Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Mar 11, 2025

The challenge of ‘Deconstructing the Beatles’ comes to Public TV | Tellyspotting 🎼 🇬🇧 📺

Divided into three parts, “The Beatles Come to America,” “Deconstructing Rubber Soul,” and “A Trip Through Strawberry Fields”, acclaimed “Beatle-ologist” Scott Freiman, guides you, step by step, on an educational journey through several of The Beatles’ milestone albums and the fascinating stories that accompanied them.

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The challenge of ‘Deconstructing the Beatles’ comes to Public TV | Tellyspotting

No matter how much you know about the Beatles, there's a documentary airing on public television stations this month that you do not want to miss. Deconstructing The Beatles guides you, step by step, on an educational journey through several of The Beatles’ milestone albums.

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Feb 9, 2024

February 9, 1964 — THE day that changed music forever!

Also performing on the show was a future member of The Monkees, Davy Jones, who appeared as part of the cast of Oliver. Jones had been cast as the Artful Dodger in the hit Broadway play. During that performance Jones sang “I’d Do Anything” with the entire cast.

The Kinks also had their 1st TV appearance on Ready Steady Go!

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February 9, 1964 — THE day that changed music forever! | Tellyspotting

Photo: Ed Sullivan Show For me, Friday, February 7, 1964 will forever occupy a special place in my music history heart as it marked the first ever television appearance of The Kinks (performing "Long Tall Sally") as part of the Ready Steady Go series in the UK. For most of the rest of the world, however, the date of February 9, 1964 holds just a wee bit of a bigger place in the overall annals of music history as it marked the beginning of the 60s British Invasion in the U.S. and the start of the Beatles American tour! On this date, five simple words that changed not only the music world but the world forever going forward were spoken by Ed Sullivan 60 years ago on Sunday, 9 February 1964..."Ladies and gentleman, the Beatles!" It was 60 years ago this Friday that more than 73 million Americans (almost 50% of television households at the time) gathered around their televisions to watch four young men from Liverpool make history. Beatlemania was officially a thing from that day forward.

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Show threadPablonius Monk 🇺🇦Oct 11, 2023
@dsilverman Anyone who watched "Endeavour" or "Inspector Morse" knows very well that Oxford has always been a murder capital! 📺 #PBS #TellySpotting 🕵️‍♂️ 👮‍♂️
Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Aug 22, 2023

Hail Caesar! ‘I, Claudius’ returns to BBC this month! 📺

"Considering this was produced almost 50 years ago when scripts and acting were king, it holds up incredibly well even though it would send FCC watchdogs into orbit given what you can’t do on TV today that you could do a half-century ago."

Here stateside, your library may have it available in the media section or to stream via Hoopla. It's streaming on Acorn TV.

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Hail Caesar! ‘I, Claudius’ returns to BBC this month! | Tellyspotting

I, Claudius title graphic. Photo: BBC Almost five decades ago after Robert Graves wrote I, Claudius, the BBC created television greatness with the 1976 classic of the same name, starring the brilliant Sir Derek Jacobi as the Roman Emperor. Graves’ autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, chronicled the history of the Roman Empire from Julius Caesar’s assassination to Caligula’s assassination. The original novel, along with the sequel, Claudius the God, formed the basis for the classic mini-series that ran in the U.S. as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series. Considered by Time Magazine as one of the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time", I, Claudius  had everything according to Sir Derek Jacobi, who starred as Claudius, with its “...sex, violence, rock’n’roll and fun”. Brian Blessed, who was the emperor Augustus and who died on camera for about five whole minutes, declared that it was “...the finest television ever made.” It wove the historical tale of ambition, debauchery and intrigue with

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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Feb 24, 2023

Celebrating Edward Gorey’s birth and remembering ‘Mystery’ on PBS before mystery was cool … 📺

"A little known fact about Gorey that would definitely make for great party trivia…Gorey’s stepmother, Corinna Mura was a cabaret singer who had a small role in Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing “La Marseillaise” at Rick’s Café Américain."

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https://tellyspotting.kera.org/2023/02/23/celebrating-edward-goreys-birth-and-remembering-mystery-on-pbs-before-mystery-was-cool/

Celebrating Edward Gorey's birth and remembering 'Mystery' on PBS

Fans of 'Mystery' will immediately recognize the series' animated opening and closing title sequences based on his drawings.

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