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The Monkees
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| Title: | Monkees Watch Their Feet |
| Episode Number: | 49 |
| Season: | 2 |
| Season Episode #.: | 17 |
| Production Number: | 4743 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday January 15th, 1968 |
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Pat Paulsen narrates this bizarre tale of alien abduction.
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| This is the first episode of The Monkees to credit Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider as executive producer and Ward Sylvester as producer, as well as the first episode to feature extraterrestrials; the second would be, of course Episode 58, "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper"), The Monkees series finale.
| For the second time on the show 2 Mickys are featured; the first was Episode 25, "Alias Micky Dolenz."
| The late Paul Paulson, as you may recall, was one of the unsung regulars on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-69).
| A September 9, 1968 repeat of "The Monkees Watch Their Feet" was the farewell appearance of The Monkees on NBC in prime time (not, as commonly believed, the August 19, 1968 repeat of Episode 56, "Some Like It Lukewarm"). It was replaced a week later in its 7:30 Monday slot by I Dream Of Jeannie, which, ironically, followed The Monkees in its final season.
| Deleted from this episode is a hilarious segue in which Peter squirts the invaders with seltzer water, each time freezing them. Also, a 10,000 hour service was originally the reason for the robot Micky's declining The Monkees' invitation to stay with them on Earth, and the home planet for The Captain and his Assistant was originally going to be named the planet Spritz.
| The teaser of this segment originally opened with the camera zooming in on Mike, standing between 2 soldiers nd clutching a microphone announcing:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening Raybert Productions and Screen Gems, with its usual lack of cooperation from the National Broadcasting Company, is pleased to present this special report from The Department Of UFO information."
This part of the teaser was unceremoniously snipped for the 1980's syndicated repeats; it has since been resurrected by Rhino for release on home video, and it now airs in syndication, too.
| A brief clip of the boys motorcycling around aboard the spaceship in this segment can be seen in the main title sequence for The Monkees second season.
| Stuart Margolin played Bernie in the short-lived sitcom Occassional Wife (NBC, 1966-67); he went on to portray Evelyn "Angel" Martin on The Rockford Files (NBC, 1974-80), and won 2 Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work. Monkee assistant director R. Robert Rosenbaum ("The Monkees On Tour") directed Margolin in a February 8, 1968 episode of Bewitched (ABC, 1964-72), "A Prince Of A Guy."
| At one point, Peter Tork can be seen playing an impromptu acoustic rendition (on a guitar, not a bass!) of "Pink Shoe Laces," a Micky Grant-composed tune which was a #3 hit for Dodie Stevens in 1959. Also, at the end of this episode, listen for Peter's brief, ad-libbed rendition of The Lovin' Spoonful's #2 hit from 1966, "Daydream" (gotta date with a blender..."). Plus, The Secretary (Pat Paulson) can be heard briefly singing "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), a Simon and Garfunkel tune which was also a #13 hit for The Harper's Bizarre.
| Julie Ward Howe's 1861 Battle Hymn Of The Republic is adapted by The Monkees' background music composer-conductor Stu Phillips for use thoughout almost the entire duration of "The Monkees Watch Their Feet" as its underscore. A snippet from an actual rendition of The Battle Hymn Of The Republic can be heard in Episode 3, "Monkee Versus Machine" in the scene where Mike is introduced to J.B. Guggins, Jr.
| In the scene where the robot Micky is frozen by a blast of seltzer water sprayed by Peter, he and Davy look inside robot Micky's eyes and see the wires and transistors of the radio which Micky (the real one) previously dismantled and converted into a single-relaying device in Cunningham Manor in Episode 2, "Monkee Se, Monkee Die."
| This was the eighth and final Monkees episode to be filmed on the shores of Malibu Beach, CA.
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| During Davy and Peter's inspection of the robot Micky, the latter spouts nonsensical psychobabble: "Gort! Veringa! Gort! Veringa! Klaatu borada nikto! Klaatu borado nikto!" This is a reference to the SCI-FI horror classic, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951). Also, the duplicate Micky says, "My name is Robby The Robot!", referring to the central character from another SCI-FI masterpiece, Forbidden Planet (1956).
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