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Season: 1 | 2
Year: 1966 | 1967 | 1968

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Royal Flush

Original Air Date—12 September 1966
Davy rescues the Princess Betina of the Duchy of Harmonica from drowning. When he goes to get his jacket back, the Monkees find out her uncle, Archduke Otto, is trying to dispose of Betina so he can become king himself.

Season 1, Episode 2: Monkee See, Monkee Die

Original Air Date—19 September 1966
When the Monkees attend the reading of a late millionaire's will, they find themselves forced to stay the night in his haunted castle.

Season 1, Episode 3: Monkee vs. Machine

Original Air Date—26 September 1966
After Peter fails a job interview at a toy factory conducted by a computer, Mike makes the same machine short circuit and is promptly hired. Soon all four Monkees take a stand against the technology minded Mr Daggart (Stan Freberg) in favor of old fashioned, hand made toys.

Season 1, Episode 4: Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers

Original Air Date—3 October 1966
Nick Trump, manager of "The Four Swine", gets the Monkees to participate in publicity stunts meant to keep them from entering a talent contest.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Spy Who Came in from the Cool

Original Air Date—10 October 1966
The Central Intelligence Service recruits the Monkees to capture two foreign spies, Boris and Madame, after Davy unwittingly purchases a pair of red maracas with a hidden microfilm inside.

Season 1, Episode 6: Success Story

Original Air Date—17 October 1966
When Davey's grandfather comes to visit thinking his grandson has become a great success in the Colonies, the guys pretend to be on Davy's personal staff in an attempt to fool the elder Jones.

Season 1, Episode 7: Monkees in a Ghost Town

Original Air Date—24 October 1966
The Monkeemobile runs out of gas in a Ghost Town, where the boys are locked up by two gangsters, George and Lenny, waiting for the arrival of The Big Man.

Season 1, Episode 8: Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Original Air Date—31 October 1966
There are no pets allowed in the Monkees' apartment. This leads to comic complications when Davy watches a horse for a kid. The Monkees get a taste of farm living when they try to return the horse.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Chaperone

Original Air Date—7 November 1966
The only way for Davy to date General Vandenburg's daughter is to hold a chaperoned party. When everything else fails, Micky dresses up in drag as 'Mrs Arcadian', arousing the attention of both the General and Mr. Babbit, the landlord.

Season 1, Episode 10: Here Come the Monkees

Original Air Date—14 November 1966
The Monkees' manager, Rudy Gunther, sends them to the Riverdale Country Club to audition for a Sweet Sixteen Party. The organizer, Charles Russell, happens to be an old Marine buddy of Rudy's. His daughter Vanessa immediately falls for Davy and starts neglecting her homework. Realising they will surely loose the job if she flunks, the boys decide to help her study for her final.

Season 1, Episode 11: Monkees à la Carte

Original Air Date—21 November 1966
Pop's Italian Restaurant is taken over by a mobster named Fuselli and his muscle Rocco. The Monkees are determined to get Pop's restaurant back for him. They take jobs as waiters and contact the police. Soon Fuselli has a dinner meeting for members of the Syndicate and the Monkees (disguised as the Purple Flower Gang) soon have the meeting in total chaos.

Season 1, Episode 12: I've Got a Little Song Here

Original Air Date—28 November 1966
Mike writes a new song, but when he is going to be ripped by the publishing company, he's trying to sell the song to, his friends have to help him.

Season 1, Episode 13: One Man Shy

Original Air Date—5 December 1966
Peter falls for a pretty young débutante, but must rely on the help of the other Monkees, to impress her and ward off her jealous suitor.

Season 1, Episode 14: Dance, Monkee, Dance

Original Air Date—12 December 1966
Peter wins a free dancing lesson at Renaldo's Dance Au Go Go and is tricked into signing a lifetime contract. When Mickey and Mike try to get him out of it, they end up with similar contracts of their own. In order to get out of this mess, Davy decides to become an inside man and gets a job as a dance instructor at Renaldo's.

