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===Christmas special: TX 26 December 1966=== The 1966 Christmas Special survives in a slightly abridged copy: it was transmitted in a 50-minute slot, but the circulating print (and that held by the BBC) is four minutes shorter. Reference to the studio shooting script reveals the excised material to be a section of "The Fairy Cobbler" as well as an entire filmed sketch referred to as "Golf Quickie".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/56b0ca36-b440-4dcb-91e2-d220123ad5e8|title=Sunday Post: Not Onlyβ¦ But Also - The Missing Minutes|date=21 February 2016}}</ref> ''(John Lennon)'' ''Fox Hunt Opening/Fairy Cobbler/Pete and Dud β The Unexplained/Swinging London (Lionel Bloab β Destructive Artist, Rev. Gavin Thistle, Penny Ryder, Simon Accrington, "The L.S. Bumblebee", The Ad Lav Club)'' Music: Marion Montgomery ("I'll Be Tired of You", "Iβm Old Fashioned"), Dudley Moore Trio * The 15-minute "Swinging London" segment was partly filmed in [[Soho]] in November 1966. Purporting to be an episode of ''The Pipesucker Report'', with Cook playing investigative reporter Hiram J. Pipesucker,<ref name="Winn p 71">{{cite book|last=Winn|first=John C.|year=2009|title=That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966β1970|publisher=Three Rivers Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-307-45239-9|page=71}}</ref> the sketch satirises the American media's coverage of the [[Swinging London]] phenomenon.<ref name="Turner pp 380-81">{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Steve|authorlink=Steve Turner (writer)|title=Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year|year=2016|publisher=Ecco|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-06-247558-9|pages=380β81}}</ref> Cook and Moore poke fun at London's burgeoning creative scenes, such as performance art, fashion modelling and pop music.<ref name="Winn p 71" /> As Simon Accrington, Moore plays the manager of a pop group that have become devotees of Chinese banjo player Ravi Oli (a send-up of [[The Beatles]] guitarist [[George Harrison]] travelling to India to study the [[sitar]] with Indian classical musician [[Ravi Shankar]]). The band, with Cook and Moore as vocalists, are shown recording a new single, "The L.S. Bumblebee" β the lyrics and exotic musical effects of which parody the Beatles' recent experimental song "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]".<ref name="Winn p 71" /> At the end of the sketch, Pipesucker attempts to gain entry into the Ad Lav Club,<ref name="Winn p 71" /> which he describes as "London's most fashionable lavatory spot ... [where] film stars rub shoulders with royalty".<ref name="Turner pp 380-81" /> In a parody of the exclusive door policy at London's Ad Lib nightclub, the doorman (played by [[John Lennon]]) grants Pipesucker access only when the reporter persuades him that he is the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.<ref name="Winn p 71" />
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