List of The Monkees episodes

The Monkees rescue Princess Bettina, (Katherine Walsh), the Duchess of Harmonica, from a drowning, only to find that her evil uncle Archduke Otto (Theodore Marcuse) is trying to dispose of her in an attempt to take the duchy's throne.

The Monkees attend the reading of a late millionaire's will, and find themselves forced to stay the night in his haunted castle.

In a computerized toy factory, the Monkees foil an efficiency expert (Stan Freberg) who wants to replace an old toymaker (Walter Janovitz) with automation.

A shady PR man (Andre Philippe) forces the Monkees into unflattering sunts, his effort to keep them from entering a talent contest (and winning a record deal) that he wants his clients, the Four Swines, to enter and win.

The Monkees get mixed up with two foreign spies (Jacques Aubuchon and Arlene Martel) after Davy unwittingly purchases a set of red maracas containing secret microfilm.

Davy's grandfather (Ben Wright), who believes his grandson has become wealthy and successful, pays a visit; it forces the guys to work as Davy's "employees" in an attempt to make the charade stick.

Stranded in a ghost town after the Monkeemobile runs out of gas, the Monkees are held prisoner by bank robbers (Len Lesser, Lon Chaney Jr.) and their boss, "the Big Man" (Rose Marie).

Despite landlord Mr. Babbitt (Henry Corden) forbidding any pets, Davy brings home an equine to horsesit. The boys get a taste of farm living when they return the steed to a father and child (Jim Boles and Kerry MacLane); the adventure also sees Davy race the horse against one belonging to the father's neighbor.

Songs: "Papa Gene's Blues," "All the King's Horses"
Saturday mornings: "I Never Thought It Peculiar" replaced "All the King's Horses."

To help Davy gain a date with retired general Harley Vandenberg's (Arch Johnson) daughter, Leslie (Sherry Alberoni), Micky poses as a female chaperone at a party after the real chaperone (Diana Chesney) gets drunk; "Mrs. Arcadian" arouses the attention of both General Vandenberg and landlord Mr. Babbitt.

The Monkees play a sweet sixteen party and, after the birthday girl (Robyn Millan) falls for Davy and resultingly neglects her schoolwork, help her with her studies.

Songs: "I Wanna Be Free" (fast and original album versions), "Let's Dance On"
1967 reruns: "Shades of Gray" replaced "I Wanna Be Free."

The Monkees pose as the Purple Flower Gang to save their favorite Italian restaurant from a gangster (Harvey Lembeck).

After Mike is fleeced by a fraudulent music publisher (Phil Leeds), Micky acts as a flashy Hollywood producer to get Mike's money back.

Songs: "Gonna Buy Me a Dog", "Mary, Mary"
1967 reruns: "For Pete's Sake" replaced "Mary, Mary."
Saturday mornings: "Steam Engine," a song not on any albums or singles during the series' run on the networks, replaced "Mary, Mary."

With the band's help, bashful Peter tries to win the heart of lovely debutante Valerie Cartwright (Lisa James) while dealing with her haughty boyfriend Ronnie Farnsworth (George Furth).

Peter wins a free dance lesson at Renaldo's (Hal March) Dance Au Go Go; the rest of the band follows suit... only to learn that they've signed lifetime contracts.

A gypsy tea room owner (Reta Shaw) predicts Davy will fall in love within 24 hours and leave the group. Her true plan, though, is to force Davy to join her daughter, Fern (Kelly Jean Peters), in a talent show competition. It forces the rest of the Monkees to enter the show (Peter as a magician, Mike as a folk singer, Micky as an impressionist).

Songs: "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (performed live on set), "I'm a Believer", "Different Drum" (played for laughs).

After they get a party gig at Madame Rantha's mansion ahead of a quartet of musical gypsy brothers; the gypsies' mother, Maria, (Jeanne Arnold), forces the Monkees to steal a priceless statuette, the Maltese Vulture, from the Rantha mansion.

Peter becomes involved in a kidnapping plot against the respected rocket science professor Milo Schnitzler (Norbert Schiller)... and winds up disappearing himself.

Mad scientist Dr. Mendoza (John Hoyt) and his assistant Groot (Byron Foulger) hire the Monkees to teach music to the monster they've built (Richard Kiel), only to instead transplant their talents into the beast.

When television producer Hubbell Bensen (Carl Ballantine) hears a tape of the Monkees, he frantically stages auditions in the hope of finding them for his new television show, unaware that they've been desparately trying to audition for him.

Songs: "Sweet Young Thing," "Papa Gene's Blues," "Mary, Mary"

A crooked fight promoter (Ned Glass) prepares to cash in on a big bet by making Davy a stooge in a bout with the champ.

The band convinces Davy to swap places with his doppelganger, a shy prince who wants to win the heart of young socialite Wendy Forsythe (Heather North) so that he can marry before his 18th birthday and avoid forfeiting his country's throne to evil Count Myron (Oscar Beregi Jr.).

Songs: "Mary, Mary"
Saturday mornings: "99 Pounds"

To save a financially bankrupt circus, the Monkees pose as a troupe of dazzling high-wire artists from France known as the Mozzarelli Brothers, but get in trouble when their guise requires them to actually perform as aerialists.

