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| THIS WEEK IN MONKEES FILM & TV HISTORY |
SEPTEMBER 8, 1965
- Open ads appeared in the two show biz bibles,
Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, seeking "folk and musicians-singers for acting roles in a new TV series." The ad stated that they were looking for "insane boys". A total of 437 applicants answered the ad, including later-to-become-famous musicians Paul Williams, Stephen Stills, and Harry Nilsson. (There is no truth to the later urban legend that Charles Manson was one of the applicants, as Manson was incarcerated in federal prison at the time.) Four young men, two musicians (Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork) and two actors (David Jones and Micky Dolenz), were finally chosen to become what eventually became The Monkees.
SEPTEMBER 9, 1968
- "The Monkees Watch Their Feet" (a.k.a. "Micky And The Outer Space Creatures") (#4743), Episode No. 49 of The Monkees, was repeeted at 7:30p.m. (EDT) on NBC.
This repeet marked the final telecast of The Monkees television series on NBC in prime time (not, as is normally believed, the August 19, 1968
repeet of Episode No. 56, "Some Like It Lukewarm" [a.k.a. "The Band Contest"]), therefore placing a capstone on a 2-season, 58-episode run. It was replaced a week later in its 7:30 Monday stead by I Dream Of Jeannie, which, ironically, followed The Monkees in its first season.
SEPTEMBER 9, 1972
- "The Case Of The Missing Monkee" (#4731), Episode No. 17 of The Monkees, was repeeted at 1:00p.m. (EDT) on ABC.
This was the first repeet of The Monkees on ABC Saturday Afternoon.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1967
- "It's A Nice Place To Visit..." (a.k.a. "The Monkees In Mexico") (prod. #4752) first aired at 7:30/6:30 Central Time on NBC as the 33rd episode of The Monkees. The sponsor of the week was Kellogg's, and the song featured was "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" (Murphy / Castleman).
This episode launched The Monkees TV series' second (and final) season on The NBC Television Network. Also on this day, 12 1/2 hours before "It's A Nice Place To Visit..." (a.k.a. "The Monkees In Mexico") was scheduled to air, The Monkees themselves, after a long, grueling summer of touring and recording (the upcoming 4th album,
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.), reported to Screen Gems Studio 7 in Hollywood to resume production on their television show; first on the agenda was episode #4768, "Hillbilly Honeymoon"
(a.k.a. "Double Barrel Shotgun Wedding") (to air on NBC in late October as The Monkees' Episode No. 39), by Peter Meyerson.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1971
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"The Monkees On The Line" (#4739), Episode No. 28 of The Monkees, was repeeted at noon (EDT) on CBS, with a new song added: "Little Girl," written by Micky Dolenz.
With this repeet, The Monkees television show entered its third and final season on
CBS Saturday Afternoons.
SEPTEMBER 12, 1966
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"THE ROYAL FLUSH" (prod. #4701) first aired @ 7:30/6:30 p.m. Central Time in Living Color on NBC Television as the premiere episode of THE MONKEES, a comedy-fantasy series from Raybert/Screen Gems TV Productions heavily influenced by The Beatles' movies
A Hard Day's Night (United Artists, 1964) and Help! (United Artists, 1965), which reflected the misadventures of an unknown, young, longhaired, modern-dressed group and its dreams on the way to fame and fortune. Produced by Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider, it starred David Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, all of whom were chosen from a lot of 437 applicants who answered an ad in the September 8, 1965 issues of
The Hollywood Reporter and
Daily Variety.
Pop culture as we knew it was changed forever.
The sponsor of the week was Kellogg's, and the songs were were Boyce & Hart's "This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day" and Goffin & King's "Take A Giant Step." The third
Monkees episode to be filmed, "The Royal Flush" was the first to be helmed by James Frawley, an initial member of innovative NYC comedy troupe The Premise, who would go on to direct the bulk of The Monkees' 58 half-hour segments (32 to be exact). Frawley would soon be greatly rewarded for his efforts on "The Royal Flush"; it won the Emmy for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In A Comedy Series for 1966-67.
The success of the TV series and the hit records it helped generate made The Monkees the rage of America, imitating and, at times, even
eclipsing The Beatles' own success! The series cranked out 58 episodes for 2 seasons on NBC, finally ending in September 1968. But what a following The Monkees have had during the course of that run: 2 Emmy Awards, 4 #1 hit albums, 3 #1 hit singles, and 2 sold-out concert tours...not to mention the admiration and adulation of fans worldwide, something which continues to thrive to this very day!!
SEPTEMBER 12, 1970
- "The Monkees Watch Their Feet" (a.k.a. "Micky And The Outer Space Creatures") (#4743), Episode No. 49 of The Monkees, was
repeeted at 12:30p.m. (EDT) on CBS.
This retelecast precipitated a second season of
repeets of The Monkees on CBS Saturdays, taking place on the fourth anniversary of the series debut.
FEATURED EPISODE OF THE MONKEES
(Updated every Pleasant Valley Sunday) |
Episode No. 1
"THE ROYAL FLUSH"
(prod. #4701, aired on NBC September 12, 1966 and May 8, 1967)
Originally Sponsored by Kellogg's™
The Monkees are hip to an evil archduke's assassination plot endangering
the life of his Princess niece, a Duchess primed for a Queenship. |
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| 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
*The 60th anniversary of The Monkees television series' World Premiere at 7:30, Monday evening, September 12, 1966, on NBC television.
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! |
THE MONKEES TV SHOW RETUNS TO TUBI!
#Bulletin: Tune in and turn on to The Monkees television series on
Tubi starting August 15! And just in time for the 60th Anniversary, too!
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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 Wednesday, September 9, 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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