The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash premiered

March 22, 1978
The seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis and starring some people from Monty Python and some other people from SNL, premiered on NBC-TV on this date.

Eric Idle was inspired to make this movie when George Harrison showed him a rough cut of a documentary on The Beatles titled The Long and Winding Road. That documentary eventually became The Beatles Anthology.

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