The series finale of 'The Monkees' aired 53 years ago, March 25, 1968, on NBC

[IcyPeas]

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[keithsw]

1. I can remember

Being a little boy and watching this. I had older sisters and they thought it was the best show ever...lol

[hlthe2b]

2. Wow. It hurts to see the reruns knowing that Davy Jones & Peter Tork have passed.

Mickey still puts a smile on my face, though.

[keithsw]

6. A friend of mine

Who i've known for 40 years is married to Mickey's daughter. Said he is the best father in law ever!

[hlthe2b]

9. Doesn't surprise me, but pleases me to hear!

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. My favorite was "Pleasant Valley Sunday"

[Phoenix61]

5. My favorite, "Last Train to Clarksville"

[yonder]

4. "Heh, heh...."

[hauckeye]

7. As a 13-14 year old girl

I loved that show and watched it every week ❤️

[2naSalit]

8. My younger siblings...

Were into that show, I was kind of embarrassed by it for some reason. TeeVee was an entirely foreign environment that had little or nothing to do with the real life I was experiencing. TeeVee was all Leave it to Beaver while I was living Daddy Dearest, just couldn't see what the attraction was to most shows back then. That being said, I loved Star Trek.

[Skittles]

10. when I catch episodes of The Monkees

it amazes me how well done it was, the cornball acting and the editing.....really wonderfully original stuff

[gratuitous]

11. Ah, the pre-fab four

All the girls just loved them some Davy.

[Dave Starsky]

12. The Monkees do not get the love that they deserve.

Yeah, yeah, I know they started out as a pre-fab "band", but they always had talent and aspirations and they grew into playing and performing their own material. It didn't hurt that their big hits were written by giants such as Carole King, Neil Diamond, Harry Nilsson, and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart and that they had the phenomenal Wrecking Crew helping out.

I am also a huge fan of Mike Nesmith's post-Monkees work, on his own and as part of the First National Band. He was always a great songwriter from the start. (He wrote Different Drum for Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys.)

Their movie HEAD is, in my opinion, one of the greatest movies ever made.

[Kaleva]

13. Yes. The Monkees should have been in the Hall of Fame long ago.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. Frank Zappa

respected the Monkees and he was notoriously critical of most popular music. He even appeared on one of their shows.

[Dave Starsky]

17. Yeah, Zappa was a friend and a fan.

He also had a cameo in their post-TV-show movie HEAD.

[IcyPeas]

19. classic cameo

..."you should spend more time on your music. the youth of America depend on you to show the way."

[Corgigal]

14. My favorite Monkees song.

Davy just was the cutest thing. My daughter, when she was around 10, also thought Davy was the cutest damn thing. 20 years ago for my daughter.

[GReedDiamond]

15. Here's a YouTube of the full last episode "The Frodis Caper"...

[speak easy]

18. The TV series was a failure.Head ... not so much.

Thanks Jack.

[Ron Obvious]

20. It seemed a happier, more innocent time

I don't envy the current kids' generation their music or their cynicism. [/oldmanmode]

[dflprincess]

21. Saw them in concert in St. Paul in 1967

back when parents didn't think it was odd to drop 3 suburban 14 year olds off alone at downtown concert venue.

(Of course two years earlier my aunt had dropped my cousin & I [we were both 12] off at Met Stadium to see the Beatles with no adult to keep an eye on us.

Those were the days.

[Mickju]

22. My much younger cousin had a mad crush on Peter Tork.

I watched it some and thought it was pretty silly, but I really did like quite a bit of their music.