saki <saki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Turns out there *is* something.
> One of the questions Pete asked me via email was what Ed and Mrs. Ed
> would have been doing returning from England on Thursday 31 October
> 1963---just in time to see the uproar surrounding the Beatles---when
> (a) Ed had a show the previous Sunday and (b) Ed had a show the
> following Sunday. Assuming both the Oct 27 and Nov 3 shows were live
> (and at the start of the broadcast season that a reasonable
> assumption), why would he go to London or elsewhere for such a short
> vacation?
>
> Turns out it was a working vacation. Ed's show on Sunday Oct 27 was
> taped at Wembley Stadium in England for broadcast that night on CBS.
>
> So Ed was indeed in England at the time. Here's the Oakland Tribune
> preview of the show, published on 13 Oct 1963:
>
> http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/fab/oakltrib13oct1963.jpg
>
> And here's the TV listing on Sunday 27 Oct 1963 from the High Point
> Enterprise newspaper, High Point NC:
>
> http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/fab/edshow27oct1963.jpg
>
> So Ed was in a position to have coincidentally been passing through
> London Air****t at the same time the Beatles returned on a flight from
> Sweden, greeted by mobs of fans. And that seems to have made a
> verifiable impression on him.
> ----
> saki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
here's the episode guide from:
http://www.tv.com/the-ed-sullivan-show/show/1156/episode_guide.html
764. The Moscow State Circus (taped in England)
First aired: 10/27/1963
Performers appearing on this show:
--The Four Boubnovs (precision aerialists)
--The Homenko Group (trampoline acrobats)
--Karandash, Nicolin and Shudin (three clowns)
--Irina and Petr Schetinini (high-wire artists)
--The Simadov Group (Chinese balancers)
--Dzerassa Touganova and Valeri Denisov (equestrians)
--Nina and Anatole Yaroslavsky (hand balancers)
Also: animal acts including trained bears, a performing elephant and a
cat piloting a plane with mice as passengers.
-Sounds like a typical Ed Sullivan show :)
-Edvado
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