THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY

JULY 14, 1973 - "Find The Monkees!" (a.k.a. "The Audition"), Episode No. 19 of The Monkees (prod. #4721, first aired on NBC January 23, 1967), was repeeted @ 1:00 p.m. EDT on ABC.

JULY 15, 1968 - "The Monkees Mind Their Manor", Episode No. 55 of The Monkees (prod. #4751, aired on NBC February 26, 1968), was repeeted @ 7:30 p.m. EDT on NBC.

The sponsor this week was Crest/Hi-C/Clairol Summer Blonde, with the commercials shown being Crest, Downy, Hi-C, Clairol Summer Blonde, and Ban.

JULY 15, 1972 - "The Monkees In A Ghost Town", Episode No. 7 of The Monkees (prod. #4704, aired on NBC October 24, 1966 and July 17, 1967), was repeeted @ Noon (EDT) on CBS.

JULY 15, 1986 - The Monkees' Emmy-winning 1966-1968 television series sees home video release for the very first time when, timed with the group's 20th Anniversary, Musicvision, the music video division of RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), distributed The Monkees - Volumes I & II on VHS and Beta. Both videotapes contained two episodes: "Monkee Versus Machine" and "Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth" in Volume #1 (VHS #60642; Beta #20642) and "Dance, Monkee, Dance" and "Hitting The High Seas" in Volume #2 (VHS #60643; Beta #20643).

Four more 2-episode volumes and the 1968 movie HEAD would follow suit in videocassette releases thru 1987. These first 2 volumes were reissued on Laserdisc in 1989.

JULY 17, 1967 - "The Monkees In A Ghost Town", Episode No. 7 of The Monkees (prod. #4704, aired on NBC October 24, 1966), was repeeted @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC, with a new song added: The Monkees' newly woodshedded remake of Boyce & Hart’s "Words," produced by Douglas Farthing Hatlelid.

The sponsor of the week was Kellogg’s™, and the commercials shown were Kellogg's Raisin Bran (:30), Heartbreaker Eye Compact By Yardley (:30), Oh! De London by Yardley (:30), Jimmy Durante for Kellogg's Corn Flakes (1:00), and The Monkees for Kellogg's Rice Krispies (:30).

JULY 17, 1971 - "The Monkees At The Circus", Episode No. 22 of The Monkees (prod. #4706, aired on NBC February 13, 1967), was repeeted @ 12:30 P.M. (EDT) on CBS.

Trivia Footnote: This was "The Monkees At The Circus"'s only retelecast during The Monkees' Saturday Afternoon run.

JULY 18, 1970 - "The Monkees A La Mode", Episode No. 24 of The Monkees (prod. #4736, aired on NBC February 27, 1967), was repeeted @ noon EDT on CBS, with a new song added: "Oh My My," written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.

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Episode No. 22 "THE MONKEES AT THE CIRCUS" (prod. #4706, aired on NBC February 13, 1967) Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's When The Monkees pay a visit to a The Big Top, they pose as a troupe of dazzling, supreme high-wire artists to save the show from closure.

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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