"The Monkees" TV episodes.. Search / Destroy

1. The one where they get a job at a toy factory that's run by a kid and the wonder toy they come up with is a sort of bendy stick. (Lots of Mike in this epsiode and he was my favourite)

2. Captain Crocodile

I think overall the show was pretty silly ("That's so *dumb*!") and I don't think there's a single episode which doesn't feature mugging or falling over, but there's at least one good bit in every episode -- and some of the music was great! I still love "She" and "Daydream Believer" (not so much the song, but the bit where Davy -- drool -- is doing that sexy little hipshake dance on the psychedelic stripy background...) and "Words".

Episodes-wise, I quite liked
- The Fairytale one
- The Monkees on the Line, where they take over the answering service. It's really frenetic, and I hate the phone, so I could relate.
- The Monkees at the Circus sticks in my head, for some reason. Lots of colour and movement, maybe?
- I liked The Monkees in Paris, even though it's not a "real" Monkees episode per se -- just them running around Paris and swinging off the Eiffel Tower and stuff. It's got this free, sixties feel to it that appealed to me.
- The Monkees Blow Their Minds is cool, mostly for Mike's conversation with Frank Zappa, after which he smashes up a car... I remember the Tim Buckley one! And the one with Charles Smalls (I think it's that one), where he tells Davy about why the rhythm that Ringo Starr/The Beatles used was soul rhythm.

OK, I have *far* too much to say about The Monkees...

Thanks for that!

I remember an episode with a Phil Spector-like producer that I thought was good, but I haven't seen any of the episodes in many years.

But I hate Ross from Friends and I love Mike Nesmith

Mike is so much cooler than fucking Ross, this is a travesty!

The 'toys' one was alright, and the 'fairy story' will get seen shortly (Alice was following us around the house with the DVD and sighing, last night). And as I read on the site(s) above, the boat one only had Mike in it for ten minutes as apparently he got badly seasick and had to drop out of the episode.

...Nesmith rushes through a version of it in a comedy bit while pretending to be Billy Roy Hodstetter, in the Monkees television show episode "Too Many Girls,"

I did play that 'fairy story' and they did love it.

I daren't get any more, however, as they would just ask overandoverandover for them...

Full Blu-Ray set early next year:

http://monkeesstore.warnermusic.com/music/the-monkees-complete-tv-series-blu-ray.html

Contains _Head_ and _33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee_ as well. Specs:

-10 Blu-ray discs
-58 episodes
-Newly remastered in stunning HD from the original negatives for the very first time, plus the 1969 TV Special "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee"
-The 1968 Monkees film "HEAD" in HD with never-before-seen outtakes
-Also includes bonus material, commentaries from all four Monkees, original Kellogg's Monkees commercials and more
-This fan-only edition includes exclusive packaging and a 7" featuring two previously unreleased TV mixes
-Strictly limited to 10,000 individually numbered sets
-Shipping January 2016
-Only available at monkees.com

I remember the Monkees as being better than this.

I was among the target audience for the Monkees when their television show first aired and I watched it more often than not for the first year or two. My memory of the show is that it tried desperately to replicate the carefree whimsicality of the Beatles' movies Hard Day's Night and Help, but do it in the confines of a half-hour sitcom, complete with at least one staged song in each episode. This formula led to a lot of forced nonsense that was never funny, bad acting, mugging for the camera and weak ass dialogue.

It was the type of show where running the film backward, so the band members emerged from a swimming pool, flew upwards to land on the pool edge and waved their arms around frantically, was supposed to be charming and signal "fun times for all".

All of which is to say, yes, it was that bad.

I want it, but wo.

Will at any point Head be available on BR without having to buy an expensive box set?

More than likely, I would have thought.

Liking the sound of this:

http://www.contactmusic.com/the-monkees/news/unseen-monkees-movie-footage-found_4998682

Archivist Andrew Sandoval is still searching out more rare material to include in the release, and he was recently bolstered by the discovery of 30 tins of outtakes from Head.

He tells Mojo magazine, "It's not finished. The boxes will ship in January but we're trying to pull out every stop, so we can add in as many extras from 1968 to 1970 as we can... We found out about all these (outtakes) but they were already suffering from (age degradation). Each frame needed to be scanned in individually. The restoration process for the TV series is going to cost $300,000. That's the biggest investment in The Monkees since the show folded in 1968."

Sandoval also details some of the rarities fans can expect, adding, "We now have the original ending of the (Head) movie, where all four Monkees escape from the black box, and a scene from the beginning where you see their alter egos... and in the last three months we found more than 30 canisters of Head outtakes.

"We're also looking at TV commercials they made for Yardley, the original pilot for the TV show, and a 1970 featurette they made for Kool Aid. We're basically going to be digging up gold to the last moment."

Watching bits and pieces of these here and there for the first time in many decades. Seem to hold up pretty well. One weird thing is that there is a Monkees Love Theme that keeps occuring and it sounds quite a bit like John Lennon's "Love" off of Plastic Ono Band. DO U SEE?

It appears twice in this easily available episode, which is of interest for having two songs off Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Jones Ltd. along with a discussion of rhythmic emphasis at the very end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9nCNHUieLI

This playlist has all the episodes, although some are pretty blurry, it seems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bRQ-y4OB5w

Dean Martin's daughter as the love interest in Some Like It Lukewarm! #onethreadalmost

Thougnt one of the members of The West Minstrel Abbeys might be Nurit Wilde, the mother of one of MIke's children, but she made a cameo on a different Monkees episode, this woman was named Sharon Cintron.

This website has an insane amount of screenshots from Monkees episodes: https://monkees.coolcherrycream.com/picturedb/characters/west-minstrel-abbey-guitarist

You can hear the Love Theme right away here, as the guys meet April Conquest/Julie Newmar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UOvUam-xQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2gJGWohWg
Love the names and images of the rival bands in these episodes.

We're the new generation and we've got something to say.

Hey hey we are The Monkees
You know we love to please
A manufactured image
With no philosophies

jack nicholson on acid "that will really break their brains, maaaaaan."

What did Jack Nicholson say at the Head screening when the acid wore off?

Please send the check to my accountant

Lol

The money's in
We're made of tin

BluRay(Bert) box is available again:

https://monkeesstore.warnermusic.com/the-monkees-complete-tv-series-blu-ray.html

Thank u, I have been patiently waiting, it's taking every ounce of my willpower rn to not immediately flush $200 down the toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TXL7eYg3J0

I would have flushed my money down the toilet had I known how quickly the toilet would disappear (tearz).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JGaKlcGN-g

Seems like they could/should do a cheaper version without the single and less gimmicky packaging.

Hehe

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