 The Beatles themselves reportedly did not care for this series. They  were also less than enthusiastic about the idea of Brodax and  Dunning doing a feature film. However, they changed their minds  about the feature film when they began seeing completed footage from  _Yellow Submarine (1968)_ (qv). (John Lennon (qv) admitted in the  1970s that he "got a blast" out of watching reruns of the old  cartoons.)