In observance of the 57th Anniversary of The Monkees television series' World Premiere on The NBC Television Network this coming Pleasant Valley Tuesday, this week's Featured Monkees Episode is, appropriately, the very first, the Emmy Award-winning “The Royal Flush” (prod. #4701, aired on NBC September 12, 1966 and May 8, 1967). Also, added photos to "The Wild Monkees" and "The Monkees In Texas", added a new Trivia Note to "The Monkees Race Again" (a.k.a. "And Leave The Driving To Us"), and put a new pic onto MONKEE VIDEOS.
Usually, each year The Monkees television series' anniversary comes around, I feature “The Royal Flush” and it precipitates the entire cycle of Featured Monkees Episodes Of The Week over again, and many remaining episodes wind up not being featured. That being said, from this year on, “The Royal Flush” will be a special Featured Episode just during the week of The Monkees anniversary, and the regular spate of weekly Featured Monkees Episodes will resume the following week onward.
