (Episode 7) |
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Satellite
broadcast of "All You Need Is Love" | Meeting the Maharishi
| Brian Epstein's death | Magical Mystery Tour | "I Am the
Walrus" |
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"Hello
Goodbye" | The Apple Boutique | Rishikesh, India | Apple Records
| "Lady Madonna" | Yellow Submarine | John meets Yoko Ono |
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| 14 Nov |
Anthology (Episode 8) |
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The
"White" album | "Revolution" | The Apple Boutique
closes | "Hey Jude" | Recording at Twickenham Studios | Billy
Preston Sits In | "The Long and Winding Road" | The Rooftop
Concert, 30 January 1969 |
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"Let
It Be" | Paul Marries Linda, John Marries Yoko | "The Ballad
of John and Yoko" | Comments on the Breakup of the Band | Abbey Road
| "Free as a Bird" |
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| 21 Nov |
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash |
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Members of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Saturday Night Live spoof histories of the Fab Four. Directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis. Executive Producer, Lorne Michaels. Music by Neil Innes. 1978. |
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or |
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Let It Be. The unintentional documentation of the disintegration of the Beatles. |
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Revised
19 July, 2011
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