The Beatles Cartoons TV Series Volume 1 (Season One 1965 -1966) Home Random Nearby Watchlist Settings Log in About Wikipedia Disclaimers Last edited 1 month ago by an anonymous user The Beatles (TV series) Talk The Beatles Beatlescartoons1.jpg John, Ringo, George, and Paul as cartoon characters. Genre Comedy, cartoon series, childrens, rock music Created by Al Brodax, Sylban Buck Written by Dennis Marks Jack Mendelsohn Heywood Kling Bruce Howard Voices of Paul Frees (John, George) Lance Percival (Paul, Ringo) Theme music composer The Beatles Opening theme The Beatles Opening Theme (1964) Ending theme The Beatles End Theme (1964) Composer(s) The Beatles (songs) Country of origin United States, United Kingdom, Australia Original language(s) English No. of seasons 3 No. of episodes 39 Production Executive producer(s) Al Brodax Producer(s) Jack Stokes Running time 18 min Production company(s) King Features Syndicate Artransa/Graphik Canawest Studios TVC London Broadcast Original channel ABC ABC (Australia) Audio format Monaural Original run 25 September 1965 – 9 May 1969 Chronology Followed by Yellow Submarine (1968) The Beatles is an American animated television series featuring the fanciful and musical misadventures of the popular English rock band of the same name. It ran from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the US (only 1965 to 1967 was first run; later transmissions were reruns). The series debuted on September 25, 1965 and ended on September 7, 1969. A total of 39 episodes were produced. The series was shown on Saturday mornings at 10:30 AM EST until the 1967 third season when it was moved to 12:00 PM EST. For the fourth season, which consisted of reruns, the series was shown at 9:30 AM EST on Sunday mornings.[1] Each episode has a name of a Beatles song, so the story is based on its lyrics and it is also played at some time in the episode. The original series was rebroadcast in syndication by MTV in 1986 and 1987 and on the Disney Channel.[1] The series was a historical milestone as the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real, living people.[2] Production overviewEdit Depiction of The BeatlesEdit List of episodes and sing-alongs[8]Edit Season 1 (1965-3/1966)Edit 1. A Hard Days Night/I Want to Hold Your Hand: The Beatles are in Transylvania rehearsing in a haunted house with monstrous visitors; To hide from their fans, The Beatles run inside a diving bell which drops them into the ocean with a lovesick octopus. Sing Along: Not A Second Time/Devil in Her Heart 2. Do You Want to Know a Secret/If I Fell: The Beatles go to Dublin, Ireland for the weekend where they meet a leprechaun named Willomena Morris; John is kidnapped by Dr. Dora Florahyde and Igor, both of whom want Johns brain for their monster. Sing Along: A Hard Days Night/I Want To Hold Your Hand 3. Please Mr. Postman/Devil in Her Heart: Ringo loses 15 rings he bought with all of the Beatles spendings and they are expecting a telegram from their manager Brian Epstein for more money; Ringo wanders into the woods in Transylvania where he meets a witch who wants Ringo for a husband. Sing Along: If I Fell/Do You Want To Know A Secret 4. Not a Second Time/Slow Down: The Beatles abandon their flight and land in Africa while trying to get away from their fans, but three girls keep tracking them down. They later encounter a few crocodiles; The Beatles are on the way to the town Ringo Ravene (named after Ringo) until they encounter a donkey that smells gold named Gold Nose. Sing Along: Babys In Black/Misery 5. Babys in Black/Misery: Paul gets kidnapped by Professor Psycho who wants Paul to marry his creation Vampiress, half girl and half bat; The Beatles go to a wax museum where a vampire follows them. Sing Along: Ill Get You/Chains 6. Youve Really Got a Hold on Me/Chains: In Africa, Ringo asks a medicine maker named Jack to help fix the Beatles flat tire. He then turns a worm into a snake and it lusts for Ringo; After getting knocked out, Ringo dreams about himself as Captain William Bligh from the movie Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Sing Along: Slow Down/Honey Dont 7. Ill Get You/Honey Dont: The Beatles run into hunter Alan Watermain in Africa after escaping from their fans and go out hunting for a lion; Ringo is mistaken as a bull rider, and the cowboys