Season 1, Episode 15: Too Many Girls

Original Air Date—19 December 1966
A gypsy tea room owner predicts Davy will fall in love within 24 hours and leave the group. Her plan is to team him up with her daughter Fern to enter Mr. Hack's Amateur Hour. The remaining three Monkees also enter: Peter as magician The Astonishing Pietro, Mike as folk singer Billy Roy Hodstetter and Micky as comedian/impressionist Locksley Mendoza.

Season 1, Episode 16: Son of a Gypsy

Original Air Date—26 December 1966
When the Monkees are chosen over Maria and her four sons to perform at Madame Rantha's party, the gypsies lure them into a trap and force the guys to steal the precious Maltese Vulture from the Rantha mansion, or else Peter will be killed. The eldest of Maria's sons, Marco, takes Peter's place in the group.

Season 1, Episode 17: Case of the Missing Monkee

Original Air Date—9 January 1967
Peter is kidnapped, in a plot against a rocket scientist.

Season 1, Episode 18: I Was a Teenage Monster

Original Air Date—16 January 1967
The Monkees are lured to the lab of a mad scientist, only to have their musical abilities, put into a Frankenstein-like monster.

Season 1, Episode 19: Find the Monkees

Original Air Date—23 January 1967
TV producer Hubbell Benson has invited many young groups, including The Four Martians, The Foreign Agents and The Jolly Green Giants to audition for a new TV show, but not The Monkees. However, when he hears their music on a hired tape recorder, he sets out to find this mystery band, not knowing that the Monkees are having great difficulty getting into the auditions at the same time.

Season 1, Episode 20: Monkees in the Ring

Original Air Date—30 January 1967
Crooked fight promoter Sholto tells Davy he could be a featherweight champ and starts fixing fights so that 'Dynamite' Davy Jones quickly makes a career.

Season 1, Episode 21: The Prince and the Paupers

Original Air Date—6 February 1967
Davy meets his double, the shy Prince Ludlow of Peruvia and soon learns the vertically challenged highness has to marry before his 18th birthday in order to assent to the Peruvian throne. The other three Monkees convince Davy to swap places with the Prince and woo young socialite Wendy Forsythe in his stead. However, the evil Count Myron has his eye on the throne as well.

Season 1, Episode 22: Monkees at the Circus

Original Air Date—13 February 1967
A circus comes to town, and The Monkees visit the big top, only to soon discover that this particular circus is suffering from declining attendance, a situation embittered performers, who have not been paid for some time, blame on rock & roll discotheques - an enmity personified when Victor, the circus' ace knife thrower, attacks Davy via perfectly aimed throws within inches of Davy's face and threatens to call the police. Susan, one of the performers, befriends the Monkees but is distraught when Victor delivers a written ultimatum to Pop, the circus' head master. The Monkees then pose as aerial performers from France who wish to perform in the circus, and this wins the confidence of Victor and other performers - but backfires on The Monkees when they are expected to actually perform the dangerous aerial tasks required. Forced to confess that they are in fact rock & roll singers, The Monkees are caustically shamed into leaving by the enraged Victor and the other performers, leaving Susan in tears, but Davy insists on doing something to help the circus, and The Monkees unexpectedly succeed in winning back the confidence of the other performers - except for Victor, who refuses to perform. This leads to Davy taking his place as knife thrower, but to Victor's horror the lives of Susan and Peter are threatened when Davy's errant throws nearly stab both of them before a sold-out circus audience......

Season 1, Episode 23: Captain Crocodile

Original Air Date—20 February 1967
The Monkees go up against a local kiddie show host, who will not let the group play on his show.

Season 1, Episode 24: Monkees à la Mode

Original Air Date—27 February 1967
The Monkees are chosen as Chic Magazine's 'Typical Young Americans Of The Year' (que Monkees Theme). Unfortunately, the way they are represented in the article instantly makes them lose a lot of friends.

Season 1, Episode 25: Alias Micky Dolenz

Original Air Date—6 March 1967
Micky goes undercover posing as an incarcerated criminal ring leader (whom he bears an uncanny resemblance to), so the police can nab the rest of his gang.

Season 1, Episode 26: Monkees Chow Mein

Original Air Date—13 March 1967
The band stumbles onto a fiendish plot at a local Chinese restaurant.

