#The Monkees Season 1

[thislovintime]

Peter Tork with Arlo Guthrie and Timothy Leary on the set of Alice's Restaurant, 1968. Photo 1 by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images, photo 2 courtesy of Everett Collection.

(Peter knew Arlo from the Greenwich Village days, particularly, according to 16 magazine, Peter's February 1964 visit to his old stomping grounds.) "[T]he Monkees use the new energies to sing the new songs and pass on the new message. [...] The Monkees' television show. Oh, you thought that it was silly teenage entertainment? Don't be fooled. While it lasted, it was a classic Sufi put on. An early-Christian electronic satire. A mystic magic show. A jolly Buddha laugh at hypocrisy. At early evening kiddie-time on Monday the Monkees would rush through a parody drama, burlesquing the very shows that glue Mom and Dad to the set during prime time. Spoofing the movies and the violence and the down-heavy-conflict-emotion themes that fascinate the middle-aged. And woven into the fast-moving psychedelic stream of action were the prophetic, holy, challenging words. Micky was rapping quickly, dropping literary names, making scholarly references: then the sudden psychedelic switch of the reality channel. He looked straight at the camera, right into your living room, and up-levelled the comedy by saying: 'Pretty good talking for a long-haired weirdo, huh, Mr. and Mrs. America?' And then ZAP, flash. Back to the innocuous comedy. Or, in a spy drama, Micky warned Peter: ‘Why this involves the responsibility for blowing up the entire world!’ Peter, confidently: ‘I’ll take that responsibility!’ And Micky, with a glance at the camera, said, ‘Wow! With a little more ego he’ll be ready to run for President!’ Why, it all happened so fast, LBJ, you didn’t even see it." - Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

[frodisvictor]

Possibly one of the silliest monkees clips I have!

[blue-pyt]

[rig-a-rendal]

s2 e5 recap !

[genericruleroftheflies]

Season 1 drawing of The Monkees! Yay!

[transcakeoutintherain]

Ok I KNOW how inflation works & whatnot but also. the desperation of micky saying “14.50 to replace an engine!! where will we get 14.50!!” is the PEAK of comedy now like.... buddy.............

[thmollusk]

CHAPTER FOUR OF MY WIFE’S MONKEES FIC IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S VERY GOOD BTW AND I SHOULD KNOW AS A MONKEE FANDOM TUMBLR VETERAN

[cipher-fresh]

Mutual #1: Ruby is DEFINITELY Missy’s daughter guys

Mutual #2: I wish 15 had condemned cops or something when Ruby asked why the TARDIS looked like that

Mutual #3: CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON. CHRIS. CHRIS COME BACK BABY

Mutual #4: She Charley on my Pollard till i Scherzo

Mutual #5: I hate that Moffat is returning to write an episode. Can Steven Moffat kill himself please

Mutual #6: I love that Moffat is returning to write an episode. Can RTD kill himself please

Mutual #7: What if we kissed in front of Ianto’s shrine in Cardiff and we were both girls

Mutual #8: Chibnall’s episodes outside of his era are some of his better ones. I think for every cool thing he does there’s law of conservation of energy applies and the next episode he makes sucks

Mutual #9: I really do not mean to TJLC but i think the Doctor is going to realize he’s in a TV show this season. Bc i don’t know what to do with the death of RTD’s subtlety in foreshadowing

Mutual #10: I’m not misogynistic but I just hate everything about the 13th Doctor era and I just think it doesn’t have a single redeeming quality.

Mutual #11: You are literally an anti-feminist if you hate anything about the 13th Doctor era

Mutual #12: Spydoc are pegging each other rn in my Google docs

Mutual #13: Guys I’m getting a tattoo of the 8th doctor should it say “autism” or “lesbian” underneath in impact font

Mutual #14: It’s so sad that Simm!master turned into a puppygirl. Oh well I must comply to canon

Mutual #15: Was Thasmin queerbaiting? No nuance pick one

Mutual #16: Everybody listen to the TV movie soundtrack NEOWWWWWWW

Mutual #17: Tegan and Nyssa would have the Monkees on their sex playlist

Mutual #18: I just wish 14 got a whole season, you know? Or maybe two. Or three. Who needs 15 anyway?

