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The Monkees :: Monkees Mind Their Manor (02x23)
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| Title: | Monkees Mind Their Manor |
| Episode #: | 02x23 |
| Production Number: | 4751 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday February 26th, 1968 |
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The Monkees travel to England to sort out Davy's inheritance of Sir Malcolm Kibee's estate.
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Click to hear Star Collector
| An early Screen Gems storyline for "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" reveals it originally concluded with everybody celebrating with a romp and The Monkees returning to the USA - by rowboat. The synopsis also reveals the following unused segues: the villagers had to buy the manor for 180,000 Pounds from Lance Kibbee; the villagers choose a "Hey Nonny Nonny" contest for the third and deciding one.
| Before being interupted by Peter in the tag sequence for this episode, Mike had this to say to audiences: "Oh! Hello there! Well, that wraps up another half-hour of halarious situation comedy of The Fantastic Four: Daby, Peekel, Micky and Perkal, Mycontchek...[clears throat] us! And we'll be back next week with more riotus fun laughters and hilarious bits of antics and humor!" ...this was excluded for tight airtime space on MTV. Also deleted from the 1986 Colex syndicatd print of "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" is a brief scene from Act III after Mike decides to have a medieval fair, which finds Micky raising his head from his right hand (which is gloved) to gripe, "A medieval Fair?! That's---!" Rhino has reinstated both scenes of this episode for its release on their Deluxe Limited Edition box Set and the select release video.
| For the second time a Monkee is left in the will of an eccentric millionaire; the first is in Episode 2, "Monkee See, Monkee Die."
| Peter H. Thorkelson, director of "The Monkees Mind Their Manor," is best known to one and all as Peter Tork. The orange/red/yellow-striped shirt he's sen wearing is the same one he wore in the teaser of Episode 31, "The Monkees At The Movies." This is the first of two Monkee-directed Monkees episodes this season; the second, of course, was No. 58, "Mijacageo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper"), the series finale.
| Monkee stand-in Ric Klein, David Price and David Pearl cameo as luggagecarriers; Klein and Pearl can also be sen as spectatores in the medieval fair along with Bruce Barbour (Mike Nesmith's brother-in-law, who replaced John London as his stand-in who left to join The Lewis & Clarke Expedition).
| Bernard Fox is best known for his recurring role as Dr. Bombay on Bewitched (ABC, 1964-72). Interestingly, two other members of this episode's guest cast were previously seen in a couple of episodes of the series: the late Myra DeGroot appeared with Monkee guests star Henry Beckham ("The Picture Frame" [a.k.a. "The Bank Robbery"], "The Monkees Paw") in the April 6, 1967 episode "How The Fall In Business With All Kinds Of Help," and Laurie Main guested with Monkee alum Jacques Aubuchon ("The Spy Who Came In From The Cool") and Peter Canon ("The Monkees In The Ring," "The Devil And Peter Tork") in the November 23, 1967 episode "Samantha's Thanksgiving To Remember."
| Jack Good joined ranks with The Monkees again in Octocber 19678 in co-writing and directing their TV special (and bittersweet swansong appearance as a quartet), 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee (NBC, 4/14/69). Good previously worked on Shindig (ABC, 1964-66).
| Jack William's imitation of Dean Martin's closing theme is in reference to Dean's namesake 60-minute comedy-variety show, a nine-year mainstay on NBC (September 1965 - May 1974), which was a major fixture in its Thursday night slot (@ 10:00 PM EST) at the time. (Dean's daughter Deana plays drag king Daphne/William McCochrane, leader of The Westminster Abbies, in the next episode, "Some Like It Lukewarm" [a.k.a. "The Band Contest"]).
| In the dueling sequence, Davy dons the very same boxing gloves, trunks, shoes and, yes, "Dynamite Davy Jones" robe he did in Episode 20, "The Monkees In The Ring." Following Davy's crushing defeat at dueling, and as the audience boos and hisses the winner, Sir Twiggly,Lance Kibbee shouts "Booze!" an obvious reference to a scene from epsiode 33, "It's A Nice Place To Visit..." in which "El Torko" Peter recites the same line.
| Though the song itself appears in a slightly different edit, "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" reconstitutes the musical sequences for "Star Collector" first seen at the outset of Episode 44, "Hitting The High Seas."
| The beginning of "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" teaser sequence finds The Monkees attempting (and then quitting!) to rehearse a brief ditty entitled "Iranian Tango." This tune, along with "Greensleeves", would see release on numerous bootleg LPs, including 1979's Monkeeshines.
| In their guises as mummies, Micky, Peter and Mike take on monikers which are the same as their Zodiac signs - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd.
