THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY

AUGUST 4, 1973 - The Monkees was preempted on ABC by Action '73.

AUGUST 5, 1968 - The Monkees was preempted on NBC by The 1968 Republican National Convention .

AUGUST 5, 1972 - "Monkee Mother" (#4709), Episode No. 27 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EDT on CBS.

AUGUST 7, 1967 - "Here Come The Monkees" (a.k.a. "The Monkees - The Pilot") (#4091), Episode No. 10 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC, with a new song added: Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil's "Shades Of Grey".

Sponsored this week by Yardley Of London, the commercials shown were Slicker Lip Polish by Yardley (:30), Oh! De London By Yardley (:30), and Clairol Midnight Sun (1:00).

Note: This episode was originally going to be retelecast on July 10, 1967, with its soundtrack revised to feature "Words."

AUGUST 7, 1971 - "The Monkee's Paw" (#4740), Episode No. 51 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30 PM EST on CBS.

AUGUST 8, 1970 - "The Son Of A Gypsy" (#4724), Episode No. 16 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS.

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Episode No. 53 "THE MONKEES RACE AGAIN" (a.k.a. "AND LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US") (prod. #4745, aired on NBC February 12 and July 1, 1968) Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's The Monkees help a friend of David's grandfather to win an automobile race, but two rival German contestants from WWII plot sabotage!

Description Of Site Contents
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.
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.
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!
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!
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")!
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!
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!
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.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON REPEATS	A compleet chronological listing of all 58 Monkees shows as originally seen on CBS and ABC Saturday Afternoons!
MONKEES LINKS	A listing of links to other Monkee pages, divided in 3 columns (offical, film/TV and music/group-oriented Monkees pages).
AWARDS BESTOWED UPON THE MF&TVV	The awards of which The Monkees Film & TV Vault is a proud recipient.
ORIGIN OF THE MF&TVV	My personal account on how The Monkees Film & TV Vault came to be.
ONSCREEN CAPTIONS	A guide listing all of the humorous captions which flashed on screen in several episodes of The Monkees.
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.
THE MONKEES GO APE FOR BATMAN	Varous cross references to the 1966-68 ABC-TV Batman series (and beyond) on The Monkees.
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.
MONKEES EPISODE PRODUCTION NUMBERS	An appendix (partially in text) of all 58 episodes of The Monkees TV series arranged in chronological production numerical order.
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)
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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