The big problem for me was their accents. Me coming from Liverpool could not cope with them sounding like they come from Birmingham! (they got the intonation all wrong). Funny how I've worked away from home a lot and when my work mates take the mickey out of my accent they also sounded Birmingham.
Quite right. I didn't know any better as a kid, but I saw them again as an adult and it was grating. I'm surprised the Beatles bothered to watch it at all.
HA HA! That sounds like him. Remember that song he did where at the beginning he said (sang?) "I've been at home watching Sesame Street (Sean)!" Ha ha!
I remember the one where Ringo is choked up looking at the Statue of Liberty because it reminds him "of his mother waiting for his dad to come home with the paycheck."
Seriously, people, you can't watch this cartoon as an adult the same way a child would. I was 5 in 1965. This is one of the first cartoons I ever watched, besides Prince Planet and a few others I'll never remember. This cartoon is what introduced me to their great music that I'm listening to almost 60 years later; ever mindful that I've been a fan longer than John lived. That's what an incredible music act sounds like. Thank you, Beatles.
I had some familiarity with Hard Day’s Night as a kid, so I got the opening/end credits jokes about the toon Beatles running from girls, but the toons on local station afternoons were literally my FIRST experience with lesser-known Beatles songs. When I hear Strawberry Fields, I don’t immediately think John Lennon & Peace, I flash back on the Sing-Along graphics.
I'm a musician heavily influenced by the Beatles and I absolutely love them and when I was a kid I use to watch the Beatle cartoons every Saturday morning when I came home from playing house league hockey,I would never miss it and although I knew the show was kind of dumb I loved the two songs you'd hear every episode,the Beatles are the whole reason I ever became a musician,long live the Beatles! Bob
Remember watching these cartoons with relish when I was a boy. Coming from a restrictive household this was how I was able to hear all these songs. To boot they also put the lyrics on the bottom of the scene during the sing-a-long parts. Yes, it was typical cartoon fare and the voices were pretty off but for me it was a great introduction to Beatle music which is so much better than anything nowadays.
When the Beatles made their USA debut on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show, I had just turned 7 years old a few months earlier. Beatlemania struck me between the eyes. I was an instant Beatles fan. On Saturday morning I watched the animated series of The Beatles. I bought Beatles bubble gum and collected trading card that come with it. My parents bought me a Beatles wig and their first US LP release, Meet The Beatles. My best friend and I stood in line to buy tickets for the movie Yellow Submarine. Over the year I've past down this love of the Beatles to my two sons.
Late boomer here ('59). My enduring memory of the cartoon was one segment when they were done playing and unplugged their guitar amps. Ringo "unplugged" his drum kit and it deflated like a balloon, LOL. I loved The Beatles as a little kid but soon became a proghead and grew to despise Beatlemania (as necrophilic) in its late-70s form.
Does make me wonder why, then, he accepted that role in the 1981 movie "Cave Man", if he wanted to be taken all that seriously. Don't get me wrong, I like Ringo just as he is. If anything, he's the least pretentious and "stuffy" of the Fab Four.
The third season, you could tell the real Beatles’ Revolver/Rubber Soul move to psychedelic experimental songs was making it harder for the show to keep up the characters’ Ed Sullivan/Hard Day’s Night B&W-suit personas. When they brought in the chauffeur as a running S3 character, it was the birth of Old Fred from “Yellow Submarine”. (Which had to handle most of the Sgt. pepper songs.)
As a 7 year old (or so) my first introduction to the Beatles was the cartoons so I can't hate them. Mind you, Ringo has cause as he was presented as a buffoon.
The Beatles should have loved this. I was 5 when the cartoon came out. I had the Sgt. Pepper album when it came out a few years later, playing it on my little plastic record player in my room over and over again.
* Yet for us young folks it was our weekly Saturday morning Beatles fix! Same producer later gave us that animated Yellow Submarine movie. That series was pre-MTV music videos ahead of its time! 🙂
Oh, this cartoon definitely had an impact on me as a very young kid! My siblings and I watched it Saturday mornings and I was always squealing at the end of it where they're being chased all over town by girls and when they get to some docks, a mermaid jumps out of the water and starts "swishing her fishtail" after them! To this day it's a term that I still use! Haha!
I got to see the episodes when Granada in the UK aired them in the 70s. Later on my elder sister saw Stephen Fry on a TV programme and remarked on how he looked like how John was drawn in the cartoons!
The first animated real people, I don't know about, there was also an animated Three Stooges show around that same time 1965 also a Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello cartoon series
I was born in '69 and used to watch reruns of this cartoon after school in Detroit in the 70's. I fell in love with the Beatles then and am still a huge fan today. Thanks for posting!
