THE MONKEES ON UK TV!
This page details all info about the Great Britain run of The Monkees television show from 1967 to 1968 on BBC1 and BBC2.
The following is the extract from the TV listing of Saturday December 31st 1966:-
6.15 to 6.40
THE MONKEES
A new film series
for the young in heart
starring
DAVY JONES, PETER TORK,
MICKY DOLENZ and MIKE NESMITH
who find the deck stacked against them in....
Royal Flush
See Facing Page
The above is a replica of how the very first programme was listed in this edition of Radio Times.
On the opposite page was the classic black and white photo of the whole group posing as cowboys (from the pilot episode) with the headline underneath:-
THE MONKEES
A swinging, new series from America about a four-man pop group
Then the following text was written underneath the photo and headline:-
[1] 6.15 Off the launching pad tonight is a new series which is driving American television viewers wild. Called The Monkees it stars four long-haired young men, who encounter adventures as a pop group. "What do The Monkees want?" asks a promotion handout. It answers: "To be free...to make every day Saturday night, to climb impossible mountains, to take a trolley car to the moon, to deflate stuffed shirts."
The Monkees group - now selling millions of discs in America - was created by television executives who put an advert in a paper asking for: MADNESS, Four insane, spirited, and hip boys...with the courage to work.
Do the successful four - Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith - live up to the demanding requirements? Well, judge for yourselves from tonight.
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The above is the word for word transcript from the very first British TV guide that featured their first broadcast. The front cover does not show the group but has a snowflake artistic design in black and pink with the headline New Shows for the New Year.
Incidentally prior to the first UK broadcast the shows before this first airing were:
5.15pm - Juke Box Jury
5.40pm - News
5.50pm - Dr. Who
This was on BBC One - New Years Eve 1966
Special thanks to Sue
for providing all of the above info which helped kickstart this page!
(The following has been liberated from a cached copy of the now-defunct Band 6 site, courtesy of Internet Archives.)
THE MONKEES TV SERIES AS SHOWN IN THE UK |
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All the information was research by Band 6 member Brian Mattocks from back issues of the Radio Times for 1967/68 |
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FIRST SEASON
1967 |
Royal Flush - 1 Jan 67
Monkee See, Monkee Die - 7th Jan 67
Monkee Vs. Machine - 14 Jan 67
Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnapers - 21 Jan 67
One Man Shy - 28 Jan 67
Monkees In A Ghost Town - 4 Feb 67
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - 11 Feb 67
Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth - 21 Feb 67
Success Story - 28 Feb 67
Too Many Girls - 28 Feb 67
I've Got A Little Song Here - 11 march 67
Dance Monkee Dance - 18 March 67 |
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I Was A Teenage Monkee - 25 March 67
Son Of Gypsy - 11 April 67
In The Ring - 8 April 67
Case Of The Missing Monkee 15 April 67
The Chaperone - 22 April 67
Monkees A La Carte - 29 April 67
At The Circus - 6 May 67
The Prince & The Pauper - 13 May 67
Monkees On The Line - 20 May 67
Get Out More Dirt - 27 May 67
Alias Micky Dolenz - 3 June 67
Monkees Make The Scene - 10 June 67 - that's what it said in the Radio Times
At The Movies - 17 June 67
Monkees On Tour - 24 June 67
Monkees In Manhattan - 30 Sept 67
Find The Monkees - 7 Oct 67
Monkees A La Mode - 14 Oct 67
Monkee Chow Mien - 21 Oct 67
Monkee Mother - 28 Oct 67
Captain Crocodile 4 Nov 67
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SECOND SEASON |
Picture Frame - 18 Nov 67
A Nice Place to Visit - 25 Nov 67
Monkee Mayor - 2 Dec 67
Everywhere A Sheik Sheik - 9 Dec 67
Art For Monkee Sake - 16 Dec 67
Hitting The High Seas - 16 Dec 67
I Was A 99lb Weakling - 30 Dec 67 |
1968 |
Monkees Marooned - 6 Jan 68
A Coffin To Frequent - 13 Jan 68
Monkees In Texas - 20 Jan 68
Wild Monkees - 27 Jan 68
Hitting The High Seas - 3 Feb 68 - this could be a repeat or a misprint in the paper
Shot Gun Wedding - 10 Feb 68
Card Carrying Red Shoes - 17 Feb 68
Fairytale - 24 Feb 68
Monstrous Monkee Mash - 2 March 68
Monkees paw - 16 March 68
On The Wheel - 23 March 68
Fairytale - 30 March 68 - this could be a repeat or a misprint in the paper
Monkees Mind Their Manor - 6 April 68
Monkees In Paris - 13 April 68
Some Like It Lukewarm - 20 April 68 - this was the last new UK episode
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The Monkees were featured on the front cover of the Radio Times for week 11 - 17 Feb 1967
(Volume 174 #2257) |
Transmission Details
Number of episodes Shown: 56 episodes, b/w
Length: 30 mins.
UK telecast: 31 Dec 1966-13 June 1968 on BBC1 Sat around 6.15pm
Episodes of The Monkees not originally shown in UK were "The Monkees Watch Their Feet", "The Devil And Peter Tork", "The Monkees Race Again" (a.k.a. "Leave The Driving To Us"), "The Monkees Blow Their Minds", and "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper").
A big thanks to Steven Bradley for providing additional info!
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