Mutual #19: If David Tennant steps foot on a Doctor Who stage again I will kill him with my blade

Mutual #20: Link to pirating big finish in reblog. everybody please come to 6th Doctor land with me

[rivertigo]

monkees hair stylist crimes ranked by badness

1. straightening Micky’s hair. They took a hot guy and made him so painfully kid by straightening his beautiful curls. they dulled his sparkle. never seen a crazier blowup than Micky with straight hair vs with his natural curls

2. giving mike the craziest side part ever. they were setting him up. I forgot who’s dad or relative or whoever said this but I remember they referred to mike as the one with the unfortunate hairline. I just saw a picture of him with bangs and he was hot as fuck lowkey I get you guys now. but with the side part so strong he loses like so much of his appeal

3. letting Micky have curly hair but styling it in a pushed back way. It just looked awkward and bad. they probably realized they had to keep the curls because we’ll have you seen him? but they probably wanted him to look ‘neat’ or something like that because it was the 1960s major network tv

4. Davy’s long hair in the early seasons. I love when men have long hair but his didn’t have enough shape in the early days. It was a long swoop they combed too much and I thought it wasn’t as good as it could’ve been and I know this to be a truth because in 1969/70 he had a similar length with some better shaping and it looked so good. this is the lowest on the list because Davy was still hot.

the monkees hair stylist has never harmed Peter Tork

[the-mozzarella-brothers]

HI everyone

as y'all probably know, the monkees episodes on archive.org got taken down unfortunately. thankfully though, i downloaded all the files from there that i could a while ago and i have a google drive with those exact files!

everyone can feel free to use it, it is here. i'm not sure how stuff like this works with copyright so don't spread it around unnecessarily just in case (though i can always remake it because i have the files on my laptop still), but if you need it then feel free to use it!!

it also has elephant parts for anyone that wants that :)

if anyone else finds any other monkees content (television parts as a file, etc etc) that i can put on there feel free to send it to me to add it :) im not sure how much storage i have on there but i can always figure out a solution!

hope this helps!

edit: it seems i kind of put the wrong link on the original version of this post that leads straight to the season 1 section (thats the section i had open when i made the post) and i've fixed it but on the versions that have been reblogged it still opens that link. i think with that link you should be able to go backwards to the part with all four sections (S1, S2, films and specials, michael's stuff) but i'm not exactly sure. sorry about it not working properly before i should've checked the link when i posted it :/

[1967-shades-of-gray]

I present to you, S1E16 of the Monkees but it's watchable

So, as well all know, Season 1 Episode 16 of the Monkees is not a good episode, so I took it upon myself to cut it down into something watchable. (Read: Strange noises and/or people being injured.)

Warning: The video has a little bit of flashing due to the way I cut the clips, also it still has some stereotypes visible in it, it is impossible to totally cut them out. This post is NOT meant to be an in depth discussion of such this, I'm just attracted to them.

(I had a slightly longer cut of this, but it would not upload. Enjoy this version. <3)

[thislovintime]

Tom Campbell interviews Peter Tork in Cincinnati.

“Peter Tork, unofficial spokesman, commented: ‘The Monkees must take up about 90 hours a week of our time.’ Micky joined Peter to comment on the question they’re asked most often. ‘Do you play your own music?’ Certainly they do. The concert tour proves that. But they admit they don’t always play the music for records. Their shooting schedule is 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. ‘Terrible hours!’ Peter exclaimed. For those long hours, each Monkee earns about $400 weekly from Screen Gems. Is the acting as spontaneous as it looks? ‘People wonder if we ever ad lib right in front of the camera,’ Peter said. ‘And that almost never happens. If the cameramen and soundmen don’t know where we’re going, we can’t get the shot. ‘If we think of something and create it on the spot, we rehearse it twice for the technicians, the director and ourselves. Then we shoot it. So it’s almost impromptu. Sort of impromptu-PLUS.’” - article by Tom Campbell, The Cincinnati Enquirer Teen-Ager, January 14, 1967

[90s-music-tourney]

Round 1 match ups!

