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- The misadventures of a struggling pop group.
- Peter wins a free dancing lesson at Renaldo's Dance Au Go Go and is tricked into signing a lifetime contract. When Micky and Mike try to get him out of it, they end up with similar contracts. To get out of this mess, Davy becomes an inside man and gets a job as a dance instructor at Renaldo's.
- There are no pets allowed in the Monkees' apartment. This leads to comic complications when Davy watches a horse for a kid. The Monkees get a taste of farm living when they try to return the horse.
- The Monkees' manager, Rudy Gunther, sends them to the Riverdale Country Club to audition for a Sweet Sixteen party. The organizer, Charles Russell, happens to be an old Marine buddy of Rudy's. His daughter Vanessa immediately falls for Davy and starts neglecting her homework. Realizing they will surely lose the job if she flunks, the boys decide to help her study for her final.
- Mike writes a new song, but the publishing company he tries to sell it to tries to rip him off.
- When the Monkees attend the reading of a late millionaire's will, they find themselves forced to stay the night in his haunted castle.
- After Peter fails a job interview at a toy factory conducted by a computer, Mike makes the same machine short circuit and is promptly hired. Soon all four Monkees take a stand against the technology minded Mr Daggart (Stan Freberg) in favor of old fashioned, hand made toys.
- Pop's Italian Restaurant is taken over by a mobster named Fuselli and his muscle Rocco. The Monkees are determined to get Pop's restaurant back for him. They take jobs as waiters and contact the police. Soon Fuselli has a dinner meeting for members of the Syndicate and the Monkees (disguised as the Purple Flower Gang) soon have the meeting in total chaos.
- The Monkeemobile runs out of gas in a Ghost Town, where the boys are locked up by two gangsters, George and Lenny, waiting for the arrival of The Big Man.
- Peter falls for a pretty young debutante and needs the other Monkees' help to impress her and ward off her jealous suitor.
- Davy rescues the Princess Bettina of the Duchy of Harmonica from drowning. When he goes to get his jacket back, the Monkees find out that her uncle, Archduke Otto, is trying to dispose of Bettina so he can become king himself.
- When the Monkees are chosen over Maria and her four sons to perform at Madame Rantha's party, the gypsies lure them into a trap and force the guys to steal the precious Maltese Vulture from the Rantha mansion, or Peter will be killed. Maria's eldest son Marco takes Peter's place in the group.
- When Davy's grandfather visits thinking his grandson has become a great success in the Colonies, the guys pretend to be on Davy's personal staff in an attempt to fool the elder Jones.
- The only way for Davy to date General Vandenburg's daughter is to hold a chaperoned party. When everything else fails, Micky dresses up in drag as 'Mrs Arcadian', arousing the attention of both the General and Mr. Babbit, the landlord.
- The Central Intelligence Service recruits the Monkees to capture two foreign spies, Boris and Madame, after Davy unwittingly purchases a pair of red maracas with a hidden microfilm inside.
- A gypsy tea room owner predicts Davy will fall in love within 24 hours and leave the group. Her plan is to team him up with her daughter Fern to enter Mr. Hack's Amateur Hour. The remaining three Monkees also enter: Peter as magician The Astonishing Pietro, Mike as folk singer Billy Roy Hodstetter and Micky as comedian/impressionist Locksley Mendoza.
- Nick Trump, manager of "The Four Swine", gets the Monkees to participate in publicity stunts meant to keep them from entering a talent contest.
- A man (Bill Bixby) marries a beautiful woman, Laura. Laura is adventurous, and talks her new hubby into an African safari honeymoon. She disappears in the Jungle. JJ eventually comes back home, depressed. A year later, Laura is found, safe and sound. Three's a Crowd.
- The Monkees are surprised to find three members of a sinister family gathering in their beach pad come midnight to hold a séance.
- While on a trip to Mexico, the group lands into trouble after Davy falls for the girlfriend of a local desperado.
