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FIFTY SYNDICATED YEARS OF THE MONKEES TELEVISION SERIES
(SEPTEMBER 1, 1975 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2025)
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| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
DECEMBER 23, 1972 -
"The Royal Flush", the premiere episode of The Monkees (prod. #4701, aired on NBC September 12, 1966 and May 8, 1967), was repeeted @ 1:00 p.m. Eastern on ABC, with 2 new songs added: "Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears," written by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart and
"Good Clean Fun," written by Mike Nesmith.
Trivia Footnote: This was the only time during The Monkees' Saturday Afternoon run that its 1967 Christmas episode wasn't re-screened in advance of Christmas Day.
DECEMBER 24, 1967 - The Monkees television series ceased production in Screen Gems Studio 7 with the filming of wraparound segments for what would be Episode #54, "The Monkees In Paris" (a.k.a. "The Paris Show") (#4771), to be padded with location footage previously shot in the French capital in June of that year. They also took the time to film interview segments to extend lengths of Episode #48, "The
Fairy Tale" (#4748), and No. 51, "The Monkee's Paw" (#4740).
"The Monkees In Paris" (a.k.a. "The Paris Show") would air first-run on NBC on Monday, February 19, 1968, the same day production commenced on The Monkees' motion picture, at the time entitled
Changes (later HEAD [#8888]).
DECEMBER 25, 1967 - "The Monkees Christmas Show" (a.k.a. "The Christmas Story") (prod. #4746) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC as the 47th episode of The Monkees.
The sponsor was Yardley Of London, and the show featured Peter, Michael, David and Micky sing an a capella rendition of the Old Latin Christmas Carol,
"Riu, Chiu", arranged and adapted by Henry Diltz, Chip Douglas, Cyrus Faryar and Jerry Yester.
Interesting Note: this one Monkees Christmas episode was shot in the week of Thanksgiving!
DECEMBER 25, 1971 - "The Monkees Christmas Show" (a.k.a. "The Christmas Story") (#4746), Episode No. 47 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon Eastern on CBS. A new musical interlude was added: "Jingo Jango", written by Bert Kempfrant and Herbert Renbein.
This was the final retelecast of The Monkees' 1967 Christmas episode during the Saturday Afternoon run.
DECEMBER 26, 1966 -
"The Son Of A Gypsy" (prod. #4724) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC as the 16th episode of The Monkees.
This episode was sponsored by Slicker and Black Label by Yardley Of London™ and featured
"I'm A Believer", written by Neil Diamond and produced by Jeff Barry. For those of you who tuned in and turned on this week, these are the original commercials you would've seen: Eyelighter by Yardley, Kellogg's Rice Krispies, Kellogg's Special K, Slicker Lip Polish by Yardley, Oh! De London by Yardley, and The Monkees for Yardley Black Label Aftershave.
Trivia Footnote: As this episode made its first-run telecast over NBC, The Monkees played their first
live gig on their 12-city U.S. tour at The Denver Coliseum in Colorado.
DECEMBER 26, 1970 - "Some Like It Lukewarm" (a.k.a. "The Band Contest") (#4754), Episode No. 56 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30 p.m. Eastern on CBS.
DECEMBER 27, 1969 -
"Monkee Mother" (#4709), Episode No. 27 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon Eastern on CBS.
Trivia Footnote: This was the last telecast of The Monkees television series of the 1960s!
FEATURED MONKEES EPISODE OF THE WEEK
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday) |
Episode No. 47
"THE MONKEES CHRISTMAS SHOW"
(a.k.a. "THE CHRISTMAS STORY")
(prod. #4746, first aired on NBC December 25, 1967)
Originally Sponsored by Yardley Of London™
The Monkees go for broke, physically and financially, to instill the spirit
of Christmas in a cynical little boy who's soured on the whole idea. |
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Description Of Site Contents
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HERE
COME THE MONKEES: The Original 1965 Pilot Episode |
All you need to know about the original,
unaired pilot for The Monkees television series, filmed in 1965
by Screen Gems as a means to sell the product to both TV networks and
sponsors. |
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THE MONKEES (NBC, 1966-1968) |
Once known as The VITAL STATISTICS &
CREDITS Page, the decision has been made to merge it with the links to both
The Monkees First and Second Season Episode Indices
and convert it into a page dedicated to
The Monkees television series itself.
It includes a complete network and syndication history,
Nielsen ratings, commercial sponsors, castmembers, Emmy awards and
nominations, AND, included for the first time anywhere, a compleet
and full slate of production credits, which covers both seasons!!!
