The most successful comedies of the 1960s delivered short, silly humor. Along with Gilligan’s Island, Green Acres, and Hogan’s Heroes, The Monkees viewers didn’t expect much from their shows. They ...

To be fair, nobody really knows why anything connects with the audience in the way that it does, and why one piece of pop culture entertainment becomes a phenomenon while others don't. The Monkees TV ...

Regardless of how many Monkees actually responded to the Hollywood Reporter advertisement seeking "4 insane boys, age 17-21" for a TV show inspired by the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night,” it wasn’t ...