It was 56 years ago tonight (September 12th, 1966) that The Monkees premiered on NBC. The series featured relative unknowns Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork as a struggling rock band, living together in a beach house, who each week would stumble from one comedic adventure to the next. The show, which was inspired by the comic lampooning in the Beatles' second movie Help!, released the previous year, proved to be the '60s answer to the Marx Brothers. The Monkees, who never met each other before being cast in the pilot, have been affectionately dubbed throughout the years as "The Pre-Fab Four." Together, with their on screen chemistry along with the guidance of music impresario Don Kirshner, who supervised the music for the show and the group's first two albums, the Monkees were a hit out of the box. The Monkees ran for two seasons and won two Emmys in 1967 Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Comedy. But
i mission to the moon for saturday after scrubbing the first attempted liftoff. original launch was canceled monday because of trouble getting one of the four engines to cool properly hey, hey, we re the monkees you better get ready they ll be found suing the fbi or at least the last surviving member of the rock band the monkees will be. micky dolenz wants the agency to hand over its records about the group, after a portion was made public. what does pleasant valley sunday really mean? those are 5 things to know for your new day. don t forget to download the 5 things podcast every morning. in a remarkable timing released overnight, the justice department says it has evidence that records were likely concealed and removed from a storage room at mar-a-lago in order to obstruct the government s investigation.
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Micky Dolenz, lead singer and drummer for The Monkees, agrees his most recognizable artistic achievement is his time on the TV show and with the band, but it hardly captures the breadth of his show-business career. Starting in the 1950s on the TV show Circus Boy, he played Corky, the waterboy for the elephants. He went on to perform in and direct musical theater in the West End, direct and produce TV shows for the BBC, and he continued touring as a musician. But his first loves remain architecture and science.