Made For TV: Favorite Episodes And Biggest Hits From Season 1 Of The Monkees (LP+CD2+BRD)

LPA

1. (Theme From) The Monkees (TV Version)
2. This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day (Mono TV Version)
3. Take A Giant Step (Mono TV Version)
4. Saturday's Child (Mono TV Mix)
5. All The King's Horses (Mono TV Version)
6. You Just May Be The One (Mono TV Version)
7. I Wanna Be Free (Fast Version - Mono TV Mix)

LPB

1. She (Mono TV Mix)
2. I'll Be Back Up On My Feet (TV Version)
3. Your Auntie Grizelda (Mono TV Mix)
4. Laugh (Mono TV Mix)
5. Valleri (First Recorded Version - Mono TV Mix)
6. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (Mono TV Mix)
7. Words (First Recorded Version - Mono TV Mix)

CD1

1. (Theme From) The Monkees
2. This Just Doesn’t Seem To Be My Day
3. Take a Giant Step
4. Last Train to Clarksville
5. Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day
6. Saturday’s Child
7. Let’s Dance On
8. I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone
9. The Kind of Girl I Could Love
10. All The King’s Horses
11. I Wanna Be Free
12. Sweet Young Thing
13. Papa Gene’s Blues
14. You Just May Be The One

CD2

1. I Wanna Be Free (Fast Version)
2. She
3. Gonna Buy Me A Dog
4. Mary, Mary
5. I’m a believer
6. I’ll Be Back Up On My Feet
7. Your Auntie Grizelda
8. Laugh
9. Sometime in the Morning
10. Valleri
11. Look out here comes tomorrow
12. The Girl I knew somewhere
13. Words
14. A little bit me, a little bit you

BRD1

1. This Just Doesn’t Seem To Be My Day
2. Saturday’s Child
3. I Wanna Be Free
4. This Just Doesn’t Seem To Be My Day
5. You Just May Be The One
6. Gonna Buy Me A Dog
7. Mary, Mary
8. I’ll be Back Up On My Feet
9. I’m A Believer
10. Laugh
11. You Just May Be The One
12. Sometime In The Morning
13. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
14. Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
15. The Girl I Knew Somewhere
16. Last Train to Clarksville
17. Sweet Young Thing
18. Mary, Mary
19. Cripple Creek
20. You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
21. I Wanna Be Free
22. I’ve Got a Woman
23. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
24. I’m a Believer

On August 16, 1966, The Monkees introduced themselves to the world with the group’s debut single, “Last Train To Clarksville.” A month later, the song was racing to #1 when The Monkees television series debuted on September 12. Within weeks, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork were a global phenomenon, destined to become one of the most popular bands of the 1960s. As part of a yearlong 60th-anniversary celebration, Rhino explores the joyous first season of the Emmy-winning series in a new multimedia boxed set arriving August 14, just ahead of the band’s 60th anniversary.

Made For TV: Favorite Episodes and Biggest Hits from Season 1 of The Monkees is available to pre-order now at Rhino. The LP/2CD/BR collection serves up the first season’s greatest hits with 14 rare, broadcast-exclusive TV mixes created especially for the show, more than two dozen songs from the season, plus 10 fan-favorite episodes—including the series premiere. Monkees historian and author Andrew Sandoval produced the set and contributed the liner notes, including detailed guides to the episodes and songs.

Previously only available on video, “She” (Mono TV Version) debuts as a standalone track in the set and is out digitally today.

Inspired by A Hard Day’s Night, producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider created The Monkees, which ran for two seasons on NBC from 1966 through 1968. Rafelson’s initial vision was for a musical Marx Brothers—a band of playful jokesters prone to hijinks and breaking into song. What couldn’t be scripted, however, was the organic chemistry of the foursome, which flipped the script and transformed a fictional band into a genuine musical force.

Made For TV includes songs written for the group by some of the world’s best songwriters with Neil Diamond’s “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” and Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s “Take A Giant Step.” Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart are heavily featured, underscoring the team’s essential contribution to Season One with the theme song, the B-side “Words” and an early version of the gold-certified #3 hit “Valleri.”

The featured episodes capture the zany spirit of the first season, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. It begins with the debut episode, “Royal Flush,” which earned director James Frawley an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. As a fitting bookend, the collection concludes with the season’s final episode, “The Monkees On Tour,” which documents the group coming together as a live unit during their record-setting concert run in early 1967.

The anniversary celebration continues on the road, where Micky Dolenz’s “60 Years of The Monkees” tour will spend the summer and fall making stops across the U.S.