Season 1, Episode 27: Monkee Mother

Original Air Date—20 March 1967
A new tenant, Mrs. Milly Rudnick, moves into the Monkees' beach pad. Rather than having them be evicted, Milly takes on the four boys as boarders. The Monkees grow to like her to a certain degree, but would still prefer to have the house back to themselves, so they plan to hook Milly up with Larry the moving man.

Season 1, Episode 28: Monkees on the Line

Original Air Date—27 March 1967
When the Monkees decide to get themselves an answering service, they soon end up working for one instead. Left on their own, the foursome starts ignoring the most important rule: 'don't get involved with the clients'. Mike tries to save a young girl he thinks is planning to commit suicide, Davy brings a message which soon has an entire building in a riot and Peter messes up a scheme to place gambling bets over the phone. Micky somehow manages to keep out of trouble.

Season 1, Episode 29: Monkees Get Out More Dirt

Original Air Date—3 April 1967
All four of the Monkees fall in love with the same girl, April Conquest, of the local laundromat. Each one of them tries to woo her by feigning interest in things she likes: Davy paints pop-art, Mickey performs ballet, Peter plays chamber music while Mike rides a bike.

Season 1, Episode 30: Monkees Manhattan Style

Original Air Date—10 April 1967
The Monkees travel to New York to meet a young producer, Mackinley Baker, at The Compton Plaza Hotel. Unfortunately, they find Baker just about to be evicted out of the room and themselves without any money for a place to stay. So, the group holds on to the room while Baker visits his backer. When this does not work out, they try convincing members of the Millionaire's club across the street to back Baker's play.

Season 1, Episode 31: Monkees at the Movies

Original Air Date—17 April 1967
The Monkees are asked to appear as extra's in Luther Kramm's new beach movie, 'I Married A Creature From Out Of Town', but soon take offense to the film's star, Frankie Catalina. After upstaging him during the production, Catalina walks off the movie and The Monkees push Davy into the limelight as the new teen-idol.

Season 1, Episode 32: The Monkees on Tour

Original Air Date—24 April 1967
With the scripted sitcom antics taking a backseat, this episode shows the group on a real concert tour.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: A Nice Place to Visit

Original Air Date—11 September 1967
While on a trip to Mexico, the group lands into trouble after Davy falls for the girlfriend of a local desperado.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Picture Frame

Original Air Date—18 September 1967
Micky, Davy and Mike are duped into robbing a bank, thinking they're the stars of a new heist movie. After their arrest, it is up to Peter to prove his band mates' innocence while the trio of accused Monkees handle their own defense during the trial.

Season 2, Episode 3: Everywhere a Shiek, Shiek

Original Air Date—25 September 1967
Faced with selecting a husband or be married to the evil Vidaru, Princess Colette of Nehudi picks out Davy's picture from a magazine. The Manchester Monkee is then put to the choice: marry a beautiful girl and life a life of luxury or be killed. In case he agrees, the remaining three Monkees will be granted high ranking positions on his staff (not to mention their pick of harem maidens). Of course, Vidaru plans to get rid of the Monkees whether they agree or not.

Season 2, Episode 4: Monkee Mayor

Original Air Date—2 October 1967
Mike runs for Mayor.

Season 2, Episode 5: Art for Monkees' Sake

Original Air Date—9 October 1967
When Peter displays a talent for copying art, crooked museum guards Duke and Chuche force him to copy Frans Hals' 'The Laughing Cavalier' and switch it with the real one. The Monkees mount Mission: Ridiculous to put the actual artwork back and take on the code names 'Manchester Marauder' (Davy), Conneticut Counterspy (Peter), Towering Texan (Mike) and the Los Angeles Leopard (Micky).

Season 2, Episode 6: I Was a 99-Pound Weakling

Original Air Date—16 October 1967
When his girl Brenda is stolen from him by muscle bound Bulk, Micky contemplates hocking his drums so he can pay for Shah-Ku's "Weakling's Anonymous" course. Fearing this will break up the group, Davy and Peter first try to pass of Bulk as a weakling to Brenda, then set out to prove Shah-Ku is a phony.