The first time I ever saw The Beatles cartoon was back in 2005 when I was 14. It was one of the first things I ever watched on TH-cam when my family first discovered TH-cam. I definitely agree that the cartoon was so bad that it was great.😆 I really enjoyed it and wish that the episodes could still be found on TH-cam. This show was one of the inspirations for a 60s themed cartoon that I draw nowadays. Funny thing about George’s voice is that my siblings and I always thought that Paul Frees made him sound Irish. Lol! We called him Irish George. Out of all The Beatles, I thought that Ringo sounded the most like him.
I wasn't born yet when The Beatles animated series first aired. When I saw some of the clips on TH-cam, I saw how surreal the show was! It was like a predecessor to The Monkees.
As a kid in the 60s I watched the Beatles cartoons a few time and though I loved their music on my transistor radio, the same couldn't be said of the cartoon. I was a loony toons fan and the Beatles couldn't compete with Bugsbunny, Elmerfudd, Daffyduck and the rest. Or Rocky and Bullwinkle for that matter. We had alot of great cartoons in those days before the age of political correctness set in.
You comment about the musical copyrights affecting the Beatles cartoon hit home, as this has also affected of videos on TH-cam which have a Beatles song in them, also requiring either dubbing over or muting the offending song (The videos in question are two from the BBC series "Great Railway Journeys of the World" - "Confessions of a Train Spotter" and "Deccan.").
I was three-four-five- years olD when the Beatles cartoon aired on Saturday morning. I never missed an episode. This cartoon helped familiarize me with the Beatles music. It's a great way to introduce children to the Beatles legacy. That's why it should be released on DVD.
There's still a 5s snippet of the outro-to-commercial music from this show I hum to myself whenever wacky antics ensue. Not Beatles music, but who knows who composed those "beatle-ish" transistional fills.
I first knew about the Beatles through this cartoon. Not too far later in life, I found that they were a real band. As the years went by, I can tell that the Beatles were so popular in the 60s that their legacy lived on even to this day. And now here we are in 2025 and Paul and Ringo are still alive and well, they are the only two surviving Beatles.
@@gregorymoore2877 Paul (Frees) also voiced Paul (McCartney). He was EVERYWHERE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s when it came to voicing animation. A great talent, he even had some lives roles. In the 1953 film "War of the Worlds", he played the reporter, carrying a portable tape recorder, covering the dropping of a more powerful "A-bomb" (one of the first thermonuclear weapons, which details were still a secret at the time) on the Martian position in the desert where their landing had been covered earlier in the film, and which had driven the Army back in their first (conventional) battle. Since most radio and telephone communications were being interfered with, or reserved for military use, the recording was for "Future History...IF ANY".
I was born in 1960. As a kid, I remember seeing Yellow Submarine in the theater. But I've never heard of the Beatles cartoons before. Guess I'll have to check them out. Maybe my childhood was missing something I never knew.
My grandparents were growing up when this first aired. THAT’S how young I am. I love watching the funniest clips from it on TH-cam, one of my favorites being “You forgot to reverse the charges-“
As much as the modern animation in the 1960s was usually a disappointment to my tastes and higher expectations, and even as a kid I could tell the Beatles had nothing to do with it, I still found it watchable. I thought the caricatures of the guys faces were pretty good, and to my ears (and from California), the putative Scouse accents were fun to hear.
Fun fact: The four animated Beatles are depicted on the front entry of the Beatles museum in Halle (Saale), Germany. It was a good museum. Probably not as good as in UK but still good. I saw the show only after I discovered it on TH-cam. I found it kind of funny, as a Beatles fan. It reminds me of the classic cartoons like Tom & Jerry, Pink Panther etc, only with the Beatles Magic in it. BTW: At 1:29 you mention The Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night" but you show the poster for the German movie "Hard Days Hard Nights" from 1989, which I never heard of but apparently is also about a British Rock'n Roll Band in the 1960s who come to Hamburg. Not sure if the movie is actually a fictionalized version of the Beatles.
I just saw an excellent AI voice generator for The Beatles - I would LOVE to see them re-do the voices for both these animated efforts - I'd devote my time to it for free!
Yes, I watched the original series as a youngster and enjoyed it tremendously. The cartoon Beatles were regular guys, cartoon older brothers, and easier to relate to than the three dimensional-Beatles -- and with the same great music.
I LOVED this series as a kid when we were able to get it which was only for a very short time before it was pulled from the air. As a kid I thought this was the best cartoon EVER.
This was a major part of my introduction to the Beatles. How I learned practically all their songs from that era and their lyrics. I had fun with this, and I still do, but yes, it's clearly a so bad it's good type of thing.
I remember when they released one in the '90s, long after John died, but before George did. Performing over some unused Lennon vocals. I really had no interest in that, and no interest in this latest one.
Okay... if The Monkees were a take on The Beatles, why hasn't anyone produced a cartoon based upon The Monkees? (Scooby-Doo episodes with Davy Jones don't count!)
