The Monkees: The Monkees (a.k.a. Here Come the Monkees)
Episode score
8.5
Great
The Monkees (a.k.a. Here Come the Monkees)
- 10.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 10
- First Aired: 11/14/1966
- Prod Code: 4091
Davy falls in love with the daughter of a man who has hired The Monkees to play at a sweet sixteen party. But she is so distracted by her love; she flunks a history test in school. Davy feels responsible and The Monkees set out to help the girl pass her makeup exam, only to find out they will be fired if she doesn't pass.
Monkee music includes I Wanna Be Free and Let's Dance On. Read full recap »
- Writers:
- Paul MazurskyLarry Tucker
- Director:
- Mike Elliot
- Stars:
- Davy Jones (Davy)
- Michael Nesmith (Mike)
- Micky Dolenz (Micky)
- Peter Tork (Peter)
- Guest Star:
- June Whitley Taylor (Mrs. Russell)
- Richard St. John (Charles Russell)
- Bing Russell (Rudy Gunther)
- Robyn Millan (Vanessa Russell)
- Paul Mazursky (TV Interviewer)
- Joe Higgins (Guard)
- Larry Tucker (Dr. Lionel B. Turner)
- When Peter, Mike, and Micky are on the Merry-Go-Round the crew is visible in the mirrors behind them in certain shots. edit »
- When Mike is throwing darts when Davy is getting ready for his date, he is throwing darts at a poster of The Beatles. edit »
- When Vanessa and her father are dancing there are people in the background sitting at tables, but when the Monkees perform and Vanessa and her father sit down at one of the tables, no one else is around them. edit »
- Rudy the Manager (Bing Russell) and his daughter Jill (Jill Van Ness) were supposed to be recurring characters on the show, before disastrous rating of this pilot led to most of their scenes being out. edit »
- When Davy imagines himself to be handcuffed to Vanessa, the tail end of the original demo version of "I Wanna Be Free" sung by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart can be heard. edit »
- Some of the scenes in this episode were filmed at The Del Coronada Hotel in San Diego. edit »
- After a disastrous screen test of the episode in January 1966, co-producer Robert Rafelson went to the cutting room for two days and made changes such as changing the screen test of Mike and Davy from the beginning of the episode to the end and he deleted a few scenes. edit »
- This was the original pilot episode filmed in November 1965. edit »
- There are several differences in the interior of the Monkees' pad: there is a regular staircase instead of a spiral staircase; the exit is on the right; and the living room layout is much different. The reason is all of these shots were done in an actual house. edit »
- The initial names of the title characters in the pilot's script were "Biff", "Dicky", "Fred" and "Suds". edit »
- Micky: Hi. Uh, tonight, the… we're a minute short as usual…
(Peter looks at his watch and mouths "five!")
Micky: …so we're gonna show you two spontaneous, unrehearsed, uh screen tests that were done of Mike and Davy before the Monkees…we started filming…before we like knew what was all gonna happen. These were two screen tests that we did. An' they're black 'n' white so don't worry, the color is OK…(turns to Peter) Why do you talk so much for?
(Peter opens mouth to answer, but makes a face and looks at the camera) edit » - Charles Russell: Have you seen any Monkees?
Drunk: What?
Charles Russell: Monkees, monkees!
Drunk: Really Russell, old boy, you've been hitting the booze too hard. edit » - Mike: If they catch us it means a life sentence!
Micky: I'm not going back in that hole!
Davy: You dirty rotten screw!
Peter: You'll never get us alive!
Micky: Come and get us law, come and get us! edit » - Guard: Hey, what do you fellas want?
Davy: Vanessa Russell invited us.
Guard: Sure she did. Now beat it! Go on!
(The boys walk away, but Mike turns around and comes back)
Mike: You're evil! edit » - Ms. Cooper: Perfect, just perfect, Vanessa. Every question answered correctly. What's the matter? You don't look very happy about it.
Vanessa: Ms. Cooper, would you believe me if I told you I owed it all to a Monkee and that my father is prejudice.
Ms. Cooper: Child, you must of worked very hard. edit »
- Don Adams
When the boys are coming up with a way to help Vanessa, Micky does a Don Adams accent when he says that Davy should help her. Don Adams played Maxwell Smart in the 1960's hit series Get Smart!. edit »
The Monkees (a.k.a. Here Come the Monkees)
The Bottom Line: "Pilot episode"05/13/08 06:35am | report abuseWhen Davy falls in love with the "sweet 16" Vanessa Russell he finds that he is a bit of a distraction to her, which results in her failing her history final. With the help from the boys, they help her pass her final and end up keeping their job. ...Continue »
Show Score
8.6
great
- Show Statistics
-
1,050 of 17,752 Rating Rank
-
15 Reviews
-
190 Tracked by
-
248 Votes
top contributors
episode list »
top episodes
score
updated daily
