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...summer of 1965, two fledgling producers named Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider put an ad in Daily Variety for "4 insane boys, aged 17-21." Out of 437 would-be lunatics who showed up to audition, Rafelson and Schneider picked David Jones, 20, a 5-ft. 3-in. former jockey from Manchester, England; Mickey Dolenz, 21, a former child actor from Hollywood; Peter Tork, 24, a college professor's son from Connecticut; and Mike Nesmith, 23, an Army brat from Texas. Only two of them could read music at all professionally, and only two had ever acted before. None...
...cameras, and in five days filmed a genial half-hour steal of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, only they called it The Monkees. "We wanted to keep them natural, as unrehearsed as possible, and give them plenty of room for ad-libbing," says Rafelson. "It all went great: NBC bought the series 24 hours after it saw the pilot and sold it to two sponsors 72 hours later...