I watch the cartoons in Venezuela in the mid 60's, all of The Beatles were talking Spanish, but their songs were all the original songs sang in English
It's sad that this series made such a bad impression on the Beatles that they refused to do the voices for Yellow Submarine. That was such a great movie, and it would have been so great to hear their voices instead of stand-ins. Then again, if they were too busy to re-record their dialog and only chose to add that live action epilogue at the end, maybe it was better they spend their time on the music. It is their voices on the songs, after all. And the voice actors they got for Yellow Submarine came pretty close. I suppose the Bestles cartoon wss good for what it was. But it does make you wonder what a series based on Yellow Submarine would have been like. (Also I love the episode of Powerpuff Girls which is a series of Beatles references, and BOTH sets of cartoon Beatles make an appearance)
When the cartoon series was on television in the 60's, there was a Yellow Submarine episode. It quickly disappeared, because There was a movie version in the making. Now the cartoon is lost to the ages.👻
Who could blame them? This series did them no justice, other than it earned them some licensing royalties. The cartoon plots were generic, so much so they could have been about the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, or any other acts that appeared as 1960s cartoons.
(This is Tom, not Sandra.) I remember watching this cartoon series as a kid in the 60's. It was great!!!! I even have the soft cover book about the cartoon series in my collection. I even had it signed by the Author when he came to my hometown in the 1990's on a book-signing tour. It was a great cartoon series, l thought. It was a whole lot BETTER than the 'Osmonds' and the 'Jackson 5' cartoon series that was done in the early 70's!! Thanks for posting this video about the show!! (Tom)
Yea, it was cheesy and the animation was even worse than a typical Hanna-Barbera show, but it was a brilliant marketing move, roping in those who were too young to even think of turning on a radio. I remember seeing these when I was 4 or 5, then, when I finally got a hold of a radio that my parents never used a year later, the Beatles were the one group with which I was already familiar.
Has a 11 or 12-year-old I really love these cartoons. I thought they were so super cool. The Beatles were my favorite rock band and they still are today. Looking at some of these. I can remember the sum of the scenes from these old cartoons the year of gone so fast I am now 70 years old and still Get a kick out of it. Ha ha thanks for the videos. Have a great day I love it.👍🏼👍🏼😁❤️❤️😎😎🎸
Enjoyed this cartoon...but then again I was 6. I marvel at performers that do not like use of their IP and wonder if they cashed the check they were issued.
I was too young to have seen these cartoons originally, but the style lived on in the 70's with the animated series of both the Osmonds and the Jackson 5, both copied the zany plotlines that incorporated one of their songs, not sure if either of those shows are still available..
I don't understand why you think their dislike of their appearance in this cartoon would lead to them not wanting to do the voices for Yellow Submarine, a production approved by them. I can see you pulled your opinion from the Wikipedia page for this reasoning, which cites no source for that. What Wikipedia does have a source for is the wiki page for Yellow Submarine which shows it was actually their dissatisfaction with the film Help! which led them to not wanting to do another film. On top of that, they got to fulfill their film contract without having to do any work. You also missed where MTV revived the cartoon by airing reruns. Sometimes it better to dig deeper than just the wiki page for your videos.
Yes, the Beatles HATED the cartoon. There was a lot to hate: 1. None of the voice actors sounded even remotely like ANY of the Beatles, and two of them didn't even have British accents, let alone Liverpudlian accents. 2. The art style was cheap and amateurish. As John said, "They made us look like the f*cking Flintstones." (Love you John, you're STILL my favorite Beatle). 3. The songs often didn't have any relation to the narrative storyline, which could be very jarring. 4. The whole thing simply looked like... shit. I mean, these were the Beatles. They were the biggest thing in the universe at the time. Hell, John once quipped that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus and he got A LOT of shit for it, AND he was RIGHT. I think the Beatles, under the circumstances, were right to have rejected the Beatles cartoon and to have refused to have anything to do with it, as it didn't do anything for them financially, musically, artistically, or PR-wise. A damn shame, because it kept them from getting involved, except in a tangential way, with Yellow Submarine. A great misstep on the Beatles part, because Yellow Submarine turned out to be one of the most groundbreaking, technically innovative, and best animated musicals of all time... And was produced by Al Brodax and directed by George Dunning, the SAME guys who had produced and directed what everyone had considered a stinking pile of crap, the Beatles cartoon. AND with talent from the Beatles cartoon such as Lance Percival voicing Young/Old Fred, and Geoffrey Hughes as Paul McCartney, THIS time sounding remarkably like Paul, and with a proper Liverpool accent. Amazing what you can do with a talented team of artists and writers, a reasonable budget (animation is time-consuming and expensive), and artistic control by artists who have vision. Sometimes they're the same people who produce shit.)
I grew up in the 1980s, so we didn't get the Beatles cartoon on Saturday mornings. Instead, because of Michael Jackson's popularity, they brought back the animated Jackson 5 show in syndication. The bizarre stories and ropey animation of that show caused me to avoid the Beatles show when I saw it. I didn't know anything about the Beatles at the time, and I knew back then that if I watched the cartoon, I still wouldn't.
