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The Monkees :: The Monkees at the Movies (a.k.a. The Monkees in the Movies) (01x31)
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| Title: | The Monkees at the Movies (a.k.a. The Monkees in the Movies) |
| Episode #: | 01x31 |
| Production Number: | 4727 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday April 17th, 1967 |
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The group is cast as extras in a teen-exploitation beach party flick, that is until Davy is cast into the spotlight.
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Click to hear Valleri
| Click to hear A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You
| Click to hear Last Train to Clarksville
| This episode includes excerpts from Brian Wilson's "New Girl In School" (a 1964 Top 40 hit for surf duo Jan & Dean), and 3 brief versions of Stu Phillips' "I Really Love You," sung by Davy Jones under 3 different titles: "Teardrops In The Playground," "These Boots Are Made For Kicking" (a homage to the 1966 Nancy Sinatra hit "These Boots Are Made For Walking"), and "It'sBeen Lonesome In The Saddle Since My Horse Died."
| The original NBC telecast of "The Monkees At The Movies" coincided with the 33rd birthday of Don Kirshner, former music supervisor of The Monkees TV series.
| "The Monkees At The Movies" incorporates footage featuring our maraca-shaking hero from Manchester from Episode 2, "Monkee See, Monkee Die" (disguised in a suit of armor), No. 10, "Here Come The Monkees" (as a lawyer), No.11 "Monkees A La Carte" (as a chef), No. 13 "One Man Shy" (as a little old lady), No. 20 "The Monkees In The Ring" (in the ring as 'Dynamite' Davy Jones), No. 21 "The Prince And The Paupers" (as Prince Ludlow), and No. 29 "the Monkees Get Out More Dirt" (as a pop artist). A clip from another episode, No. 7, "The Monkees In A Ghost Town," which features a fantasy Western sequence involving Mike in a duel role as Black Bart and Slade and Davy as Kincaid, kicks off the cliffhanger parody romp set to "Last Train To Clarksville."
| Footage of the "Valleri" musical number is reused from its previous appearance: Episode 23, "Captain Crocodile."
| For his fictitious Crazy Micky The D Show On W-Go-Go-Go radio program, Micky used a coffee can to shout into with his microphone to simulate echo effects. The brand name on the can partially covered in black duct tape is Kraft Foods' unassuming Maxwell House.
| Here's some data of the famous "Monkeewalk" footage used in the maintitle sequence for The Monkees second season. It was shot during the "The Monkees At The Movies" film sessions for intended use in the "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" musical number. Alas, ir provided too much running time for the segment, and half a minute from the "A Little Bit Me..." number wound up on the cutting room floor...the other half, unfortunately, retaining the now-legendary "Monkeewalk" shot (and you wonder why "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" romp quit suddenly during the instrumental solo!). The Monkeewalk was inspired by the walk seen in many Marx Brothers' films.
| The characters of The Girl (portrayed by Pamelyn Ferdin) and her Mother (portrayed by Aileen Carlisle) were given credit in "Movies" end titles and Screen Gems Storylines entry, but were never actually seen in the aired segment. According to the original synopsis for "The Monkees At The Movies," the girl shoves her mother forward and announces that she sings. The mom then lets out a voice that can be heard for miles, and Kramm, Philo and The Monkees join in on the ear-splitting audition. Pamelyn Ferdin later played the role of Peggy in Sigmund And The Sea Monsters (NBC, 1973-75), Lucy baker in Lassie (CBS/Syndicated, 1954-74), Edna Unger in The Odd Couple (ABC, 1970-75), and had a guest role in Star Trek (NBC, 1966-69) as Mary in the October 11, 1968 episode "And The Children Shall Lead."
| The characters of The Girl (portrayed by Pamelyn Ferdin) and her Mother (portrayed by Aileen Carlisle) were given credit in "Movies" end titles and Screen Gems Storylines entry, but were never actually seen in the aired segment. According to the original synopsis for "The Monkees At The Movies," the girl shoves her mother forward and announces that she sings. The mom then lets out a voice that can be heard for miles, and Kramm, Philo and The Monkees join in on the ear-splitting audition. Pamelyn Ferdin later played the role of Peggy in Sigmund And The Sea Monsters (NBC, 1973-75), Lucy baker in Lassie (CBS/Syndicated, 1954-74), Edna Unger in The Odd Couple (ABC, 1970-75), and had a guest role in Star Trek (NBC, 1966-69) as Mary in the October 11, 1968 episode "And The Children Shall Lead."