As aforementioned, it has links to charts listing all 32 shows from
The
Monkees television series' sensational Emmy-winning first season and the 26 episodes
from the surrealistic second (and final) season. Each episode is linked to a corresponding individual page, which
includes a HQ screenshot of a pivotal scene from the episode (captured
from DVDs) with extra original episode-specific color/B&W publicity stills sprinkled throughout, original airdates, writers, directors and production crew,
guest stars, episode songs, a listing of each and every home video release it
has ever had (on Beta, VHS, laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray),
compleet and detailed synopses, production, trivia and Guest Cast
notes, filming locations and dates, original commercials which aired,
coinciding Colgems album/single release dates, A.C. Nielsen
ratings/share, and wherever applicable, production numbers and copyright
registration numbers! Included is a list of all the preemptions
and repeats and links to episode interview transcripts. |
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HEAD
(COLUMBIA, 1968) |
The entire dope on The Monkees' sole motion
picture outing! Includes a complete slate of cast & crewmembers,
shooting and premiere dates, a compleet synopsis of the whole
movie, and Supporting Cast, trivia and production notes! |
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MONKEES TELEVISION EPISODE REFERENCES IN THE MOVIE HEAD |
Here are multiple references The Monkees' 1968 motion picture
HEAD made to previous episodes in The Monkees 1966-1968 television series! |
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THE TV SPECIALS |
Includes everything on both of The Monkees'
television specials: 1969's 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee and
1997's Hey Hey It's The Monkees (a.k.a. "A Lizard Sunning Itself On A Rock")! |
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MONKEES HOME
VIDEOGRAPHY |
A detailed history of The Monkees film & TV
releases on home video, on VHS, laserdisc and digital video disc (DVD),
from 1986 to current! |
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THE COMMERCIALS |
Transcripts of original broadcast
commercial sponsor tags of The Monkees hawking Kellogg's Rice Krispies
Cereal, Kool-Aid Soft Drink Mix, and Yardley Black Label Aftershave!
Includes a link to a page bearing lyrics to all of the jingles and WAV
files to the commercials and jingles, and also a transcript of the 1995
Pizza Hut Commercial featuring Ringo Starr! |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY /
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
A number of literary Monkees sources
employed by
the author in crafting this very webpage. Also included is a list
bearing thanks to those who assisted me in making said page the page it
is today. |
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON REPEATS |
A compleet chronological listing of all 58 Monkees shows as originally seen on CBS and ABC Saturday
Afternoons! |
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MONKEES LINKS |
A listing of links to other Monkee pages,
divided in 3 columns (offical, film/TV and music/group-oriented Monkees
pages). |
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AWARDS BESTOWED UPON THE MF&TVV |
The awards
of which The Monkees Film & TV Vault is a proud recipient. |
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ORIGIN OF THE
MF&TVV |
My personal account on how The Monkees Film
& TV Vault came to be. |
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ONSCREEN CAPTIONS
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A guide listing all of the humorous
captions which flashed on screen in several episodes of The Monkees.
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DREAM
SEQUENCES, DISGUISES & QUICKCHANGE COSTUME PLAY |
A guide listing who did what, what they
wore, and what happened in the many hilarious fanstasy sequences in
various Monkees segments. |
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THE MONKEES GO APE
FOR BATMAN |
Varous cross references to the 1966-68
ABC-TV Batman
series (and beyond) on
The Monkees. |
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THE MONKEES
ON UK TV |
A listing of episodes of
The Monkees
TV series as shown in The United Kingdom on BBC1 and BBC2 from December
1966 to June 1968.
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MONKEES EPISODE PRODUCTION NUMBERS |
An appendix (partially in text) of all 58
episodes of The Monkees
TV series arranged in chronological production numerical order. |
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MONKEES EPISODE INTERVIEWS |
A listing of transcripts of all 12 original
interview segments as seen on
The Monkees' TV show, as well as transcripts of David, Michael
and Micky's guests from March 1968. (Adapted from Monkees Pad)
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THE MONKEES FILM & TV VAULT'S SILVER CELEBRATION |
This site celebrated a huge birthday on Monkee Monday, October 24, 2022: its 25th Anniversary on The World Wide Web! To celebrate, this link was added,
providing a nice, detailed trip down MF&TVV Memory Lane, owing a great deal to the ORIGIN OF THE MF&TVV page, but with
much more thoroughness. Now, it recieves a permanent spot as part of this very list of Site Contents, for posterity.
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HERE To Check For Annual Updates!
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A direct hookup with links to the lyrics of ALL the featured songs on the
following webpages:
MONKEES SONG LYRICS
(The Monkees Homepage!)
Jackie L. Wilson's List Of
Lyrics
to Songs in 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee (Internet Archives)
Sunny Girlfriend's lyrics page
Whatever your Monkee needs, discuss it in The
Monkees Film & TV Vault Message Board!
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| GROUPS, LINKS, DISCLAIMER, ETC. |
This page was first launched on Pleasant Valley Friday, October 24, 1997.
It vacated its previous home of 28 years, Tripod, to set up camp at Neocities on Monkee Monday, June 9, 2025,
and was last  Pleasant Valley Sunday, December 21, 2025.
Concieved, edited, researched, cross-checked and written by
Aaron Handy III.
This site is best viewed using the most current version of Google Chrome, and enhanced with
the fonts Franklin Gothic Condensed, Franklin Gothic Medium, Franklin Gothic Book, Cooper Black and HP-Hobo.
The
Monkees is a registered trademark of and copyrighted by
The Rhino Entertainment Company.
No copyright
infringement is intended by their use on this page. I and this page are in no
way affiliated with, approved of or endorsed by The Rhino Entertainment Company.
This page is
created by a Monkeefan for other Monkeefans out of love and respect, and is
strictly a non-profit endeavor intended for entertainment and TV research only;
the images and sounds used on this website are believed to be in the public
domain or fall within the boundaries of the US Supreme Court's Fair Use Act (US Code,
Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107).
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