I first saw this series.....well...the 'individual' cartoon/song/story segments right after John's death in January 1981. One of our channels (local) was showing these mixed in with other cartoons then. It wasn't until 1985 that another local channel was showing these IN THEIR ENTIRETY! [:-)] Unfortunately, even though I was trying to record these on good ol' VHS, it was a broadcast channel (several towns away) that there was alot of fuzz, sometimes a good picture, other times so bad the signal freaked out & made the VCR go crazy. Oh well..... 😑
I've read Shout! and The Love You Make. I'm interested in The Beatles as a social and cultural phenomenon. As a kid, I had the Hey Jude single because the distorted guitar on Revolution knocked me dead as a 10-year-old and I had John's single Instant Karma. But I quickly grew out of them as I began listening to early 70s music. I thought Wings was just wall-to-wall dreck. George's music was nice but never stuck with me, same with Ringo's. I went into shock with everyone else when John was assassinated and duly mourned. The Beatles produced a bona-fide musical cult; hardcore Beatles fandom is a scary thing -- no criticism is allowed. I recognize their accomplishments in musicological terms and their revolutionary impact on rock music and have had plenty of friends who've forced me to sit through hours of listening to Beatles albums. But I remain a respectful former fan.
YEAH THE ACCENTS WERE A PILL 4 SURE,BUUUUUT IT WAS THE BEATLES & THIER MUSIC!! 1 OF MY BEST MEMORIES OF 60S SAT.MORNING KARTOONS FUN! BY THE WAY THIS CLASSICs SUCCESS LED 2 THE LATER JACKSON 5 & OSMOND BROS. TOONS AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS
I was young enough to remember watching it in syndication, and loved it.. Mainly the music as their adventures were a bit too wacky for my taste.. It's funny watching it online now, especially with the music chosen to dub the original songs..Yellow Submarine is excellent and best enjoyed with an edible..😂
The big problem for me was their accents. Me coming from Liverpool could not cope with them sounding like they come from Birmingham! (they got the intonation all wrong). Funny how I've worked away from home a lot and when my work mates take the mickey out of my accent they also sounded Birmingham.
I came here to say exactly this.
Right?? I know the Liverpool accent is a bit hard on the ears, but they don't sound anything like the fab 4.
Quite right. I didn't know any better as a kid, but I saw them again as an adult and it was grating. I'm surprised the Beatles bothered to watch it at all.
Some didn't even have a British accent.
I have no idea what “take the mickey out” meant.
I read somewhere that a TV station in NYC would run these late at night back in the 70s, and John Lennon would sit up watching them at the Dakota.
HA HA! That sounds like him. Remember that song he did where at the beginning he said (sang?) "I've been at home watching Sesame Street (Sean)!" Ha ha!
I'll bet Ringo was especially delighted that he got to be the goofy comic relief guy.
They made him sound so dumb, though. "Huh huh, yeah!"
Nope. He wasn't happy at all with that and he got salty at the King Features animation crew
And you can bet that's where jokes about drummer's originated from
Paul got to play a role with feeding the humor to make it funnier
I remember the one where Ringo is choked up looking at the Statue of Liberty because it reminds him "of his mother waiting for his dad to come home with the paycheck."
Oh ho, I'm sure a lot of Americans feel the same way! The U.S. makes its citizens pay income tax even if all that income's earned outside the country!
Seriously, people, you can't watch this cartoon as an adult the same way a child would. I was 5 in 1965. This is one of the first cartoons I ever watched, besides Prince Planet and a few others I'll never remember. This cartoon is what introduced me to their great music that I'm listening to almost 60 years later; ever mindful that I've been a fan longer than John lived. That's what an incredible music act sounds like. Thank you, Beatles.
I had some familiarity with Hard Day’s Night as a kid, so I got the opening/end credits jokes about the toon Beatles running from girls, but the toons on local station afternoons were literally my FIRST experience with lesser-known Beatles songs. When I hear Strawberry Fields, I don’t immediately think John Lennon & Peace, I flash back on the Sing-Along graphics.
I'm a musician heavily influenced by the Beatles and I absolutely love them and when I was a kid I use to watch the Beatle cartoons every Saturday morning when I came home from playing house league hockey,I would never miss it and although I knew the show was kind of dumb I loved the two songs you'd hear every episode,the Beatles are the whole reason I ever became a musician,long live the Beatles! Bob
I was 7 years old when I watched The Beatles
Cartoons every Saturday
Morning during the 60’s! 😸
Remember watching these cartoons with relish when I was a boy. Coming from a restrictive household this was how I was able to hear all these songs. To boot they also put the lyrics on the bottom of the scene during the sing-a-long parts. Yes, it was typical cartoon fare and the voices were pretty off but for me it was a great introduction to Beatle music which is so much better than anything nowadays.
