| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
OCTOBER 4, 1969 -
"Monkee Versus Machine" (#4700), Episode No. 3 of The Monkees, was
repeeted @ noon (EDT) on CBS, with a new song added: "Listen To The Band," written by Michael Nesmith.
OCTOBER 5, 1992 - VAP Video releases 4 volumes of select episodes of The Monkees television series on VHS in Japan. These comprise of
The Monkees TV Show 1 VHS Tape (VPVU-63085): The Royal Flush (CBS Saturday repeet) / Monkee See, Monkee Die/Monkee Versus Machine / Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers;
The Monkees TV Show 2 VHS Tape (VPVU-63086): The Spy Who Came In From The Cool /The Success Story (summer 1967 repeet)/Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth / The Monkees A La Carte;
The Monkees TV Show 3 VHS Tape (VPVU-63087): I've Got A Little Song Here (summer 1967 repeet) / One Man Shy (a.k.a. Peter And The Debutante)(summer 1967 repeet)/Dance, Monkee Dance / Too Many Girls (a.k.a Davy And Fern); and
The Monkees TV Show 4 VHS Tape (VPVU-63088): The Case Of The Missing Monkee / Find The Monkees! (a.k.a. The Audition) / The Monkees In The Ring / The Monkees At The Circus.
Some episodes were previously released here in the United States on VHS by Musicvision, while numerous others got their home video debuts. Four more 4-episode VHS volumes would be distributed by VAP in November, culminating in a huge laserdisc boxed set in December.
OCTOBER 6, 1969 - The Monkees marked the end of a 4-year era...on TV, anyway.
David Jones, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith all appeared in show #3050-04 of the NBC comedy program
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, shortly before the release of the group's eighth album,
The Monkees Present Micky, David, Michael (Colgems COS-117), their second LP as a trio and the last to involve Nesmith. In it, they portrayed Spirits Of '76, medieval knights, and salesmen. (David Jones previously made a solo appearance in a St. Valentine's Day-themed episode of Laugh-In on February 10 of that year, not long before the release of the band's 7th LP,
Instant Replay [Colgems COS-113].) Their 1966–1968 NBC sitcom had just a month before seen resurgence in the form of Saturday Afternoon retelecasts (several episodes redubbed to reflect the group's latest releases, like summer 1967), starting on CBS.
This is notable for being the last appearance of The Monkees as a group to be televised nationwide during their original hey-heyday. Their once-thriving popularity had peaked, and Michael came to a parting of the ways with The Monkees the following April, after filming a Kool-Aid commercial with David and Micky, and formed Michael Nesmith & The First National Band with John Ware, John London and Red Rhodes at RCA.
OCTOBER 7, 1972 - "The Spy Who
Came In From The Cool" (#4702), Episode No. 5 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on ABC, with a new song added: "All Alone In The Dark," written by
Steven Soles and Ned Albright.
OCTOBER 9, 1967 - "Art, For Monkee's Sake" (prod. #4744) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC as the 37th episode of The Monkees.
Sponsored by Kellogg's™, this episode featured "Randy Scouse Git" written by Micky Dolenz and "Daydream Believer" written by John Stewart. This marked the debut appearance of "Daydream Believer" (billed in "Art, For Monkee's Sake"'s end titles as "Day Dream Believer"), which would become The Monkees' third and final visit to the #1 spot on the charts.
OCTOBER 9, 1971 -
"Monkee Versus Machine" (#4700), Episode No. 3 of The Monkees, was
repeeted @ noon (EDT) on CBS, with a new song added: "Listen To The Band," written by Michael Nesmith.
OCTOBER 10, 1966 -
"The Spy Who Came In From The Cool" (prod. #4702) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC as the 5th episode of The Monkees.
Sponsored by Kellogg's™, the songs featured were "The Kind Of Girl I Could Love" by Michael Nesmith & Roger Atkins,
"All The King's Horses" also by Nesmith, "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, and "Saturday's Child" by David Gates.
The firstrun telecast of this episode coincided with the release of The Monkees' self-titled first album,
The Monkees (Colgems #COM/COS-101).
OCTOBER 10, 1970 -
"I Was A Teenage Monster" (#4725), Episode No. 18 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30 p.m. (EDT) on CBS, with a new song added: "Good Clean Fun," written by Michael Nesmith.
FEATURED EPISODE OF THE MONKEES
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday [the weekly FEATURED EPISODE OF THE MONKEES WITH SCARY STUFF!!!!! is on hold for the next couple years!]) |
Episode No. 5
"THE SPY WHO CAME IN
FROM THE COOL"
(prod. #4702, aired on NBC October 10, 1966 and June 12)
Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's™
The Central Intelligence Service enlists The Monkees' aid to capture foreign
agents when David unknowingly buys maracas with hidden microfilm. |
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| THE MONKEES TV SHOW IS ON CABLE & SATELLITE! |
Tune in and turn on to The Monkees TV series on
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UPCOMING BROADCASTS-OCTOBER 2026
* Catchy Comedy regularly skips The Monkees Episode No. 26,
"Monkee Chow Mein", due to the obviously painfully obvious Oriental stereotypes.
Future airdates are extremely subject to change; click here to confirm all upcoming Monkees shows on Catchy Comedy.
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.
Click the image of the book to learn more and order your copy today! I did! |
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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. |
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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
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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, laserdisc and digital video disc (DVD),
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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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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Click HERE To Check For Annual Updates! |
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 33 1/3 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, October 4, 2026.
Concieved, edited, researched, cross-checked and written by
Aaron
Handy III.
Vintage TV
Guide magazine covers courtesy of TV Guide, © 1967 by Triangle
Publications, Inc., Pandor, PA.
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 Garamond, Franklin Gothic Medium, Garamond, 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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