From 1966 to 1971, Jones was a member of The Monkees, a pop-rock group formed expressly for a television show of the same name.

The NBC television series The Monkees was popular, and remained so in syndication.

Mediaite columnist Paul Levinson noted that " The Monkees were the first example of something created in a medium – in this case, a rock group on television – that jumped off the screen to have big impact in the real world.

George Michael " Micky " Dolenz, Jr. ( born March 8, 1945 ) is an American actor, musician, television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.

In 1965, Dolenz was cast in the television sitcom The Monkees and became the drummer and a lead vocalist in the band created for the show.

After the Monkees television show ended, Dolenz continued performing providing voice-overs for a number of Saturday-morning cartoon series including The Funky Phantom, Partridge Family 2200 A. D., Scooby-doo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Devlin and Wonder Wheels ( from The Skatebirds ).

In 1986, a screening of the entire Monkees television series by MTV led to renewed interest in the group, followed by a single (" That Was Then, This Is Now " reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S .), a 20th Anniversary Tour, a greatest hits album and a brand new LP, Pool It!

Tork got the job and became one of the four members of The Monkees, who ended up being both characters in a television sitcom and a band in their own right.

The band finished a Far East tour in December 1968 ( where his copy of Naked Lunch was confiscated by Australian Customs ) and then filmed an NBC television special, 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee, which rehashed many of the ideas from Head, only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role.

His bread-and-butter work during this decade was television – where he made guest appearances on everything from Wagon Train to The Monkees – and in a string of supporting roles in low-budget Westerns produced by A. C. Lyles for Paramount.

In 2007, Canadian network TVtropolis aired a series called " TV Match Up " which pitted classic television shows against each other ; one particular episode featured The Monkees versus S Club 7.

* February 23 – In honor of the 20th anniversary of The Monkees first appearance on television, MTV broadcasts Pleasant Valley Sunday, a 22-hour marathon of Monkees episodes.

At the peak of its success the band was originally selected to perform on the television show that became The Monkees, and also gained an added bit of publicity when Butler replaced Jim Rado in the role of Claude for a sold-out four-month run with the Broadway production of the rock musical Hair.

The latter had also contributed songs to The Monkees, a similar project which also combined a prime time television series about a part-fictional / part-real musical group with a series of music albums.

The Monkees was initially a TV show developed by US television in 1965, about an imaginary band that wanted to be The Beatles, but were never successful, whose cast members soon became a real band.

Michael Nesmith of The Monkees also wore this hat in his television series, as did Jay in the films of the View Askewniverse, Robert Clothier's character " Relic " in the long-running Canadian TV series The Beachcombers, and Hanna-Barbera's character Loopy de Loop wore a tuque as well.

The ' Monkeemobile ' ( 277 ) issued in December was a Dean Jeffries 1966 Pontiac GTO, again customised by George Barris, taken from the American television series The Monkees which featured miniature models of the band sitting in the car.

This led to guest appearances on dozens of television shows, including Get Smart, Sergeant Bilko, Columbo, CHiPs, Fantasy Island, McCloud, Emergency !, The Flying Nun, Alias Smith and Jones, That Girl, The Monkees, I Dream of Jeannie, Gomer Pyle, Gilligan's Island, The Doris Day Show, and All in the Family.

Donruss produced several entertainment-themed trading cards, from such television shows as The Addams Family, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Monkees and The Flying Nun from 1961 until 1969.

Murphey's first big break came through his friend Michael Nesmith, who had become part of the popular television musical group, The Monkees.

His many television credits include Tammy, McHale's Navy, Ironside, I Dream of Jeannie, That Girl, Green Acres, The Monkees, Batman, The Odd Couple, Bonanza, Happy Days, All in the Family, Murphy Brown, L. A. Law, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Murder, She Wrote, Little House on the Prairie, Love, American Style, Adam-12, F Troop and the made-for-TV movie The Scarlett O ' Hara War, in which he portrayed famed film director George Cukor.