Season 2, Episode 7: Hillbilly Honeymoon

Original Air Date—23 October 1967
The Monkees ride into Swinevill and immediately get caught up in a Hillbilly feud between the Chubber and the Weskitt family. Soon, Ella Mae Chubber takes a shine to Davy (and to a lesser extend Micky and Peter). The only way out is to patch things up between Ella Mae and her dim witted fiancé, Jud Weskitt.

Season 2, Episode 8: Monkees Marooned

Original Air Date—30 October 1967
Naive and gullible, Peter gives his guitar to a scam artist in exchange for a treasure map.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Card Carrying Red Shoes

Original Air Date—6 November 1967
Natasha Pavlova escapes from The Druvanian National Ballet by hiding in the Monkees' instrument trunk and falls in love with Peter, whom she refers to as 'The Face' (and sometimes just plain Piotr). Ballet Master Nicolai and his other star, Ivan, insist on getting her back, mainly because of the microchip hidden in one of her red shoes.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Wild Monkees

Original Air Date—13 November 1967
The Monkees take a job as hotel musicians at The Henry Cabot Lodge and Cemetery, where they are forced into service as the staff as well. The guests include a quartet of tall female bikers, whom the boys set out to impress by dressing like Marlon Brando in 'The Wild One'. When the girl's boyfriends, Big Butch and the Black Angels, arrive, The Monkees (now known as The Chickens) have to enter a motorcycle race they cannot possible win.

Season 2, Episode 11: A Coffin Too Frequent

Original Air Date—20 November 1967
The Monkees are surprised to find three members of a sinister family gathering in their beach pad come midnight to hold a séance.

Season 2, Episode 12: Hitting the High Seas

Original Air Date—27 November 1967
The Monkees take on a job as sailors but Mike soon disappears below deck to recuperate from seasickness. Micky, Davy and Peter must prove themselves strong enough to survive the hardships of the sea, especially when it turns out their captain is a modern day pirate intend on hijacking the Queen Anne. Inspired by Clark Gable and Marlon Brando, the three musicians attempt to stage a mutiny.

Season 2, Episode 13: Monkees in Texas

Original Air Date—4 December 1967
Visiting Mike's Aunt Kate in Texas, The Monkees find the Nesmith Ranch being ambushed by Black Bart and his gang. Micky and Peter, dressed as The Lone Stranger and Pronto, go to town to seek help but end up join Black Bart's gang. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mike tries to figure out what makes the Nesmith land so valuable.

Season 2, Episode 14: Monkees on the Wheel

Original Air Date—11 December 1967
Micky 'Magic Finges' Dolenz hits a lucky streak in Vegas, not realizing the roulette table is rigged. The Boss and Biggy soon steal the ill begotten money back from the Monkees, who are then given 24 hours by the police to retrieve it once more. So, they head back into the Casino dressed as gangsters The Insidious Strangler (Micky), The Professor (Peter), Muscles The Mauler (Davy) and Vicious Killer (Mike).

Season 2, Episode 15: The Christmas Show

Original Air Date—25 December 1967
It's Christmas and the group has to teach a neglected boy about the magic and love of the season.

Season 2, Episode 16: Fairy Tale

Original Air Date—8 January 1968
Peter, peasant of Tork is the only one who can save the fair Princess Gwen (Mike) who is being held in the tower. The Fairy of the Magic Locket orders Mike the Cobbler to make Peter a gravity defying pair of shoes, Davy the Taylor to sow a impenetrable suit of armor and Micky the Innkeeper to forge a magic sword. On his way to the tower guarded by the Dragon of the moat, Peter bumps into Little Red Riding Hood (Davy) Hansel & Gretel (Micky and Davy) and Goldilocks (Micky).

Season 2, Episode 17: Monkees Watch Their Feet

Original Air Date—15 January 1968
The Secretary for the Department of UFO Information presents a film about impending dangers from outer space. In it, Micky is abducted by aliens from the planet Zlotnick and replaced by a robot duplicate. Despite the robot's feet being on backwards, at first Davy and Peter do not suspect a thing.

