Daytime Revolution

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Tony 10/10/2024 An astonishing experience to see the Lennons on this daytime show See more Julia 10/10/2024 John Lennon is so tootie, my beloved forever and always See more Robin C @RT60448208 11/22/2024 “Daytime Revolution” On 14 February 1972, daytime TV talk show host Mike Douglas gave over the reins of control, for a full week, as host to John Lennon and Yoko Ono. They had the stage and populated it with the likes of Jerry Rubin, Ralph Nader, Chuck Berry, Bobby Seale and George Carlin in a true “Daytime Revolution.” This was one of those television events from 50 years ago that everyone, around at the time, will swear that they saw it way back when. I will not make such a claim since I was gainfully employed at that time and hour. So, what I get here is a nostalgic return to a turbulent time that is less so than what we have now. One of the first impressions I had, from a historical standpoint, is I was watching John Lennon eight scant years before he was murdered, giving poignancy to his and Yoko’s “peace, love and understanding” theme to their hosting duties. This rendition of the Mike Douglas Show was shown on five consecutive nights, from 14 to 18 February 1972, but the taping process actually took five and a half weeks. This makes the “spontaneity” of the shows to be much more structured, a necessity at the time when things did not happen instantly, as they do today. Director Erik Nelson uses a commercial-break style bumper saying “Daytime Revolution” as the divider between the episodes (I would have loved to see the commercials they ran during those real-life breaks). This also helps keep the shows in order. Considering the band of radicals John and Yoko had on as guests, the format of the series was pure 70’s daytime TV talk show. Of course, we hear Jerry Rubin a Bobby Seale, the radicals of the left, talk their talk. 38-year old Ralph Nader puts his uber-intelligence on display and George Carlin does his comical schtick. I think my favorite guest was Chuck Berry, who Lennon idolized and met for the first time. Their rendition of Berry’s “Memphis Tennessee” is television magic. The most amusing things about “Daytime Revolution” is watching John and Yoko acting like daytime TV talk show hosts, participating in things like cooking demonstrations and trying the latest in brave wave technology to make music. Anyone interested in the Beatles, John and Yoko, daytime TV nostalgia and some very interesting guests will have a good time with “Daytime Revolution.” I did. B+ See more 10/15/2024 Does this movie have all the times he said the N word hard R on TV? See more Read all reviews

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