My Dream MeTV Halloween Event: MONKEYWEEN
MONKEYWEEN 🍌🎃
A full-day Halloween event built around The Monkees, classic monster cartoons, spooky sitcoms, and vintage television horror.
4:00 AM
Milton the Monster
“Kooky Spooky” sampler.
Proto-monster cartoon fun that helped establish the funny monster formula before shows like Groovie Goolies. A perfect way to wake up on Halloween.
4:30 AM
Groovie Goolies
Episode 1, “Monster Cookbook.”
Filmation monsters, haunted castle, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, music, comedy. This should be the centerpiece of the morning because it feels like Halloween from the opening theme onward.
5:00 AM
Groovie Goolies
“Witches Brew.”
Keeps the Halloween atmosphere going with witches, classic monsters, and haunted castle comedy.
5:30 AM
The Funky Phantom
“Heir Scare.”
Scooby-Doo style mystery with a Revolutionary War ghost and haunted mansion.
6:00 AM
The Funky Phantom
“I’ll Haunt You Later.”
Another haunted mystery with ghosts and spooky comedy.
6:30 AM
The Funky Phantom
“The Headless Horseman.”
One of the show’s best Halloween episodes and an ideal lead-in to the rest of the day.
7:00 AM
Toon In With Me Halloween Boo Bash.
Classic Halloween cartoons, vintage commercials, and spooky animated shorts.
9:00 AM
House of Svengoolie Cartoon Boo-nanza.
Svengoolie-hosted monster cartoons and Halloween bumpers. This also begins transitioning viewers toward the afternoon monster programming.
11:00 AM
The Monkees
“I Was a Teenage Monster.”
Mad scientist. Frankenstein-inspired monster. This is the perfect episode to launch the Monkees marathon.
11:30 AM
The Monkees
“Monkee See, Monkee Die.”
Haunted mansion, mysterious inheritance, secret passages, and classic old dark house comedy.
12:00 PM
The Monkees
“Monkees in a Ghost Town.”
Ghost town adventure featuring Lon Chaney Jr. It blends westerns and classic horror beautifully.
12:30 PM
The Monkees
“Monkees Watch Their Feet.”
Aliens replace Micky with a robotic duplicate. One of the series’ best science-fiction episodes.
1:00 PM
The Monkees
“Monstrous Monkee Mash.”
The centerpiece of Monkeyween.
Count Batula attempts to transform Davy Jones into a vampire. This is the episode the entire event builds toward.
1:30 PM
The Monkees
“The Monkee’s Paw.”
A cursed-object story inspired by classic supernatural literature.
2:00 PM
The Monkees
“The Devil and Peter Tork.”
Faustian bargain, supernatural themes, and one of the show’s most unusual episodes.
2:30 PM
The Monkees
“Monkees Mind Their Manor.”
Another gothic manor-house adventure that keeps the spooky momentum going.
3:00 PM
The Monkees
“Monkees Blow Their Minds.”
Hypnosis, psychic influence, and mind-control comedy. The show begins shifting from monsters toward surrealism.
3:30 PM
The Monkees
“The Frodis Caper.”
The final episode of the series. Television manipulation, media satire, psychedelic imagery, and paranoia. It’s the perfect bridge into Head.
4:00 PM
Gidget
“Like Voodoo.”
Fortune tellers, curses, and beach-party superstition. This begins a fun look at how 1960s sitcoms occasionally wandered into horror territory.
4:30 PM
Gidget
“Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat.”
Teen mystery and light suspense before the evening block.
5:00 PM
Gilligan’s Island.
A ghost, voodoo, or haunted-island themed episode.
5:30 PM
The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, or Donna Reed.
Any Halloween or supernatural-themed episode that continues the lighthearted mood.
6:00 PM
Bewitched.
A Halloween-themed episode. Samantha is practically required viewing for Halloween.
6:30 PM
The Addams Family.
“Halloween with the Addams Family.”
The perfect transition into Svengoolie.
7:00 PM
Svengoolie introduction.
Instead of presenting a traditional monster movie, Svengoolie explains why Head has become one of the strangest cult films of the 1960s. Although not horror in the traditional sense, it is surreal, unsettling, dreamlike, psychologically disorienting, and fits perfectly as the climax of a Monkees Halloween celebration.
8:00 PM
Svengoolie Presents…
HEAD (1968)
Viewed through a Halloween lens, Head becomes psychological horror. Identity dissolves. Television traps reality. War, execution, dream logic, black boxes, and media manipulation create one of the most bizarre films of its era. It serves as the perfect culmination of a day that begins with cartoon monsters and gradually descends into increasingly strange and surreal television.
9:45 PM
“The Making of Monkeyween.”
A short featurette exploring the Monkees’ connection to horror, psychedelia, and the explosion of supernatural television during the late 1960s. This could include clips, interviews, vintage commercials, and music videos.
10:00 PM
The Wild Wild West.
“The Night of the Undead.”
Zombies, voodoo, mad science, and classic pulp adventure.
11:00 PM
The Wild Wild West.
“The Night of the Egyptian Queen.”
Ancient curses, Egyptian mythology, stolen artifacts, and gothic atmosphere.
12:00 AM
Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
“The Zombie” or “Horror in the Heights.”
The tone now shifts completely into genuine television horror.
1:00 AM
The Twilight Zone.
“The Masks.”
A morality play disguised as horror. One of Rod Serling’s finest episodes.
1:30 AM
The Twilight Zone.
“The Howling Man.”
The Devil himself, trapped in a monastery. Perfect late-night viewing.
2:00 AM
One Step Beyond or Thriller.
A supernatural classic that carries viewers into the witching hour.
2:30 AM
Encore presentation of The Monkees:
“Monstrous Monkee Mash.”
Finish exactly where the event began, with Count Batula, vampire Davy Jones, and one final reminder that Halloween is supposed to be fun.
Tagline:
“From Saturday morning monsters to midnight nightmares, spend Halloween with the Monkees. Welcome to MONKEYWEEN.”