The Beatles return to the London Palladium for their second appearance on the top rated TV show “Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium.” The show was broadcast live between 8:25 and 9:25pm with the Fab Four topping the bill. They performed a five song set, I Want To Hold Your Hand, This Boy, All My Loving, Money, and Twist & Shout, along with a comedy sketch with compere Bruce Forsythe (seen with the boys in the photo below.)

Cavern club DJ Bob Wooler also appeared on the show’s “Spin-A-Disc” record review segment.

The Beatles performed to I Want To Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, Twist and Shout, and She Loves You as well as being presented with a couple of gold discs.

The show would be broadcast on 21st December – and you can check out the show in its entirety below.

The Beatles traveled from London to the seaside resort of Southend for a gig at the town’s Odeon Cinema. As was becoming customary before the show they received a visit from a local BBC TV film crew for the inevitable interview.

The Beatles returned from a few days off to what was probably one of the busiest days of their career to date.

At home in Liverpool for the first time in four months they would record two TV shows, record a radio interview and play two shows – all in one day.

The day’s activities kicked off at the Empire Theater with a specially recorded edition of the popular BBC TV show Juke Box Jury in which celebrity guests listened to new pop releases and determined if they would be a “Hit” or a “Miss.” On this occasion all four panelists would be Beatles. The show was recorded in front of 2500 screaming members of the Northern Area Beatles Fan Club, and broadcast (screams and all) later that evening.

30 minutes after the taping of Jule Box Jury had wrapped, The Beatles once again took to the stage of the Empire, in front of the same (still screaming) fans for a 45 minute show. 30 minutes of the show would be broadcast by the BBC as It’s The Beatles later that same evening.

Apparently the screaming was so loud that the BBC cameramen and sound recordists couldn’t hear the directors instructions and the end result was deemed to be somewhat of a technical embarrassment by the BBC management.

After the show The Beatles still had one other task to do for the BBC. They recorded a short interview segment for later transmission on the Christmas Day radio show Top Pops of 1963.

With all their BBC obligations fulfilled The Beatles received a police escort down especially closed off streets as they transferred to the near by Odeon Cinema, where they gave two evening performances as part of their continuing tour.

The Beatles spent most of the day at the Elstree studios of ATV taping an appearance on the top TV comedy show, The Morecambe and Wise Show which would be broadcast on 18 April, 1964.

The Beatles performed This Boy, All My Loving and I Want To Hold Your Hand, as well as giving as good as they got when it came to exchanging banter with the famous double-act.

After the TV show they traveled to the Groverner House Hotel on Park Lane in London for a cabaret style gig in the hotel’s ballroom in aid of charity.

The Beatles mimed to playbacks of I Want To Hold Your Hand and This Boy, and recorded an interview alongside Liverpool comedian, and notorious ad-libber, Ken Dodd.

The Beatles played two shows at the ABC Cinema in the Ardwick area of Manchester.

A Pathe News crew filmed several back stage sequences along with performances of She Loves You and Twist and Shout for a newsreel segment entitled “The Beatles Come To Town.”

A local Granada TV crew was also on hand shooting the same back-stage footage as the Pathe team and adding in an interview segment.

Not to be outdone, BBC Radio were also on hand to record an interview with the group for that evening’s Voice of the North, as well as an interview with George for a show titled Wacker, Mach Schau that examined the relationship between the Liverpool and Hamburg rock scenes.

Various sections of this gig were filmed by TV crews from all three major US networks, NBC, ABC and CBS.

The CBS section (below) earned the distinction of being the first appearance of The Beatles on US TV when it was aired on November 18th. They overdubbed the concert performance of She Loves You with the recorded version from the single.

The Beatles recorded and interview for the Westward TV show “Move Over Dad,” (which will be broadcast on November 16th).

In the evening they played a gig at the nearby ABC Cinema in Plymouth.

Click here for a short clip looking back at The Beatle’s 1963 visit to Plymouth.