A documentary exploring John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s weeklong residency hosting The Mike Douglas Show in 1972 has completed shooting, its director told Variety.
Titled Daytime Revolution, the 108-minute movie tells the story of the couple’s five 70-minute broadcasts, which included guest spots with counterculture icons George Carlin, Ralph Nader and Bobby Seale, plus musical guests such as Chuck Berry. One show featured Lennon performing his classic “Imagine.”
In a statement, Shout! Studios producers said the Philadelphia-based Mike Douglas Show, which averaged 40 million viewers a week, drew the ire of the Nixon administration for allowing Lennon and Ono on air. But the exercise was a massive success, with Lennon saying later, “Some of the people around the back of the show who were nervous about certain aspects of what we were doing were happy about it at the end.”
Ono noted at the time that >>> Read More
