UPDATED: April 2001
Season 2 1965-66
EPISODE 27
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
A Marlon Brando type of actor forgets how to kiss. Meanwhile, his leading lady sets her sights on Paul.
Singalongs
Run for your life:
Girl:
I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU
While looking through an old Egyptian pyramid, Ringo’s body is taken over by a ghost of an old King.
EPISODE 28
HELP
The Beatles chase a fashion thief.
Singalongs
Day Tripper:
The night before: The style of most of the singalongs was in most cases very similar. Most singalongs featured Ringo as a comical figure, with the other three Beatles with their girlfriends. Ringo often missed out.
WE CAN WORK IT OUT
The Beatles cross the path of a soothsayer/wizard
chappie who tries to take them for all they are worth (sound familiar)?
The wizard casts a spell that imprisons
the Beatles in a glass bowl (sound familiar?). The Beatles start singing the
title song as the wizard attempts to thwart their efforts by casting more
spells and tricks. The Beatles end up exposing the fortuneteller for what he
is.
The parallels between the Yellow
Submarine feature film and the Beatle Cartoons are evident in this episode. The
fact that the producers pick George to be the one most likely to be
superstitious is also interesting to note.
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EPISODE 29
I'M DOWN
Ringo ruins the entire years production of wine at a winery. The Beatles feel obliged to remedy the situation in only 2 hours.
Singalongs
Eight days a week:
Paperback Writer:
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
A knock on the head sends Ringo and his fellow Beatles back to old time France.
EPISODE 30
DRIVE MY CAR
The Beatles are in America and at a car race. A young driver needs a mechanic to keep his bomb of a car racing about the track. Luckily "Ringo's a good mechanic". Paul says "We'll inspire you with music", and the band jump in the back seat while Ringo pushes the car. Anyway, the fans hear the music, and start dancing on the track. Every car crashes except the one the Beatles are in, so they win the race.
Singalongs
We can work it out:
Yesterday:
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE
The Beatles visit a makeup artist who changes their appearance.
EPISODE 31
I CALL YOUR NAME
Ringo gets a pet frog, and decides to take it out for dinner with the other Beatles to a restaurant. The restaurant patrons go bizzerk and flee. This prompts George, Paul and John to advise Ringo to "get rid of him". Ringo sets the frog free in a local swamp. The next day a movie director tells Ringo that he liked the look of his frog and wants to make a "big fat star" out of him. The Beatles then begin a frantic search for Bartholomew the frog.
Singalongs
She's a woman:
Wait:
THE WORD
This cartoon has somehow been overlooked in several Beatles cartoons lists that I've seen.
The Beatles are hopelessly lost in the Sahara Desert. They are driving in their jeep when they lose control and run into a Sheiks harem. The Beatles see the women of the harem without their veils, and The Beatles are sentenced to death. The women of the harem however have been planning their escape, and with the aid of their own spies and a secret word, they plan to save themselves and The Beatles.
EPISODE 32
ALL MY LOVING
The Beatles are in India, where they encounter a tiger. Like the movie HELP, they have to soothe the tiger with "soothing, loving music".
Singalongs
I'm looking through you:
Nowhere man:
DAY TRIPPER
The Beatles have just seen a SCI-FI movie, after which they get abducted by an alien space ship and get taken to the moon.
EPISODE 33
NOWHERE MAN
The Beatles are travelling the countryside in a helicopter. They land at the site of a cave, which is inhabited by an old hermit. The old hermit likes his privacy, and so encourages The Beatles to leave. This backfires onto the old hermit.
Singalongs
And I love her:
Michelle: Typical syrupy "Paul in France" type of clip where Paul is on the Eiffel Tower, professing his love for a girl called Michelle. Never my favourite Beatles song.
PAPERBACK WRITER
One of the best episodes!
The Beatles are asked to write their own biographies. Each Beatle has an exaggerated story to tell.
George tells of how he was a spy, and managed to capture three evil spies, who turn out to be his fellow Beatles.
Sir Paul (he was knighted in this episode!) tells the story of how he was a doctor, and how he found a miracle cure for some nasty disease. He tries his wonder drug on three convicted criminals who have nothing to live for, they turn out to be John, George and Ringo.
John tells the story of how he was a fighter ace who shot down three enemy fighter planes.
Ringo tells the story of being a famous actor who was generous enough to give three deadbeats a lucky break.
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