send him to ride on a toughest bull named Honey. Sing Along: Youve Really Got A Hold On Me/Any Time At All 8. Anytime at All/Twist and Shout: The Beatles imagine themselves as the Three Musketeers (Plus One) while they are on a tour at a museum in France; The Beatles attend an art show where a girl tries to be like other artists. They inspire her with music. Sing Along: Ill Be Back/Little Child 9. Little Child/Ill Be Back: An Indian girl on a Texas reservation wants to prove that girls are as good at trapping as boys are by trapping the Beatles; The mayor of a Texas town gives Ringo a golden guitar as a gift, only to be stolen by three men, prompting the Fab Four to hunt for the thieves and get the guitar back. Sing Along: Long Tall Sally/Twist And Shout 10. Long Tall Sally/Ill Cry Instead: The Beatles stay at a castle for the night during a fog. John and Ringo try on a couple of cursed armor suits and start to fight each other; After signing too many autographs in Japan, Georges hand gets swollen and suffers autographitis. His bandmates take him to a hand doctor but end up in a karate class by mistake. Sing Along: Ill Follow The Sun/When I Get Home 11. Ill Follow the Sun/When I Get Home: The Beatles car breaks down and they are captured by a highwayman who happens to be a car repair man; The Beatles explore the Notre Dame in France where they later meet its famous hunchback Quasimodo. Sing Along: Ill Cry Instead/Everybodys Trying To Be My Baby 12. Everybodys Trying to Be My Baby/I Should Have Known Better: The Beatles, spending the night at a temple in Japan during a rainstorm, are mistaken for Japanese ancestors of four girls; The Beatles are in Rome trying to find a theatre to rehearse. Their last choice is the Coliseum. Sing Along: Im A Loser/I Wanna Be Your Man 13. Im a Loser/I Wanna Be Your Man: In Hollywood, Ringo gets hired as a stuntman by Incredible Pictures Inc. and ends up in the hospital after getting pulverized in many scenes; In Rome, The Beatles buy a statue of the Goddess of Musica made from stolen gold coins melted down and sculptured. Sing Along: No Reply/Im Happy Just To Dance With You 14. Dont Bother Me/No Reply: In Rome, Italy, The Beatles are being followed by two spies who are after their songbook, New Beatle Songs, marked Top Secret. The Beatles movie Help! and Oddjob from the James Bond movie Goldfinger are spoofed; In Japan, The Beatles are warned about a jewel thief named Anyface who comes in disguised as Paul, which causes double trouble. There is a spoof of detective Charlie Chan. Sing Along: It Wont Be Long/I Should Have Known Better 15. Im Happy Just to Dance with You/Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles are in a Roman Street Festival where Paul wins a dancing bear named Bonnie; The Beatles meet Professor Ludwig Von Brilliant who is on a mission to view an eclipse. After being adrift at sea, they escape from an island on a submarine. Sing Along: Dont Bother Me/Cant Buy Me Love 16. Cant Buy Me Love/It Wont Be Long: John is given a friendship ring from a Polynesian tribal chief, which means he has to marry the chiefs daughter, who dislikes pineapples; While picnicing in Japan, John goes for a swim in a pond with shrinking potion in it and gets shrunk. The other Beatles think John is a doll and chase after him. Sing Along: Anna/Mr. Moonlight 17. Anna/I Dont Want to Spoil the Party: In Japan, Paul gets lured into a ghost ship called Ah-Nah. The other Beatles dash off to the rescue before they might lose Paul for good; Paul, George and Ringo sneak away from John and go to Greenwich Village for some fun time at a Beatnik party rather than going to a museum. Sing Along: Matchbox/Thank You Girl 18. Matchbox/Thank You Girl: In Hawaii, John buys a trailer for the group to stay in rather than staying at a hotel so many times. They later encounter a group of Hawaiians who are evacuating from a volcano; The Beatles sneak away from their manager to get something to eat at a French bakery by enrolling in a cooking course. Sing Along: I Dont Want To Spoil The Party/Help! 19. From Me to You/Boys: In Hawaii, a surfer named Surf Wolf challenges George to a surfing duel; The Beatles participate in a Mr. Hollywood Contest in California. Sing Along: Please Mr. Postman/I Saw Her Standing There Note: The opening title erroneously shows