TV Thursday: The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Feb 22, 2024•4 min
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Episode description
On February 9, 1964, the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, which came to be called a cultural watershed that launched Beatlemania and the British Invasion.
Correction: The first time American TV viewers got a glimpse of the Fab Four was during a report by Edwin Newman on NBC's The Huntley-Brinkley Report (November 18, 1963).
Correction: The first time American TV viewers got a glimpse of the Fab Four was during a report by Edwin Newman on NBC's The Huntley-Brinkley Report (November 18, 1963).
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