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The Monkees
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| Title: | The Monkees on the Line |
| Episode Number: | 28 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 28 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday March 27th, 1967 |
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The group is pressed into service as unlikely answering service operators.
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| Click to hear Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
| "The Monkees On Line" was the final episode of The Monkees completed for its first season. It was also the last episode to bear the musical supervising stamp of Don Kirshner, who , after releasing the "A Little Bit Me , A Little Bit You"/"She Hangs Out" single against a 50% Monkee-control rule, was bounced from The Monkees' project.
| "The Monkees On The Line" was also the first episode of the series to be written by Coslough Johnson. This was Johnson's sole Monkees cowritting effort (with Gardner and Caruso); he would later go solo as the author of 5 episodes of The Monkees in its second season: Episodes 37, "Art For Monkees Sake," No. 46, "The Monkees On The Wheel," No. 49, "The Monkees Watch Their Feet," No. 51, "The Monkees Paw," and No. 55, "The Monkees Mind Their Manor." On February 27, 1967, Johnson completed the first draft of a sixth teleplay, Monkees Toy Around." The script was rejected by Raybert Productions, and to this day this has been dubbed by scores of Monkees fans/collecttors as the 'lost' (59th?) Monkees episode.
| Also notice the second and last appearance of Mike's light blue wool hat.
| The late Milton Frome, who plays Manny Spinks here (he also portryaed Lawrence Chapman on The Beverly Hillbillies [CBS, 1962-71]), can also be seen as nightclub owner Mr. Latham in Episode 57, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds."
| Susan Browning, seen here as the historic thespian Ellen Farnsby, later portrayed Pat Gimble on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Syndicated, 1976-79). Incidentally, this soap-opera satire also featured Monkees guest actor George Furth in a guest role. Browning later played a Choir Nun in the films Sister Act (1992) and its sequel, Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit (1993).
| The late Richard O'Brien played Frank Wilson in two episodes of Wonder Woman (ABC/CBS, 1976-79).
| Fans of Star Trek (NBC, 1966-69) will recognize Jack Donner (Director) as Subcommander Tai in the September 27, 1968 episode "The Enterprise Incident."
| Helene Winston, seen here as Mrs. Drehdal, can be seen as Big Flora in Episode 11, "Monkees A La Carte."
| An alternate ending of "The Monkees On The Line'' finds The Monkees getting a lead on a good job, but find The UAS didn't take the address! Also, The Urgent Answering Service was originally named The Alert Answering Service.
| The huge green phone which appears at the end of the "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" romp was reused in The Monkees 1968 movie HEAD. The phone number on the giant green phone is 555-7231.
| Davy is seen wearing the same 8 button gold shirt he wore in Episode 7, "The Monkees In A Ghost Town." He wears it again in the next episode, "The Monkees Get Out More Dirt."
| The set of Manny Spinks' office seen here was first used in Episode 11, "Monkees A La Carte" (where it did double duty as Fuselli [Harvey Lembeck's] office in Pop's Restaurant and the Inspector [Dort Clark's] office in Police Headquarters), No. 12, "I've Got A Little Song Here" (as Bernie Class[Phil Leed's] office), and No. 19, "Find The Monkees" (a.k.a. "The Audition) (as The Missing Person's Bureau's office). This set was used on several other Screen Gems sitcoms, like Darrin Stephen's office on Bewitched (ABC, 1964-72) and Capt. Tony Nelson's office on I Dream Of Jeanie (NBC, 1965-70).
| The Monkees run-in with Manny Spink in this episode was their first of 2 encounters with crooked gamblers; the other is Episode 46, "The Monkees On The Wheel."
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| | Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •The Monkees | Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) | |
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| Mike: (phone rings) Someone get the phone!
(everyone ignores him) Will somebody please...(answers the phone himself) Hello? (hangs up the phone) Hey guys, that could have been an very important call. Someone may have been calling to give us a job? Look guys, we've gotta talk about this thing. (all gather at a table)
Micky: What's up man?
Mike: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye and everything else that goes with it. Whereas we have not had a job in 3 to 4 weeks, right?
All: Right, right, right.
(Mike slams a hammer on the table, a piece of the table breaks)
Mike: And whereas, there's gotta be someone in this world that wants to make use of our talents...right?
All: Right!
(hits the table again, another piece falls off)
Mike: Whereas someone answers the phone and someones never here even if someone called with a job, we should get an answering service... right?
All: Right !
(hammers the table again and it breaks in half)
Mike: Alright fine. I got this number for an answering service out of the phonebook and we'll just call him up. (dials the phone) I mean you never know how many new things will open up for us. There's always someone there to answer the phone (waiting for an answer), and we could get jobs and millions of things. There's always someone there, morning, noon and night. 24 hours a day, they're right there on the job and it never fails.
Micky: Well?
Mike: Well, there's no answer. (hangs up the phone, then checks again for an answer)
| Mike: (Mike looking around the answering service office) Ah cool, this is gonna be fun. There's walls, and ceilings and phones (looks shocked)...the phones...a variable sea of telephones.
Drehdal: Oh, don't worry you'll love it.
Mike: It's a wonderful place you have here.
Drehdal: Well then, since you boys are joining the firm, I can go to Jamaica with a free mind.
Mike: Jamaica?
Drehdal: That's right honey. (picks up a surfboard)
Mike: Wha, wha, wait a minute. You haven't told me how to work this stuff.
Drehdal: Why nothing could be easier. The phone rings, ding-a-ling-a-ling, you plug it in the hole, you answer it, you write down the message, when the client comes in you give 'em the message. What can be easier?
Mike: Going to Jamaica. Well, uh hold it!
Drehdal: Yeah?
Mike: I just noticed this red button here on the wall. A button here which is on the wall, and which is red. What's it for?
Drehdal: Push it if you get tired. Bye-bye honey.
Mike: Bye (she leaves) Well, monkeys are genuinely curious...I'll just push it now. (pushes it and a bed comes from inside the wall) Hold it Mrs... there's a bed in the wall. Oh, I see, if you get tired, there's a little bed there. That's very clever. (pushes the button again and the bed retracts) Little doors, that's very clever. (phone rings) Hello, hello, hello. How do you tell which is which?
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| The end credits inadvertantly read "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" as "Look Out" (Here Comes Tomorrow), with quotation marks surrounding only the first 2 words in the title.
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