People are strange by the Doors vs Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie 

Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul and Mary vs House of the Rising Sun by the Animals

Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison vs Respect by Aretha Franklin

Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash vs Heroin by the Velvet Underground

Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane vs Pinball Wizard by The Who

My Way by Frank Sinatra vs She's not there by the Zombies

Green onions by Booker T. & The M.G.’s vs Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles 

Return to sender by Elvis Presley vs The Girl From Ipanema by Stan Getz And Joāo Gilberto

Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In) by the 5th Dimension vs Ain't Too Proud for Beggin by the Temptations

Change is gonna come by Sam Cooke vs What a wonderful World by Louis Armstrong 

Come A little bit Closer by Jay and the Americans vs Ain't no mountain high enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Don't Rain on My Parade by Barbra Streisand vs Season of the Witch by Donovan

Good vibrations by the Beach Boys vs I'm a Believer by The Monkees

Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell vs Stand by Me by Ben E. King

Cactus tree by Joni Mitchell vs Can't take my eyes off you by Frankie valli

Tainted Love by Gloria Jones vs Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett

Mrs. Robinson By Simon and Garfunkel vs Happy Together by the Turtles

I want you back by The Jackson 5 vs Space Oddity by David Bowie

Spirit in the Sky By Norman Greenbaum vs Son of a Preacher man by Dusty Springfield

This boots are made for walking by Nancy Sinatra vs Eight Miles High by the Byrds

Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells vs Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival 

Maybe This Time by Liza Minnelli vs You really got me by the Kinks

Sitting by the dock of the bay by Otis Redding vs Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues

California Dreamin’ by The Mama's and the Papa's vs You Can't Hurry Love by the Supremes

Like a rolling stone by Bob Dylan vs The Impossible Dream by Jim Nabors 

Complication by the Monks vs Sweet Caroline By Neil Diamond

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Cosby, Stills and Nash vs Piece of my Heart By Big Brother and the Holding Company 

White Room by Cream vs 21st Century Schizoid Man By King Crimson 

I Say a Little Prayer by Dionne Warwick vs It's not Unusual by Tom Jones

Be my Baby by the Ronettes vs For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield 

Fire by Arthur Brown vs Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones 

River Deep Mountain High by Ike and Tina Turner vs Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows By Lesley Gore

Blackberry Way by The Move vs Feeling Good by Nina Simone

So Long Mom (A song for World War III) by Tom Lehrer vs All along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix 

Good Times, Bad Times by Led Zeppelin vs Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles 

Dream a Little Dream of Me by Mama Cass vs I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown

[brucequeensteen]

what is “The Box”. what the fuck went on with The Monkees. these are genuine questions not for the LOLs because I have like 3 mutuals who post about them but I have zero real knowledge of them

oh brother that's a whole can of worms like there is so much to say on "what the fuck went on with them". but basically there are 2 answers to "what was the box": 1) the box was a repurposed meat locker put on the set of the monkees tv show while they were filming season 2 in which the monkees were sent to sit in the darkness and do whatever they wanted without disturbing the set and the crew, and they'd be summoned back out by a bright light bulb with their name under it flashing suddenly in the darkness, and micky dolenz said that often they'd stumble out dazed not knowing what was happening for a few minutes. 2) the box is a literal physical big black box that the monkees get trapped in several times in their movie head (1968) and it serves as a symbol of the public perception they were trying to escape. The Box is television. The Box is the stage. The Box is every hotel they stayed at on the tours they didn't really want to go on. The Box was the eyes of every teenage monkees fan who perceived them and adored them at the height of their fame. The Box isn't real but also it is real but none of the monkees seemed to want to make the connection that the big black box that appears in their film all about the exploitation and psychological horror of hollywood was the same as the big black box they sat in on set during the filming of their tv show. and basically if you want to know what was happening to them go watch the entirety of the monkees tv show (or maybe just watch season 2) and then watch head 1968 and then come and talk to me.

[rig-a-rendal]

episode 30 recap

[trumanjo]

These are the shows I have on DVD if anyone wants to request a gif!

The Waltons

Little House

MASH

Barney Miller

The Monkees *Season 1

Emergency *Season 1

The Partridge Family

Hogan's Heroes

Man from UNCLE