Für eine Woche lang, ab dem 14. Februar 1972, konnte man die kulturelle Revolution im us-amerikanischen Fernsehen schauen: John Lennon und Yoko Ono durften die Talkshow des ikonischen Moderators Mike Douglas eine Woche lang moderieren und kuratieren. Immerhin eine Einschaltquote von 40 Millionen Zuschauer:innen pro Woche. Mit handverlesenen Gästen und brisanten Themen ist die Daytime Revolution ein legendäres Fernsehereignis, dem dieser Dokumentarfilm ein Denkmal baut.
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00:00I'm 31 now, and I've grown up in many ways, and you have to be more politically aware in a day and age like this.
00:06It's almost impossible to close your eyes to it.
00:12It was a time of considerable fracturing.
00:14And you read in the newspapers that the war's over, but the war's not over.
00:21You have to understand where the Mike Douglas show sat in culture.
00:25Here is John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
00:27It was the most popular show on daytime television.
00:30When President Nixon leaves for Peking on Thursday...
00:32Yoko said, we're doing this show on Mike Douglas.
00:35We're having Bobby Seale and Jerry Rubin, and I'm going like, what?
00:42Here is Ralph Nader.
00:43Is it a running for president?
00:45No.
00:46John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't want us to talk about their music.
00:50That spoke for itself.
00:52What would you like to talk about this week, John?
00:54Love, peace, communication.
00:57Drugs.
00:58Drugs.
00:59Anything.
01:05When I got to the studio, I got a glimpse of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
01:10I said, oh my goodness.
01:13This is exciting.
01:15They did have an agenda, and the agenda had to do with how they were going to do it.
01:20It had to do with making the world better.
01:23Yeah, it was something that we were trying to get away with.
01:27Well, young people are known to be cynical, and I say to them, nobody's smart enough to be a pessimist.
01:36People tend to think that somebody will save them, and there's only people can save us.
01:41Only us all deciding to do something about anything, whatever it is.
01:44Just even making that decision, I want to do something, is a start.
01:50All the people living for today.