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First off, many happy returns, Uncle Sam!
Also, new episode snaps have been added to “Monkee Mother” and "The Monkees Race Again" (a.k.a. "And Leave The Driving To Us"), and Trivia Notes are etier added to are updated in "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" and "The Monkees Race Again" (a.k.a. "And Leave The Driving To Us").
Episode No. 4, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers” (prod. #4703, aired on NBC October 3, 1966 and May 15, 1967), is this week's Featured Monkees Episode.
Also, you notice in the past few days some more further tinkering has been done! For instance, the titles of each episode in each Monkees episode capsule is now seen in all-caps and rendered under a new font: Franklin Gothic Condensed. According to Jenny, the webmistress of the Sunshine Factory fansite, Franklin Gothic (EF) Condensed is the font which was used for the credits of The Monkees' 1965 pilot, the 1966-68 TV show, and the 1968 movie HEAD. Thus I was inspired to incorporate the font to this site, to, y'know, bring it a bit closer to the show (and related projects). The episode pages, along with those for HERE COME THE MONKEES: The Original 1965 Pilot Episode, THE MONKEES (NBC, 1966-1968), and HEAD (COLUMBIA, 1968), are the only portions of this site which will benefit from this great change.
The Featured Monkees Episode Of The Week is No. 35, "Everywhere A Sheik Sheik" (prod. #4749, aired on NBC September 25, 1967 and April 8, 1968). And you may have noticed some further tinkering has been done to the site, mainly on the front page index!
Also, if you noticed that a great portion of this site looks...different, you'd be right! I merely adjusted the table width of the pages to make the site more compatible for widescreen computers while still preserving the original screen ratio, with which it was best viewed, as I felt it looked too unatrractive being stretched out from one corner of the screen to another.
Thanks to a new laptop in my possession, regular updates of The Monkees Film & TV Vault resume, after a half-year absence!
Episode No. 2, “Monkee See, Monkee Die” (prod. #4705, aired on NBC September 19, 1966 and May 1, 1967), is this week's Featured Monkees Episode.
sadThe 2010's haven't been particularly kind to The Monkees or their horde of teeming fans (including this one).
Especially in the month of February!
If you recall, it was on an Unpleasant Valley February day back in 2012 (on Leap Day, in fact) that a massive coronary claimed the life of 66 year-old David Thomas Jones, the youngest and lone Britisher of the TV cast/group. Now, 7 years hence, we mourn the loss of Peter Halsten Tork (nee Thorkelson), the eldest series regular/band member, over a week after his 77th birthday...and unfortunately coinciding with the 86th birthday of Monkees creator/producer/executive producer/writer/director Robert Rafelson.
The last Monkee to be chosen, Tork was the only other Monkee to appear in all 58 TV episodes and direct one (aside from Micky Dolenz). He bowed out of the group in late 1968, shortly after videotaping the special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, but would later on return with 2 of his former mates (and occasionally 3!) for a plethora of reunion tours, 4 new albums, and a 1997 reunion special for ABC, Hey Hey It's The Monkees.
Many of you also know that Peter tackled a knockdown, dragout battle with a rare tongue cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, only to have it recur with a vengeance and precipitate his passing, thus casting yet another Monkee wrench into the machinations. With half the original roster gone, The Monkees now share the same boat with the surviving members of the very band which inspired them, The Beatles (also reduced to a duet due to the cancer-induced death of one of theirs). But the mayhem and the melodies he leaves behind inevitably live on...
Thanks for helping us one and all to love one another, Peter. And say hi to David for us...
In Fondest Memoriam:
PETER HALSTEN THORKELSON
(February 13, 1942 - February 21, 2019)
Welcome to another year for The Monkees Film & TV Vault: The Year Of Our Lord 2019 AD! The 50th anniversary of the lone NBC telecast of The Monkees' grand finale as a quartet: the TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, and the start of The Monkees TV series Saturday Afternoon run on CBS!
Picking up where we left off last fall, Episode No. 34, "The Picture Frame" (a.k.a. "The Bank Robbery") (prod. #4759, aired on NBC September 18, 1967, April 1 and September 9, 1968) is The Featured Monkees Episode Of The Week.
