Later Television Episodes
The Monkees' television series was canceled after its second season. The group hoped to take the television show in different directions and NBC wanted the show to stay the same; both parties mutually decided to throw in the towel. After the series was canceled NBC contracted with The Monkees to create and broadcast three longer television specials.
33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee was the first of these longer television productions. It aired on April 14, 1969. The second two planned television specials were never produced. Peter Tork quit the group between the filming of 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee and its broadcast.
The Monkees returned to broadcast television with Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees which was broadcast on ABC on February 17, 1997. All four Monkees appeared in this broadcast. The special was very similar in nature to the old television series and was in fact intended to represent episode #781 of the show. The number was an estimate of how far along the series might have been at that point in time if it was never canceled.
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