The following message was on the google group rec.arts.tv, so I
thought it would pass this along. I am not sure if this person is
telling the truth or not about the upcoming Beatle Episode on
American Dreams.
From: StefanGQ (stefangq@a...)
Subject: American Dreams and The Beatles (spoilers

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Date: 2002-12-09 15:25:27 PST


Like many of the posters and their posts that I've read on this
newsgroup, I
too share the dismay of how American Dreams is constantly getting the
time line
wrong in regards to music and the events of 1963-64.

Anyway, I've read on another forum that American Dreams will be
handling the
event of The Beatles' visit to America in February, 1964 in an
episode that
will air sometime in January. Many of you may be trying to figure
out just how
American Dreams will handle all of this. Well folks, you're in luck,
for my
sources have produced for me an advanced copy of the script for this
very
episode! I will now describe the plot for those of you just cannot
wait for
next month's airing. If you want to wait, then please do NOT read
any further!
I will add some spoiler space to this message, so here it goes:

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All right! The episode goes as follows: Meg and Roxanne obtain two
tickets to
go see The Beatles live on the Ed Sullivan Show. They get up to New
York and
hang around the hotel for a while where The Beatles are staying.
After
screaming and carrying on with the rest of the girls for a while, the
two get
bored and end up walking around NY where they bump into a mysterious
stranger
wearing a bowler hat, with mustache and sunglasses. After one wild
and madcap
adventure, the stranger takes off his mustache and sunglasses and the
girls
find that he is none other than Paul McCartney (played by -- well,
sure, why
not? -- Paul McCartney himself!). Paul explains that he was going
crazy
hanging around John, George, and Ringo, so he put on a disguise and
decided to
see the sites.

After another wild and madcap adventure, Paul ends up in
Philadelphia, where he
ends up having supper at the Pryor table. Jack, who is dismayed by
Paul's
"long" hair, has an argument about how music and society was so much
better
when he was younger. "Let me tell you, Paul," he says, "yesterday,
all my
troubles seemed so far away!" "Well, now it looks as though they're
here to
stay, mate," replies Paul. JJ, inspired by Paul's hair, begins to
comb his
forward.

Later, Paul and Meg sit down at the piano, where together they
write, "Let It
Be." "Your a pretty good song writer there, Meg!" gushes Paul, "I'll
save this
one for 1969 or 1970, when we lads will all have REALLY long hair and
bushy
beards, and we'll all be sick and tired of each other, and John will
break up
the band because of some oriental bird that he has yet to meet. You
do
understand, though, that I will have to credit this song to me and
John.
Nothing personal, love." Meg responds by looking into Paul's eyes,
developing
a crush on him.

After yet another wild and madcap adventure, Paul, Megan, Roxanne,
and Jack
(driving) get Paul back up to New York, where he just gets his fiddle-
shaped
bass on in time as the curtain goes up at the Sullivan show. Meg and
Roxanne
take their seats just to time to see The Beatles
perform "Help!" "Paperback
Writer," "Tomorrow Never Knows," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band," "Back
in the USSR," and "The Ballad of John and Yoko."

Overall, a great episode, true to form for American Dreams. I'll
give it an A!