Michael2damax

A huge passion project of mine is finding lost rerun audio and visuals for Monkees episodes and seeing how newer songs worked in older episodes.

For people who are unaware, when the Monkees reran the show in the Summer of 1967 in between Season’s 1 and 2 of the show, they replaced some of the songs with songs from the A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You/The Girl I Knew Somewhere single, their third album Headquarters, and the Pleasant Valley Sunday/Words single in order to advertise those singles to a wider audience.

This practice was attempted again during the Summer of 1968 when they reran their Second Season, but it was quickly put away as only one episode featured a song from their 5th album, that being “Tapioca Tundra” on the episode Hillbilly Honeymoon.

During the fall of 1969 until the fall of 1973, the Monkees reran episodes on CBS’s and eventually ABC’s Saturday Afternoon slot featuring songs from their 8th and 9th album Monkees Present and Changes as well as airing at that point unreleased songs, replacing over the songs once again.

Once the show was picked up in syndication for local markets and international markets up until 1985, many different variations of these prints were aired. Most of the time in the US, they got 1967 rerun prints while the UK got a mix of 1967 and CBS rerun prints.

In 1986, when the show debut on MTV, the prints were upgraded, but many of the songs were reverted back to their original broadcast form.

To most, this seems really silly since we can just insert the songs from the albums into the music videos to make our own custom edits, but the reason why this isn’t a 100% effective method is that many times when these songs would be featured in reruns, they used unique mono mixes or rough mixes that have yet to be released. There’s also constant incorrect information being spread about what songs were featured which might lead to finding songs that have yet to be released on one of these reruns, most notably the two songs that were recorded during their 9th album Changes.

My question is if anyone out there has any recordings or film prints of these reruns that they’d be willing to sell to me. I have listed below what we currently have and don’t have to narrow down what is needed.

1967 Reruns

Episode 1 - Royal Flush (You Told Me/The Girl I Knew Somewhere) (Full Episode, minus credits found, original 1967 NBC print lost)

Episode 2 - Monkee See Monkee Die (A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You) (Music Video only, episode lost)

Episode 3 - Monkee vs Machine (You Told Me) (Music video cuts off a bit early, episode lost)

Episode 4 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers (A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You/The Girl I Knew Somewhere) (A Little Bit Me music video is incomplete, The Girl I Knew Somewhere music video is complete, full episode lost)

Episode 5 - The Spy Who Came In From the Cool (Randy Scouse Git) (Full episode found, original 1967 NBC print lost)

Episode 6 - Success Story (Shades of Gray) (Full episode found, credits and original 1967 NBC print lost)

Episode 7 - Monkees in a Ghost Town (Words) (Full episode found)

Episode 10 - Here Comes The Monkees (Shades of Gray) (Music video found, full episode lost)

Episode 12 - I’ve Got a Little Song Here (Full episode found, original 1967 NBC print lost)

Episode 13 - One Man Shy (Forget that Girl) (Full Episode found)

Episode 17 - The Case of the Missing Monkee (Pleasant Valley Sunday) (Full episode found)

Episode 23 - Captain Crocodile (Pleasant Valley Sunday) (Full episode found)

Episode 26 - Monkee Chow Mein (Words) (Music video incomplete, episode lost)

Episode 32 - Monkees on Tour (Pleasant Valley Sunday) (Music video found, full episode lost)

1968 Summer Reruns

Episode 39 - Hillbilly Honeymoon (Tapioca Tundra) (Audio cassette recording incomplete, full episode lost)

1969-1973 CBS and ABC Saturday Afternoon Reruns

Episode 1 - Royal Flush (Apples, Peaches, Bananas, and Pears/Good Clean Fun) (Full episode found, original CBS or ABC print lost)

Episode 3 - Monkee vs Machine (Listen to the Band) (Full rerun lost)

Episode 4 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers (A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You/Do You Feel It Too?) (ABC print found/CBS print lost)

Episode 5 - The Spy Who Came in From the Cool (All Alone in the Dark) (ABC print found/CBS print lost)

Episode 6 - Success Story (French Song) (ABC print found/CBS print lost)

Episode 8 - A Gift Horse (I Never Thought it Peculiar) (ABC print found/CBS print lost)

Episode 9 - The Chaperone (Midnight Train) (ABC print found/CBS print lost)

Episode 12 - I’ve Got a Little Song Here (Steam Engine) (ABC print found, but music video is cut/CBS print lost)

Episode 13 - One Man Shy (If I Knew)
(ABC print includes Forget That Girl/CBS print lost)

Episode 14 - Dance Monkee Dance (If You Have the Time) (Audio bootleg exists, CBS print lost)

Episode 18 - I Was a Teenage Monster (Good Clean Fun) (International VHS recording found, but incomplete/ CBS print lost)

Episode 20 - Monkees in the Ring (Looking For the Good Times/If You Have the Time) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 21 - The Prince and the Paupers (99 Pounds) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 24 - Monkees a La Mode (Oh My My) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 28 - Monkees on the Line (Little Girl) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 29 - Monkees Get Out More Dirt (Steam Engine) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 30 - Monkees in Manhattan (Acapulco Sun) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 32 - Monkees on Tour (Steam Engine/Words) (Full episode with credits found/original CBS print lost)

Episode 40 - Monkees Marooned (Do You Feel It Too) (ABC print found/CBS print lost)

Episode 42 - Wild Monkees (Looking For the Good Times) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 43 - A Coffin Too Frequent (Oklahoma Backroom Dancer) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 44 - Hitting the High Seas (Oh My My) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 47 - Christmas Show (Different song used in montage) (Found on Japanese Laserdisc and non-circulating/CBS and ABC print lost)

Episode 50 - Monstrous Monkee Mash (Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye) (Rerun is lost)

Episode 52 - Devil and Peter Tork (I Never Thought It Peculiar) (ABC print found but has no music video/CBS print lost)

Episode 54 - Monkees in Paris (Tell Me Love/I Love You Better (Maybe included Oh My My)) (Credits found, but rerun is lost)

Episode 58 - The Frodis Caper (I Never Thought It Peculiar) (ABC print found but incomplete/Home recordings found/CBS print lost)

It would be mine and many other Monkees enthusiasts dream to see these reruns eventually found. If you have any lying around that you’d be willing to sell, please contact me! Thank you!

Also, if you have, what songs are on the CBS version of Case of the Missing Monkee because the 1967 romp with Pleasant Valley Sunday didn’t air in local syndication after CBS/ABC era unlike most Season 1 episodes with alternate soundtracks from 1967?

Sounds awesome. Have you got them transferred yet and have you gotten other episodes from the CBS era on 16 mm?

Hi, I read some of your Monkees alt soundtrack posts and I was wondering if these 8 tapes you needed to get transferred are from that? If so, what episodes are they and what era of rerun are they from?