Talk:If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

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someone else's comment...which was in the article, and not on the talk page:

• Your present description of the origins of the film title are not strictly complete.

The title "If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium was first used - in 'show business' - as a CBS "Tuesday Night Special" in 1965. In June of that year, CBS paid in full for, and put a camera crew on a Caravan Tours' (Chicago) tour bus to film its entire itinerary - from London, via Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, down through Italy to Rome, and back through France to end in Paris. The tour members - who were ALL unaware that their tour was to be filmed prior to their arrival in London - were all asked for, and gave their written agreement to be filmed to CBS on that first day of arrival. It was in fact, a "double group" with approximate 70 members total, and travelled in two separate buses. Eventually, some 57 hours of filmed material were shot - and had to be edited down to fit in the hour's "slot" for the programme - then further edited to fit in the commercial breaks! Finally the *third 'edited version' was aired nationwide that autumn, the estimated viewing audience around 12,000,000. (the *"third" as the first two versions seemed too much like a "glowing testimonial - commercial" for Caravan,(the CBS producer's comment!). The commentator was Robert Trout - who only appeared on the actual itinerary five days before the end in Paris. The main character Caravan Tour Director was G. Kenneth Dyer (who died only recently); the second bus Caravan Tour Director (whose appearances in the tour itinerary mostly ended up on the cutting room floor), and who had also been involved in the entire project from the beginning the previous February in Chicago was the undersigned: Peter Davis