The Monkees TV Series

The Monkees DVD

The Monkees was an award-winning musical comedy series about misadventures of quartet pop rock band finding their way and success in music industry. Meeting various tv and movie stars, the band have to adapt their knowledge and talents along with them as well as in performances and off-camera matters.

Robert Michael “Mike” Nesmith, David Thomas “Davy” Jones, George Michael“Micky” Dolenz, Jr. and Peter Halsten “Peter Tork” Thorkelson were The Monkees, their extreme talents and performances are featured in music comedy show making people laugh. They encounter interesting events and tying-up their country-folk-rock songs in these fast-moving comedy series. The Monkees tv series original ran was from September 1966 to March 1968 in two seasons with 58 episodes.

Casts:

• David Thomas Jones on vocals, percussion, guitar and drums on live
• George Michael Dolenz Jr. on vocals, drums, keyboards and guitar
• Robert Michael Nesmith on guitars and vocals
• Peter Halsten Thorkelson on bass, keyboards, banjo, guitar, trombone and vocals

Mod Squad

Mod Squad TV Series

Casts:

• Michael Cole as Pete Cochran
• Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes
• Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes
• Tige Andrews as Capt. Adam Greer

Mod Squad action thriller tv series created and based on true experience of former LA Police Officer Bud Ruskin in 1950s, the series was a police drama featuring three young hippie crime-fighters in not typical crime drama shows incorporate ideas mostly made 'contemporary' with simple fashion and technology, but the show worked because of its redefined clothes, styles, language, attitudes and timing of one black, one white and one blonde casts.

Tough Undercover Agent Captain Adam Greer working to bust drug rings among youth and catch crime-lords, on his sympathetic manner he recruited three hippie dropped out from their straight society and were on probation; African-American Afroed ghetto Linc Hayes arrested on riot, blonde Julie Barnes daughter of San Francisco prostitute stalk-away and arrested for vagrancy and Pete Cochran caught after stealing a car. He made them special youth squad undercovers to infiltrate youth subcultured/counter-cultured, criminals who prey teenagers and deal against drugs and racial politics.

Mod Squad completed 123 1-hour episodes in total of 4 seasons aired from September 1968 to August 1973 on ABC.

Mod Squad DVD