With Love From Me To You 20. Dizzy Miss Lizzy/I Saw Her Standing There: John and Paul secretly sign George up to an ice boat race, and he partners up with a girl named Lizzy; In Madrid, John and Paul visit a restaurant where John develops a hot foot with ashes in his boot. Rosita falls for John, and her boyfriend Jose challenges John to a duel. Sing Along: Ticket To Ride/From Me To You 21. What Youre Doing/Money: The Beatles are on a fishing trip, and Ringo runs into gypsies. One of them falls for Ringo and wants to marry him. George comes in as a woman claiming hes engaged to Ringo to get him back; John puts Ringo in charge to keep their money safe in his jacket pocket. Later Ringo is being followed by a mystery man at a carnival who is after the money. Sing Along: Dizzy Miss Lizzy/All My Loving 22. Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand/She Loves You: The Beatles visit the bavarian alps mission is to climb up a mountain with the dog Gunthar to put up their own flag on top; The Beatles are about to rescue a girl who they think is held as a prisoner on a ship. As a result, her boyfriend, a knife thrower, comes to her defense...with knives. Sing Along: Bad Boy/Tell Me Why 23. Bad Boy/Tell Me Why: The Beatles visit the bavarian alps. A boy named Hans plans to run away from home and be a Beatle. The Fab Four run after Hans to bring him back with their music (Paul is playing the bass right-handed); In Spain, Ringo is the jockey of a donkey that can run like a horse whenever she hears loud music. Sing Along: Please Please Me/Hold Me Tight 24. I Feel Fine/Hold Me Tight: Paul thinks Hollywoods a phony. Actor Dick Dashing wants to prove Paul he is wrong by putting him in some different movie scenes; In New York, George and Ringo visit the Statue Of Liberty until they have spotted a man with a package which they think is a bomb. Sing Along: What Youre Doing/Theres A Place 25. Please Please Me/Theres a Place: In Madrid, a bull named El Taco gets knocked out, and the Beatles decide to help out with the bullfight with Ringo as the matador, and John and Paul as the bull; Johns sympathy helps a trained ape named Mr. Marvelous escape from the television studio and go out to explore the outside world. Sing Along: Roll Over Beethoven/Rock And Roll Music 26. Roll over Beethoven/Rock and Roll Music: The Beatles are on their way home after visiting New York City until Paul got grabbed by an elephant named Beethoven; The Beatles are invited to play at the Dukes Palace, but they are mistaken for a string quartet. Sing Along: I Feel Fine/She Loves You Season 2 (9-10/1966)Edit 27. Eight Days a Week/Im Looking Through You: A great movie lover named Lips Lovelace loses his ability to kiss. Paul decides to take his place in the studio with a leading lady who falls for him; The Beatles are in Egypt. They are wandering around in the pyramid until Ringo encounters a ghost who wants a body, and he chooses Ringos. Sing Along: Run For Your Life/Girl 28. Help!/We Can Work It Out: Paul and Ringo go to a fashion show in Paris. Later the designs are stolen by Jaque Le Zipper. Paul chases Jaque to the Eiffel Tower, and has trouble with heights; George becomes superstitious. The Beatles encounter the Lucky Wizard who is really a thief trying to give them bad luck and rob their money. Sing Along: The Night Before/Day Tripper 29. Im Down/Run for Your Life: The Beatles are on a tour at a wine factory in France where Ringo accidentally knocks down a vat of wine. If it does not get fixed in two hours, the factory will go out of business; The Beatles are on a tour at the Palace of Versailles. Ringo gets knocked out by a statue, and dreams about the days of Marie Antoinette. Sing Along: Eight Days A Week/Paperback Writer 30. Drive My Car/Tell Me What You See: The Beatles help a young man and his girlfriend get their old jalopy running in a car race, the Popsville Hot Rod Race; While visiting the man of a thousand faces, The Beatles fool around with his makeup machine and change into different characters. (Look for Jimmy Durante and SweePea from Popeye in it) Sing Along: Yesterday/We Can Work It Out 31. I Call Your Name/The Word: Ringo is convinced to release his pet frog Bartholomew in the swamp. Later a movie producer offers a filming deal to Ringo and the frog, and the Fabs have dashed