I remember watching the show on Los Angeles' KTTV ch. 11 in the mid-70s and not being able to buy any Monkees records.

Fall of '66..Monday nights 6:30 pm central time, bouncing around in front of the tube while the theme song played at the ripe old age of 27 months!!

- Dan

Well shoot, way back in their first season on tv, when I was in the 7th grade, I remember calling my girlfriend about boys and homework, etc., and not being able to get her EVER on Mon nights between 6:30 and 7...when I asked her why, she said she was watching a tv show called the Monkees. So I tuned in, and have been a fan of theirs ever since!

Fall 1966 sitting on the floor in front of the TV with a couple other kids from the neighborhood. From that moment on, my life was altered...and I was only 4! Their first album was the first record I ever bought, and I've been rebuying it ever since...thanks Rhino!

I can still recall,at the age of 8, getting the first two albums after getting "The Birds,The Bees & The Monkees". I loved them then, and guess what...I STILL DO!! I have, since then,gotten all the rest (however,I didn't get, sadly,either"Changes","Barrelful Of Monkees" or "Re-focus"-eventually I did get the first one,but not until 1987).Michael Boyce

I first "tuned in" to the Monkees around 1968, just as the show was going off the air. My dad brought home a copy of THE BIRDS, THE BEES & THE MONKEES for my big brother - and that was all it took to make me a lifelong fan.

I was six years old, Summer of '96 if I recall correctly, it was the Nick @ Nite thing. Well anyway, I started watching, and Davy was the first thing that caught my eye. Everytime my parents would send me to bed, I'd start to cry because I felt like I was betraying them by leaving lol.

Now this is going back (for me).

Back in Florida, WTOG (Channell 44) used to play the Monkees every weekday after school. It would come on right after "Battle of the Planets". At about 4:00 or 4:30, I'd grab my cassette recorder and place the microphone right up to my 13" black & white TV. I'd record the entire show and later could fast-forward or rewing to the songs from each episode.

My favorite song (to this day) is Daily Nightly. I just found the video up on YouTube. WOW!!! Now that was great.

One of these days... these guys will tour again. I'll be there. :0)

Going into a record store in Wheaton,Ill and having the clerk tell me the single he was playing was by a band that was about to be huge. Liked it, bought it..and it was "Last Train To Clarksville." This was before the series aired.

Yes..still have it

Fall of 1991, Watching on Muchmusic, I was upset that the request show (now known as Much On Demand) wasn't on and instead of The Monkees.

I was stuck @ my grandma's and nothing to do or watch on this cold winter afternoon, so I watched the show ("Dance Monkees Dance") and I thought it was funny and was hooked on the songs!

I heard "I'm A Beilver" which I thought was a Beatles song! I vaugely remember The Monkees , or @ least it felt familiar to me. I then cut class sometimes to watch the show as it was in the afternoons.


Muchmusic began airing it 2-3 times a day after. The rest is history!

summer of 77 nyc,playing hooky from some crappy summer day camp that my mom sent me to,y'know the kind of camp that had kids named tyrone and armondo,i couldnt be part of that ,9 or 10 years old ,instantly hooked ,my uncle bought me a bass and i taught mysellf how to play and still a working musician to this day.also that year my mom took my too see micky and davy in nyc with a backing band called the laughing dogs (another great band) the rest is .............whatever
joey c

It was December 1986. We had just got cable TV. My brother kept telling me about this show with this rock band. I watched it the next time it came on. The episode was "Monkee See, Monkee Die." From then on, I was hooked. My first cassette was "Then & Now...The Best Of The Monkees." I was a Monkeemaniac from then on.

My earliest memory is sometime during the original primetime run, watching the closing credits with boxes of cereal next to the guys faces and hearing "For Pete's Sake" and thinking they were singing "Endless Generation." I was only four years old going on five and would not buy one of their records until 1980!

Well, would you consider yourself a first generation fan?

No, I remember the show much more clearly during the Saturday morning reruns in the 70's. I would not consider myself becoming a fan until about 1980.
That must be more 2nd Generation.