1986: To celebrate the cable channel’s acquisition of all 45 episodes of the classic 1960’s television series, The Monkees, MTV held a day-long “Monkees Marathon” on this day, showing every episode back-to-back.
While obviously appealing to nostalgic Baby Boomers, the marathon unexpectedly touches off a whole new wave of “Monkeemania” among younger viewers and the band will go on from here to perform and tour from time to time.