Songs: "Sometime in the Morning," "She"

The Monkees' appearance on the children's program The Captain Crocodile Show is sabotaged by its host (Joey Forman), who fears that his guests' popularity is diminishing his own.

Songs: "Valleri" (original version), "Your Auntie Grizelda"
1967 reruns: "Pleasant Valley Sunday" replaced "Your Auntie Grizelda."

The Monkees are chosen as the typical young Americans of the year by Chic magazine, but feel adverse effects when the publication falsely presents them as clean-cut young men.

Songs: "(Theme from) The Monkees" (excerpts), "Laugh," "You Just May Be the One" (original version)
Saturday mornings: "Oh My My" replaced "Laugh."

The police cash in on Micky's striking resemblance to imprisoned crime kingpin Baby Face Morales in an attempt to bring down the rest of Baby Face's gang and locate missing robbery loot.

Songs: "The Kind of Girl I Could Love," "Mary, Mary"

Peter finds a secret message in a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant, forcing Monkeemen Davy and Mike to come to his rescue from the evil Dragonman (Joey Forman).

Songs: "Your Auntie Grizelda"
1967 reruns: "Words" (single version)

Middle-aged widow Millie Rudnick (Rose Marie) moves in with the Monkees, but in a need to keep their personal space, the boys soon try to find her a husband.

Songs: "Sometime in the Morning," "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)"

Instead of getting themselves a telephone answering service, the Monkees are hired by one; Peter's actions on one call leads to the group's pursuit by a crooked bettor (Milton Frome).

The Monkees' friendship is threatened when they all fall for and aim to woo the same girl, laundromat proprietress April Conquest (Julie Newmar).

Songs: "(Theme from) The Monkees," "The Girl I Knew Somewhere"
Saturday mornings: "Steam Engine" replaced "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."

In New York City, the Monkees fend off an irate hotel manager (Philip Ober) as they help a financially strained producer (Richard Anders) get backing for a Broadway musical.

Songs: "The Girl I Knew Somewhere," "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (with extra instrumental passage), "Words" (original version)
Saturday mornings: "Acapulco Sun" replaced "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."

Davy is selected to replace a snobbish film idol (Bobby Sherman) in a beach movie.

Scripted antics take a back seat to music in this mini-documentary chronicling the Monkees' trip to Phoenix as part of their first concert tour.

Songs: "The Girl I Knew Somewhere," "I'm a Believer"
1967 reruns: "Pleasant Valley Sunday" replaced "The Girl I Knew Somewhere," and "Words" (single version) replaced "I'm a Believer.
Saturday mornings: "Steam Engine" replaced "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."
Concert songs: "Last Train to Clarksville," "Sweet Young Thing," "Mary, Mary," "Cripple Creek," "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover," "I Wanna Be Free," "I Got a Woman," "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone."

In El Monotono, Mexico, Davy is captured by the notorious bandito El Diablo (Peter Whitney) and his minions after he becomes "captivated" with El Diablo's girlfriend (Cynthia Hull).

Song: "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?"

Peter must prove the Monkees' innocence at trial when they unwittingly rob a bank in the pretext of making a movie for two con men (Cliff Norton and Kelton Garwood).

It is a "harem-scare 'em" scene as Davy faces the prospect of marriage to a lovely Nehudian princess (Donna Loren), who selected his face from a magazine in an effort to avoid marrying her country's evil prime minister.

Songs: "Love is Only Sleeping" (alternate mix), "Cuddly Toy"

Mike casts his wool hat into the political ring to stop a crooked construction tycoon (Monte Landis) from turning the city into parking lots.

With great detail, Peter copies an art museum painting for a pair of crooked museum guards (Monte Landis and Vic Tayback) aiming to steal the original; it causes the Monkees to mount "Mission: Ridiculous" to swap the real work back in.

Songs: "Randy Scouse Git," "Daydream Believer"

After losing girlfriend Brenda to a muscle man named Bulk (David Draper), Micky starts a health program under the guidance of fraudulent physical cultist Shah-Ku (Monte Landis).

Songs: "Sunny Girlfriend," "Love is Only Sleeping" (alternate mix)

Lost in Swineville, the Monkees get caught in the middle of a hillbilly feud between the Weskitts and Chubbers, with Davy staring down the barrel of a shotgun wedding to pretty Ella Mae Chubber (Melody Patterson).

Song: "Papa Gene's Blues" (extended edit)

A gullible Peter trades his guitar for a con man’s treasure map, which leads the Monkees to a deserted island — where they're hunted by a mad Australian treasure hunter (Monte Landis) and his man Thursday (Rupert Crosse).

Peter is the target of a romantic prima ballerina (Ondine Vaughn) and a dastardly plot choreographed by the rest of the Druvanian National Ballet, who want a valuable microchip implanted in one of her shoes.

Song: "She Hangs Out" (alternate mix)

The Monkees turn chicken when, while serving as both entertainment and staff at "The Henry Cabot Lodge and Cemetery," they unwittingly impress the girlfriends of a tough motorcycle gang.

