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| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
NOVEMBER 15, 1969 - "The Picture Frame" (a.k.a. "The Bank Robbery") (#4759), Episode No. 34 of The Monkees, was repeated at Noon Eastern on CBS.
NOVEMBER 17, 1998 - Rhino Home Video/Rhino Entertainment Company releases the DVD
Our Favorite Episodes - The Monkees (R2 4464), a compilation featuring episodes personally selected by the band members, along with brief interviews from the 1987 Disney Channel special,
Hey Hey We're The Monkees (and previously only available on VHS inside Rhino's Monkees lunchbox). The DVD includes four episodes, each introduced by one of the band members discussing their selection: "Hitting the High Seas" (David Jones's choice, though some sources note his actual favorite was "The Royal Flush"), "Monkee vs. Machine" (Peter Tork's choice), “Mijacogeo” (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") (Micky Dolenz's choice [also the final episode of the original TV series, which he cowrote and directed]), and “The Fairy Tale" (Michael Nesmith's choice).
NOVEMBER 18, 1997 - Rhino Home Video releases
Hey Hey We're The Monkees (R3 2327) on VHS. It's a tape of the same-named 60-minute January 1997 Disney Channel special, which is a biography/documentary style program about the band, with 19 minutes of previously unreleased footage.
NOVEMBER 18, 2003 - Rhino RetroVision Home Video distributes
The Monkees - Season 2 DVD set (R2 970128). Pretty much like its May 2003 predecessor, Season One, its packaging generally features a sturdy cardboard outer box made to resemble a phonograph player designed to hold the individual DVD cases or discs. It is a 5-disc set containing
all 26 episodes from the second (and final) season on NBC, plus their 1969 NBC special
33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee as an extra (the first DVD release of the special). Other extras include
select episodes featuring Audio Commentary Tracks from all 4 Monkees, Bob Rafelson and Brian Auger,
a Photo Gallery, vintage footage of The Monkees in NYC from NBC News Archives (7/6/67) and on
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (2/5/69), an interview with the show's editor, Gerry Sheppard, Easter eggs containing interviews with writer, Coslough Johnson (Episode 37), Billie Hayes (Episode 39), Ruth Buzzi (Episode 43) and Butch Patrick (Episode 47), Episode Trivia (courtesy of this very website!!), an informational booklet, an optional English 5.1 Dolby Digital track, and a” play song romps” feature.
NOVEMBER 19, 1968
- HEAD (prod. #8888), the Columbia motion picture starring that popular TV rockband The Monkees, had its West Coast invitational premiere at The Vogue Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The event is covered on local Metromedia Radio stations KLAC and KMET by DJ Elliot Mintz, who also interviews the band. Others attending the gala are "Mama" Cass Elliott, Boyce and Hart, Dennis Hopper (who
cameos in HEAD), Peter Fonda (who later appeared with Hopper in the following year's hit
Easy Rider), Denny Doherty, comedy troupe The Committee, Sonny Tufts, Tina Louise, Severn Darden (who guested in 2 episodes of The Monkees television series ["Monkee Versus Machine" and "The Monkee's Paw"]), Jack Nicholson (cowriter/coproducer of
HEAD [with director Bob Rafelson]), and HEAD costars Timothy Carey, Carol Doda, T.C. Jones, Vito Scotti, Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, and Annette Funicello.
Collector's Note:
Colgems’ Original Soundtrack Recording of
HEAD, The Monkees’ sixth album (and the last to involve Peter Tork), undoubtedly saw releese on LP (#COSO-5008) this same day (as opposed to the commonly-beleeved December 1, 1968, which fell on a Sunday, when all record stores would be closed). The album was assembled by the film's cowriter/coproducer Jack Nicholson, and broke new ground in soundtrack long players, as it was a bizarre blend of song and dialogue from the film, proving its worth to be as unconventional as the movie itself!
Trivia Footnote: The Vogue Theatre, ironically, would be the exact same location which saw all 4 reunited Monkees being awarded a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 10, 1989.
NOVEMBER 20, 1967
- "A Coffin Too Frequent" (prod. #4741) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC as the 43rd episode of The Monkees.
Kellogg's originally sponsored the show this week, and the songs at hand were "Goin' Down" written by Diane Hilderbrand, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz & David Jones and "Daydream Believer" written by John Stewart...which, as we all know, were flipsides of the Colgems #66-1012 single, issued October 25, 1967.
This was the last filmed Monkees episode to feature Michael Nesmith topped by his beloved wool hat.
NOVEMBER 20, 1968
- The Monkees' motion picture HEAD hosted an invitation-only Bay Area premiere at The Metro II Theatre in San Francisco, California, with The Monkees in person, occurred @ 8:30 PM (PST), marking one of their final public appearances as a quartet. Meantime, HEAD simultaneously opened for regular engagements at The Trans Lux Fox Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Rosslyn Plaza in Washington, DC (Peter Tork's hometown), The FOX Vogue Theater in Los Angeles, California (the site of the previous evening's invite-only premiere), and The West End Cinema in Boston, Massachusetts.
NOVEMBER 20, 1971
- "Hitting The High Seas" (#4762), Episode No. 44 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ Noon Eastern on CBS, with a new song added: "Oh My My," written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.
NOVEMBER 21, 1966
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"The Monkees A La Carte" (prod. #4718), first aired @ 7:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC as the 11th episode of The Monkees.
The sponsor was Kellogg's, and the songs heard were "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" and "She", both written & produced by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart.
NOVEMBER 21, 1970
- "The Card-Carrying Red Shoes" (#4766), Episode No. 41 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30 p.m. Eastern on CBS.
FEATURED EPISODE OF THE MONKEES
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday) |
Episode No. 11
"THE MONKEES A LA CARTE"
(prod. #4718, aired on NBC November 21, 1966)
Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's™
The Monkees battle a ruthless mobster, his outsized torpedo and a crime
syndicate when they muscle in on an Italian restaurant where they work. |
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ANNOUNCING THE MONKEES
ON TV: SEASON ONE!
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THE
MONKEES ON TV: Season One
is Andrew P. Sandoval's culmination of a worldwide search for
original scripts and story drafts from The Monkees television series. It features detailed analysis of how each episode was transferred from script to screen and contains heretofore unpublished information bringing you behind the scenes of each production.
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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:
 (Internet Archives)
MONKEES SONG LYRICS
(The Monkees Homepage!)
Jackie L. Wilson's List Of
Lyrics
to Songs in 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee (Internet Archives)
Jen Belanger's Sunshine Factory!
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, November 15, 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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