MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1968

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"Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") (prod. #4722) first aired @ 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on NBC as the 58th and final firstrun episode of The Monkees television series. Micky Dolenz cowrote and directed.

Kellogg’s™ sponsored the show that week, and the final Monkees song of the series was “Zor And Zam” written by John & Bill Chadwick and produced by The Monkees. It was the second of 2 Monkees-produced tracks used on The Monkees TV show, following the appearance of The Monkees’ 1968 remake of the 1966 Boyce-Hart tune “Valleri” in the previous week's episode, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds".

Progressive singer/composer Tim Buckley appeared at show's end (a result of extensive promotion in fan magazines by Micky Dolenz) singing “Song Of The Siren.”

In addition to being the second Monkee-directed episode this season (following the Peter Tork-helmed "The Monkees Mind Their Manor"), "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") is also the only episode of the whole Monkees series to be scriptwritten by a Monkee.

An outline for the series' third season had been turned down by the group, who simply did not want to endure another season of the same old scripts. But the fact that their series was axed didn't faze The Monkees, who at the time of this episode's airing was nearing completion of their second month of production on their feature film debut, first called Changes, then retitled Untitled, and finally known as HEAD.