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

[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.