Interior, t.V. Studio floor

CLOSE UP on the distraught DIRECTOR.

DIRECTOR: Where are they? I said, where are they?

FLOOR MANAGER: (placating) They're coming, I promise you.

DIRECTOR: (fiercely) Now look, if they're not here on this floor in

thirty seconds there's going to be trouble... understand me...

trouble!!!

[Two STAGE HANDS are walking disinterestedly past, they look at the

DIRECTOR.]

[1st STAGE HAND: What's he on about, Taff?]

[WELSH STAGE HAND: Well... he's being the director. Of course, he

lives in a world of his own, mind.]

At this moment the BOYS, NORM, SHAKE and GRANDFATHER appear. The BOYS

grab their instruments and prepare to play.

JOHN: (to the director) Standing about, eh? Some people have it dead

easy, don't they? The DIRECTOR is about to blow his top but manages to

hold on and mutter to the heavens.

DIRECTOR: (to himself) Of course, once you're over thirty, you're

finished. It's a young man's medium and I just can't take the pace.

RINGO: Are you as young as that, then?

(DIRECTOR. I was.)

[BOYS: Shurrup!]

[GRANDFATHER: Isn't it always the way? Picking on us little fellas.]

[PAUL: (to Shake) Shove the gentleman jockey in the make-up room and keep

your eye on him, will you?]

[SHAKE: I'm an electrician, not a wet nurse, y'know.]

[PAUL: (threateningly) I'll set John on you!]

[SHAKE: (hastily) Oh, anything you say Paul.]

[He leads GRANDFATHER away.]

(GEORGE: (referring to the director)Ah, there he goes. Look at him. I bet

his wife doesn't know about her.)

(JOHN: I bet he hasn't even got a wife. Look at his sweater.)

(PAUL: You never know, she might have knitted it.)

(JOHN: She knitted him.)

The BOYS are placed in position, instruments ready. The boom moves in

near them. There is a mike hovering just over JOHN's head. JOHN starts

attacking it.

DIRECTOR'S VOICE: (over Tannoy) Alright, standby. Run through the number

and try not to jiggle out of your positions. (Three, coming to you,

three... three...)

(VOICE: We're on three.)

(DIRECTOR: Three, eh? what?)

(VOICE: We're on three.)

(DIRECTOR: Oh yes. Eh... music.)

Song: "And I Love Her"

The BOYS start the number, as the stage hands adjust their settings. When

they've finished, they stand about spare. So we can watch every aspect of

their work, and with so many monitors, it gives the impression that there

are many more boys than just four. When the number ends we are back in

the studio on the floor.

(DIRECTOR: Thank you, very nice.)

Interior, t.V. Control room

The room is crowded with the usual personnel, P.A., elecs, racks, etc.,

make-up supervisor and wardrobe mistress.

DIRECTOR: [That was more or less alright for me. I'll give them one more

run through then leave them alone until the dress...] (to make-up

woman) Make-up?

MAKE-UP WOMAN: Not really, they don't need it. We'll just powder them off

for shine.

DIRECTOR: Good. Norm, get them along to make-up will you? (Powder them up

- the shine.)

NORM: (rising) Sure.

[DIRECTOR: (looking into the monitor) And hurry, they're not looking too

happy.]

[From the DIRECTOR's P.O.V. we see into the monitor. The BOYS crowding

around RINGO.]