budget weekend  getaways, riding overnight in a bus to a surprise location. Most of  "Magical Mystery Tour" was filmed in a rented coach, filled with  friends and acquaintances, Beatles office staff, a camera crew, and  a handful of experienced actors, rambling around the English  countryside one holiday weekend. Everyone was encouraged to invent  their own characters, and let whatever was going to happen do so,  and the results would have to be magical. Unfortunately this proved  not to be the case, with most of the passengers "acting" like  anybody would while traveling, mostly humdrum scenery passing by,  and no "magical" destination actually planned out.  John Lennon (I) (qv) and George Harrison (I) (qv) werent  interested in playing parts, and spent most of the trip sleeping or  avoiding the cameras, while the hand