Well done rerun. Well done.
bro ur household restricted music? what kind of supervillains were ur parents ahahah
When the Beatles made their USA debut on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show, I had just turned 7 years old a few months earlier. Beatlemania struck me between the eyes. I was an instant Beatles fan. On Saturday morning I watched the animated series of The Beatles. I bought Beatles bubble gum and collected trading card that come with it. My parents bought me a Beatles wig and their first US LP release, Meet The Beatles. My best friend and I stood in line to buy tickets for the movie Yellow Submarine. Over the year I've past down this love of the Beatles to my two sons.
Late boomer here ('59). My enduring memory of the cartoon was one segment when they were done playing and unplugged their guitar amps. Ringo "unplugged" his drum kit and it deflated like a balloon, LOL. I loved The Beatles as a little kid but soon became a proghead and grew to despise Beatlemania (as necrophilic) in its late-70s form.
Ringo hated that his animated counterpart was an idiot, he called the producers and voice actors to complain about it.
Does make me wonder why, then, he accepted that role in the 1981 movie "Cave Man", if he wanted to be taken all that seriously. Don't get me wrong, I like Ringo just as he is. If anything, he's the least pretentious and "stuffy" of the Fab Four.
The third season, you could tell the real Beatles’ Revolver/Rubber Soul move to psychedelic experimental songs was making it harder for the show to keep up the characters’ Ed Sullivan/Hard Day’s Night B&W-suit personas.
When they brought in the chauffeur as a running S3 character, it was the birth of Old Fred from “Yellow Submarine”. (Which had to handle most of the Sgt. pepper songs.)
The cartoons were wonderfully goofy but I loved the music.
As a 7 year old (or so) my first introduction to the Beatles was the cartoons so I can't hate them. Mind you, Ringo has cause as he was presented as a buffoon.
My introduction to the Beatles, as a child. Never the same again.
Same! My parents were absolutely not into pop music, so seeing the cartoons in reruns in 1977-78 was my start as a Beatles fan.
The Beatles should have loved this. I was 5 when the cartoon came out. I had the Sgt. Pepper album when it came out a few years later, playing it on my little plastic record player in my room over and over again.
I first saw these cartoons when they were syndicated in 1972. I was 9 years old. These cartoons were where I heard many of the early Beatles songs.
* Yet for us young folks it was our weekly Saturday morning Beatles fix! Same producer later gave us that animated Yellow Submarine movie. That series was pre-MTV music videos ahead of its time! 🙂
that's what I thought the Beatles were when I was a little kid (early 70s) - this cartoon. I didn't know they were any more real than The Flintstones
I first saw these in the early 80s, as a local station's Sunday morning line-up. Without these, I'd have never discovered their music.
This cartoon is how I learnt all the words to the Beatles songs
Oh, this cartoon definitely had an impact on me as a very young kid! My siblings and I watched it Saturday mornings and I was always squealing at the end of it where they're being chased all over town by girls and when they get to some docks, a mermaid jumps out of the water and starts "swishing her fishtail" after them! To this day it's a term that I still use! Haha!
I got to see the episodes when Granada in the UK aired them in the 70s. Later on my elder sister saw Stephen Fry on a TV programme and remarked on how he looked like how John was drawn in the cartoons!
Ringo was portayed as a buffoon. John had an upper class accent and did not sound like John at all.
You hit a gold mine of old knowledge forgotten! Kudos!!
The first animated real people, I don't know about, there was also an animated Three Stooges show around that same time 1965 also a Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello cartoon series
I was born in '69 and used to watch reruns of this cartoon after school in Detroit in the 70's. I fell in love with the Beatles then and am still a huge fan today. Thanks for posting!
George’s “accent” was incredibly weird - he sounds Asian and Hispanic at the same time and def not Liverpudlian
The first time I ever saw The Beatles cartoon was back in 2005 when I was 14. It was one of the first things I ever watched on TH-cam when my family first discovered TH-cam. I definitely agree that the cartoon was so bad that it was great.😆 I really enjoyed it and wish that the episodes could still be found on TH-cam. This show was one of the inspirations for a 60s themed cartoon that I draw nowadays.
Funny thing about George’s voice is that my siblings and I always thought that Paul Frees made him sound Irish. Lol! We called him Irish George. Out of all The Beatles, I thought that Ringo sounded the most like him.
0:53 Nowadays there’s a lot of discussion that questions if they actually WROTE all the songs they have been credited with.
There were two other shows that were similar in vein . They revolved around the Jackson five and the Osmond Brothers.
Those two shows even recycled story lines (at least once)!
@@l.salisbury1253the Osmond Brothers Provided their OWN Voices.
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Hey Rich, I was 11 when the cartoon debuted. I watched it for the tunes.
Yeah we’re probably the same age. Born in ‘54.
I was born in '54 also.
In 1948 around 170,000 TV's were sold, in 1954 over 5 million were sold. We are truly The TV Generation.
I first saw the cartoon Beatles on Saturday morning in 1966. I was 2 years old at that time before I ever seen in real life.
