The BEST episodes written by Gerald Gardner
#1 - The Monkees in the Ring
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 20
Davy takes to the ring and becomes a star boxer.
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#2 - The Prince and the Pauper
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 21
Davy tries to help a lookalike prince who is shy with girls.
#3 - Captain Crocodile
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 23
The Monkees appear on a children's television show.
#4 - The Spy Who Came in From the Cool
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Monkees find themselves in the middle of the government's effort to capture two enemy spies.
#6 - The Monkees Get Out More Dirt
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 29
All four Monkees fall for a tall, beautiful laundromat owner.
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#8 - The Landlady
What's Happening!! - Season 3 - Episode 6
Roger falls for the building's landlady, an attractive older woman.
#10 - The Monkees on the Line
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 28
The boys take a job at a phone-answering service.
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#11 - One Man Shy
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mike. Micky and Davy help shy Peter woo a pretty debutante.
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#13 - The Amazing Harry Hoo
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 25
The Claw is back, and planning to lead Max into his deadly trap. His scheme leads Max and 99 to San Francisco as they follow a Chinese agent (Number 3) in the hopes that this will lead them to Number One (Claw), the mastermind behind a smuggling operation that uses a laundromat as facade (though the real money is actually in the laundry). However Max gets help from Harry Who, a chinese police inspector with a keen eye for detail and two possibilities to explain anything.
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#15 - Too Many Chiefs
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 11
Alexi Sebastian, a master impersonator, attempts to kill someone who was about to reveal the secret of the KAOS coding system. Alexi disguises himself as the Chief to confuse the situation even more. Max and 99 must guard Tanya Lupescu, who has memorized KAOS' codebook. An attempt to hide her in a hotel fails, so CONTROL decides to hide her in Max's apartment. KAOS hires master impersonator Alexi Sebastian to kill Lupesco. Sebastian has successfully disguised himself as Johnny Carson and Max's Aunt Rose, so CONTROL has him listed as a 101 - shoot on sight. Sebastian disguises himself as the Chief and gets inside the apartment, but the real Chief shows up and Max is confronted by two Chiefs. Can Maxie pick the correct Chief?
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#16 - The Monkees in Manhattan
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 30
The Monkees travel to New York to appear in a musical.
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#17 - The Monkees at the Movies
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 31
The boys are cast in a teen beach movie.
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#19 - Alias Micky Dolenz
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 25
Micky's resemblance to a mobster lands him in hot water.
#20 - The Producer
Gilligan's Island - Season 3 - Episode 4
Famous Hollywood director Herald Hecuba lands on the island during his world-wide talent search. The castaways put on a musical version of Hamlet in order to impress the director, with hopes that he will take them back to Hollywood when he leaves.
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#21 - The Success Story
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 6
When Davy's British grandfather visits, the boys try to fool him into believing that Davy is rich.
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#22 - Monkees à la Mode
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 24
The Monkees are selected as subjects for an article in a fashion magazine.
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#23 - Monkee Chow Mein
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 26
The Monkees are mistaken for spies by an evil Chinese gang.
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#24 - Brother Can You Spare a Crime?
Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 17
When a handsome jewel thief is arrested, he manages to convince Hammer that he’s his long-lost brother… enlisting Sledge’s aid in his rehabilitation.
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The Monkees - Season 2 - Episode 6
To win over a beautiful beach girl, Micky sells his drums to pay a dishonest bodybuilding instructor.
#26 - The Chaperone
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 9
The boys host a chaperoned party so that Davy can date the daughter of a strict retired general.
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#27 - The Case of the Missing Monkee
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 17
When Peter goes missing, the boys scramble to find him.
#28 - Washington 4, Indians 3
Get Smart - Season 1 - Episode 6
Indians threaten to use a bomb if they don't get all of their land back. Smart then goes into their camp and foils their plan. While on his three-week vacation Agent 43 is confronted by a group of rebel Indians. They demand the return of all Indian lands or they will fire their secret weapon on Washington. Max calls an all-out alert, though we're not sure if it's because of an Indian attack or because he doesn't get three weeks vacation. Once saturation bombing of Arizona is discarded as a plan, Max and 99 mount 'em up and head out to disarm the secret weapon. Max, disguised as a Papawahsee, infiltrates the camp. The Papwahsee is actually the Indian word for fiancee and Max is forced to romance Chief Red Cloud's daughter to fulfill his assignment. A jealous 99 raids the camp to prevent Max from kissing the daughter and tries to prevent the Indians from launching their secret weapon, a giant arrow.
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#30 - Haven't Gun, Will Travel
Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 15
A gang of silver thieves, working in cahoots with an unscrupulous police psychiatrist, destroys Hammer's psyche when they steal his beloved 44 Magnum… effectively crippling the crime fighter.
#31 - I Was a Teenage Monster
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 18
The Monkees become captives of a maniacal doctor who wants to create a singing monster.
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#32 - Monkees à la Carte
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Monkees go undercover to help the owner of a restaurant that has been taken over by mobsters.
#33 - The Son of a Gypsy
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 16
The Monkees must contend with a band of crazy gypsies.
#34 - Too Many Girls
The Monkees - Season 1 - Episode 15
To prevent a prediction from coming true, Mike, Micky and Peter try to keep Davy away from girls.
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Love, American Style - Season 3 - Episode 52
An agent proposes to his actress girlfriend in the same restaurant he proposed to his first wife, now a waitress at the establishment.