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The Monkees :: Monkees in Paris (a.k.a. The Paris Show) (02x22)
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| Title: | Monkees in Paris (a.k.a. The Paris Show) |
| Episode #: | 02x22 |
| Production Number: | 4771 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday February 19th, 1968 |
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Bored with the grind of their television show, the group flees to Paris for some free-form frolicking.
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| Guest Stars | | •James Frawley | played | Himself | Recurring (third appearance) |
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Click to hear Don't Call On Me
| Click to hear Love Is Only Sleeping
| Click to hear Star Collector
| Click to hear Goin Down
| Strangely enough, during filming of "The Monkees In Paris," The Fun Four were virtually unknown in France as the stars they were in America (or ever England!), for The Monkees TV show did not air in France. The French would later on, however, instantly embrace the group's unconventional feature film HEAD. This episode remains the only episode of The Monkees TV series to be filmed on location overseas.
| The girls chasing The Monkees throughout this segment are models.
| Noted composer Hugo Montenegro (1967, I Dream Of Jeannie NBC, 1965-70), is the author oif this episode's inidental soundtrack. A cue from this sondtrack heard during The Monkees' romp around the Eiffel Tower is reused in The Monkees' series finale, Episode 58, "Mijacageo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper"), in the scene where Micky, Mike and Davy, with the aid of Nyles Brown, discover the door to the Frodis Room. A snippet from Montenegro's greatest piece, the theme music from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1968), is heard in the scene where the girls appear to have The Monkees trapped on the barge.
| This was the only episode of The Monkees in its entire second season with Bob Rafelson at the director's helm, as well as te sixth overall and last.
| The gendarmes here are portrayed by Bill Chadwick, David Price, Charles Rockett and Richard Klein. Price and Klein are both Monkee stunt doubles.
| The wraparound segments of "The Monkees In Paris" were shot in Screen Gems' Studio 7 during the "Fairytale" / "The Monkee's Paw" closing interview sessions on the day after Thanksgiving, 1967. Notice in these segments the boys' ill feelings about being saddled with the same old Monkee scripts, which was an unfortunate reality (hence the decision to halt the series).
| This episode is the second of The Monkees to feature a record four songs: the first was epsiode 5, "The Spy Who Came In From The Cool."
| Unlike most of its previous appearances, Mann and Weil's "Love Is Only Sleeping" makes its only appearance on The Monkees TV show in this episode in its mono mix heard on the mono version of Pisces, Aquarious, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd., whereas Nesmith and London's "Don't Call On Me" (another cut from PAC&J, Ltd.) makes its only appearance on the series here altogether.
| TV Guide featured a Close-up on "The Monkees In Paris" for its August 12, 1968 repeat; it was the only TV Guide Close-up on The Monkees ever printed.
| 3 classic music pieces can be heard in this episode; Richard Wagner's "Ride Of The Valkyries" and the aforementioned "Tocatta and Fugue in D minor" by Johan Sebastian Bach and Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's "War Of 1812 Overture." In Episode 35, "Everywhere A Sheik, Sheik," Stu Phillips' own rendition of Tchaikovsky's "War Of 1812 Overture" was heard during Micky's hilarious Napoleonic speech ("And the dreaded Nahudi Camel Corps marches straight to Moscow").
| "Tocatta and Fugue in D minor" is one of 2 Bach pieces utilized for a Monkees TV project; in the 1969 TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per monkee, Peter Tork can be seen playing an harpsichord rendition of "Solfeggietto," by Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), second son of the great Johan Sebastian Bach.
| This episode, filmed during a short vacation in The French Capital in the week prior to the Monkees summer tour, was the first second-season Monkees episode to be produced from fresher, more original material, and well suited to second-season standards. This came about when The Monkees balked at having to contend with filming first season rejects; fresher scripts were presented to the group when filming for their TV series resumed in September 1967. (Probably why Coslough Johnson's "Monkees Toy Around" was never used...)
| This as the last episode of The Monkees to be filmed with Micky Dolenz and his straight hair. Micky grew tired of having to comb it, and so, during the course of the summer tour and recording sessions for Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd. he allowed it to grow wild, resulting in the curly "afro" he adorned for the rest of the series production.
| Keep a sharp lookout for Micky's future wife, BBC television host Samantha Justle, who makes a quick cameo during a particular short scene of this episode.
| Michael Burns, who was associate producer for "The Monkees In Paris,'' was one of the actors tested for a role on The Monkees TV series in 1965. In late 1963, Burns joined the cast of Wagon Train (NBC/ABC, 1957-65), playing Barnaby West, a 13-year old who has walked from Virginia in search of his father. Billed as "Snrub Ekim" ("Mike Burns" in reverse), he had a brief role as "Ginhton" ("Nothing") in the movie HEAD.
| For the lone Saturday Afternoon repeat of "The Monkees In Paris" on CBS August 12, 1972 (a full 4 years after its NBC repeat), three of its musical romps were altered to feature both sides of The Monkees' last single, "Oh My My" b/w "I Love You Better" and "Tell Me Love."
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Peter: Guys, guys listen. We know who you are, so don't try and deny it. We know where you live, or else how could we have sent this letter. We're coming to get you, so don't leave. This is a threatening letter and a warning. Unless you return the microfilm and get off the ranch, we'll kill you.
Micky: Don't worry about it Peter, there's nothing in the world that can go wrong. (a man jumps out of the closet and yells)
Man: Argh! (in Russian accent) All right, give me da microfilm!
James Frawley: Ah guys, guys. You didn't give the scare...the Monkees scare.
Mike: What do you mean Monkees scare, man?
James Frawley: Come on, it's a groovy bit. Let's do the scare...Umm, Argh! (Mike jumps in fright) That's it, OK? Alright, close the door....and action!
Micky: There's nothing wrong Peter?
Man: Argh!
(all give a half hearted Monkee scare)
James Frawley: Cut!
Mike: For 16 straight shows now.
James Frawley: I know.
Mike: Everytime we start up a show, you start on a Monkee, you pull back...
Davy: A tall guy...there's always a tall heavy and a small heavy...
James Frawley: Man, you're not being fair.
Mike: You've seen one Monkee episodes, you've seen them all Monkee episodes...
Micky: It's not funny anymore...
Mike: Man, that's all I'm saying...
James Frawley: The scare is very funny...try the scare.
Davy: It's funny to you because you have...
James Frawley: Well how do you think I feel having to direct the same show every week?
Mike: Let's go...we're gonna take a vacation, and you work the show out. Cause we're not gonna be here.
Davy: To uhhh...
All: Paris, Paris...we'll go to Paris.
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