I wasn't born yet when The Beatles animated series first aired. When I saw some of the clips on TH-cam, I saw how surreal the show was! It was like a predecessor to The Monkees.
As a kid in the 60s I watched the Beatles cartoons a few time and though I loved their music on my transistor radio, the same couldn't be said of the cartoon. I was a loony toons fan and the Beatles couldn't compete with Bugsbunny, Elmerfudd, Daffyduck and the rest. Or Rocky and Bullwinkle for that matter. We had alot of great cartoons in those days before the age of political correctness set in.
Gerald - One of the voice actors, Paul Frees, also voiced Boris Badenov!
@@Petemonster62 cool! I did not know that.
I vaguely remember watching but I watched every Saturday
I watched it as a child, and I enjoyed it.
You comment about the musical copyrights affecting the Beatles cartoon hit home, as this has also affected of videos on TH-cam which have a Beatles song in them, also requiring either dubbing over or muting the offending song (The videos in question are two from the BBC series "Great Railway Journeys of the World" - "Confessions of a Train Spotter" and "Deccan.").
I was three-four-five- years olD when the Beatles cartoon aired on Saturday morning. I never missed an episode. This cartoon helped familiarize me with the Beatles music. It's a great way to introduce children to the Beatles legacy. That's why it should be released on DVD.
Children loved it! While those cartoons were on they got to sing together while not having to impress anyone with their looks.
Your videos are always amazing and very educational
Love your videos and editing skills.
Thank you @shortscreator7981. That really means a lot to me.
There's still a 5s snippet of the outro-to-commercial music from this show I hum to myself whenever wacky antics ensue. Not Beatles music, but who knows who composed those "beatle-ish" transistional fills.
I first knew about the Beatles through this cartoon. Not too far later in life, I found that they were a real band. As the years went by, I can tell that the Beatles were so popular in the 60s that their legacy lived on even to this day. And now here we are in 2025 and Paul and Ringo are still alive and well, they are the only two surviving Beatles.
You realize John Lennon and Boris Badenov were voiced by the same actor?! (Paul Frees.)
Not to mention the Ghost Host from Disney's Haunted Mansion.
So John was voiced by Paul? That's funny.
@@gregorymoore2877 Paul (Frees) also voiced Paul (McCartney). He was EVERYWHERE in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s when it came to voicing animation. A great talent, he even had some lives roles. In the 1953 film "War of the Worlds", he played the reporter, carrying a portable tape recorder, covering the dropping of a more powerful "A-bomb" (one of the first thermonuclear weapons, which details were still a secret at the time) on the Martian position in the desert where their landing had been covered earlier in the film, and which had driven the Army back in their first (conventional) battle. Since most radio and telephone communications were being interfered with, or reserved for military use, the recording was for "Future History...IF ANY".
I was born in 1960. As a kid, I remember seeing Yellow Submarine in the theater. But I've never heard of the Beatles cartoons before. Guess I'll have to check them out. Maybe my childhood was missing something I never knew.
My grandparents were growing up when this first aired. THAT’S how young I am. I love watching the funniest clips from it on TH-cam, one of my favorites being “You forgot to reverse the charges-“
I did like the cartoons as a kid. Having been born in 1960, I was a child at the height of Beatle mania.
I watched the reruns on the Disney Channel in the late 80s/early 90s.
WHAT THEY DIDN'T HATE ABOUT IT "💰💰💰💰"‼️😎
As much as the modern animation in the 1960s was usually a disappointment to my tastes and higher expectations, and even as a kid I could tell the Beatles had nothing to do with it, I still found it watchable. I thought the caricatures of the guys faces were pretty good, and to my ears (and from California), the putative Scouse accents were fun to hear.
Fun fact: The four animated Beatles are depicted on the front entry of the Beatles museum in Halle (Saale), Germany. It was a good museum. Probably not as good as in UK but still good. I saw the show only after I discovered it on TH-cam. I found it kind of funny, as a Beatles fan. It reminds me of the classic cartoons like Tom & Jerry, Pink Panther etc, only with the Beatles Magic in it.
BTW: At 1:29 you mention The Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night" but you show the poster for the German movie "Hard Days Hard Nights" from 1989, which I never heard of but apparently is also about a British Rock'n Roll Band in the 1960s who come to Hamburg. Not sure if the movie is actually a fictionalized version of the Beatles.
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I just saw an excellent AI voice generator for The Beatles - I would LOVE to see them re-do the voices for both these animated efforts - I'd devote my time to it for free!
That would be awesome. George's accent doesn't even sound English to me.
There was an animated Beatles series?
Yes
Dude, there were Beatles' women's underwear with a picture of each Beatle and their name on the ass.
There have been, since 1964, Beatles EVERYTHING.
Yes, I watched the original series as a youngster and enjoyed it tremendously. The cartoon Beatles were regular guys, cartoon older brothers, and easier to relate to than the three dimensional-Beatles -- and with the same great music.
i just realized something. all the beatles have vowels in their names.
