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The Monkees
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| Title: | Fairytale |
| Episode Number: | 48 |
| Season: | 2 |
| Season Episode #.: | 16 |
| Production Number: | 4748 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday January 08th, 1968 |
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The group put their own twist on a classic fairy tale.
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| Rumor has it that "Fairytale" was intentionally filmed on a minimalist set due to one of the previous episodes' going perilously over budget. The set used for filming "Fairytale" was in fact used in the previous season for filming the numbers of "Papa Gene's Blues" and the early versions of "Valleri" and "Words."
| Peter Tork is the only Monkee in this episode not to portray multiple characters, as he is the hero and focal point of the story.
| Number of times the back of Peter, Peasant of Tork, is walked/stepped on: 6.
| Wardrobe alert!: In the tag interview sequence of "Fairytale" and Episode 51, "The Monkee's Paw," take special notice of The Monkees' threads. These are the same ones they would wear in the teaser and tag sequences of Episode 54, "The Monkees In Paris."
| The "Daily Nightly" musical sequence is reused in the beginning of Episode 57, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds."
| The impenetrable grey suit of maille which Davy makes for Peter in "Fairytale," is reused in Episode 55, "The Monkees Mind Their Manors," in the scene where Davy is challenged by Sir Twiggly Toppin-Middlebottom to do battle by lance, and in Episode 56, "Some Like It Lukewarm" (a.k.a. "The Band Contest") where it is donned by drag king Daphne/William McCochrane, leader of The West Minstrel Abbies.
| Murray Roman won an Emmy for his written work for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-69), one of whose stars will be seen in a future Monkees segment: the late Pat Paulsen, who plays The Secretary for The Department of UFO In formation in the next episode, "The Monkees Watch Their Feet" and whose writing staff will retain Monkees alumni Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso. Roman previously appeared with Monkee guest alum George Furth ("One Man Shy"[a.k.a. "Peter And The Debutante"], "A Coffin Too Frequent") in a November 2-3, 1966 episode of Batman (ABC, 1966-68), "Hizzoner The Penguin/Dizzoner The Penguin."
| Diane Shalet played Eula Pendleton on The Waltons (CBS, 1972-81) and Mrs. Hawkins on Matlock (NBC, 1986-95). Shalet is also an accomplished writer and has had some of her work published in short stories anthologies. She is a highly regarded acting teacher and UCLA recently asked her to teach in the UCLA Extension's spring sememster.
| The final minutes of this off-kilter segment of The Monkees features the first of Mike Nesmith's hilarious end-of-show wrap-ups; others will be in No. 51, "The Monkee's Paw" and No. 55, "The Monkees Mind Their Manor." Also, the closing to this eopisode and No. 51, "The Monkee's Paw," features The Monkees misnaming each other.
| Peter Tork demonstrates his superb ability to accentuate the letter "P" in this episode ("An in-p-enterable dragon!"), something which he first disopplayed in "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky," a track on Picses, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. He gives off the "P" again in Episode 51, "The Monkee's Paw," in the scene where he and Davy try to show a voiceless Micky how to say "pencil."
| This is second of 2 Monkees episodes to have background music which is accompanied by vocals! The other is the previous episode, "The Monkees Christmas Show."
| Mike Nesmith intrduces his catchphrase, "Nosiree, bob!" in this episode. He repeats it in Episode 51, "The Monkee's Paw."
| Writer Pete Meyerson and director Jim Frawley previously collaborated on Episode 39, "Hillbilly Honeymoon" (a.k.a. "Double Barrel Shotgun Wedding"). Here, Frawley once again does double duty as director and as voice-over artist; he provides the voice of The Dragon Of The Moat.
| This week, ABC preempted Cowboy In Africa for a special, The Undersea World Of Cousteau: Sharks, which came in second in the Neisen Ratings with a 21.4 rating/30.4 share (11,980,000 viewers), while CBS mainstay Gunsmoke won its timeslot with a 28 rating/40.5 share (15,680,000 viewers) and The Monkees on NBC finished a close third.
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| "Victuals" is mispronounced.
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| In the fight scene where The Monkees take on Harold and Richard, Mike invariably shouts out fight words ("Bam! Boffo! And another hit in the armor!"), echoing the fight scenes on Batman; after which, Micky, Mike and Davy break into a hilarious rendition of the Main Title theme from The Adventures of Robin Hood (CBS, 1955-60).
| The fictional town Avon-On-Calling (originally called "Avon-On-The-Calling" in "Fairytales" Screen Gems Storyline) is an affectionate nod to the successful advertising campaign of that renowned perfume manufaturer Avon---the historic "Avon Calling!"---which was initited in 1954. At the time of this episode's airing, Avon had just introduced novelty scent bottles.
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