| The late Reginald Gardiner is remembered for his portrayal of eccentric British characters in films like Born To Dance (1936), The Flying Deuces (1939), and one of his most famous works, The Man Who Came To Dinner (1940); it co-starred pre-monkee guest Elisabeth Fraser ["The Picture Frame" (a.k.a. "The Bank Robbery")]). He even had a guest role on Batman (ABC, 1966-68) as Bernie Parks in the March 22-23, 1967 episode "Pop Goes The Joker/Flop Goes The Joker." Laurie Main would supercede the late Sebastian Cabot in narrating Winnie The Pooh cartoons and children's recordings for Disney, and even hosted Welcome To Pooh Corner for The Disney Channel between 1983 and 1995.
| The clip of a hot air balloon used in this episode is from the 1956 United Artists movie Around The World In 80 Days.
| Number of times Mr. Friar faints in this episode: 5.
| Told by Lance Kibbee to either sing at the contest or lose his commission, Sir Twiggly performs a brief, off-key rendition of "Where The Blue Of Night (Meets The Gold Of the Day)" a tune which was compossed by Roy Turk, Bing crosby and Fred E. Ahlert in 1931, and by year's end was adopted as Bing Crosby's nominal theme. Bing recorded it 3 times for commercial release: first for Brunswick on November 23, 1931, accompanied by Bernie Krueger and his Orchestra; next for Decca on July 20, 1940, accompanied by the Paradise Island Trio; and again for Decca on July 17, 1945, accompanied by the John Scott Trotter Orchestra.
| "Valleri" b/w "Tapioca Tundra" is released on March 2, 1968 as The Monkees' 6th single, in the weekend following "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" first-run airing.
| For the second time on The Monkees a central character is referred to as "a jellyfish." 52 episodes ago, in No. 3, "Monkee Versus Machine," Daggert called J.B. Guggins Jr. "an indecisive jellyfish."
| After Sir Twiggly burns out in the troubadoring contest, take note of a certain subtitles graphic: "IN THE STICKS CALL HAYSEED 7-4000." "Hayseed 7-4000" is actually manual telephone switching, which many small towns and rural areas used until about the late 1960's ("Hayseed 7-4000" was also the telephone switching in Episode 28, "The Monkees On The Line"); "In The Sticks" is a slang term for a rural country area.
| This is the second time The Monkees are seen actually playing their own instruments in their pad, following Episode 15, "Too Many Girls" (a.k.a. "Davy And Fern").
| Check out Davy's tan Nehru shirt. He was seen wearing it 10 episodes ago, in No. 45, "The Monkees In Texas," and in No. 47. "The Monkees Christmas Show," and he also wore it in the second-season Kellogg's sponsor billboard for The Monkees TV show.
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Mr. Friar: Does Davy Jones live here? Davy me lad, I've been asking for you up and down the beach. What's a long-haired weirdo?
Micky: It's a local fish. You catch him with a sharp stick. (pokes Mr Friar with his drum stick)
Davy: Hey fellows, remember when I was telling you about Mr. Friar, an innkeeper in Kibbey?
Micky: No, you never told us about Mr. Friar from Kibbey.
Davy: The Innkeeper?
Micky: No, I don't remember anything about any Innkeeper.
Davy: This is him.
Mr. Friar: Davy you must come back to England immediately.
Davy: oh, I can't do that.
Mr. Friar: Don't say that Davy, don't say...(passes out, The Monkees place him on a chair)
Micky: to Micky Thank you miss.
(Micky makes a face and pretends to stab Mr. Friar with a drumstick)
Mr. Friar: Davy, young Lord Kibbey has passed on.
Davy: Young Lord Kibbey? Why, he was 97 years old when I as there.
Mr. Friar: That's true, in the prime of his life. And so the villagers have sent me to bring you back.
Davy: Why would the villagers need me?
Mr. Friar: Well, we believe that you must be there for the reading of the will. We believe that Lord Kibbey has left his estate to you.
Davy: Well... I can't go back there, I'm sorry. (Mr. Friar faints again)
Mr. Friar: But you've got to come back. If you don't, we believe Lord Kibbey nephew, Lance Kibbey the sot will inherit the estate and sell it to some developer.
Davy: Well, I can dig that but I still can't go back there.
(Mr Friar faints again)
Mike: You better cool it man, this guys denting our couch.
Mr. Friar: Our houses are on that estate, and we believe that we'll all be evicted.
Davy: Well I...(Mr. Friar faints again) OK, OK I'll go, I'll go.
Mike: That was a close one.
Davy: I don't understand. Why did he leave the estate to me? I was only the stable boy.
Mr. Friar: Oh he loved you Davy, and he knew how you loved the estate. Why...he'd speak of you for hours.
Davy: He couldn't have said much about me, we really never talked.
Mr. Friar: Oh, that's true, but what he did say, he'd say over and over and over and over and over. He was as nutty as a fruitcake!
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