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Mike Douglas takes a week off and John Lennon takes over hosting duties. (NR, 108 min.)
5:30 PM
1:00 PM 3:00 PM 5:15 PM 8:45 PM
2:00 PM 4:30 PM
5:00 PM 7:45 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM 7:00 PM
5:00 PM 7:30 PM
For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like police violence and women’s liberation, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine”. A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime Revolution captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their vision of a better world. [Kino Lorber]
Starring: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mike Douglas, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Ralph Nader, George Carlin
Director: Erik Nelson
Genre: Documentary
"A documentary that remembers one of those “They’d never do that TODAY” moments in American pop culture history, when the Revolution WOULD be televised."
— Roger Moore, Movie Nation
"This recap of a unique and deeply sincere bid to demystify utopian ideals for the conservative masses using the platform of popular television offers a fascinating glimpse into a very different period in this country’s past."
— David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
