"Hillbilly Honeymoon" (a.k.a. "Double Barrel Shotgun Wedding") (prod. #4768) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC as the 39th episode of The Monkees.

The sponsor of the week was Kellogg's, and the song of the week was "Papa Gene's Blues", written & produced by Michael Nesmith.

Trivia Footnote: This was the first episode of The Monkees TV series to be filmed after The Monkees completed their summer tour, as well as the episode which introduced the "new-look" Monkees, in which case they employed love beads, shades, paisley gear, Indian boots, and, in Micky Dolenz's case, a huge head of curly Afro hair. As production on the show's second season progressed, Michael Nesmith would also adapt to the "new-look" Monkees phase by abandoning his omnipresent wool hat in favor of shades and neckties.

Starting today and extending throughout this week, we celebrate a very important milestone: the Pictures Anniversary of that very Pleasant Valley Friday afternoon when this very web site, THE MONKEES FILM & TV VAULT, a comprehensive web companion to The Monkees' video and celluloid history, first launched.

Thus, the MF&TVV throwback page from last year boasting boasting screengrabs (all captured by Smartphone from previous caches of the site from Internet Archive) displaying the many changes, alterations and facelifts thru the years of The MF&TVV to honor its Quadranscentennial is reused, with The Featured Monkees Episode Of The Week being “The Monkees In A Ghost Town” (prod. #4704, aired on NBC October 24, 1966 and July 17, 1967), Episode No. 7 of The Monkees, which aired a good 31 years to the day the seeds of The Monkees Film TV & Vault were first sown. Again, as always, you surfers and fellow Monkeedevotees for your support and loyalty which has enabled this site to go, flow, grow, drive, thrive and survive during its 26 years on The World Wide Web cannot be thanked enough!

Also, you notice that in a handful of the Episode Pages that a new feature has sprung: Extra Color/B&W Episode Photo Stills! This is a special section which provides extra space for more color/black-and-white publicity/promo/behind-the-scenes photo stills from Monkees episodes too numerous for each of the Notes sections. More will be added as time is allotted, so stay tuned in and turned on!