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| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
FEBRUARY 3, 1973
- "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" (#4767), Episode No. 50 of The Monkees, was
repeeted @ 1:00 p.m. EST on ABC,
with a new song added: "Bye Bye, Baby, Bye Bye", written by Micky Dolenz and Ric Klein.
FEBRUARY 5, 1968
- "The Devil And Peter Tork" (prod. #4737) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. EST on NBC as the 52nd episode of The Monkees.
Yardley Of London™ sponsored, and "No Time" written by Hank Cicalo and "Salesman" written by Craig Smith (both produced by Douglas Farthing Hatlelid) were the featured songs.
It recieved an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In A Comedy Series For 1967-68; sadly, it lost out to the Bruce Bilson-directed "Maxwell Smart, Private Eye" segment of
Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-70). Ironically, Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso, the writing team who cowrote this and several other Monkees episodes, composed several episodes of
Get Smart prior to writing for The Monkees! (Is it any coincidence that three of their previous Monkees scripts, Episode No. 5,
"The Spy Who Came In From The Cool", No. 17,
"The Case Of The Missing Monkee", and No. 26,
"Monkee Chow Mein", were spy-oriented??)
FEBRUARY 5, 1969
- The Tork-less Monkees turn up on
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS, aired at 7:30pm, their second appearance on network television as a trio. They are seen performing a brief live medley of ‘Last Train To Clarksville, 'Salesman,' and 'I'm A Believer', followed by a comedy sketch concerning their long history together that includes several pre-recorded numbers satirizing historical events from the last 60 years, which ends with the group performing their then-new single, "Tear Drop City.'
Later, David, Micky and Michael appear in a series of skits, loosely about touch-tone telephones, including the performance of a touch-tone 'symphony' and acting as spies. Their voices are also heard as callers during a sketch about provocative hosts of radio talk shows.
Meanwhile, on another netowrk...Turn-On, a half-hour sketch comedy on ABC patterned after Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In co-created by Laugh-In executive producer George Schlatter, was quickly turned off
due to sponsors pulling out and the show being yanked after just one telecast due to its crude nature! Tim Conway was the only guest host.
The Monkees trio had filmed a guest segment for Turn-On which, had it not provoked such a furor, would've been broadcast on March 12, 1969.
FEBRUARY 5, 1972
- "A Coffin Too Frequent", Episode No. 43 of The Monkees (prod. #4741, first aired on NBC November 20, 1967), was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS, with a new song added: "Oklahoma Backroom Dancer," written by Michael Nesmith.
FEBRUARY 6, 1967
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"The Prince And The Paupers" (prod. #4733) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. EST on NBC as the 21st episode of The Monkees.
This show was sponsored by Yardley Of London™ and featured the song "Mary Mary" written & produced by Michael Nesmith.
FEBRUARY 6, 1971
- "The
Monkees Get Out More Dirt" (#4738), Episode No. 29 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30p.m. EST on CBS, with a new song added: "Steam Engine" written by Chip Douglas.
FEBRUARY 7, 1970
- "The
Monkees Get Out More Dirt" (#4738), Episode No. 29 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS, with a new song added: "Steam Engine" written by Chip Douglas. (And, as we all know, CBS would re-air this episode almost a full year later!)
FEATURED MONKEES EPISODE OF THE WEEK:
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday) |
Episode No. 32
"I WAS A 99-LB. WEAKLING"
(a.k.a. "PHYSICAL CULTURE")
(prod. #4757, first aired on NBC October 16, 1967 and April 29, 1968)
Originally Sponsored by Slicker by Yardley Of London
With his girlfriend on the arm of a bullying blond muscle-bound hulk, Micky
starts a health program under the guidance of a phony physical cultist. |
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| THE MONKEES TV SHOW RETURNS TO CABLE & SATELLITE! |
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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 (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 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 1, 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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