| Linda Albetano played the role of Tall Girl in the 1967 film Beach Red.
| The scene of The Monkees hamming it up with surfboards from this segment was incorporated into the main title sequence for The Monkees' second season.
| Another scene from this episode shows Mike trying to trade a stack of albums to Peter for his copy of the album David Jones (issued in 1965), Also, Peter gives brief mention of the music group The Lovin' Spoonful, famous singer Bobby Darin ("Mack The Knife," "Splish Splash") and Blind Lemon Jefferson, one of the greatest country blues guitarist and founder of the Texas blues, Blind since birth, his popular blues style in the 1920's made him the first commercially successful male blues singer.
| Just before he and Luthor Kramm encounter record collectors Mike and Peter on the beach, Philo rifles through a stack of publicity photos and calls one of them "Robby Rafelson"-which is in reference to The Monkees producer Robert (Bob) Rafelson.
| The late comedian Jerry Lester, older brother of performer Buddy Lester, got his first break earning $750 a week on Cavalcade Of The Stars (Dumont, 1949-52).
| Hamilton Camp later provided a valuable amount of cartoon voices including Greedy and Harmony on Hanna-Barbera's Smurfs (NBC, 1981-90). Camp has recently been seen in the 2000-2002 Fox-TV series Titus as Merritt.
| Prior to his appearance as Catalina on The Monkees, singer Bobby Sherman's first big break came in 1964 when his performance at a Hollywood party landed him a part on the musical television show, Shindig (ABC, 1964-66). But it was his role as Jeremy Bolt in the sitcom Here Come The Brides (ABC, 1968-70) which made him a household name. Shortly thereafter, Sherman appeared in a March 19, 1971 episode of The Partridge Family (ABC, 1970-74), "A Knight In Shining Armor," its first season finale, which served as the pilot for the short-lived sitcom Getting Together (ABC, 1971-72). Sherman reportedly purchased Robert Moog's synthesized keyboard from Micky Dolenz; the latter having employed grandiose use of it during the sessions for The Monkees 4th album, Pises, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd., in August 1967.
| We learn here that Philo is also Luthor Kramm's nephew.
| The four contestants in The Miss Surfside Beauty Contest: Miss Zuma Beach, Miss Hermosa Beach, Miss Malibu, Miss Topanga and Sunset.
| The panning aerial shot of the water crashing onto the beach seen in "The Monkees At The Movies" (right after the sub-main titles) is reused in Episode 58, "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper").
| The panning aerial shot of the water crashing onto the beach seen in "The Monkees At The Movies" (right after the sub-main titles) is reused in Episode 58, "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper").
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Peter: (on the beach, playing checkers with Micky) Good move. (Micky tosses the checkers) Hey, my checkers? Hey this sand is hot (starts jumping on the sand)
Davy: It's not so hot. (starts dancing on the sand too, followed by Mike and Micky)
All: Oww, Ooh!
Luthor Kramm: Look, Philo. Typical teenagers doing a typical new dance. I think I'll use them in my new teenage movie. What do you think? And remember, I don't like yes men.
Philo: I don't like them.
Luthor Kramm: Who asked you!
Philo: Boy's, say hello to Mr. Luthor Kramm. Mr Kramm who gave you Beach Party Honeymoon.
Peter: You didn't give it to us, we had to pay for it.
Mike: Yeah, it cost us 80 cents a piece at the Drive-in.
Luthor Kramm: Well it was worth it though wasn't it?
Mike: Umm...you owe me 60 cents.
Luthor Kramm: How would you teenagers like to appear in my next film as extras?
Davy: I don't think we'd be interested in a beach movie?
Luthor Kramm: This isn't just another beach movie, this is a cinema landmark. It's about sadness, pain and cruelty. All the things that make life worth while.
All: No, uh uh, definetely not, no chance.
Luthor Kramm: It pays $30 a day.
(all start goofing around on surfboards)
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This episode featured, instead of "When Love Comes Knocking..." (which is credited), "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You," written by Neil Diamond and produced by Jeff Barry. It was the second time on the series a different song was featured than credited; the first such occurance happened in Episode 5, "The Spy Who Came In From The Cool."
| The syndicated version of this episode is missing the writer and director credits. It's also missing two frames - one during the "Last Train To Clarksville" sequence and one during the scene where Davy Jones is introduced as the new star of the film.
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