As we part with the year 2008, we take time to remember Monkees film, music and TV icons whom we lost this year:


John Stewart, 68 (composer of "Daydream Believer")
Buddy Miles, 60 (one of the featured performers in the 1969 NBC-TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, along with his group The Buddy Miles Express)
Henry Beckman, 86 (the ruthless D.A. in Monkees Episode No. 34, "The Picture Frame" [a.k.a. "The Bank Robbery"], and the ruthless Manager in Monkees Episode No. 51, "The Monkee's Paw")
Geroge Furth, 75 (snobbish, rich boyfriend Ronnie Farnsworth in Monkees Episode No. 13, "One Man Shy" [a.k.a. "Peter And The Debutante"] and swindling nephew Henry Weatherspoon in Monkees Episode No. 43, "A Coffin Too Frequent")
Robert L. Schlitt, 75 (writer, with then-partner Peter Meyerson, of The Monkees' series premiere, "The Royal Flush," and Episode No. 7, "The Monkees In A Ghost Town," the original story of No. 23, "Captain Crocodile" [its teleplay they wrote with Gardner and Caruso], and No. 27, "Monkee Mother")


To absent friends... :( :crying: ohno: :rip: :( :crying: ohno: :rip:

R.I.P.