- Mike runs for Mayor.
- Elderly neighbors of The Monkees suddenly appear at their beach house, explaining that they've been evicted by the city, which is tearing their homes down to build a mammoth parking lot, but when Mike and Micky read one of the eviction notices they see it violates every standing development code in the city. Mike takes his complaint to City Hall, but gets the runaround from Mayor Yort Samuel Motley and his secretary, leaving a confused Mike on the outside - and unaware that Motley is now in the reluctant pay of Wilber Zeckenbush, a corrupt southern-fried land developer who plans to wipe out a large chunk of the city to build parking lots and thus fatten the city's coffers as well as his own cut. As it is an election year and because their house has no room for the extra guests, Micky then persuades Mike to run for Mayor, which surprises Motley but which sets Zeckenbush into action as he works to sabotage Mike's campaign. When a Zeckenbush gang ransack The Monkees' beach house, the boys sneak into City Hall and do some investigative work themselves, and find Zeckenbush's land development plan, but when Peter photographs it the picture fails to come out properly. But unaware that Mike is no longer a threat to Motley, Zeckenbush commissions employees of his companies to send campaign contributions to Mike; the ensuing windfall allows Micky, Peter, and Davy to launch a mammoth publicity push for Mike. But it all collapses in ruin when Zeckenbush confronts Mike with the truth about his campaign contributions, and ashamed at thus being fooled, Mike reluctantly quits the race - which results in an unexpected twist from an unlikely area.—Michael Daly
- The Monkees prepare for dinner when three elderly neighbors of theirs appear to claim borrowed chairs and a table. When Mike asks why, they reply they've been evicted from their homes, which are slated to be destroyed for a vast parking lot. They hand Mike and Micky one of the eviction notices, and the two young men see that it violates all of the city's zoning laws - which makes no immediate difference as blasting from one of the neighbors' blocks shakes the boys' own beachhouse.
Mike goes to city hall to protest the evictions, but gets the runaround from Mayor Yort Samuel Motley's secretary - he's led through doors that go nowhere, and infuriated he demands to see Motley, who startles him by appearing. Mike protests the new parking lot being built, but Motley gives him the runaround with a deliberately absurd speech that parodies Richard Nixon, talking about throwing people out of their homes as the American way, and Mike is thus thoroughly confused enough to leave - he thus doesn't notice that Motley is in the reluctant pay of Wilbur Zeckenbush, a corrupt southern-fried land developer planning to annihilate much of Los Angeles' landscape for parking lots that will fatten the city's coffers as well as his own cut.
Mike, however, is so distraught over the parking lot and the fact their neighbors are forced to share the house with them that he lets himself be entered in a race for city mayor by Micky. Micky telephones Motley to make the announcement, but Zeckenbush initially doesn't take it seriously as Mike is not owned by him.
Zeckenbush changes his tune, though, as Micky, Peter, and Davy actively lead Mike's campaign amid the strains of the retro-50s rocker "No Time." Zeckenbush pays two beautiful beauty pagent contestents, an old lady, and a heavyset citizen to cause havoc to Mike's campaign - the bathing beauties beat up Mike when he picks a rival in their contest; the old lady attacks Micky with her umbrella when he helps her cross the street. Later Mike "stops" a staged robbery by Peter and Davy, but is held up himself by bystanders, while Peter is slapped by a "baby" who's actually an adult midget.
Later that day the boys return home to find their house ransacked. Mike suspects Motley's office is responsible, and that Motley has a devastating secret. With city hall empty at 3 PM for coffee break - which usually lasts 9 to 5 - the Monkees easily break into Motley's office, find a skeleton in the closet, then find Motley's connection to a master plan to flatten the city for parking lots. But when Peter botches a photograph of Zeckenbush's files, the boys' plan is ruined.
Zeckenbush, however, rightly suspects Mike has stumbled onto his plan but is unaware that he has no evidence. When Motley's secretary can find no damaging information about Mike, Zeckenbush orders "Plan W." The Monkees are thus flooded with donations just days before election, and they use it for a massive publicity push for Mike that includes a live TV speech.
Zeckenbush, however, visits the boys hours before Mike's speech, and reveals that his employees were Mike's contributors and he has the cancelled checks in the millions to prove it. He thus warns Mike to back off his campaign else he'll be ruined by revalation about Zeckenbush's campaign monies. The boys are devastated, and when Mike makes his speech, he admits to getting money from an illegal source, and that he knew nothing of the source's illegality beforehand but that this isn't relevent; that he was so tricked means he's not fit to be mayor, and he thus quits the race - a speech that has a surprising effect on an unexpected corner of the election.
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