The talents of this group of ' first call ' players were used on almost every style of recording, including television theme songs, film scores, advertising jingles and almost every genre of American popular music, from The Monkees to Bing Crosby.

They made various television appearances such as Married ... with Children ( as aunts of Peggy ), Full House, The Golden Girls ( called the Donatello Triplets on the show ), Night Court, New Monkees and Pee-wee's Playhouse wearing bouffant hair-dos and gaudy blue eyeshadow.

Time magazine contributor James Poniewozik praised the Monkees ' classic sitcom, and Jones in particular, saying " even if the show never meant to be more than entertainment and a hit-single generator, we shouldn ’ t sell The Monkees short.

According to Mike Nesmith, it was Dolenz's voice that made the Monkees ' sound distinctive, and even during tension-filled times Nesmith and Peter Tork voluntarily turned over lead vocal duties to Dolenz on their own compositions, such as Tork's " For Pete's Sake ", which became the closing title theme for the second season of the TV show.

From 1975 to 1977, as the " Golden Hits of The Monkees " show (" The Guys who Wrote ' Em and the Guys who Sang ' Em!

He worked before on counterculture comedy as in the Monkees TV show and their famous cult film Head.

All of The Monkees became instant teen idols in the late 1960s after their TV show became an over night success, especially Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones.

Similar characterisation, and format for their show, was more notably seen in the American series The Monkees and US media reported that S Club 7 were " The Monkees for the next generation ".

In the TV show The Monkees episode 33 " A Nice Place To Visit " ( 1967 ), Micky Dolenz copied the line as " Badges?

Roddenberry had previously mentioned, in a memo to his casting director, a desire to have someone reminiscent of one of the Beatles or Monkees on the show.

Each show represented a meeting of the " Banana Splits Club ", and the wraparounds featured the adventures of the club members, who doubled as a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of The Beatles and mostly their NBC counterpart, The Monkees.

Impressed by Chip Douglas's studio arrangements, Monkee Michael Nesmith approached him after a Turtles show at the Whisky a Go Go and invited him to become the Monkees ' new producer, as that band wanted to break out of their " manufactured " studio mold.

* Top of the Pops is mentioned in Micky Dolenz's of The Monkees biography, I'm A Believer: My Life Of Monkees, Music And Madness as he married Samantha Juste, who at the time hosted the show.

Midway through Season 2, the Monkees themselves insisted the show eliminate the laugh track, believing their viewers were intelligent enough to know where the jokes were.

NBC, already annoyed by the manufactured rock group wanting too much control over their show, cancelled The Monkees after Season 2 concluded, citing the non-existent laugh track as a major factor.

They burst onto the scene in 1969 when they performed at the Woodstock music festival and went on to have their own variety show similar to The Monkees.

This was in part because Head, being an antithesis of The Monkees TV show, comprehensively demolished the group's carefully groomed public image, while the older, hipper audience they'd been reaching for rejected the Monkees ' efforts out of hand.

In 1967, she guest-starred as April Conquest in an episode of The Monkees (" Monkees Get Out More Dirt "), and was a pregnant princess in the Star Trek episode " Friday's Child ".

* One episode of The Monkees (" Spy Who Came In From the Cool ") features a Jeannie look-alike, who appears after Davy Jones rubs a lamp.

Showing the growing influence of Frank Zappa on the Monkees ' circle ( Zappa even has a cameo role as " The Critic " in the film itself ), the soundtrack album intersperses the six proper songs (" Porpoise Song ", " Circle Sky ", " Can You Dig It?

Hayes portrayed a similar character in other roles, including Episode 8. 10 of Bewitched (" Hansel and Gretel in Samantha-Land "), Weenie the Genie in the Sid and Marty Krofft program Lidsville, and Maw Weskitt in Episode 39 of the second season of The Monkees (" Hillbilly Honeymoon ").