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The Monkees Film & TV Vault!

THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY

JULY 28, 1973 - "The Royal Flush" (#4701), the premiere episode of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 1:00 p.m. EDT on ABC, with 2 new songs added: "Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears," written by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart and "Good Clean Fun," written by Michael Nesmith.

JULY 29, 1968 - "The Devil And Peter Tork" (#4737), Episode No. 52 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 7:30 p.m. EDT on NBC.

It was sponsored this week by Procter Gamble’s Cinch/HiC/Clairol, and the original commercials shown were: Procter Gamble’s Cinch (:30), Camay Soap (:30), Hi-C (1:00), Clairol Born-Blonde (:30), and Clairol Instant Condition (:30).

JULY 29, 1972 - "Monkee Chow Mein" (#4735), Episode No. 26 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EDT on CBS.

JULY 31, 1967 - "Monkee Chow Mein" (#4735), Episode No. 26 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC, with a new song added: "Words."

The sponsor this week was Kellogg’s™, and the commercials shown were for: Jimmy Durante for Kellogg’s™ Corn Flakes (:30), Clariol Summer Blond (:30)/Clariol Hairdew (:30), Kellogg’s™ Sugar Frosted Flakes (:30), Kellogg’s™ Variety Packs with Peter Marshall (:30), and The Monkees for Kellogg's Rice Krispies (:30) .

JULY 31, 1971 - "The Devil And Peter Tork" (#4737), Episode No. 52 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ 12:30 PM EST on CBS, with a new song added: "I Never Thought It Peculiar," written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.

AUGUST 1, 1970 - "The Chaperone" (#4711), Episode No. 9 of The Monkees, was repeeted @ noon EST on CBS, with a new song added: "Midnight Train," written by Micky Dolenz.

FEATURED EPISODE OF THE MONKEES
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday)

Episode No. 10
"HERE COME THE MONKEES"
(a.k.a. "THE MONKEES - THE PILOT")

(prod. #4091, aired on NBC November 14, 1966 and August 7, 1967)
Originally Sponsored by Slicker and Black Label by Yardley Of London™

The Monkees are booked to play at a Sweet 16 party, but when the birthday
girl falls for David and her studies begin to suffer, they help her cram.

THE MONKEES TV SHOW IS ON 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

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DATE

TIME

CHANNEL

SHOWING

The Monkees - Season 1

8-1
Saturday

7:00 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"The Spy Who Came In From The Cool"

The Monkees - Season 1

8-1
Saturday

7:30 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"The Success Story"

The Monkees - Season 1

8-8
Saturday

7:00 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"The Monkees In A Ghost Town"

The Monkees - Season 1

8-8
Saturday

7:30 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth"

The Monkees - Season 1

8-15
Saturday

7:00 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"The Chaperone"

The Monkees - Season 1

8-15
Saturday

7:30 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"Here Come The Monkees"
(a.k.a. "The Monkees - The Pilot")

The Monkees - Season 1

8-22
Saturday

7:00 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"The Monkees A La Carte"

The Monkees - Season 1

8-22
Saturday

7:30 AM
CST

Catchy Comedy

"I've Got A Little Song Here"
(a.k.a. "Songwriter Story")

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!

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!

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 (official, 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.

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.

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.

Click HERE To Check For Annual Updates!

SPECIAL FEATURE!

A direct hookup with links to the lyrics of ALL the featured songs on the following webpages:

my brother site! (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!

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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, July 26, 2026.


Concieved, edited, researched, cross-checked and written by Aaron Handy III.

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