Monkees Marathon, September 18.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of their TV show, MeTV will put on a Monkees marathon on Sunday, September 18.

Also, Start Trek is fifty years old, and they'll do something for that show too.

Labor Day was the occasion for a Japanese monster movie marathon on Comet TV. I bailed on Rodan. It must have been a remake. I saw the original when it came out. I was afraid to go upstairs, for fear that a monster was waiting for me in the dark.

[jalan48]

1. Stephen Stills didn't get in the Monkees after trying out for the prefabricated group in 1966.

I'm glad for that-we would never have has CSN.

[Tom Kitten]

2. Neat

I wonder if that means Metv will start showing the Monkees regularly.

Svengoolie will show the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage"...plus maybe some from the animated series.

I watched Rodan yesterday, and it was the original. They've never done a remake of that particular film. The special effects in Rodan are really well done, for a giant monster movie!

The Wolfman (Lon Chaney) was the first monster movie I saw as a kid. I remember running and hiding under the bed!

What do The Monkees and Rodan have in common? This...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. I thought the original was in black and white.

I wasn't that old at the time.

I had too many errands waiting in line for me to sit through Rodan.

Someone shows the Monkees regularly. I guess that's Antenna TV.

I think it's MeTV that's doing the Monkees marathon. It could be Antenna TV. I lose track....

Thanks.

[Frank Cannon]

4. The song he's parodying, "Joanne", is one of my faves.

I love Nez and the Monkees, and I don't care who knows it. Fuck all the haters. The Monkees were great. They were considered by many to be the ersatz Beatles, but they knew how they were perceived, and they ran with it.

Their latest (and sadly, last) album is spectacular. It sounds like something that was teleported through time directly from their Headquarters period. They worked with great producers to achieve this, and it doesn't hurt that Micky Dolenz still sounds like he hasn't aged a day since 1969. The Monkees managed to make an album that sounds comfortably "old" while also being completely new and awesome.