Tag: “Love is Only Sleeping”
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Monkees vs Macheen: “I Was A 99-lb. Weakling” (a.k.a. “Physical Culture”)
“Yes, she’s my sunny girlfriend, she doesn’t really care.” “I Was A 99-lb. Weakling” premiered October 16, 1967. Alex Singer directed a teleplay by Gerald Gardner & Dee Caruso, and Neil Burstyn, from a story by Jon C. Andersen. The title and the plot are both allusions to Charles Atlas and his famous bodybuilding program…
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Monkees vs. Macheen: “Everywhere a Sheik, Sheik”
“Strangeways, Here We Come” “Everywhere a Sheik, Sheik,” was directed by Alex Singer, written by Jack Winter, and aired September 25, 1967. Filming dates were April 25-27, the same week the Monkees began working on their fourth album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. The episode is unfortunately, a recycled plot of a recycled plot.…
Misadventures in Blissville 