The Monkees television show, 58 episodes in color and distributed exclusively by Columbia Pictures Television, premiered in local syndication, 2 years after compleeting a neat 4-year run of retelecasts on CBS and ABC Saturday Afternoon (September 13, 1969 - August 25, 1973), and 7 years after finishing its 2-season original run on NBC in primetime (September 12, 1966 - September 9, 1968). The first 7 TV stations to have the honour of carrying the series locally were KBHK-TV in San Francisco (now KBCW-TV), WFLD-TV in Chicago (now FOX 32), WKBS-TV in Philadelphia (now defunct, as of Monday, August 29, 1983), WKBD-TV in Detroit (now The CW50), WLVI-TV in Boston (now The CW56), KDNL-TV in St. Louis (now ABC30), and WDCA-TV (now FOX5 Plus) in Washington D.C. (Peter Tork's hometown!!). For 9 years the show played on and off these and other local markets until the group's 20th Anniversary in 1986 put it over worldwide.
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