In 1963, the predecessor to "Magpie" was "Tuesday Rendezvous" (neé Lucky Dip"), which later changed name to "Five O Clock Club". It's probably best remembered for the regular appearances of Bert Weedon and Muriel Young, but I have an idea that Ollie Beak (voiced by Wally Whyton?) might have been in it as early as 1962.
I'm not so sure that George remembers a Beatles national TV appearance from 1962, though. They certainly appeared several times (two, maybe three) in late 1962 on Granada TV's local magazine programme "People And Places" (fronted by Gay Byrne and Bill Grundy), but that was not shown on Scottish TV, or anywhere else outside the Lancashire/Yorkshire (and adjacent counties) region. Neither was it recorded for syndication.
There is a large amount of data available on the Beatles' career and it is generally accepted that their first national TV appearance was on the (Saturday) 19th January 1963 edition of "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (networked by ABC from Birmingham). The spot was booked with the producer by Dick James (the publisher of
Please Please Me), sufficiently impressing Brian Epstein that he got the group to sign up to a long-term publishing deal with James. Their BBC TV debut came later.
So, during 1962, The Beatles appeared on TV only on regional programming, and the TYLS broadcast didn't happen until after the 11/01/63 release of
Please Please Me.
But...In early January 1963, in what must have been absolutely horrendous weather conditions during the worst winter in living memory, The Beatles did five live dates in Scotland. They stayed on for an extra couple of days to appear on the Tuesday January 8th edition of Scottish TV's pop music programme "Roundup" (which a few months earlier had produced the now-familiar clip of Jet Harris miming to
Main Title Theme). That show was broadcast in Central Scotland, but nowhere else unless Grampian TV took a feed for it, and, I would suggest, is the programme fondly remembered by George. It was certainly the first opportunity that Scottish fans had to see the group on television.
JN
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/01/08/tv-roundup/http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/01/13/television-thank-your-lucky-stars/