- Micky goes undercover posing as an incarcerated criminal ringleader (to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance) so the police can nab the rest of his gang.
- When Peter displays a talent for copying art, crooked museum guards Duke and Chuche force him to copy Frans Hals' 'The Laughing Cavalier' and switch it with the real one. The Monkees mount Mission: Ridiculous to put the actual artwork back and take on the code names 'Manchester Marauder' (Davy), Conneticut Counterspy (Peter), Towering Texan (Mike) and the Los Angeles Leopard (Micky).
- The Monkees go up against a local kiddie show host, who will not let the group play on his show.
- Peter is kidnapped, in a plot against a rocket scientist.
- Faced with selecting a husband or being married to the evil Vidaru, Princess Colette of Nehudi picks out Davy's picture from a magazine. The Manchester Monkee is then put to the choice: marry a beautiful girl and life a life of luxury or be killed. In case he agrees, the remaining three Monkees will be granted high-ranking positions on his staff (not to mention their pick of harem maidens). Of course, Vidaru plans to get rid of the Monkees, whether they agree or not.
- TV producer Hubbell Benson has invited many young groups, including The Four Martians, The Foreign Agents, and The Jolly Green Giants to audition for a new TV show, but not The Monkees. However, when he hears their music on a hired tape recorder, he sets out to find this mystery band, not knowing that the Monkees are having great difficulty getting into the auditions at the same time.
- The Monkees ride into Swineville and immediately get caught up in a hillbilly feud between the Chubber and the Weskitt families. Ella Mae Chubber takes a shine to Davy (and, to a lesser extent, Micky and Peter). The only way out is to patch things up between Ella Mae and her dim-witted fiancé Jud Weskitt.
- The Monkees take on a job as sailors but Mike soon disappears below deck to recuperate from seasickness. Micky, Davy and Peter must prove themselves strong enough to survive the hardships of the sea, especially when it turns out their captain is a modern day pirate intend on hijacking the Queen Anne. Inspired by Clark Gable and Marlon Brando, the three musicians attempt to stage a mutiny.
- When his girl Brenda is stolen from him by muscle bound Bulk, Micky contemplates hocking his drums so he can pay for Shah-Ku's "Weakling's Anonymous" course. Fearing this will break up the group, Davy and Peter first try to pass of Bulk as a weakling to Brenda, then set out to prove Shah-Ku is a phony.
- The Monkees are lured to the lab of a mad scientist, only to have their musical abilities, put into a Frankenstein-like monster.
- Mike runs for Mayor.
- A new tenant, Mrs. Milly Rudnick, moves into the Monkees' beach pad. Rather than getting them evicted, she takes on the boys as boarders. They grow to like her but would still rather have their house to themselves, so they plan to get Milly together with Larry the moving man.
- The band stumbles onto a fiendish plot at a local Chinese restaurant.
- All four Monkees fall in love with the same girl, April Conquest, of the local laundromat. Each one tries to woo her by feigning interest in things she likes: Davy paints pop-art, Mickey performs ballet, Peter plays chamber music, and Mike rides a bike.
- The Monkees travel to New York to meet a young producer, Mackinley Baker, at The Compton Plaza Hotel. Unfortunately, they find Baker just about to be evicted out of the room and themselves without any money for a place to stay. So, the group holds on to the room while Baker visits his backer. When this does not work out, they try convincing members of the Millionaire's club across the street to back Baker's play.
- Naive and gullible, Peter gives his guitar to a scam artist in exchange for a treasure map.
- The Monkees are chosen as Chic Magazine's 'Typical Young Americans Of The Year' (cue Monkees Theme). Unfortunately, the way they are represented in the article makes them lose many friends instantly.