Season 2, Episode 18: Monstrous Monkee Mash

Original Air Date—22 January 1968
Davy has been put under the spell of Lorelei, or to be precise, her magic necklace. Her uncle, a Transylvanian Count, wants to turn Davy into a vampire. When the other Monkees arrive looking for their missing mate from Manchester, Peter's mind is singled out to be put inside a monster and Micky to become a wolf man. Mike manages to escape the vampire's clutches by dressing up in a mummy's smelly old wrappings.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Monkee's Paw

Original Air Date—29 January 1968
Mickey buys a cursed Monkey's Paw from down on his luck Mendrek the Magician for a quarter and is given three withes, all of them bound to backfire. Meanwhile, Mendrek, finally free of bad luck, becomes a millionaire overnight. On the third wish, Micky loses his voice, leaving the other Monkees without their lead singer.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Devil and Peter Tork

Original Air Date—5 February 1968
Peter browses through a pawn shop owned by a mysterious man known as S. Zero. He meets Zero and the two chat about the varied instruments he is selling, Zero talking cryptically about the previous owners of the instruments. Peter then notices a harp and falls in love with the instrument even though he has never played the instrument before. When Peter says he would give anything for the harp, Zero makes a deal - Peter will sign a contract to own the harp and pay for it later. Peter happily signs and carries the harp home, and does not see when Zero makes a phone call to inform his home office that he - in reality The Prince Of Darkness - has purchased Peter's soul. Zero later appears at The Monkees' beach house and tells Peter he can play the harp; when the initially disbelieving Peter begins playing and finds he has great dexterity in doing so, Zero disappears and Micky, Mike, and Davy are left surprised at Peter's ability. The Monkees integrate the harp into their touring act and are an enormous success - until Zero returns and it is revealed that he is The Devil, who now wants Peter's soul by midnight, although Mike vows to take Zero to court over his contract, leading to a trial in Hades itself at which Peter must prove to a waiting gaggle of criminals that he can play the harp on his own, without the help of Zero.

Season 2, Episode 21: Monkees Race Again

Original Air Date—12 February 1968
T.N. Crumpetts, an old racing friend of Davy's grandfather asks the Monkees to help in putting his car back together. His rival Baron Von Klutz is sabotaging Crumpetts at every opportunity and kidnaps both the old man and Micky. Davy, being a British subject, ends up driving the Monkeemobile against the Klutzmobile in Crumpetts' place.

Season 2, Episode 22: The Monkees in Paris

Original Air Date—19 February 1968
Tired of the same old scripts, the Monkees walk off the set and take a holiday in Paris. Director James Frawley is left having to come up with a way to change the formula.

Season 2, Episode 23: Monkees Mind Their Manor

Original Air Date—26 February 1968
The Monkees travel to England when Davy inherits the estate of Young Lord Malcolm Kibee on the condition that he lives there for the next five years. Davy has no intention of staying, but does not want the Lord's nephew, Lance Kibee, to sell it to a land developer either. So, the Monkees put on a medieval fair to raise enough money for the local villagers to buy the manor.

Season 2, Episode 24: Some Like It Lukewarm

Original Air Date—4 March 1968
The Monkees want to enter the KXIW Rockathon contest to win $500, only to find out contest manager Jerry 'The Geator with the Heator' Blavat only allows mixed groups. Davy is chosen to dress up in drag. Soon, 'Miss Jones' falls in love with Daphne, a member of The West Minstrel Abbies who has to dress as a boy to enter the same contest.

Season 2, Episode 25: Monkees Blow Their Minds

Original Air Date—11 March 1968
Peter walks into The Great Oracullo's House of Mysteries for inspiration and is turned into a psychic slave by way of a cup of tea. Oracullo wants to headline at The Cassandra instead of the Monkees and use Peter in his act, simultaneously ruining the Monkees chances of getting the gig.

Season 2, Episode 26: Mijacogeo

Original Air Date—25 March 1968
Micky, Mike and Peter find that Peter and all their neighbors have been hypnotized by their Television sets. The Evil Wizard Glick is using an alien Frodis to control people's minds through his machines (such as the Freeble Energizer) and plans to take over the world. Worst of all, The Monkees are prohibited by law to change into their Monkeemen alter ego's and even the chant Micky learned from a cereal box-top backfires on them.

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