AaronHandy3
01-10-2005, 09:13 PM
For those of you who can't wait until The Monkees' 40th anniversary in 2006...
2005 marks the 30th syndicated year of The Monkees television show. :cool:
When it first appeared in local syndication in September 1975, 2 years after completing a neat 4-year run on CBS and ABC Saturday Afternoon (September 1969 - August 1973), the first 7 TV stations to have the honour of carrying the series locally were KBHK-TV in San Francisco, WFLD-TV in Chicago, WKBS-TV in Philadelphia, WKBD-TV in Detroit, WLVI-TV in Boston, KDNL in St. Louis, and WDCA-TV in Washington D.C. (Peter Tork's hometown!!). For 9 years the show played on and off these and other local markets until the group's 20th Anniversary in 1986 put them over worldwide.
As I stated in an earlier post in this board (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=71167), I am a Generation-2 Monkees fan who got hooked from seeing the repeats on MTV. The celebration saw The Monkees playing in my hometown (New Orleans) for the very first time, in Summer of '86, on WNOL-TV Channel 38. (The Monkees themselves played 2 20th Anniversary concerts in The Big Easy in 1986; one @ The Audobon Zoo, the other @ The Superdome.)
The series still currently pops up on cable and digital TV occasionally, despite both seasons being released on DVD by Rhino, and despite the fact that its episode compliment is only over half of the required magic 100 episodes for a series to be shown in syndication. The Monkees' last big hurrah (so far) was on TV Land in summer 2002 as part of its TV Land Kitschen schedule, with annual showings of the 1967 Christmas episode on the TV Land Merry-Thon; in recent years, the show has enjoyed runs on the Canadian Much More Music. Its popularity has continued to move marketfuls of households to this day. Those with the DVD season sets can plug in and commemorate the 30th Anniversary of The Monkees television series' first appearance in nationwide syndication! :) :D ;) :p :cool: :talk: :crazy: :lol: :happyface :wave:
2005 marks the 30th syndicated year of The Monkees television show. :cool:
When it first appeared in local syndication in September 1975, 2 years after completing a neat 4-year run on CBS and ABC Saturday Afternoon (September 1969 - August 1973), the first 7 TV stations to have the honour of carrying the series locally were KBHK-TV in San Francisco, WFLD-TV in Chicago, WKBS-TV in Philadelphia, WKBD-TV in Detroit, WLVI-TV in Boston, KDNL in St. Louis, and WDCA-TV in Washington D.C. (Peter Tork's hometown!!). For 9 years the show played on and off these and other local markets until the group's 20th Anniversary in 1986 put them over worldwide.
As I stated in an earlier post in this board (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=71167), I am a Generation-2 Monkees fan who got hooked from seeing the repeats on MTV. The celebration saw The Monkees playing in my hometown (New Orleans) for the very first time, in Summer of '86, on WNOL-TV Channel 38. (The Monkees themselves played 2 20th Anniversary concerts in The Big Easy in 1986; one @ The Audobon Zoo, the other @ The Superdome.)
The series still currently pops up on cable and digital TV occasionally, despite both seasons being released on DVD by Rhino, and despite the fact that its episode compliment is only over half of the required magic 100 episodes for a series to be shown in syndication. The Monkees' last big hurrah (so far) was on TV Land in summer 2002 as part of its TV Land Kitschen schedule, with annual showings of the 1967 Christmas episode on the TV Land Merry-Thon; in recent years, the show has enjoyed runs on the Canadian Much More Music. Its popularity has continued to move marketfuls of households to this day. Those with the DVD season sets can plug in and commemorate the 30th Anniversary of The Monkees television series' first appearance in nationwide syndication! :) :D ;) :p :cool: :talk: :crazy: :lol: :happyface :wave: