Video: 'The Beatles Arrive At Alpha Television Studios - BBC News - 20 October 1963'
(Sunday, October 20, 1963, early afternoon British Summer Time) — The Beatles topped the bill on their fifth appearance on ABC’s Thank Your Lucky Stars, taped early this afternoon at the Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England, for airing on Oct. 26, 1963, at 5:50 p.m. Continue reading The Beatles tape appearance for ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ TV show 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 20 1963)
Video: 'The Beatles Live At London Palladium (13 October 1963) (Sunday Night At The London Palladium)'
(Sunday, October 13, 1963, 8:25-9:25 p.m. British Summer Time) — Although The Beatles’ popularity had been growing steadily and to increasingly frantic heights throughout 1963, their appearance tonight on ATV’s British television variety show Sunday Night At The London Palladium catapulted into the attentions of the mainstream media, who coined the term “Beatlemania” to describe the scenes of screaming fans. Continue reading ‘Beatlemania’ begins with band’s appearance on ‘Sunday Night At The London Palladium’ 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 13 1963)
Video: 'The Beatles - On The Ready, Steady, Go! 1963 (Full Concert) 60fps [HD] no copy'
(Friday, October 4, 1963, 6:15-7:00 p.m. British Summer Time) — The Beatles performed live tonight in Studio Nine, Television House, Kingsway, London, in their first of three appearances on Associated-Rediffusion TV’s Ready, Steady, GO! television series. Continue reading The Beatles perform three songs for debut on ‘Ready, Steady, GO!’ TV show 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 4 1963)
Video: 'The Fugitive (Extended Pilot, and remastered)'
(Tuesday, September 17, 1963, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — The Fugitive, an American crime drama television series about a physician who is wrongfully convicted of his wife’s murder and sentenced to death, debuted tonight on ABC. Continue reading ‘The Fugitive’ crime drama television series premieres on ABC 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 17 1963)
Video: 'Classic Episodes - The Outer Limits -The Galaxy Being'
(Monday, September 16, 1963, 7:30 p.m. EDT) — The Outer Limits, an American anthology television series often compared to The Twilight Zone but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories (rather than stories of fantasy or the supernatural), premiered tonight on ABC. Continue reading ‘The Outer Limits’ science fiction television series premieres on ABC 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 16 1963)
Video: 'CBS Evening News [9-2-1963] First broadcast under new title/format'
(Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 1963, 6:30 p.m. EDT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes tonight, becoming network television’s first half-hour nightly newscast in the United States. Continue reading U.S. President Kennedy warns Buddhist crisis imperils Vietnam as ‘CBS Evening News’ becomes network TV’s first half-hour nightly newscast 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 2 1963)
Video: 'The Beatles on Big Night Out (September 1, 1963) [High Quality]'
(Sunday, September 1, 1963) — The Beatles visited Didsbury Studio Centre in Manchester, England, tonight to record an appearance on ABC Television’s Big Night Out. Continue reading The Beatles mime three songs for ABC Television’s ‘Big Night Out’ 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 1 1963)
Video: 'The Beatles Mersey Sound 1963' (Aug. 30, 1963, at 22:03-22:29/28:12-28:30)
(Friday, August 30, 1963) — On the fourth and final day in which The Beatles were filmed by BBC producer Don Haworth for the documentary The Mersey Sound, Ringo Starr was captured today leaving his family home outside 10 Admiral Grove, Liverpool 8, through the front door, being crowded by a horde of local children, and escaping in George Harrison’s open-top sports car. Continue reading The Beatles wrap up filming for BBC documentary ‘The Mersey Sound’ in Liverpool 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 30 1963)
Video: 'The Beatles - Twist And Shout (1963) HD'
(Wednesday, August 14, 1963) — The Beatles drove from Liverpool to Granada TV Centre in Manchester today to record two performances for the Scene At 6.30 show, a current affairs magazine show broadcast to England’s northern ITV region. Continue reading The Beatles appear on Granada TV’s ‘Scene at 6:30’ program 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 14 1963)
: Video: 'The Beatles At Television Theatre, London (16 May 1963) (Pops & Lenny)'
(Thursday, May 16, 1963, 5:00-5:30 p.m. British Summer Time) — The Beatles made their second appearance on national BBC television today, performing live on the children’s show Pops And Lenny at Television Theatre in London. Continue reading The Beatles perform live on BBC ‘Pops and Lenny’ children’s TV show 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 16 1963)
