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The Monkees :: Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers (01x04)
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| Title: | Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers |
| Episode #: | 01x04 |
| Production Number: | 4703 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday October 03rd, 1966 |
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When The Monkees become finalists in a band contest, they are subject to some competetive sabotage.
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Features the songs: "Let's Dance On," "Last Train to Clarksville" and "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone." "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" and "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" replaced the old tunes for this episode's retelecast on May 15, 1967, and "Do You Feel It Too?" was dubbed into its soundtrack for its repeats on CBS Saturday.
| The clarinet music hear in this segment is actually the tune "Pennies From Heaven." It was composed and conducted by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston and sung by Bing Crosby in the 1936 Columbia Picture of the same name.
| This is Dave Evans' first Monkees script ; he went on to compose 7 more episodes of The Monkees, oftentimes paired with Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso.
| The Monkees' address: 1334 N. Beechwood (the same address of the original Monkees' fan club) .
| Here Mike Nesmith's wool hat is changed from dark green to bright green.
| Mr. Schnieder, The Monkees' card-playing, proverb-spouting dummy named for their creator/co-producer Bert Schnieder, makes his debut appearance here.
| Mr. Schnieder, The Monkees' card-playing, proverb-spouting dummy named for their creator/co-producer Bert Schnieder, makes his debut appearance here.
| The late Louis Quinn portrayed Roscoe on 77 Sunset Strip (ABC, 1958-64). Among his other credits are an uncredited part in Frank Sinatra's 1960 Ocean's 11 and the 1966 musical comedy Las Vegas Hillbillies, which included Monkees guest star Arlene Charles ( The genie from "The Spy Who Came In From The Cool") and Richard 'Jaws Kiel (the monster from "I Was A Teenage Monster"). Quinn also appeared in the 1975 film Keep Off! Keep Off! with Micky Dolenz.
| Monkees stand-ins David Price (for David), David Pearl (for Peter) , Richard Klein (for Micky) and the late John London (nee John C. Kuehne, for Mike) can be seen as extra spectators in the contest sequence in this episode's teaser and dancing in the party crowd scene at the pad. Price has 2 other unbilled cameos in The Monkees' first season: in Episode 15, "Too Many Girls" (a.k.a. Davy And Fern"), as the guy shackled to an easy chair who Micky, Mike and Peter mistake for their real mate Davy, and in No. 21, "The Prince And The Paupers" as the infamous Chemist. Pearl cameos as Freddy Fox III in No. 29, "The Monkees Get Out More Dirt." This is the first episode of the seriess to feature cameos of Monkee stand-ins. Pearl was Jones' closest buddy, as well as The Monkees tour manager/personal co-manager; Price was The Monkees' head roadie; and London previously teamed up with Mike Nesmith, Michael Martin Murphey, Bill Chadwick and Owen Castleman as a large folk ensemble called The Survivors, later grouped w ith Murphey and Castleman as The Monkees' labelmates The Lewis & Clarke Expedition, and later on platyed bass for longtime pal Nesmith's First National Band. Price, Pearl and Klein would cameo in a lion's share of second season segments.
| The 1986 Colex syndication edition of "Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers" featured its end credits completely devoid of the caption "Musical Supervision Don Kirshner". Colex unmistakeably used these credits from the May 15, 1967 repeat of the episode on NBC (Kirshner having been 86ed from the project by that point).
| In this episode, watch as Davy Jones' moptopped hairdo slowly gives way to the Prince Valiant-esque locks he would wear throughout the better part of the first season. This display of moptop metamorphisis can be seen again in Episode 12, "I've Got A Littlte Song Here."
| In the "I'll Be Back Up On My Feet Again" musical number in Episode 14, "Dance, Monkee, Dance," the Monkees wear the exact same tuxedos they're wearing here--complete with top hats and canes.
| Stock footage of the launching rocket seen in this segment is reused in Episode 17, "The Case Of The Missing Monkee."
| Lester Crabtree's group was originally named The Three Apes.
| An unused close-up shot from this episode of Peter grinning appears in the first-season main title sequence of The Monkees.
| The superimposed blurb of the yellow-orange light bulb which pops in and out over Micky's head previously popped in and out next to Archduke Otto in the premiere episode, "The Royal Flush."
| In this episode and No. 8, "Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth," and No. 12, "I've Got A Little Song Here," The Monkees' bedroom is on the first floor. 5 episodes later, in No. 9, "The Chaperone," it would be seen upstairs. Interestingly, in episode 26, "Monkee Chow Mein," Micky and Mike sleep in the upstairs bedroom, while Peter and Davy sleep in the downstairs bedroom.
| The back of the first album, "The Monkees (which would be released the following week), uses stills from this and the next episode, "The Spy Who Came In From The Cool."
| This is the first time a Monkee is seen imitating Groucho Marx (Micky); the second is in Episode 51, "The Monkee's Paw" (Mike). Another episode 30, "The Monkees In Manhattan" (a.k.a. "The Monkees Manhattan Style") would use The Marx Brothers film Room Service as inspiration.
| The second Monkees episode to feature a band contest is No. 56, "Some Like It Lukewarm" (a.k.a. "The Band Contest").
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Micky: (reading from a newspaper) Today Mr. Crabtree, a men's wear buyer for Whiley's Department Store of Pissaic, New Jersey, had his clothes ripped off in a local Hollywood night spot. Mr. Crabtree was quoted as saying, "You've got a wild little town here.
Davy: Well you were right about one thing, it gained loads of publicity.
Nick Trump: Forget it. I've got another plan.
Mike: Oh yeah, you've got another plan. What do you got this time, a famine.
Nick Trump: Not bad baby, but this time your gonna get you hand prints in cement, like all of the other celebrities in front of the Chinese theater.
| Nick Trump: Fellas, I had to pay for this sidewalk, now fun is fun. (hits cement block with a sledgehammer, freeing Peter's hands).
Peter: I'm sorry Mr. Trump.
Micky: Careful, I may never play the guitar again.
Davy: But you're the drummer.
Micky: Oh, that's right. Okay, go ahead. (Hammer slams down, freeing Micky's hands) Thanks alot.
Nick Trump: I'm warning ya, I'm giving you one more chance, one more foul-up and I'm dropping ya.
Davy: Yes sir. (Hammer frees Davy's hands) Owwah! Thanks.
Nick Trump: Have you ever been... (Hammer frees Mike's hands) kidnapped?
Mike: Uh, no, you guys?
Micky: I was kidnapped as a child, but my family was so poor, they gave the ransom note to my neighbors.
Peter: Hey, a kidnapping. What kind Mr. Trump?
Nick Trump: A real front page affair sweetheart. Plus you won't really be kidnapped, you'll just be held until moments before the contest.
Mike: No, I'm sorry man a kidnapping is...
Nick Trump: Contest rules, rules!
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The boys leave their pad wearing tuxedos, but arrive at the contest wearing their red shirts and grey pants.
| Of song-miscrediting note is Boyce and Hart punk anthem "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," which makes its debut appearance in this episode; at the time, it was being groomed for release as the B-side of a single on November 12, 1966. It's listed as "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" in the end credits of "Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers," the next episode, "The Spy Who Came I From The Cool," and No. 17, "The Case Of The Missing Monkee." A forth episode to feature "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," No.11, "Monkees A La Carte," was the only one correct the title in its end credits' song listing.
| Though Boyce and Hart's "Let's Dance On" appeared in this episode , it is not present in its end credits song listing.
| The BUS STOP sign inside changes position between left and right sides of door.
| The brunette with bangs is dancing inside pad but is later shown outside waiting to get in.
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