"Find the Monkees" gives us a look at other out-of-work rock groups besides our own, all hoping to star in a new TV show from producer Hubbell Bensen, played in scene stealing fashion by Carl Ballantine. The Four Martians, The Foreign Agents, and The Jolly Green Giants all received invitations to audition for Bensen, so The Monkees, left out in the cold, have to scramble to make themselves heard. Meanwhile, Bensen's secretary (Bobo Lewis) has rented a tape machine to use in place of a Dictaphone, which just happens to have The Monkees' last recording still on it; this is the sound and the group that Bensen wants, and never the twain shall meet. Joe Higgins, who played the security guard in the original pilot, has some funny business as Bensen's masseur, and Art Lewis heads up the missing persons bureau (can't even find a pencil), but nobody can top funnyman Ballantine (there's even a mention of Annette Funicello, who later appears in The Monkees' 1968 movie "Head"). Three Michael Nesmith songs featured from previous episodes: "Sweet Young Thing" (second appearance), "Papa Gene's Blues" (third appearance), and "Mary, Mary" (second appearance, on the tape machine). Broadcast no. 19 (Jan 23 1967), "Find the Monkees" was 15th in production, filmed Sept 23-27 1966 (director Richard Nunis died of cancer two months before its Jan 23 airing).
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