With another Christmas now behind us, there remains only 6 days left of The Year 2023 Anno Domini. As a result, The Monkees Film & TV Vault's New Year's page is now up, with an indication of the forthcoming year's centennial of Columbia Pictures Industries, Incorporated, the ingenius creation of brothers Jacob and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joseph Brandt, in 1924. Screen Gems, supplier of the 1966-1968 NBC situation comedy The Monkees, was the television subsidary of Columbia Pictures, which also distributed The Monkees' 1968 cinematic series finale, HEAD. (Abraham Schneider, father of series Producer/Executive Producer Bert Schneider, was Studio Head at the time.) In fact, the very ersatz version of the Columbia Pictures logo which appears at the tail end of HEAD is fittingly used to mark the milestone.
The Featured Monkees Episode is still No. 47, "The Monkees Christmas Show" (a.k.a. "The Christmas Story") (prod. #4746, aired on NBC December 25, 1967), though.
