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| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
FEBRUARY 22, 1968
- Shooting on
The Monkees' movie includes sequences in which David, Micky and Michael are inmates in a jail cell and one where Peter listens to a Swami (Abraham Sofaer) in a steam room while an extra (Sonny Liston) looks on.
FEBRUARY 23, 1986
- A Pleasant Valley Sunday to end all Pleasant Valley Sundays! MTV: Music Television - that's right, kiddos;
Music Television (hence the "M"!)! - ran a nonstop 22½ hour marathon of 46 episodes of The Monkees'
1966-1968 television program, taking full advantage of The Monkees' 20th anniversary! Monkeemania swung back into the counterculture...bigger and better than ever before!! It led to daily
repeets on MTV that spring, 2 sold out concert tours featuring
¾ of the original band, local syndicated repeets of the TV series that summer, and a 2-year run of repeets on MTV's sister networks
Nickelodeon and
Nick At Nite starting Monday, September 1 of that year.
FEBRUARY 24, 1973
- "I've Got A
Little Song Here" (#4707), Episode No. 12 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 1:00 p.m. EST on ABC, with a new song added: "Steam Engine" written by Chip Douglas.
FEBRUARY 26, 1968
- "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" (prod. #4751) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. EST on NBC as the 55th episode of The Monkees.
This telecast was presented by Kellogg's and featured the tune "Star Collector" written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King and produced by Chip Douglas.
Trivia Footnote: Peter H. Thorkelson, director of "The Monkees Mind Their Manor", was best known to one and all as Peter Tork. This is the first of two Monkee-directed episodes of The Monkees this season.
FEBRUARY 26, 1972
- "Too Many Girls" (a.k.a. "Davy And Fern") (#4729), Episode No. 15 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS.
FEBRUARY 27, 1967
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"The Monkees A La Mode" (prod. #4736) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. EST on NBC as the 24th episode of The Monkees.
This telecast was presented by Kellogg's and
featured the tunes "Laugh",
written by H. Medress, P. Margo, M. Margo & J. Seigal and produced by Jeff
Barry, and "You May Just Be The One", written & produced by Michael Nesmith.
For those of you whose TV sets were humming to the tune of this episode this week, you would have seen the following commercials which originally aired with it: Kellogg's- Corn Flakes, Clairol Summer Blonde Shampoo, Score - "The 'No-Hair Cream' Hair Cream!", Kellogg's- Pop Tarts, Kellogg's- Raisin Bran, The Monkees for Kellogg's- Rice Krispies, and The American Red Cross.
FEBRUARY 27, 1968
- Further war sequences are filmed for The Monkees' motion picture Changes (#8888) on location in Bronson Canyon as well as shots of Micky falling down a mountain. Studio shots likely filmed this week include the group betting on a girl's suicide, David looking into a bathroom mirror, and some factory/black box sequences. Towards the end of the week the group travel to the Olympic boxing ring in Los Angeles to shoot boxer Sonny Liston's cameo appearance in the film.
FEBRUARY 27, 1971
- "Monkee
See, Monkee Die" (#4705), Episode No. 2 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS.
FEATURED 28, 1968
- The Monkees and a full film crew spend the day shooting on location at The Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant in Playa Del Rey, a suburb of Los Angeles, where most of the feature's factory sequences are shot for The Monkees' motion picture.
FEBRUARY 28, 1970
- "Find The Monkees!" (a.k.a. "The Audition") (#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. 1
"THE ROYAL FLUSH"
(prod. #4701, first aired on NBC September 12, 1966 and May 8, 1967)
Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's
The Monkees are hip to an evil archduke's assassination plot endangering
the life of his Princess niece, a Duchess primed for a Queenship. |
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| THE MONKEES TV SHOW RETURNS TO CABLE & SATELLITE! |
Tune in and turn on to The Monkees TV series on
Catchy Comedy every Pleasant Valley Saturday morning @ 7AM Central Time!
UPCOMING BROADCASTS
Future airdates are extremely subject to change; click here to confirm all upcoming Monkees shows on Catchy Comedy.
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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, February
21, 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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