"The Monkees" Monkees Manhattan Style (1967)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Russ Mayberry

Writers:

Gerald Gardner (writer) &
Dee Caruso (writer)

TV Series:

"The Monkees" (1966)

Original Air Date:

10 April 1967 (Season 1, Episode 30)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Plot:

The Monkees travel to New York to meet a young producer, Mackinley Baker, at The Compton Plaza Hotel...

Plot Keywords:

Actor Playing Himself | Beach | Cross Dressing | The Monkees | Teen

Cast

Davy Jones	...	Davy (as David Jones)
Micky Dolenz	...	Micky
Michael Nesmith	...	Mike
Peter Tork	...	Peter
Richard Anders	...	Baker (as Dick Anders)
Doodles Weaver	...	Butler
Olan Soule	...	Waiter Bronislaw Kolinovsky
Alfred Dennis	...	Dr. Corell
Geoffrey Deuel	...	Groom
Foster Brooks	...	Conventioneer
John Graham	...	Buntz, the Compton
Susan Howard	...	Bride
Philip Ober	...	Mr. Weatherwax
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Keeva Johnson	...	Himself
Bob Rafelson	...	Interviewer

Trivia:

Susan Howard's TV debut.

Quotes:

Mike: You are not! I'm uglier than you!
Davy: No, I'm the ugliest!
Mike: I'm the ugliest! It's me, it's me, it's me!
Micky: Alright, I lose!

Movie Connections:

Edited into Hey, Hey We're the Monkees (1997) (TV)

Soundtrack:

New York, New York

Unconventional Monkees Episode, It's Really Good!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

If you were to play a Monkees episode for someone who never saw the show before, this may be a decent one for the Gen X'ers and younger (forget those older!). Why do I say that>? It's got a mid show impromptu interview and lot's of their music, I figure 3 musical interludes some that resemble what's going on now in alt rock music videos with the guys jumping over a fountain somewhere, probably some apartment building, just your kind of youtube.com moment aka guys dancing on walk-master's. Preston Foster is also in this one, in one of his earliest TV appearances, thats kind of cool on it's own. I was really surprised by this one, expecting the same old kind of tired formula, this one was radical, I guess from the second season, I vaguely remember watching the second season episodes as a kid in the early 70's when they wold show it in the early afternoon on Saturdays as part of a tie in to the cartoon lineup. Seeing those guys in concert in actual live footage was at first confusing to me but I dug it man. I hated all those like my older Brother who bad mouthed the Monkees but I'm happy to say that they were really cool to have the guts to changed the format and at least try not to be forever typecast as a "kiddie" group. Good for them, compared to what's out there in Alt rock now, it looks like a lot is still getting borrowed just by watching this one episode. Way to go Davy, Michael, Peter, and Mickey (I did those names by heart, you guys are great), Thanks!