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The Monkees
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| Title: | Captain Crocodile |
| Episode Number: | 23 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 23 |
| Production Number: | 4730 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday February 20th, 1967 |
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The Monkees find themselves at odds with an egomaniacal children's show host: Captain Crocodile.
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| Click to hear Your Auntie Grizelda
| Click to hear Pleasant Valley Sunday
| Click to hear Valleri
| Captain Crocodile is a lampoon of Captain Kangaroo.
| Joey Baio, cousin of Scott Baio of Happy Days (ABC, 1974-84, a show in which Micky Dolenz tried in vain to audition for the role of The 'Fonz'), first acted alongside Davy Jones during 1964 in a Tony award-nominated Broadway production of Oliver.
| During a performance on Capt. Crocodile's show, Mike fangs to The Cap, "Either you let us play, or we quit!"... a catchcry which would become alarmingly prophetic in The Monkees knockdown, dragout, yet successful battle for the right to play their own music. Don Kirshner's ousting as a result of this had a profound effect on this episode; in the scene where The Monkees get The Crocodile Corps to sit down and listen to a story, Micky originally starts to read, "Once upon a time in the land of Kirshner..." That was when The Man With The Golden Ear was still a valid member of the Screen Gems/Monkees community. However, when "Captain Crocodile" was rerun on July 10, 1967, Kirshner was long gone from the picture, and its soundtrack was altered not just to include Goffin and King's "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (coinciding with its release on the A-side of the single on the same day), but to change Micky's story introduction as well: "Once upon a time, in the land of Schneider..." (after creator/coproducer Bert Schneider).
| The Boyce-Hart tune "Valleri" (miscredited in this episode's end credit song listing as "Valerie") was presented here and in Episode 31, "The Monkees At The Movies," in an earlier version recorded in August 1966 in time to be a part of the More Of The Monkees LP, but was prevented from release in the wake of the waging battle between Kirshner and The Monkees (although it did achieve legendary status when DJ's in Chicago and Florida turned it into a hit by airing tapes from broadcasts of the TV show). It was eventually rerecorded for release on the A-side of the single in March 1968 and The Monkees fifth album, The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees (released a month after that) , while the first recorded version remained shelved until the January 1990 release of Missing Links, Volume Two.
| "The Captain Crocodile Show" is aired on KXIU, the same station which aired "The Amateur Hour" in Episode 15, "Too Many Girls." It even uses the same flashing "STAND BY/ON THE AIR" sign as did "The Amateur Hour." The sign was resurrected once again in Episode 36, "Monkee Mayor," by WXIU-TV (where Mike delivered his speech to the public).
| Keller and Hilderbrand's "Your Auntie Grizelda" appears here in its mono mix which appears on the mono version of More Of The Monkees.
| This episode is the product of the combined talents of the writing teams of Gerald Gardner & Dee Caruso and Peter Meyerson & Robert Schlitt, thus boasting the largest number of writers ever to collaberate in a Monkees script: 4. Gardner & Caruso and Meyerson previously joined forces in composing the teleplay and story, respectively, of Episode 21, "The Prince And The Paupers."
| At the beginning of the fantasy sequence in which The Monkees parody well-known TV shows, they lampoon The Huntley-Brinkley Report, the 15-minute NBC News program that preceeded The Monkees for the duration of its run.
| In the Batman parody sequence, Peter and Davy wear their Monkeeman capes and the orange sharkskin suits which the wore in the "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" romp seen in Episode 2, "Monkee See, Monkee Die" and the "You Just May Be The One" number which appeared in No. 9, "The Chaperone."
| A snippet from "Captain Crocodile" featuring Mike in disguise as the building janitor is used in The Monkees' second season opening credit sequence.
| The original "Captain Crocodile" synopsis shows Junior warning Crocodile he's through should he try anything with The Monkees again, which convinces him that they are his archenemies.
| The Monkees are referred to as "long-haired weirdoes" for the first time on the series in this episode. That title would come and go in various later segments, including the next episode, "Monkees A La Mode," Episode 34, "The Picture Frame" (a.k.a. "The Bank Robbery"), No. 41, "The Card-Carrying Red Shoes" and No. 48, "Fairytale."
| Paul Mazursky was considered to portray Captain Crocodile's goofball producer.
| Phillip "Phil" Roth is remembered for his role as a Doctor in Catch-22, Mr. Jones in What's Up Doc?, a Vegas Gambler in Harry And Tonto (which was co-written, produced and directed by and featured Monkees TV crew alumnus Paul Mazursky), and Woolsey in One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest. Sadly, Roth lost his battle with colon cancer on July 15, 2002 at the age of 74; his last appearance was in the independant film A League Of Old Men (1998).
| in the scene where Davy comments on Junior Pinter's height ("Y'know, I think 'e's quite tall, meself!"), Micky retorts, "You would!" This 2-word jab would be repeated twice (by Peter) in season-2 Episodes No. 35, "Everywhere A Sheik Sheik," and No. 56, "Some Like It Lukewarm" (a.k.a. "The Band Contest").
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| Micky: So this is the world of television?
Peter: Funny, it doesn't look like a vast wasteland.
| Micky: This guy must be important. We are on the road to suc-cess.
Mike: Yeah, we're almost at the heights.
Davy: We're nearly at the top of the heap.
Peter: It's all down hill from here.
| Junior Pinter: Come in, come in. I'm Junior Pinter. I'm in charge of the Captain Crocodile Show.
Mike: You must be putting us on?
Junior Pinter: You think I'm short?
Mike: Why uh, what gives you that idea?
Junior Pinter: From those who are taller than me.
Davy: Ya know... I think he's quite tall m'self.
Micky: You would.
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