The following is the extract from the TV listing of Saturday December 31st 1966:-

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:-

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

THE MONKEES TV SERIES AS SHOWN IN THE UK
All the information was research by Band 6 member Brian Mattocks from back issues of the Radio Times for 1967/68
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
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
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
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