8 Doctor Who Stars With Oscar Gold

Sure, the Beatles were very popular in the early to mid-60s, but it was their cameo appearance in the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Chase where they really got their big break. Showing off his Time Space Visualiser, a TV that can broadcast historic events (prefiguring Rick and Morty's inter-dimensional TV by a few decades) the Doctor brings up footage of "classical music" - the Beatles playing Ticket to Ride.

Kidding aside, the Beatles were a cultural powerhouse, more synonymous with the 1960s than the Doctor or the Daleks. Aside from the music, they starred in several movies both as the Beatles and as actors. George Harrison would go on to produce such classic movies as Life of Brian and Time Bandits. The band won an Oscar in 1971 for Best Music (Original Song Score) for Let It Be, the band's final film.

When the film was released and the Oscar win was announced, the band had separated, so the Fab Four didn't accept the award. Instead, Quincy Jones took a break from conducting the orchestra to accept it on their behalf. The footage from Let It Be would form the basis of Peter Jackson's extraordinary documentary series Get Back five decades later.