Fab 4 Free 4 All Episode 260 - 'Daytime Revolution' (Movie): Analysis and Review

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For a full week in February of 1972, the seemingly improbable happened. A very popular daytime talk/variety television program, The Mike Douglas Show, had John Lennon and Yoko Ono as its guest co-hosts.
As popular as it was, The Mike Douglas Show was considered to be pretty “vanilla “ and was not known for promoting anything near controversial. The show was the last place the world thought that they would see the likes of John and Yoko espousing their beliefs, let alone activists Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale. But for this auspicious event, John and Yoko had an agenda to further “the movement".
What TV viewers actually saw was a week of song, fun and education, the likes of which had never been seen on daytime talk shows, and may never be seen again.
The Fab 4 Free 4 All reviews the documentary “Daytime Revolution” which transports its audience back to that week in February 1972. People involved with this historic week provide the context to allow the modern viewer to fully understand what was happening during those turbulent times, and, consequently why these five episodes of daytime TV were much more important than we may have realized at the time.
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[@dawnliverani1594]

Great job, guys! I remember watching this as it was broadcasted back in February, 1972...I was almost 17. My Mom had a friend at the time who was very "square" and considered "old fashioned". She made a point of watching the Mike Douglas show every day - except that week LOL

[@farrellmcnulty909]

I was 8, about to turn 9 three months later and I saw a couple of the shows. I remember this obscenely priced VHS set of the week that was out years ago. I'm still wishing it was on DVD.

[@susangagne9903]

I was a freshman in college and watched this all week when I got home after classes. I just about died laughing when I saw the bug-eyed expression on Chuck's face when Yoko started screaming. But he didn't miss a beat! Thank you for your review. You inspired me to get tickets to a showing in Waterville, Maine.

[@marcbolan1818]

Saw it as a kid. Mike was M.O.R. Milk Toast yet he had some great guests like John. Zappa, Sly, Moby Grape, etc. Never forget seeing Moe Howard after thinking he had passed.

[@pgroove163]

TV was so much better back in the day

[@MalEvansUSA]

Moe Howard was a great treasure and helped America endure the Great Depression

[@gcrichman53]

Thanks for the very good review, my father and my stepmother bought me all of the episodes on VHS in 2001 not long after they were released and John and Yoko were outspoken about feminism and John was very supportive of feminism too and the second wave of feminism was at the time still pretty recent and totally misunderstood and misjudged as ''crazy'' which sadly it still is to a certain extent, so it was very brave and important for John who was very influential and popular with many young people both female and male, to do this. Was this included in this program ? I really hope so. One episode had New York lawyer Rina Uviller who became a judge years later for the New York county supreme court.Mike Douglas said that he was often approached by many youmg people including men saying this was his best shows ever and his ratings were the highest they had ever been. And just months later he and Yoko's even more brave and blunt feminist song Woman Is The N****r Of The World was released and banned off of many radio stations and John and Yoko mostly John, bravely performed it with his Elephant's Memory band on The Dick Cavet show in May of 1972 and then he performed it live at Maddison Square Garden in August of 1972 for The One To One concert to help raise money for retarded children and adults. And another episode had feminist actress Barbara Loden on talking about her recent pro-woman feminist film Wanda and I think it was said on the show ( I haven't watched them in many years) that it was John's idea to have her on I think it might have been Yoko who said this.Barbara sadly died in September of 1980 from breast cancer at only age 48 just 3 months before John's horrible crazy murder.

[@david_g_barron]

Looking at the release of FM & AM by George Carlin released according to Wikipedia on January 27 1972, so the album was just a few weeks old when he appeared. Just looking at that week Paul McCartney was doing his University Tour across the UK, while Glyn Johns at Olympic Studios producing the debit album by Eagles. Also Harvest by Neil Young was released, and just fascinating what was happening in music and comedy at that point in time.

[@MalEvansUSA]

The live performance of Memphis Tennessee in 1972 might be one of the worst solo performances by a beatle ever. Yoko destroyed what should have been one of the most endearing moments in beatle history. Terrible performance

[@gcrichman53]

Paul was on Ellen's show in 2005 and I think the full show is on KZbin at least part of it.

[@MalEvansUSA]

Jack paar was never rude to his guests. He was a great broadcaster. Mike Douglas was a middle of the road clueless hack. He sang a Paul song Michelle to John Lennon. His producers tried to have him sing ‘yer blues’ or ‘cold turkey’ to John but Mike wouldn’t hear of it and complained it wasn’t in his vocal range

[@frankisfrank69]

The millionaire Marxists, living in their castle and singing "Imagine no possessions, it's easy if you try..." 🤣

[@MalEvansUSA]

John Lennon was always a contradiction. He sang give peace a chance while he threw a large rock through Paul mccartneys window in St. John’s wood. George Harrison once violently screamed at a Concorde flight attendant and nearly punched her when she interrupted his meditation to serve him complimentary tea

[@FMD321]

DUDE HIW COULD YOU KNOT KNOW LOUIE NE WAS ZOMBO ON THE MUNSTERS OR MR DYSDALES SON !!!

[@astrosjer822]

2024 “The year of John” with all these releases. Can’t wait to get the Blu-ray. Jack Parr was downright rude to some guests. Same with Letterman. Look for example how nasty Letterman was to Pia Zadora. Dated and nasty humor he had at times