Musical Television

For the last few months I've been watching the musical 2 hours on Antennae TV on Sunday afternoons. The first hour is The Monkees and the second is The Partridge Family.

It really is amazing how very different these shows could be.

I've loved The Monkees for years and years and I find the show to be very enjoyable even now, but when aired next to The Partridge Family, it is easy to see how bad the show actually was.

The music is timeless, and the guys were decent actors, but the writing for The Monkees was terrible, awful even.

There was such potential if they really did a show about a band. If they would have even done a show that parodied A Hard Day's Night, which was supposed to be what the band was about, it could have been great.

I'm not saying that there weren't good episodes, because there were, especially in the second season. The Devil and Peter Tork and The Christmas Episode, but this was a show that could have been so much more, especially with the talent of the stars

Its really only been recently that I've taken a shine to The Partridge Family. I watched them a little bit when I was little, but not much. Seeing the two shows back to back, you can really see the differences and yet both shows have a lot of similarities.

The primary difference is that The Partridge Family didn't try to be a real band, it was David Cassidy.

This show only started a year or so after The Monkees ended, but this show was so much more developed. There are actual stories that make sense, rather than just silly ones.

Sure this show was based on The Cowsills, but they did so much and the show is entertaining, regardless of how you feel about the music.

Which show did you like better?

Best Line From A Monkees Episode

OK, one of the best lines, cos this show was always funny as hell.

I don't want to be a chicken, I don't want to be a chicken. Ward, I don't want to be a chicken. I'm a chicken. I'm a chicken.

A Monkee Moment

For some reason in the last few days I've been in the mood for The Monkees. I don't know why. Maybe it has something to do with the summer. I don't really know. I have a mix CD in my car that has a pretty Monkees song on it. One of the bonus tracks from the Rhino reissues from years back.

Today I came across a great website.

There are some great pictures and video clips there.

~sigh~

I remember sitting for hours and hours watching the TV shows when I was in school. I remember going to countless concerts, 4 or 5, I think all throughout my life.

Why are my guys getting old?

WHY!!!!!

This cannot be.

I have Davy's official site linked here, and each time I click over, I get depressed. Davy Jones was my first crush, when I was five years old. I wanted nothing more than to walk down the aisle with him. He's not aging well. At least not in my opinion. (Not when compared to Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Paul McCartney etc.)



This is the Davy Jones I want to remember always.

Not this one



And this is one of the better shots I've found. It's from the Vh-1 Thanksgiving Special.

Dear God, don't let J'tiny Poo or Lodgey start looking like old men yet....PLEASE!!!

And I don't want to hear that all of them are nearing or our in their 60's yet!

~plugs ears~

My men are eternal I tell you.