The Rutles
Encouraged by the positive public reaction to the sketch, Idle wrote the mockumentary television film "All You Need Is Cash" (1978, aka "The Rutles"). Idle co-directed the film with Gary Weis; it featured 20 Beatles' music pastiches written by Innes, which he performed with three musicians as the Rutles. A soundtrack album in 1978 was followed in 1996 by "Archaeology", which spoofed the then-recent "Beatles Anthology" series. A second film, "" (modelled on the 2000 TV special "The Beatles Revolution") was made in 2002 and released in the US on DVD in 2003.