The Best Episodes of The Monkees Season 1

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

Director: Bob Rafelson

Writer: David Panich, Treva Silverman

A mad scientist (John Hoyt) hires the Monkees to teach his monster (Richard Kiel) music—and then transplants their musical talent into the monster. Can the Monkees get their talent back? Byron Foulger appears as Groot, Dr. Mendoza's assistant.

Director: Sidney Miller

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Dave Evans

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

Director: Gerald Shepard

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

The Monkees have a run-in with a snobbish movie idol (Bobby Sherman) on the set as extras in a beach movie.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

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

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Robert Schlitt, Peter Meyerson, Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

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

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

A mini-documentary chronicling a live Monkees concert gig on location in Phoenix, Arizona during their first public appearance tour.

Director: Bob Rafelson

Writer: N/A

A shady PR man (Andre Philippe) kidnaps the Monkees to prevent them from winning a talent contest in order for his clients (rival band the Four Swines) to win.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Dave Evans

Stranded in a ghost town after their car 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).

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Robert Schlitt, Peter Meyerson

Mike is fleeced by a fraudulent music publisher (Phil Leeds), but Micky dons the guise of a flashy Hollywood producer to get Mike's money back.

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: Treva Silverman

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 they are desperately trying to audition for him.

Director: Richard Nunis

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Dave Evans

The Monkees get mixed up in a spy ring (Jacques Aubuchon, Arlene Martel) after Davy accidentally purchases a set of red maracas containing secret microfilm. Can the Monkees outwit two professional spies ?

Director: Bob Rafelson

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

Davy's feelings for retired General Harley Vandenberg's (Arch Johnson) daughter Leslie (Sherry Alberoni) leads Micky to pose as a female chaperone at a party after the real chaperone (Diana Chesney) gets drunk.

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

Bashful Peter tries to win the heart of lovely debutante Valerie Cartwright (Lisa James) while dealing with her haughty boyfriend Ronnie Farnsworth (George Furth).

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Treva Silverman

The Monkees sign up for lessons at Renaldo's Dance Au Go Go (Hal March), and then find out that their contracts are for life.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Bernie Orenstein

A domineering stage mother (Reta Shaw) tries to use Davy to further her daughter Fern's (Kelly Jean Peters) career.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Dave Evans

The Monkees spend the night in a haunted house to collect an inheritance.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Dee Caruso, David Panich, Treva Silverman

Davy doubles for a lookalike Peruvian prince in order to win the heart of Wendy Forsythe (Heather North) or forfeit his throne to evil Count Myron (Oscar Beregi Jr.).

Director: James Komack

Writer: Peter Meyerson, Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

The police cash in on Micky's striking resemblance to imprisoned crime kingpin Baby Face Morales in an attempt to locate robbery loot.

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Dave Evans

Middle-aged widow Millie (Rose Marie) moves in with the Monkees as a new tenant, resulting in the boys' trying to find her a husband.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Robert Schlitt, Peter Meyerson

Davy's grandfather (Ben Wright) visits, and the Monkees try to convince him that his grandson is wealthy and successful.

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Bernie Orenstein

Peter becomes involved with the disappearance of the respected Professor Milo Schnitzler (Norbert Schiller) and then disappears himself.

Director: Bob Rafelson

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

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

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: David Panich

The Monkees are chosen as "Typical Young Americans of the Year," by Chic magazine, a haughty publication that runs a bogus article on the group moulding them into a false image of clean cut young men.

Director: Alexander Singer

Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

The Monkees rescue Princess Bettina, Duchess of Harmonica (Katherine Walsh) from her evil uncle Archduke Otto (Theodore Marcuse).

Director: James Frawley

Writer: Robert Schlitt, Peter Meyerson