While The Monkees — consisting of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork — were a popular pop rock band, ...

The Monkees and Friends are two shows where the cast had a great dynamic and that’s why we’ll be talking about them for decades to come.

So the Beatles got it. They got what the Monkees were, which was a TV show. It was not a band. It was not a group. It was a television show about a group. And then it did become a group and go out ...

The Monkees' Micky Dolenz compared his show to 'Friends'. That might seem like a surprising comparison at first, but one of The Monkees' albums was inspired by the 'Friends' theme.

Micky Dolenz says the Monkees weren't a band, they were a TV show about a band. The Beatles got it. To John Lennon, they were like the Marx Brothers.

Between the two of them, they crafted the tone and the shape of the show and all of the innovations.” Frawley went on to direct The Muppet Movie, which had a tone similar to that of The Monkees. Rea ...