A mad scientist (George Furth), his goony cousin (Mickey Morton), and his dotty aunt (Ruth Buzzi) use the Monkees' pad for a séance to summon their relative, Elmer, from beyond the grave.

Thoughts of mutiny are bountiful as the Monkees try to stop the hijacking of a cargo ship by a vengeful sea captain (Chips Rafferty).

Songs: "Daydream Believer," "Star Collector"
Saturday mornings: "Oh My My" replaced "Daydream Believer."

In the Lone Star State, the Monkees battle Black Bart (Barton MacLane), cohort Red (Len Lesser), and their gang to save Mike's aunt, Kate, (Jacqueline deWit), and her valuable Nesmith Ranch.

Songs: "Words," "Goin' Down" (sung live over the instrumental track in the tag)

"Magic Fingers" Micky wins big at a Las Vegas roulette table unaware that it's been rigged. After a roulette dealer (Rip Taylor) and policeman (Dort Clark) mistake the band for the crooks, the Mokees are given 24 hours to find the real perpetrators (David Astor and Pepper Davis) and return the money to the casino.

Songs: "The Door Into Summer," "Cuddly Toy"

The Monkees try to instill the spirit of Christmas in a cynical, neglected little boy (Butch Patrick) who has soured on the whole idea of the holiday.

Song: "Riu Chiu" (sung by the Monkees a cappella)

A Monkee pantomime romp through Fairy Tale Land, introduced by a "Town Crier" (Rege Cordic), sees "Peter, peasant of Tork" rescuing a haughty princess (Mike) from death by her fiendish fiancé (Murray Roman), with the help of a chain-mail suit (from tailor Davy), a magic sword (from innkeeper Micky), and gravity-defying shoes (from cobbler Mike).

Song: "Daily Nightly"

A documented film report by the Department of UFO Information, narrated by is seecretary (Pat Paulsen), shows Davy and Peter battling invading space aliens (Stuart Margolin and Nita Talbot) from Planet Zlotnick who've replaced Micky with a robotic lookalike.

Song: "Star Collector"

Davy is under the spell of girlfriend Lorelei (Arlene Martel), or to be more precise her magic necklace; it's part of a plot by Lorelei's uncle, Count Batula (Ron Masak), to transform Davy into a vampire, forcing the remaining Monkees to look for Davy in a monstorously-populated castle.

Song: "Goin' Down"
Saturday mornings: "Bye Bye, Baby, Bye Bye"

A down-on-his-luck magician (Hans Conried) sells Micky a magical monkey's paw that brings the equally broken-down Monkees luck... all of which, unfortunately, is bad.

Songs: "Goin' Down", "Words"

At an eerie pawn shop, Peter unwittingly sells his soul to devilish character Mr. Zero (Monte Landis) in order to purchase a golden harp (despite never having played the instrument previously). Can Peter's musical talent save him from Mr. Zero's evil clutches forever?

Songs: "Salesman," "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (harp instrumental), "I Wanna Be Free" (harp instrumental), "No Time"
Saturday mornings: "I Never Thought It Peculiar" replaced "Salesman."

Davy drives the Monkeemobile in an auto race when the British entry (owned by an old friend of Davy's grandfather) is sabotaged by Baron Von Klutz (David Hurst) and his Klutzmobile.

Song: "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?"

Tired of saying the same monotonous lines week in and week out, the Monkees leave the studio grind behind and travel to Paris, where gendarmes and amorous women pursue them; while they're away, the director (James Frawley) thinks up something to make the script more unique.

Songs: "Love is Only Sleeping" (album mix), "Don't Call on Me," "Star Collector," "Goin' Down"
Saturday mornings: "Oh My My," "I Love You Better," "Tell Me Love"

Davy inherits an English manor but doesn't want to live there for 5 years (a stipulation of the bequest); since he also doesn't want the manor sold to a land developer, the band puts on a medieval fair to raise funds for the local villagers to buy the property. Davy also must use lances, swords, and vocal cords in a tournament against Sir Twiggley Toppen Middle Bottom (Bernard Fox).

Songs: "Greensleeves," "Star Collector"

The Monkees enter a band contest (hosted by radio DJ Jerry Blavat) with a $500 cash prize, but when they learn the entrants must be mixed-gender groups, Davy is chosen to pose as a girl. "Miss Jones" soon falls in love with another entrant, Daphne, (Deana Martin), who's posing as a male in her group.

Songs: "Last Train to Clarksville," "The Door Into Summer," "She Hangs Out"

The Monkees swing to the rescue when mentalist Oracullo (Monte Landis) gains control of Peter's mind to use him in a nightclub act.

Songs: "Valleri" (1968 version), "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" (instrumental track), "Daily Nightly"

After Peter and their neighbors are hypnotized through their TV sets, Micky, Mike, and Davy must match wits with the insane Wizard Glick (Rip Taylor), who is out to control the minds of television viewers worldwide.

Songs: "Zor and Zam" (Original version), "Song to the Siren" (performed by Tim Buckley)
Saturday mornings: "I Never Thought It Peculiar" replaced "Zor and Zam."