I LOVED this series as a kid when we were able to get it which was only for a very short time before it was pulled from the air. As a kid I thought this was the best cartoon EVER.
This was a major part of my introduction to the Beatles. How I learned practically all their songs from that era and their lyrics. I had fun with this, and I still do, but yes, it's clearly a so bad it's good type of thing.
Wait. The Beatles (which is to say, Ringo and Paul) released a song recently?
I remember when they released one in the '90s, long after John died, but before George did. Performing over some unused Lennon vocals. I really had no interest in that, and no interest in this latest one.
Okay... if The Monkees were a take on The Beatles, why hasn't anyone produced a cartoon based upon The Monkees? (Scooby-Doo episodes with Davy Jones don't count!)
I never missed this cartoons
Yep I grew up with Beatle cartoons when I was a little boy !! ❤
I loved this show when I was a kid - it's one of the reasons I love the Beatles
I watch the cartoons in Venezuela in the mid 60's, all of The Beatles were talking Spanish, but their songs were all the original songs sang in English
It's sad that this series made such a bad impression on the Beatles that they refused to do the voices for Yellow Submarine. That was such a great movie, and it would have been so great to hear their voices instead of stand-ins.
Then again, if they were too busy to re-record their dialog and only chose to add that live action epilogue at the end, maybe it was better they spend their time on the music. It is their voices on the songs, after all. And the voice actors they got for Yellow Submarine came pretty close.
I suppose the Bestles cartoon wss good for what it was. But it does make you wonder what a series based on Yellow Submarine would have been like.
(Also I love the episode of Powerpuff Girls which is a series of Beatles references, and BOTH sets of cartoon Beatles make an appearance)
It would make for an April Fool joke to announce a new Beatle cartoon for Now and Then, although maybe I shouldn’t encourage Apple Corps.
When the cartoon series was on television in the 60's, there was a Yellow Submarine episode. It quickly disappeared, because There was a movie version in the making. Now the cartoon is lost to the ages.👻
Who could blame them? This series did them no justice, other than it earned them some licensing royalties. The cartoon plots were generic, so much so they could have been about the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, or any other acts that appeared as 1960s cartoons.
I could. It kept them RELEVANT in the public eye, and put a lot of MONEY in their pockets, which I notice they had no problem with.
The Beatles cartoons inspired our band toe produce our own cartoon series for our music. We never grow old and we never die! TheSilversMusic!
I don't suppose the boys minded the money they got from those cartoons.
(This is Tom, not Sandra.)
I remember watching this cartoon series as a kid in the 60's. It was great!!!!
I even have the soft cover book about the cartoon series in my collection.
I even had it signed by the Author when he came to my hometown in the 1990's on a book-signing tour. It was a great cartoon series, l thought. It was a whole lot BETTER than the 'Osmonds' and the 'Jackson 5' cartoon series that was done in the early 70's!! Thanks for posting this video about the show!! (Tom)
"Now that the Beatles have released the last song we'll ever hear from the Fab Four"
I wish I could believe that...
I saw this cartoon when I was a kid in the Sixties and I didn't like it.
I didn't like It either.
Yea, it was cheesy and the animation was even worse than a typical Hanna-Barbera show, but it was a brilliant marketing move, roping in those who were too young to even think of turning on a radio. I remember seeing these when I was 4 or 5, then, when I finally got a hold of a radio that my parents never used a year later, the Beatles were the one group with which I was already familiar.
Has a 11 or 12-year-old I really love these cartoons. I thought they were so super cool. The Beatles were my favorite rock band and they still are today. Looking at some of these. I can remember the sum of the scenes from these old cartoons the year of gone so fast I am now 70 years old and still Get a kick out of it. Ha ha thanks for the videos. Have a great day I love it.👍🏼👍🏼😁❤️❤️😎😎🎸
I used to watch these in elementary school in the late sixties to early seventies
Frankly, the episodes weren't that memorable. We only watched them to here those great tunes.
Yes, I watched it and enjoyed it. And if Apple got it's greedy hands on it, it's all over.
Enjoyed this cartoon...but then again I was 6.
I marvel at performers that do not like use of their IP and wonder if they cashed the check they were issued.
I was too young to have seen these cartoons originally, but the style lived on in the 70's with the animated series of both the Osmonds and the Jackson 5, both copied the zany plotlines that incorporated one of their songs, not sure if either of those shows are still available..
Best Animated Cartoon about a Rock Band is Josie and the Pussycats.
I don't understand why you think their dislike of their appearance in this cartoon would lead to them not wanting to do the voices for Yellow Submarine, a production approved by them. I can see you pulled your opinion from the Wikipedia page for this reasoning, which cites no source for that.
What Wikipedia does have a source for is the wiki page for Yellow Submarine which shows it was actually their dissatisfaction with the film Help! which led them to not wanting to do another film. On top of that, they got to fulfill their film contract without having to do any work.