- When the circus comes to town, The Monkees visit The Big Top--and discover that this particular circus is suffering from declining attendance. Embittered performers who have not been paid for some time blame this situation on rock'n'roll discotheques--an enmity personified when Victor, the circus' ace knife-thrower, attacks Davy with perfectly-aimed throws within inches of his face and threatens to call the police. Another performer, Susan, befriends The Monkees but is distraught when Victor delivers a written ultimatum to Pop, the circus' ringmaster. The Monkees then pose as aerial performers from France who wish to perform in the circus, which wins the confidence of Victor and other performers--but backfires on The Monkees when they are expected to actually perform the dangerous aerial tasks required. Forced to confess that they are in fact rock'n'roll singers, The Monkees are caustically shamed into leaving by the enraged Victor and the other performers, leaving Susan in tears, but Davy insists on doing something to help the circus, and The Monkees unexpectedly succeed in winning back the confidence of the other performers--except for Victor, who refuses to perform. Davy takes his place as knife-thrower, but to Victor's horror the lives of Susan and Peter are threatened when Davy's errant throws nearly stabs both of them before a sold-out audience..
- The Monkees are asked to appear as extras in Luther Kramm's new beach movie, but soon take offense to the film's star, Frankie Catalina. After upstaging him during the production, Catalina walks off the movie and the Monkees push Davy into the limelight as the new teen idol.
- Visiting Mike's Aunt Kate in Texas, The Monkees find the Nesmith Ranch being ambushed by Black Bart and his gang. Micky and Peter, dressed as The Lone Stranger and Pronto, go to town to seek help but end up join Black Bart's gang. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mike tries to figure out what makes the Nesmith land so valuable.
- Crooked fight promoter Sholto tells Davy he could be a featherweight champ and starts fixing fights so that 'Dynamite' Davy Jones quickly makes a career.
- When the Monkees decide to get themselves an answering service, they soon end up working for one instead. Left on their own, the foursome starts ignoring the most important rule: 'don't get involved with the clients'. Mike tries to save a young girl he thinks is planning to commit suicide, Davy brings a message which soon has an entire building in a riot and Peter messes up a scheme to place gambling bets over the phone. Micky somehow manages to keep out of trouble.
- Micky 'Magic Fingers' Dolenz hits a lucky streak in Vegas, not realizing the roulette table is rigged. The Boss and Biggy soon steal the ill begotten money back from the Monkees, who are then given 24 hours by the police to retrieve it once more. So, they head back into the Casino dressed as gangsters The Insidious Strangler (Micky), The Professor (Peter), Muscles The Mauler (Davy) and Vicious Killer (Mike).
- Natasha Pavlova escapes from The Druvanian National Ballet by hiding in the Monkees' instrument trunk and falls in love with Peter, whom she refers to as 'The Face' (and sometimes just plain 'Petrov'). Ballet Master Nicolai and his other star, Ivan, insist on getting her back, mainly because of the microfilm hidden in one of her red shoes.
- It's Christmas and the group has to teach a neglected boy about the magic and love of the season.
- With the scripted sitcom antics taking a backseat, this episode shows the group on a real concert tour.
- Micky, Davy and Mike are duped into robbing a bank, thinking they're the stars of a new heist movie. After their arrest, it is up to Peter to prove his band mates' innocence while the trio of accused Monkees handle their own defense during the trial.
- Davy meets his double, the shy Prince Ludlow of Peruvia, and soon learns that the vertically-challenged Highness must marry before his 18th birthday in order to ascend to the Peruvian throne. The other three Monkees convince Davy to swap places with the Prince and woo young socialite Wendy Forsythe in his stead. However, the evil Count Myron has his eye on the throne as well.
- The Monkees take a job at the Henry Cabot Lodge and Cemetery, where they are forced into service as hotel staff as well. The guests include a quartet of tall female bikers, whom the boys set out to impress by dressing like Marlon Brando in 'The Wild One'. When the girls' boyfriends, Big Butch and the Black Angels, arrive, the Monkees (now known as the Chickens) must enter a motorcycle race they cannot possibly win.
- The Monkees frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing surreal humor and anti-establishment social commentary.