Monday, October 16, 2017

"I Was a 99lb. Weakling"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "I Was a 99lb. Weakling" - the thirty-eighth episode of The Monkees series (and the sixth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (16 October 1967).  It was written by Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Neil Burtyn, and Jon C. Andersen, directed by Alex Singer, and featured the songs "Sunny Girlfriend" and "Love Is Only Sleeping."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "Micky's pride is at stake when a muscle-man steals his chick."