This Week's Monkees TV Almanac (8/19-25/07)
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AUGUST 19, 1968
“Some Like It Lukewarm” (a.k.a. “The Band Contest”), Episode No. 56 of The Monkees (prod. #4751, from March 4, 1968), was repeated @ 7:30 p.m. EDT on NBC.
Secret/Maybelline/Pizza Spins sponsored that week, and the commercials seen were Secret, Prell Concentrate, Maybelline, Solarcaine, Pizza Spins and Bugles. Many TV researchers have mistaken this repeat to be the last telecast of The Monkees on NBC in prime time.
AUGUST 19, 1972
"The Monkees On The Wheel", Episode No. 46 of The Monkees (prod. #4742, aired on NBC December 11, 1967 and June 10, 1968), was repeated @ noon EDT on CBS.
AUGUST 21, 1967
“The Monkees On Tour”, Episode No. 32 of The Monkees (prod. #47??, aired on NBC April 24, 1967), was repeated @ 7:30 p.m. EDT on NBC, with 2 new songs added: Micky Dolenz's “Randy Scouse Git” and Boyce and Hart's “Words”. (It is said that Goffin and King's "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was used.) The sponsor that week was Yardley Of London™.
AUGUST 21, 1971
"The Card-Carrying Red Shoes", Episode No. 41 of The Monkees (prod. #47??, aired on NBC November 6, 1967 and May 6, 1968), was repeated @ 12:30 p.m. EDT on CBS.
AUGUST 22, 1970
“Find The Monkees” (a.k.a. "The Audition"), Episode No. 19 of The Monkees (prod. #4721, aired on NBC January 23, 1967), was repeated @ noon EDT on CBS.
AUGUST 25, 1973
“The Success Story,” Episode No. 6 of The Monkees (prod. #4710, aired on NBC October 17, 1966 and May 29, 1967), was repeated @ 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on ABC.
This repeat officially concluded the Saturday Afternoon run of The Monkees, as well as its 6-year run on network television overall. Its 58 episodes will be sold to local markets for syndication in September 1975.
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