The Beatles Are Back … In Cartoon Form
The Beatles have had an unprecedented amount of followers since they day they started singing songs like "All My Loving" and "Please Please Me." Their fans' continued support has lead to a legacy that no other band has been able to recreate. The craze called Beatlemania has produced everything from Beatles bobble heads to tribute bands, but the one thing many forget is that the Beatles had their own TV show ... and now you can watch it!
From 1965 to 1969, the band had a cartoon show called The Beatles that ran on ABC. Since the late '60s this show has been "lost." According to Flavorwire, "The last time I'm aware of it seeing the light of day was when MTV ran the series back in the '80s. (It was like catnip to this Beatle-crazy kid.)"
"The Beatles' scripts were the work of a group of writers who contributed to everything from the Jackie Gleason Show to the Spider-Man series, and the cartoons are very much of the old-school punch line era of comedy and the overall disregard for believability and continuity that ruled in television animation at the time," Entertainment Weekly reported.
"Each episode finds the Beatles dropped in the middle of a standard cartoon setting-a jungle, a haunted castle-where they barrel through the barest sketch of a plot while avoiding roving mobs of Beatlemaniacal girls."
According to Entertainment Weekly, The Beatles don't sound like themselves in this cartoon series, which originally aired every Saturday. "While Ringo has at least a tinge of Liverpudlian lilt in his speech, the other Beatles sound nothing like themselves: the cartoon Paul sounds more posh than the actual one and John sounds like Stewie from Family Guy, while George's accent doesn't resemble any actual real-world way of pronouncing things," the publication reported.
Luckily for all you Beatles fans out there, someone tapped the 1980s' MTV recordings of the show and has made them available on YouTube on Beatles Planet. You can now watch all 39 episodes non-stop and decide for yourself which Beatle sounds the most authentic.
Check out the first episode below: