The documentary, produced by Jonathan Clyde of Apple Films and directed by Francis Hanly, is wonderfully thorough. This may be the first case on record in which a documentary about a film is longer than the film itself - but it's worth it. On Friday - as always, check local listings - Magical Mystery Tour will be preceded by the new one-hour companion documentary, Magical Mystery Tour Revisited. But on a national level, Magical Mystery Tour has never been televised in the United States - until now.
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Eventually, the special was syndicated to some local TV stations and toured the college film circuit along with Reefer Madness. Reception to the TV special was so poor that the show wasn't even picked up in the United States - just the soundtrack. Pepper cover in black and white, and you can imagine how much was lost in the translation. A quarter of the British population watched it - and many of those hated it.īack then, the 53-minute program was filmed in color but wasn't broadcast that way. And then they did Magical Mystery Tour, which was televised by the BBC the day after Christmas - on Boxing Day - as a holiday special. The Beatles, it seemed, could do no wrong. A quarter of the British population watched it - and many of those hated it. That was followed, a month later, by the live TV premiere of "All You Need is Love," broadcast globally. "Strawberry Fields Forever" came out that year, as well as "Penny Lane" and the Sgt. It was written and produced in 1967, which was an incredibly fertile period for the Beatles. It's a musical comedy fantasy about the Beatles and a busload of tourists taking a trip to unknown destinations. album of the same name, but it's not the album.
Magical Mystery Tour has the music from the U.S. On Friday night on PBS, Great Performances presents a documentary about the making of a Beatles TV special from 1967 - Magical Mystery Tour - then shows a restored version of that special. The Beatles look out of the Magical Mystery Tour coach skylight, on location in England in September 1967.
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