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The Monkees :: The Monkees on Tour (01x32)
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| Title: | The Monkees on Tour |
| Episode #: | 01x32 |
| Production Number: | 4753 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday April 24th, 1967 |
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This mini-documentary shows a day in the life of The Monkees during their first concert tour.
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Click to hear The Girl That I Knew Somewhere
| Click to hear Last Train To Clarksville
| Click to hear Sweet Young Thing
| Click to hear Mary Mary
| Click to hear Cripple Creek
| Click to hear You Cant Judge A Book By Its Cover
| Click to hear I Wanna Be Free
| Click to hear I've Got A Woman
| Click to hear I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
| Click to hear I'm a Believer
| Click to hear Words
| Take a close look at Micky, Mike and Peter in this episode's teaser sequence, and you'll see that they wore real beards under the fake ones. The Monkees were well into recording their third album, The Monkees' Headquarters at the time, and managed to take some time off to shoot "The Monkees On Tour" teaser.
| Bob Shannon, aka R.J. Adams, one of L.A.'s top radio personalities in the 1970's and 1980's, makes a rare appearance as the hogtied and gagged DJ at KRUX. KRUX-AM 1360 has since given way for KPXQ-AM 1360, which specializes in Christian music.
| As The Monkees converged upon the KRUX radio station, you are hearing a brief snippet of the album version of the "(theme) The Monkees," in its 6th and final appearance on this series. Other appearances include Episode 1, "The Royal Flush" (at 78 rpm), No. 7, "The Monkees In A Ghost Town" (with Rose Marie), No. 18, "I Was A Teenage Monster," No. 24, "Monkes A La Mode" and No. 29, "The Monkees Get Out More Dirt."
| Because it strayed from The Monkees' standard story format, "The Monkees On Tour" did not feature a studio-recorded laugh track...something which would become a major part of the series' second season. A second episode not to adhere strictly to a central story arrangement is No. 54, "The Monkees In Paris" (a.k.a. "The Paris Story").
| There's a possibility that footage from The Monkees gig at The Cow Palace in San Francisco, which took place on the night immediately following the concert in Phoenix and in fact was the last stop on their U.S. tour, was employed for use in "The Monkees On Tour."
| Although the music during the concert sequences filmed at The Colliseum was all performed live, arcane recording techniques rendered most of The Monkees' vocals undesipherable. Many of the lead vocals were recorded later on for specific use in the concert excerpts that were seen in "The Monkees On Tour," but no complete redubbing of any live tracks was ever made. Audio from the January 1967 Phoenix, AZ concert (not including the vocal overdubs to flesh out the barely-audible vocals of the actual concert) has circulated, however, and after "Last Train To Clarksville" Mike tells the audience, Well, I guess that clears up one rumor' - a reference to the "They don't play their own instruments'' criticism (curiously, Nesmith tackles that issue in speaking with a young woman on KRUX before the concert begins) and perhaps also a cryptic message about their upcoming album The Monkees Headquarters.
| At the end of "The Monkees On Tour," as The Monkees are taxied out of the hysteria-driven Colliseum, the caption "Written and Directed by Robert Rafelson" is superimpossed; it was the only time the submain title credits were seen at the end of a Monkees episode. This exact same caption can also be seen in Episode 54, "The Monkees In Paris" (a.k.a. "The Paris Show"), as it flashes against total blackness (instead of superimpossing over the four boys' faces against a yellow background).
| The late Robert C. Tobey, who shot all the scenes for "The Monkees On Tour," also served as chief cinematographer for Bewitched (ABC, 1964-72), which also employed the services of Monkee TV crewmembers Ross Bellah, Malcom C. Bert, Robert Peterson, Robert Purcell, Jack H. Ahern, Sidney Clifford, Loius Diage, Ben Lane, Mark Sandrich Jr., Marvin Miller, R. Robert Rosenbaum, and Don Kirshner. Interestingly, the teaser sequence of "The Monkees On Tour" was shot on the set of the Stephens' household (at 1164 Morning Glory Circle) from Bewitched (right by the patio doors leading to the backyard), which was also home to Dr. Alfred E. Bellows (the late Hayden Rorke) of I Dream Of Jeannie (NBC, 1965-70), and was home to Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) in Brian's Song (ABC, 11/30/71) and ruthless Frank Crawford (Randy Quaid) in Moving (1988).
| George Foley Jr., who edited "The Monkees On Tour," later co-edited (with Malcolm Campbell) Michael Jackson's musical short Thriller in 1983.
| This is one of 2 episodes in which Micky and Peter are seen riding on horseback; the other is No. 45, "The Monkees In Texas."
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Mike: (reading a letter while on the radio on station KRUX) We got a letter here from Mr. Leonard T. Kritchlow. Every morning I get up about 7:30 and wander out into the yard. There I notice that several of my chickens are now laying on the ground, cold and stiff with their feet in the air. Could you tell me possibly, what has happened to them? (stops reading the letter) Mr. Kritchlow, Mr. Kritchlow your chickens are dead!
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