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The Monkees: Season 2

Davy Jones (Actor), Micky Dolenz (Actor, Director), Alexander Singer (Director), Rated:

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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/18/2003 Run time: 710 minutes Rating: Nr

Product details

Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 6 x 3 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Alexander Singer, David Winters, James Frawley, Jon C. Andersen, Micky Dolenz
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Box set
Run time ‏ : ‎ 11 hours and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 18, 2003
Actors ‏ : ‎ Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Stuart Margolin
Studio ‏ : ‎ Rhino Theatrical
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000TAZW4
Writers ‏ : ‎ Coslough Johnson, Dave Evans, David Panich
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 5

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Michael Patrick Boyd

Season 2

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018

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The Monkees: Season 2 is 750 minuets and was released on DVD on September 27, 2011. It covers all twenty – six episodes from September 11, 1967 to March 25, 1968. In the second season you get songs from their albums Headquarters, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. and The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees. In season two Peter, Micky and Davy go for the hippie look and Mike starts to go formal. Micky decides not to water down his hair and shows off his Afro look. Also included in this box set is the television special 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee. All four Monkees hated 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee. Peter Tork called it a television version of Head. Davy Jones hate because the Monkees were reduced to second string and focused more on the guests. Though I will give Brian Auger a good review on his commentary on 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee. In the scene where (top from bottom) he, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Fats Domino are playing the pianos that he was very nervous because of the vibration of the top organ not being steady. Also, right across from where 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee being tape, Elvis comeback special was being tape. Micky Dolenz gives a lack luster commentary. Lastly included in this box set are two sketches from the Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour television show and a New York City news conference. The Monkees: Season 2 gets an AAAA++++.

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A. Sprank

Bad packaging, good show

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2016

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Definitely a fun show, fun music. It was before my time, but find its still the same fun concept. however, season 2 lost the charm, and many of the episodes are crazy themes such as Davy being put on trial by the devil and assorted hippie-themes that only seem to have made sense to 60s kids on dope or something. Because they make no sense to me! However, there are a handful of cute episodes to be found here, and great timeless music and crazy fun music videos. Packaging could be better. The multiple discs are layered one ontop of the other, so you usually end out having to pop out two discs to get the one you want, and they are difficult to pop out, so I fear scratching them up trying to remove them. There are episode synopses, which I like, otherwise how in the heck do you know what you want by a mere episode title? However, the synopses are UNDERNEATH the discs, another poor part of the design. To read it all, you have to pop out the discs, which is majorly inconvenient. However, it is the only DVD for this series that I see currently available, so there is really no choice but to endure terrible package design to see this fun retro series.

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"To Dispose Of A Two-Headed Org, Jump Up And Down Three Times, Roll A Head Of Cabbage, And Giggle."

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2013

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When I was very young "The Monkees" (in reruns) was unquestionably my favorite television show. I liked the strange juxtopositions, the odd wordplay, and the genuinely funny comedic action. I still do. I bought this set to compliment season one (I generally prefer the first season) and on balance I really enjoyed revisiting these shows for the first time in several decades. By this time in the show, the four guys were drifting apart and becoming far more independent thinkers, and it really shows in the overall level of cohesiveness in some of the episodes. Having said that, there are no episodes here I didn't enjoy, though some are true standouts. The sole reason I deducted a star from my rating is that the audio and video quality is pretty much 1960's original, and really should have been cleaned up by Rhino. As a note, season two is now available in a much less expensive package that is more conventional (making storage much less problematic.)

One thing I like about this set is the incredible trivia for each episode; the degree of minutiae covered is mindboggling and I examined it for every episode with great interest. One thing that's outstanding here are the cameos: I was most amused by Liberace in "Art For Monkee's Sake": the gold sledgehammer and Mike's reaction shots are utterly perfect in every way. Likewise Dub Taylor and Billie Hayes as Maw and Paw in "Hillbilly Honeymoon" are a riot. (Watch for Mike musically playing his nose and Peter as "Uncle Raccoon.") For you "Hogan's Heroes" fans out there (and who isn't?) watch for Leon Askin as the head of the Druvanian National Ballet in the excellent Red Shoe episode (I am particularly fond of Peter's interrogation and in the performance of "Chicken Lake.")

I miss Mike in that episode, though he more than makes up for it with classic bits like his bumbling LBJ impression in "Monkee Mayor," and his rambling poetic lute playing in "The Wild Monkees" ("You're a thing of beauty to behold, sitting like a manifold." Keats would not be as amused as I was.) Mike also excels in the classic favorite "Fairy Tales." I enjoyed Peter's commentary regarding Nesmith's "Daily Nightly" on that episode: "If these lyrics have any meaning, I never picked up on it." (And all this time, I thought it was just me!) I appreciated all the commentaries, though some were better than others: Peter's frank discussion of drugs (he does not recommend them) is especially candid, thoughtful, and appreciated. Mike also steals the show in "The Monkee's Paw" as the Regular Lama, in which Peter opines "While there is a great deal of moral purpose on the side of the unions, they tend to want a stranglehold." I like that comment as it demonstrates an independent thought outside of the Hollywood mainstream: the show skewered both sides of the political spectrum with equal aplomb and efficacy. Mike's shining moment came in the famous role-reversal intro to "The Monkees Blow Their Minds" with special guest Frank Zappa, which is perhaps the best moment of the entire series. The same episode features a great cameo of Burgess Meredith in costume as The Penguin. Don't miss it.

