The Monkees Film & TV Vault gets an early 25th anniversary present.

I hereby present (fanfare) a brand-spanking new masthead for the site.

The Monkees Film & TV Vault's latest logo now boasts a new "Film"-strip boasting color publicity photo stills representing both The Monkees' television series' first and second seasons, the motion picture HEAD, and the TV specials 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee and Hey Hey It's The Monkees (a.k.a. "A Lizard Sunning Itself On A Rock"). Plus, the letters "FILM" and the ampersand ("&") placed within these frames now take on the font Franklin Gothic Condensed, the same used for all identifying credits type on The Monkees' TV show and the movie HEAD, and strewn throughout this site, making them that much more readable. Furthermore, the colors of the lettering matches several colors of The Monkees' legendary eight-button long sleeved shirts: red, white, gold, and bright blue.

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“The Monkees At The Circus”, Episode No. 22 of The Monkees (prod. #4706, aired on NBC February 13, 1967), was repeated @ 12:30 P.M. (EDT) on CBS.

Trivia Footnote: This was “The Monkees At The Circus”'s only retelecast during The Monkees' Saturday Afternoon run.

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“The Monkees In A Ghost Town”, Episode No. 7 of The Monkees (prod. #4704, aired on NBC October 24, 1966), was repeated @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC, with a new song added: The Monkees' newly woodshedded remake of Boyce & Hart's "Words," produced by Douglas Farthing Hatlelid.

The sponsor of the week was Kellogg's, and the commercials shown were Kellogg's Raisin Bran (:30), Heartbreaker Eye Compact By Yardley (:30), Oh! De London by Yardley (:30), Jimmy Durante for Kellogg's Corn Flakes (1:00), and The Monkees for Kellogg's Rice Krispies (:30).

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 "The Monkees Mind Their Manor", Episode No. 55 of The Monkees (prod. #4751, aired on NBC February 26, 1968), was repeated @ 7:30 p.m. EDT on NBC.

The sponsor this week was Crest/Hi-C/Clairol Summer Blonde, with the commercials shown being Crest, Downy, Hi-C, Clairol Summer Blonde, and Ban.

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“The Monkees In A Ghost Town”, Episode No. 7 of The Monkees (prod. #4704, aired on NBC October 24, 1966 and July 17, 1967), was repeated @ noon (EDT) on CBS.

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“Find The Monkees!” (a.k.a. "The Audition"), Episode No. 19 of The Monkees (prod. #4721, aired on NBC January 23, 1967), was repeated @ 1:00 p.m. EDT on ABC.

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“Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth”, Episode No. 8 of The Monkees (prod. #4708, aired on NBC October 31, 1966), was repeated @ 12:30 p.m. (EDT) on CBS, with a new song added: "I Never Thought It Peculiar," written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.

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“The Monkees In A Ghost Town”, Episode No. 7 of The Monkees (prod. #4704, aired on NBC October 24, 1966 and July 17, 1967), was repeated @ 12:30 p.m. (EDT) on CBS.

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“Captain Crocodile”, Episode No. 23 of The Monkees (prod. #4730, aired on NBC February 20, 1967), was repeated @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC, with a new song added: "Pleasant Valley Sunday," written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King and produced by Douglas Farthing Hatlelid. This retelecast coincided with "Pleasant Valley Sunday"'s release on the A-side of the Colgems #66-1007 single, b/w a newly woodshedded remake of Boyce & Hart's "Words".

Sponsored this week by Yardley Of London™, the original commercials you would have seen were: Heartbreaker Eye Compact By Yardley (:30), Glimmerick by Yardley (:30), Jimmy Durante for Kellogg's Corn Flakes (1:00), and Clairol Midnight Sun (1:00).

Trivia Footnote: During a performance on Capt. Crocodile's show, Michael fangs to The Cap, "Either you let us play, or we quit!"...a catchcry which would become alarmingly prophetic in The Monkees' knockdown, dragout, yet successful battle for the right to play their own music. Don Kirshner's ousting as a result of this had a profound effect on this episode; in the scene where The Monkees get The Crocodile Corps to sit down and listen to a story, Micky originally starts to read, "Once upon a time in the land of Kirshner..." That was when The Man With The Golden Ear was still a valid member of the Screen Gems/Monkees community. However, when "Captain Crocodile" was renetworkcast, Kirshner was long gone from the picture, and its soundtrack was altered not just to include Goffin and King's "Pleasant Valley Sunday", but to change Micky's story introduction as well: "Once upon a time, in the land of Schnieder..." (after creator/coproducer Bert Schnieder).

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