IVIV (1) Wolfmann context: "Davy becomes Dracula and Micky the Wolfman "

[Doug Millison]

Apologies if this has been mentioned, I didn't take the time to go  
back and check the archives.

http://www.daydreambelievin.com/episode50.html

The Monstrous Monkee Mash
Written by Neil Burnstyn&David Panich
Directed by James Frawley
Produced by Ward Sylvester
Song: “Goin’ Down” by Diane Hilderbrand, Michael Nesmith, Micky  
Dolenz, David Jones&Peter Tork

Guest Appearances
The Count                                          Ron Masak
Lorlei                                            Arlene Martel
The Wolfman                                   David Pearl

Premiered on January 22, 1968

Summary


In this episode spoof of horror films, Davy is lured by his new  
girlfriend Lorlei to her Uncle Count Dracula’s castle near the swamp  
on a thunderous night.  While there, Davy becomes spooked by some of  
the surroundings including a moving armor, a painting of Count Dracula  
on the wall (which is really the Count standing behind a blank picture  
frame) and bat-type lamp and tries to exit.  Lorlei manages to  
persuade him to give her a kiss and ends up freezing him with a magic  
necklace she places on him.  Soon the Count decides that Davy is the  
perfect specimen for Dracula reborn.

Meanwhile back at the Monkees’s pad, the guys are worried since Davy  
isn’t back yet so Mike calls at the castle but when he receives the  
Counts creepy laughter on the phone, he’s convinced that Davy is in  
trouble and needs their help.  At the castle, Dracula starts training  
Davy on how to a vampire by having him drink tomato juice as blood and  
flying lessions with a vampire's cape.  Mike, Micky and Peter arrive  
at the castle to rescue where the Count welcomes them inside but Micky  
is reluctant until Lorlei welcomes them in. They bring to the library  
where they him the guys that Davy went into town and should be back  
before excusing themselves.  The guys start to get spooked by their  
surroundings too while The Count and Lorlei observe and take notes  
behind the picture frame on the wall.  Then Count Dracula decides that  
Peter’s brain would be perfect for the monster since he doesn’t have a  
thought at all.  Mike reads a book about vampires and they notice the  
picture of the vampire in the book resembles the Count and they  
realize that the Count and Lorlei are vampires.  Then Mike and Micky  
search for Davy while Peter remains behind.

Davy is chained to a wall in the celler as he tries to turn the  
Wolfman against the Count by accusing him of keeping the Wolfman in  
the basement all the time, not giving him second billings in the  
pictures they’ve made together and exploiting him.  When the Wolfman  
prepares to pounce on Lorlei, Davy informs her that the Wolfman wants  
a better percentage of the profits, cookouts on weekends and to right  
to make his own music and Lorlei agrees to the deal.  Later, Lorliei  
seduces Peter in the library into kissing her freezing him with the  
magic necklace like she did with Davy.  The Wolfman enters and  
attempts to carry Peter off but is stopped by the Count who manages to  
distract him with hotdogs. Then the Count and Lorlei take a frozen  
Peter ot the lab.  Mike and Micky continue to search for Davy when  
they  briefly encounter the Mummy.  Micky is still spooked by their  
surroundings and is ready to leave but Mike insists on finding Davy  
and they head back to the library where they discover Peter is gone.

Mike and Micky continue their search and neither of them notices that  
the Wolfman is behind them.  Soon Mike finds a secret passageway and  
enters it but Micky doesn’t follow him in and when he spots the  
Wolfman, he runs back to the library and barricades himself in with  
furniture where he encounters Lorlei.  Just like with Davy and Peter,  
she uses the magic necklace on him after kissing him and promises the  
Wolfman that Micky is for him but Wolfman only eats a banana instead.   
Mike finds himself in the cellar but he becomes scared when he  
realizes that Micky is not behind him.  He’s further scared when the  
comes across the Mummy in his tomb and heads back upstairs and into  
the library where he hides from the Count and Lorlei behind the  
picture frame in the wall.  The he takes notes as the Count makes his  
plans to switch Peter’s brain with the monster at the height of the  
full moon at midnight.

Meanwhile, both Davy and Micky are now chained to the wall in the  
dungeon as they fret about becoming a vampire and a werewolf.  In a  
fantasy sequence, Davy becomes Dracula and Micky the Wolfman but their  
fantasy is interrupted by the Count.  They explain to him about the  
fantasy sequences they do but the Count informs them that he controls  
everything now including their fantasies and to their shock they  
really have become a vampire and a wolfman when they can't take their  
makeup off.  The Count orders the Wolfman to chain them back up as he  
and Lorlei prepare for the operation on Peter.  Mike makes it to the  
cellar and  hides in the Mummy’s tomb with the Mummy at soundof the  
Count.  The vampires and the Wolfman drag two stretchers of Peter and  
the monster covered with white sheets preparing for the operation.   
Mike switches wardrobes with the Mummy and arrives as his assistant  
and manages to trick the Count, snatching the stretcher right under  
his nose and takes off.  Then Mike frees Werewolf Micky and Vampire  
Davy.  When the Count realizes he’s been duped, he decides to use mind  
control on the guys which makes Micky try to bite Mike’s hand and Davy  
bite his neck.  The Count and Lorlei then discover that Mike took the  
wrong body since they have Peter while the Monkees have the monster  
and they realize they can still bring him back to life by using the  
energizer switch.  Soon to the song “Goin’ Down”, there’s a wild chase  
as the Monkees fight off Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dracula and the  
Mummy and eventually defeat them all.

Back in the library, Mike reads in the book that if the monsters are  
defeated they can’t return for a thousand years.  They are all  
relieved that they’re no more monsters until the book starts flying in  
space which spooks Peter thinking it’s the Invisible Man.  Mike  
explains it’s just special effects with a wire holding the book up and  
shows him by using scissors to cut the wire making the book flip.   
Davy uses the scissors as well and manages to cut the wire causing the  
book to drop on Peter’s foot.


Trivia Notes

This episode is the second one to be a spoof of horror films,
the first being “I Was A Teenage Monster”.

This episode was the first screen credit for Monkees stand-in
David Pearl (The Wolfman) despite making many appearances
in the series.

The girl walking past Dracula Davy and Werewolf Micky is actress
Valerie Kairys who has made numerous appearances on the Monkees
series previously.

Actor Ron Masak (Count Dracula) appeared as Charlie Wilson in the
1973 ABC comedy sitcom “Love Thy Neighbor” and later as Sheriff
Mort Metzger CBS “Murder She Wrote”.

Director James Frawley’s voice is heard when he gives Micky directions
on how to hive a frightened shout and is the voice of the flying bat.

During the fantasy sequence, Davy mistakenly calls out for Jack  
Williams,
the property man when he should have called out for Keeva Johnson, the
makeup artist.

The Monkees first recording session for their fifth album “The Birds,  
The Bees
And The Monkees” took place on the evening of the first shooting of this
episode.

During the CBS November 14, 1970 and March 11, 1972 repeats of this  
episode,
the song "Goin' Down" was replaced by "Bye Bye, Baby, Bye Bye" by Micky
Dolenz and Richard Klein.