Peter Tork-related stories
Posted Dec 16th 2006 4:09PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Syndicated, Celebrities

This post is for my brother and fellow Squadder Rich more than anyone else, since he seems to be one of the few people on the planet who is interested in anything and everything having to do with The Monkees:
Out of the four guys who appeared on the Beatles-inspired
CBS NBC show (and played in the band the show created) , the one that seems to have managed to stay in the spotlight the most has been
Micky Dolenz. Think about it: Peter Tork is nowhere to be found, Mike Nesmith is busy counting his Liquid Paper money, and Davy Jones can only seem to get infomercials for Time-Life oldies collections.
Continue reading What is Micky Dolenz doing these days?
Posted Sep 14th 2006 9:35AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Short-Lived Shows
On September 12th, 1966 a debate ignited that continues even to this day. It wasn't on whether or not we should stay in Vietnam, or if there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll, or who was the cutest Beatle. No, the age old debate begun on this date was: did the Monkees actually play their own instruments?
Well, they did, but that doesn't matter right now. What does matter is that the debate was initiated this particular evening because it was the night that The Monkees television show premiered on the NBC fall schedule. For the next two seasons, fifty-eight episodes, nine albums, one television special, and one major motion picture, Monkeemania swept America and the world.
Continue reading Short-Lived Shows: The Monkees