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The ABC Thursday Night Movie Special.......

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jake1966

While going through some old audio tapes of mine I found a ABC special that I recorded from the 70s. It was about the Beatles. If I remember back then it was after midnight on the east coast when it was on. Does anyone remember this special??
 
jake1966 said:
While going through some old audio tapes of mine I found a ABC special that I recorded from the 70s. It was about the Beatles. If I remember back then it was after midnight on the east coast when it was on. Does anyone remember this special??
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Well...Tell us more about it. What year did it run? What night of the week? Was it docu-drama, or what? Or was it an ABC radio special?
I remember an ABC made-for-TV movie about the early Beatles that ran the night after Thanksgiving in 1979. It's not that one, is it?
 
It was a documentry about the Beatles. It had to be around the late 70s. The only part I remember about it is that they had the old Cavern Club clip of them singing "Some Other Guy" early in the program. I was only about 10 when it was on. And it was on late after prime time possibly midnight.
 
This movie sounds suspiciously like "Birth Of The Beatles":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078865/

On your audio tape, does the George Harrison character say the line: "We've got to get out of the grotty bog"?

Do the characters playing The Beatles come out with the line: "Where we going fellas? To the Top! What Top? To the VERY Top!"

Me and a few my college pals, who were Beatles fans and remembered this movie well, used to riff on these
lines and others from the movie all the time...

- Kyle
 
And that link, kylebook, is the ABC movie I spoke of---from the night after Thanksgiving, 1979. Hmm. I vaguely remember that. I remember thinking "boy, this is bad". Have not seen it since.
 
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