Magical Mystery Tour
This hour-long BBC1 made-for-television film starring The Beatles initially
aired on BBC1 on 26 December 1967.
Upon its initial showing, the public and critics attacked the
movie the very next day, which kept it from being screened on
American television (although it later appeared in selected
cinemas in the US).
The idea was to load up a bus with several characters and
travel around the countryside of England (mainly Cornwall) for
four days in September 1967, and film whatever ended up happening.
Nothing much did.
Paul McCartney defended the 1967 Boxing Day
screening on British TV of the critically mauled film by
saying "The Queen's speech was hardly a gasser".
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