The Monkees TV show - calling on Brits who remember it...

[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

EDITED TO MAKE THE POINT CLEAR - AM LOOKING FOR UK TRANSMISSION DATES

Right, who remembers reruns of the Monkees TV show being on TV in Britain at some time in the late 1970s / early 1980s?

I am NOT, that is ***NOT*** talking about the big ol' Monkees rerun that MTV did in 1986. I'm talking late 1970s / early 1980s. I remember the Monkees being on TV, and I would have been very young, like 4 years old, maybe 5 or 6 years old, most emphatically not 11 years old (besides, you could only get MTV on satellite TV, and nobody I knew had satellite until 87, and they were like WELL EARLY ADOPTERS INNIT.)

I've attempted to, y'know, Look This Up On The Internet, but the results have been a blanket of fail. So. Anyone remember when it was on?

I'm asking this because in our house we are having a Monkees retrospective (and I have to say it's bloomin' brilliant). It's brought back memories of seeing the show on TV when I was a very small child. I'm very familiar with the opening credits and a few of the shows themselves have seemed a little bit familiar. I would have been too young to really "get" the show the first time, but I do remember general impressions of japes, scooters, dressing up, that kind of Monkee malarkey.

Incidentally, my favourite Monkee is Michael Nesmith.

Comments

[southern-sith.livejournal.com]

o_O

*facepalm*

[tansu.livejournal.com]

whut?

[meedja.livejournal.com]

I can agree with you that it was definitely on terrestrial UK telly in that era, I can remember watching the odd episode at about that age, and we sure as anything didn't have satellite. Dates though, I can't help with, but as there's about a year between us, and my earliest telly memories are of Delia Smith being on before the weather and then Playschool, I'm leaning more towards 80/81 than 79.

And my favourite Monkee is Micky Dolenz.

As a very strange side note, one of the earliest words I learned how to spell was weather, because when the weather came on after Delia & before Playschool, it had WEATHER in big letters on half the screen for ages, and I used to sit in front of the telly and say W.E.A.T.H.E.R. in phonetics. I was a strange child.

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

I remember watching it, which means in the second house, which means I must've been 4+, so post-1982 (although obviously that may have been the tail-end of the season, so 78-82 or something).

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

OMG Mickey is still my favorite Monkee.

[hatgrlstargazer.livejournal.com]

I'm not British enough to answer your question (or quite old enough either), but I wanted to share in the Monkees love. I became a huge fan in high school when the show was (briefly) on Nick at Nite. I'm not very good at having favorites, but I'm gonna say my favorite Monkee is Peter Tork. Although it's Davy Jones that I got to see perform live a few years ago. He still puts on a very fun show!

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

I <3 The Monkees! I have no idea about your question, of course....

My favorite was initially Davey, 'cause he was cute, but then it was Mike because he was smart.

[doctor-sentence.livejournal.com]

I think the repeats were part of the line-up for Saturday morning viewing. Maybe incorporated into one of those interview-and-phone-in shows like Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore. Can't help you with dates, though.

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Peter was sweet and goofy and innocent. :-)

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Himself did some more research that I didn't think of doing, and we now reckon 1982 for certain, prob 1981 as well.

[austengirl.livejournal.com]

Can't help you with the transmission dates as I grew up watching them on Nick at Night and other 80's reruns. My favourite was Michael Naismith.