off to find Bartholomew (George Harrison is briefly seen playing left-handed in one scene); The Beatles are being punished after gazing at the girls unveiled faces. The only way to get out of the situation is to say the password: love. Sing Along: I Feel Fine (Re-issue)/Wait 32. All My Loving/Day Tripper: The Beatles are in India where they learn how to charm an animal at an Indian Charm Skool. When the animal is revealed to be a tiger, they use music to tame it when its about to claw John and Ringo (The song Love You To is heard in the beginning of this episode.); After watching the movie The Way Out Creatures From Planet Glom, The Beatles take a trip out into space with a beautiful woman who is actually an alien taking them on a one-way trip 23 billion miles from Earth. Sing Along: Im Looking Through You/Nowhere Man 33. Nowhere Man/Paperback Writer: The Beatles walk into a cave for some exploring which is a home of a hermit who wants to be alone. He tries to get rid of them, but no luck; Each of The Beatles write fictional stories of how they met with Ringo as a theatre actor, Paul as a scientist, George as a secret agent, and John as a war pilot. Sing Along: And I Love Her/Michelle Season 3 (9-10/1967)Edit 34. Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields: In a spoof of James Bond, The Beatles are jealous of a detective named James Blonde who gets more attention from many women, so the Fabs plan to go to their hometown of Liverpool to stop thieves from robbing Penny Lane so they can be heroes; Traveling with their driver James, The Beatles use music to add some color and happiness to the children at an orphanage, a reference to Strawberry Field in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. John tells them: Its all in the mind, you know. Sing Along: Good Day Sunshine/Rain 35. And Your Bird Can Sing/Got to Get You into My Life: The Beatles and a couple of hunters hunt for a rare bird called a green double-breasted tropical woosted that can sing anything, including Hound Dog and She Loves You; The Beatles are in India, learning how to escape from their bodies from Swami Rivers. It works, but the problem is that the souls bodies are moving by themselves, and they must get them before its too late. (Love You To is heard in the background) Sing Along: Penny Lane/Eleanor Rigby 36. Good Day Sunshine/Ticket to Ride: Ringo thinks hes a jinx. When the Beatles arrive at Carney Island, it starts to rain. Their music turns a rainy day into a sunny day again, and makes Ringo happy; The Beatles each have their own hobby. Paul paints. George builds a three-eyed robot. John writes. Ringos hobby is collecting birds: An English slang term for girls. Paul releases the only one Ringo caught, and he runs after her. Sing Along: Strawberry Fields Forever/And Your Bird Can Sing 37. Taxman/Eleanor Rigby: The Beatles get knocked out while carrying tons of money to the bank, and dream about the days of Robin Hood. Paul exclaims: It never happened; A group of children claim that an elderly woman named Eleanor Rigby is a witch. The Fabs tell them the true story about Eleanor Rigby in a song. Sing Along: Got To Get You Into My Life/Here, There And Everywhere 38. Tomorrow Never Knows/Ive Just Seen a Face: The Beatles fall into a well and end up in the inner world with foreign natives. The chief wants the Fabs to marry his daughters, and they began to run away; Ringo loses his singing voice. For treatment, his three mates send Ringo to a haunted house to scare his voice back. Sing Along: She Said She Said/Long Tall Sally (re-issue) 39. Wait/Im Only Sleeping: The Prince of Krapotkins girlfriend is in grave danger. The Beatles help him to save her from the Prime Minister who wants to marry her; John falls asleep while telling a story to a couple of children. In his dream he volunteers to help King Arthur and Merlin slay a vicious dragon. However, John and his mates opt instead to play music to put the dragon to sleep. Sing Along: Penny Lane/Eleanor Rigby ReceptionEdit LegacyEdit ReferencesEdit SourcesEdit External linksEdit Read in another language Wikipedia ® Mobile Desktop Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Terms of Use Privacy https://m.facebook/story.php?story_fbid=1493058384276843&id=100007180861287
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