The Monkees

The four members of The Monkees were each paid $450.00 per episode of their TV series, which was raised to $750.00 for its second season. They received standard royalty rates for their recordings (and publishing, when they wrote the songs), but virtually nothing for their merchandising. Both Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz sued Columbia Pictures in the late 1970s, but they had to settle for a payment of only $10,000.00 each.

In a number of episodes from season 2 of this TV series, Micky Dolenz's hair changes back and forth from a straight look to a curly "permed" look. This was due to the fact that these episodes were filmed at two different times: first in the spring of 1967 (during which time a number of the actual episodes' story lines were filmed) and then later that autumn (during which time all of the episodes' song performances were filmed). During the summer break, Dolenz let his hair grow out. The difference is perhaps most noticeable in the episode A Nice Place to Visit (1967) where, at one moment, Dolenz is performing a song with his hair curly and then, in another moment, is seen leaving the stage with his hair straight.

The Christmas Show (1967) departs from the usual stills montage by ending with The Monkees giving the TV audience a Christmas wish of peace. The group then brings the crew members onto the set and gives them all a very happy and raucous opportunity to give their loved ones at home a Christmas greeting, all while the closing credits play over this. When this episode was rerun on Saturday morning on CBS in 1969, this unique end-credit sequence was again replaced with standard credits over the traditional Monkees face montage.

Several episodes of this TV series, either when shown in network reruns (i.e., the CBS run) or in syndication, had newer songs replacing older ones on their soundtracks.