Micky really excels as a robot in "Monkees Watch Their Feet" ("Zlotnik welcomes you!") The dual cameos of Stuart Margolin and Pat Paulsen makes this a comedic standout, though sadly there are some particularly bad scratches on the print that really needed to be cleaned up. Micky steps up as director on the final and most psychedelic episode, "The Frodis Caper," which stars the great Rip Taylor as Wizard Glick. "Some Like It Lukewarm" has some great lines, including a dialogue centered on the setup line "What is a woman but a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair?" Mike's reaction to Davy in drag is classic and he's immediately labeled both "a raggy, hairy bone" and a "hairy, bony rag." This same episode features a better than average romp to "The Door Into Summer" in which Davy repeatedly attempts to escape.

"The Monkees in Paris" is not one of my favorites, and is probably the least entertaining of any episode in the series. Bob Rafelson does a commentary for it that's more interesting than the show itself, and describes the episode as a "shambles." The Rafelson commentary provides an interesting history of The Monkees, but it tends toward bloviation as he speaks of himself in the third person extensively. Despite that I still enjoyed "The Monkees in Paris," though the same can't be said for "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" which was a post-series TV special that is ponderous and almost unwatchable. Don't believe me? Watch for the paisley forklift and the "Origin of Species" interpretative dance. (Really.) In his commentary Micky says "This is what's known as 'deconstructing the Monkees.'" He's absolutely correct. Although Neil Sedaka has a terrible contribution to "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee," there is solace to be had here in the form of a long but sublimely interesting version of "Listen to the Band," a great song. That performance marked the last time the four played together until 1986.

"The Monkees" was groundbreaking television. Though much of the show was formulaic, the four principals really did have an effervescence that coalesced well on the small screen, and most of these episodes still hold up well today. I greatly enjoyed watching the second season for the first time in many years, and despite the technical shortcomings of this set, I recommend it without reservation.

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Judy Bailey

LOVE THE MONKEES!!! - the PACKAGING, oh boy!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2017

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I became the biggest fan of the Monkees from day one - great music, great sound, great singers; they're cute, funny, talented... Man!!
I've seen many, many funny shows, but I think The Monkees is the most hilarious I've ever watched! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!!
The only thing is the packaging - it's one of those where the DVDs are VERY hard to take out from the set. It took me 15 minutes (really!) to take out one, for fear that it would break (as it happened with a DVD from another show that had the same packaging) And so after that, I decided to leave them loose... which caused the DVDs getting scratched... which left me with the pleasure of seeing the picture sticking while watching one episode... which led me to.... ugh!!!!!
I hope you can win the battle against the packaging better than I did - the Monkees are worth the effort!!
(By the way, I didn't have the same problem with season 1; different packaging... thank you!!)

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Anthony Coy

Ah the days of my youth, this is worth ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2014

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Ah the days of my youth, this is worth it just for the 'romps' ( music videos as they are called now). This is before the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour. And yes they did play their own instruments on their tours.

TheTruth

Season 2 - Hey Hey - It's More Monkees

Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2011

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As with season one, Monkees fans will be familiar with this show, so I won't go into detail about what the show is about.

As a Monkees fan myself I am quite happy to have this budget priced version of the more costly versions of these seasonal sets as put out by Rhino some years ago.

The quality is great and every episode is included in each seasonal set. I like the packaging as well since I collect a number of shows and a set like this will sit on my dvd shelf much easier than a mini turntable design or something of that nature.

33 & 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee is nice to have on here as well. Strange stuff even by Monkees standards, but nice to have it.

Too bad they didn't throw on the movie "Head". That movie still seems avant garde and self-indulgent to me to this day, and I can't see it selling much on it's own. If it were by anyone but The Monkees I couldn't see how there would be much interest in it all all, so I think it would have made a nice bonus item on a set like this. A good way to get it into the hands of the die-hard fans who might not see value for money in buying the movie on it's own.

On the down side, as with season one, even though these sets come with a lot of Kellogs commercials, the Kool-Aid commercials (including the ones with Bugs Bunny) are not included among the bonus material.

And nowhere in the sets are the alternate versions of about 7 or so episodes where the music was altered. The versions on here and on the season one sets are the versions with the alternate music where members of the band got producers to put in some of their own songs in place of the original songs written by the staff of writers who used to write songs for the show.

Despite the claims of others, the music on these releases is NOT the ORIGINAL music. The versions with the lesser known non-band member written songs are the ORIGINAL music versions.

These are the syndicated re-run versions. They don't contain the original music.

Nice sets for sure, but they could be better. If you enjoy these shows I recommend them. If you are a completist and want original shows, all versions, and everything Monkee, they will be something of a let down.

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M. G Hall

The Monkees are great but DVD quality is not!

Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2016

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All other DVDs of long ago shows are great to excellent quality...so what happened here? The actual shows are as I remember them but the less than good quality takes away from the enjoyment. The company that released this product is lazy and cheap. That's why only 3 stars.

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Charles Knights

The greatest musical comedy ever!

Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2019

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It's my childhood all over again! The Monkees were the thing I would rush home from school to watch! Now I can marathon it any time I want! Thanks!

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