6.026 minSeason 2 • Episode 26
LatestThe Monkees match wits with the insane Wizard Glick (Rip Taylor), who is out to control the minds of television viewers worldwide.
Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.
Direction
Rafelson's French New Wave visual gags and jump cuts.
Writing
Meta-before-meta-was-cool scripts roasting their own premise.
Production
Music video segments that literally created MTV's DNA.
Creators
Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Monkees pioneered the music video format with their 'romp' sequences — quick-cut performance clips that MTV later built its entire brand around.
The famous 'Paul is dead' Beatles rumor? Partially started because fans misread a Monkees press clipping. Even their gossip was influential.
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