Friday, September 6, 1968
Paul McCartney and Mary Hopkin filmed for “Magpie” children’s TV show
Last updated on October 5, 2024
Friday, September 6, 1968
Last updated on October 5, 2024
Location: Apple Building, 3 Savile Row, London, UK
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On this day, Paul McCartney and Mary Hopkin were filmed at Apple’s headquarters for “Magpie,” a newly-launched children’s TV show. Paul was on the piano while Mary provided vocals and guitar accompaniment.
Mary Hopkin participated in additional filming that day, from 11 am to 4:30 pm, across various locations. The footage was later trimmed to 3 minutes and 45 seconds, forming part of a six-minute segment about the singer on “Magpie.”
This segment was broadcast in the Magpie episode aired on September 10, 1968, on the ITV network, from 5:10 to 5:50 pm. Mary Hopkin also appeared live on the program.
From Wikipedia:
Magpie was a British children’s television programme shown on ITV from 30 July 1968 to 6 June 1980. It was a magazine format show, intended to compete with the BBC’s Blue Peter, but it attempted to be more “hip”, focusing more on popular culture. The show’s creators, Lewis Rudd and Sue Turner, named the programme Magpie, as a reference to the magpie’s habit of collecting small items and also because of “mag” being evocative of “magazine” and “pie” being evocative of a collection of ingredients.
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