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| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
MARCH 22, 1969
- The Monkees appeared as guest stars on
Dick Clark’s Saturday afternoon ABC-TV show
Happening ‘69 (ABC, 1968-69), a weekly half-hour rock-and-roll show hosted by Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere of
Paul Revere & The Raiders, in an episode titled
"Monkee Day." The Monkees took part in a couple of segments but did not perform live. Additional guest stars were Tommy Roe, Merrilee Rush and Dennis Cole.
MARCH 22, 1989
- Image Entertainment releases
The Monkees Volume #1 (#ID6267RC): "Monkee Versus Machine"/ "Don’t Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth", on Laserdisc, the first such issuing of The Monkees,
previously distributed on VHS and Beta in 1986 by Musicvision.
MARCH 24, 1973
- The Monkees was preempted on ABC by Soul Unlimited.
MARCH 25, 1968
- "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") (prod. #4770) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC as the 58th and final first run episode of The Monkees television series. Micky Dolenz cowrites and directs.
Kellogg’s™ sponsored the show that week, and the
final Monkees song of the series was "Zor And Zam" written by John & Bill Chadwick and produced by The Monkees (in an alternate early mix featuring different vocal parts and a longer fade). It was the third of 3 Monkees-produced tracks used on The Monkees
TV show, following the appearances of The Monkees’ 1968 remake of the 1966
Boyce-Hart tune "Valleri" in the previous episode No. 57, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds",
and Michael Nesmith's "Tapioca Tundra" in a redubbed March 18, 1968 repeet of Episode No. 39, "Hillbilly Honeymoon" (a.k.a. "Double Barrel Shotgun Wedding").
Progressive singer/composer Tim Buckley appeared
at show's end (a result of extensive promotion in fan magazines by Micky Dolenz)
singing "Song Of The Siren."
In addition to being the second Monkee-directed episode this season (following the Peter Tork-helmed "The Monkees Mind Their Manor"), "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") is also the only episode of the whole Monkees series to be scriptwritten by a Monkee.
MARCH 25, 1968
- Just as the original run of The Monkees television series is slated to cross the finish line, the group itself nears the end of their six-week shooting schedule for their Untitled movie this week; footage probably made now includes some unusual shots of The Monkees who, suspended by wires, are dressed in white to appear as particles of dandruff that will then be sucked through a vacuum cleaner's hose.
MARCH 25, 1972
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"The Prince And The Paupers" (#4733), Episode No. 21 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon (EDT) on CBS, with a new song added: "99 Pounds," written by Jeff Barry.
MARCH 26, 1996 - Rhino Home Video distributes the first 4 2-episode volumes of The Monkees on VHS:The Monkees - Volume 1 -
"Here Come The Monkees"/"The Picture Frame"
(R3 2235), The Monkees - Volume 2 - "Alias Micky Dolenz"/"Hillbilly Honeymoon" (R3 2236), The Monkees - Volume 3 -
"Too Many
Girls"/"Everywhere A Sheik Sheik" (R3 2237), and The Monkees - Volume 4 -
"Hitting The High Seas"/"The Monkees
In Texas" (R3 2238). For these and future retail releases, volumes consist of select episodes, as opposed to the 1995 Video Boxed Set of the entire series.
MARCH 27, 1967
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"The Monkees On The Line" (prod. #4739) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC as the 28th episode of The Monkees.
The sponsor this week was Kellogg’s™, and the
featured tune was "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)," written by Neil Diamond and produced by Jeff Barry.
Trivia Footnote: It was the final episode of The Monkees TV program to be compleeted for its first season, as well as the last episode to bear the
onscreen musical supervising stamp of Don Kirshner, who, after releasing the "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"/"She Hangs Out" (#66-1003, withdrawn!) single against a 50% Monkee-control rule, was bounced from The Monkees' project.
MARCH 27, 1971
- "Monkee
Mother" (#4709), Episode No. 27 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30 p.m. EST on CBS.
Trivia Footnote: This repeet came exactly one week to the date of its original telecast on NBC 4 years prior.
MARCH 28, 1970
- "Find The Monkees!" (a.k.a. "The Audition") (prod. #4721), Episode No. 19 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS.
FEATURED EPISODE OF THE MONKEES
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday) |
Episode No. 3
"MONKEE VERSUS MACHINE"
(prod. #4700, aired on NBC September 26, 1966 and May 22, 1967)
Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's™
In an old-fashioned toy factory, The Monkees throw a Monkee wrench into
an efficiency expert's plans to replace an old toymaker with automation. |
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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, Beta, laserdisc, digital video disc (DVD) and BluRay,
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 (official, 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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THE MONKEES
ON THE SCREEN GEMS NETWORK |
A brief history of the 1999-2002 weekday afternoon television programming block airing classic shows from the Columbia Pictures Television vault, airing shows with a resource base of 58,000 episodes of 350 television series from the 1950s to 1980s, including
The Monkees, with a chart detailing weekday retreads of the series in tandem with The Partridge Family from May to July 2000.
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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 33⅓ 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, March 22, 2026.
Concieved, edited, researched, cross-checked and written by
Aaron Handy III.
Many pictures used within The Monkees Film & TV Vault originally
appeared on eBay.
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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