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The Monkees is an American television musical sitcom that first aired on NBC for two seasons, from September 12, 1966, to March 25, 1968. [1] The series follows the adventures of four young men (The Monkees) trying to make a name for themselves as a rock 'n roll band. [2]
The Monkees also filmed a movie called Head that started production in early 1968, and was released in theaters that November by the Monkees' parent studio, Columbia, just after their TV show was canceled. Head was co-written by a then-largely-unknown Jack Nicholson.
The Monkees' debut and second albums were meant to be a soundtrack to the first season of the TV show, to cash in on the audience. In the 2006 Rhino Deluxe Edition re-issue of their second album, More of the Monkees , Nesmith stated that he was angered by the release of the first album because it portrayed the band as an actual rock-and-roll ...
The Monkees were both an American TV series in the 1960s and a pop-rock group. One of the first multimedia franchises, production of the Monkees series, music, feature film Head and other works involved a virtual Who's Who of American talent, giving many up-and-comers their first high-profile work, and many entertainment veterans a career boost.
33 + 1 ⁄ 3 Revolutions per Monkee is a television special, starring the Monkees, which aired on NBC on April 14, 1969. The musical guests on the show included Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, the Clara Ward Singers, the Buddy Miles Express, Paul Arnold and the Moon Express, and We Three in musical performances.
By the end of the Monkees run, Nesmith was withholding many of his original song ideas from Monkees albums, planning to release them in his post-Monkees solo career. Nesmith's last contractual Monkees commitment was a commercial for Kool-Aid and Nerf balls in April 1970 (fittingly, the spot ends with Nesmith frowning and saying, "Enerf's enerf ...
Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story is a 2000 American biographical drama television film about the rock and pop band the Monkees.Directed by Neill Fearnley and written by Ron McGee, the film is based on the 1996 book Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees by Harold Bronson.
Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees is a one-hour comedy special broadcast on the ABC Network on Monday February 17, 1997. The program features all four of the original Monkees and was the last time Micky Dolenz , Davy Jones , Michael Nesmith , and Peter Tork appeared together in a new television show.