Path:
border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!news.ecp.fr!news.newsland.it!news.ngi.it!area.cu.mi.it!diesel.cu.mi.it!not-for-mail
From: Edvado 
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles.moderated,rec.music.beatles
Subject: Re: Is this true?
Followup-To: rec.music.beatles.moderated
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:24:48 -0500
Organization: -
Lines: 60
Approved: rmbm-request{at}seltaeb.ghg.net
Message-ID: 
References: 






NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.148.160.113
X-Trace: tdi.cu.mi.it 1214343185 12317 75.148.160.113 (24 Jun 2008 21:33:05 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse{at}diesel.cu.mi.it
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:33:05 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 diesel.tinews.pl/1.1.8
Delivered-To: rmbmod{at}evolution.seltaeb.net
Archive-Name: 
Bytes: 3688
Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.music.beatles.moderated:17478
rec.music.beatles:1166912

saki  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 Airport 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{at}ucla.edu


And 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

--

All follow-ups are directed to the newsgroup rec.music.beatles.moderated.    
If your follow-up more properly belongs in the unmoderated newsgroup, please 
change your headers appropriately.   -- the moderators
-- 
---
 þ Derby City GateWorks:  UUCP  FidoNet