You also missed where MTV revived the cartoon by airing reruns. Sometimes it better to dig deeper than just the wiki page for your videos.
4:20 Apple is merely an in-house brand, owned and controlled by *EMI(The Gramophone Co.) Ltd., Hayes Middlesex England.*
This was how I became a Beatles fan since 1966.
Yes, the Beatles HATED the cartoon. There was a lot to hate:
1. None of the voice actors sounded even remotely like ANY of the Beatles, and two of them didn't even have British accents, let alone Liverpudlian accents.
2. The art style was cheap and amateurish. As John said, "They made us look like the f*cking Flintstones." (Love you John, you're STILL my favorite Beatle).
3. The songs often didn't have any relation to the narrative storyline, which could be very jarring.
4. The whole thing simply looked like... shit. I mean, these were the Beatles. They were the biggest thing in the universe at the time. Hell, John once quipped that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus and he got A LOT of shit for it, AND he was RIGHT.
I think the Beatles, under the circumstances, were right to have rejected the Beatles cartoon and to have refused to have anything to do with it, as it didn't do anything for them financially, musically, artistically, or PR-wise.
A damn shame, because it kept them from getting involved, except in a tangential way, with Yellow Submarine. A great misstep on the Beatles part, because Yellow Submarine turned out to be one of the most groundbreaking, technically innovative, and best animated musicals of all time...
And was produced by Al Brodax and directed by George Dunning, the SAME guys who had produced and directed what everyone had considered a stinking pile of crap, the Beatles cartoon.
AND with talent from the Beatles cartoon such as Lance Percival voicing Young/Old Fred, and Geoffrey Hughes as Paul McCartney, THIS time sounding remarkably like Paul, and with a proper Liverpool accent.
Amazing what you can do with a talented team of artists and writers, a reasonable budget (animation is time-consuming and expensive), and artistic control by artists who have vision. Sometimes they're the same people who produce shit.)
So True.
I grew up in the 1980s, so we didn't get the Beatles cartoon on Saturday mornings. Instead, because of Michael Jackson's popularity, they brought back the animated Jackson 5 show in syndication. The bizarre stories and ropey animation of that show caused me to avoid the Beatles show when I saw it. I didn't know anything about the Beatles at the time, and I knew back then that if I watched the cartoon, I still wouldn't.
I own a copy of those “unofficial channels”.
There was an animated version of a real person on The Alvin Show: David Seville (the performing name of Ross Bagdasarian.)
I first saw this series.....well...the 'individual' cartoon/song/story segments right after John's death in January 1981. One of our channels (local) was showing these mixed in with other cartoons then. It wasn't until 1985 that another local channel was showing these IN THEIR ENTIRETY! [:-)] Unfortunately, even though I was trying to record these on good ol' VHS, it was a broadcast channel (several towns away) that there was alot of fuzz, sometimes a good picture, other times so bad the signal freaked out & made the VCR go crazy. Oh well..... 😑
3:21 NOT the Beatles.
0:30 The "Beatles" cartoons *WERE NOT* "an" historical landmark, they were *A* historical landmark!
They liked them later on.
I really enjoyed the show. Couldn’t wait to watch it every Saturday morning. Thank You for sharing your video 👍👍👍👍. 🎸🎸🎸🥁
Thank you.
I've read Shout! and The Love You Make. I'm interested in The Beatles as a social and cultural phenomenon. As a kid, I had the Hey Jude single because the distorted guitar on Revolution knocked me dead as a 10-year-old and I had John's single Instant Karma. But I quickly grew out of them as I began listening to early 70s music. I thought Wings was just wall-to-wall dreck. George's music was nice but never stuck with me, same with Ringo's. I went into shock with everyone else when John was assassinated and duly mourned.
The Beatles produced a bona-fide musical cult; hardcore Beatles fandom is a scary thing -- no criticism is allowed. I recognize their accomplishments in musicological terms and their revolutionary impact on rock music and have had plenty of friends who've forced me to sit through hours of listening to Beatles albums. But I remain a respectful former fan.
Someone should take ai and try to make yellow submarine in their actual voices
It looks great to me.
YEAH THE ACCENTS WERE A PILL 4 SURE,BUUUUUT IT WAS THE BEATLES & THIER MUSIC!! 1 OF MY BEST MEMORIES OF 60S SAT.MORNING KARTOONS FUN! BY THE WAY THIS CLASSICs SUCCESS LED 2 THE LATER JACKSON 5 & OSMOND BROS. TOONS AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS
I was young enough to remember watching it in syndication, and loved it.. Mainly the music as their adventures were a bit too wacky for my taste.. It's funny watching it online now, especially with the music chosen to dub the original songs..Yellow Submarine is excellent and best enjoyed with an edible..😂
paul frees was one of the greatest voice actors in the history of the biz, but he couldnt do a liverpool accent to save his life
Seen Clips On TH-cam
And I Did Enjoy The Clips I Have Seen cause they Were Weird 😂😂😂😂😂