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According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "The Case of the Missing Monkee" - the seventeenth episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (9 January 1967). It was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso, directed by Robert Rafelson, and featured the song "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone." Sandoval describes the plot as: "Peter stumbles into a plot to kidnap an esteemed professor and shortly thereafter stumbles out of sight."