Facts

  • Micky’s sister Coco sings the background lyrics in Shorty Blackwell as well as some other songs.
  • Mike played Nine Times Blue backwards to come up with Listen To The Band (listen to Nine Times Blue backwards).
  • Only Peter and Micky were in all of 58 episodes of the show (Mike was not in “Hitting the High Seas”, “I Was A 99 Lb. Weakling”, “Carrying Red Shoes”, and “Monkees Watch Their Feet”, although he did appear in pre-taped parts in the last three, and was in the beginning of “Hitting the High Seas” for a short time. Davy wasn’t in “Alias Micky Dolenz” because he was in England for a wedding. He joins in at the end of the episode, in an interview).
  • Davy only falls in love in 12 of the 58 episodes.
  • The “impenetrable grey suit of maille” from “Fairy Tale” is also used in “Monkees Mind Their Manor” and “Some Like it Lukewarm”.
  • Peter plays I Wanna Be Free on the harp in “The Devil and Peter Tork”.
  • The last episode filmed was “Some Like it Lukewarm”, although the last episode in the series is “The Frodis Caper”.
  • In the “School House Rock” song A Noun is A Person Place or Thing The Monkees are mentioned.
  • Cuddly Toy was originally called By Any Boy.
  • Papa Gene’s Blues was originally called Brand X.
  • The 100th “E! True Hollywood Story” is The Monkees story.
  • In The Simpsons “Virtual Springfield” computer game, there is a “Monkeys” album in Marge and Homer’s room.

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