LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A new episode of the "Beatles

Anthology", 30 years after the original landmark series, shows

the impact on Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of

being in the biggest rock band in history, its writer and

director said.

The original eight-part documentary, broadcast in 1995,

spanned the band's gritty early days in Liverpool and Hamburg to

the phenomenon of Beatlemania and global superstardom and the

break-up in 1970.

The "Anthology" project included the single "Free as a

Bird", created in the 1990s from a demo recorded by John Lennon

in 1977, three years before he was murdered.

The remastered series, with a ninth episode including unseen

1990s footage of McCartney, Harrison and Starr, debuts on

Disney+ on Wednesday.

"The new episode is untethered from the chronology of the

original episodes," writer and director Oliver Murray said.

"One to eight is the literal birth of the Beatles through to

their break-up in 1970, and episode nine is able to speak to the

inward-looking sense of what it was like to be a Beatle."

The film was restored by an Apple Corps production team

working with Peter Jackson's Park Road Post company in New

Zealand, with technology Jackson used to make "The Beatles: Get

Back" documentary, which premiered in 2021.

"The whole of the Beatles archive has been restored and is

now digital," Murray said. "Every time we went into the edit

suite it was almost like stepping back in time to the mid-90s."

He said Jackson's documentary changed the mythology of the

Beatles, which until then had been etched in stone.

"What 'Get Back' did was break down those stereotypes, and

we see them more as very young men," he said.

The new episode gives fans an opportunity to learn about the

band from scratch, with an understanding of who they were as

people, he said.

"The reason that the Beatles story still resonates is

because it's 20th-century folklore," he said.

"It is a timeless story of some lads from Liverpool who

share a dream and go on to conquer the world."