The Monkees' show was almost nixed before it got off the ground. That would have changed the entire history of movies!

The Monkees in October 1967 in Los Angeles ... Jones had acted on TV and Broadway while Dolenz got his start as a child actor in a TV series called Circus Boy. The show aired on ABC from 1956 ...

A look into the effect the monkees had on music TV, from their 1960s heyday to the role Michael Nesmith had in conceptualising what would later become MTV ...

Micky Dolenz says the Monkees weren't a band, they were a TV show about a band. The Beatles got it. To John Lennon, they were like the Marx Brothers.

After the TV series was canceled, the Monkees responded with one of the most inspired left turns in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, a surrealist film called “Head” directed by Bob Rafelson ...

To this day, it feels like The Monkees have never received their due. Granted, they were manufactured in the beginning. But ...

On this day in 1966 NBC-TV in the US bought The Monkees television series and slotted it into their 1966 autumn schedule. The Monkees, Last Train to Clarksville. First Draft: Irked In January.