Video: 'The Monkees - "Here Come The Monkees" (Broadcast Pilot) [Full Episode]' (Oct. 7, 1965, at 21:33)

(Thursday, October 7, 1965) — Michael Nesmith, who answered a Screen Gems advertisement seeking “Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series” that would eventually become The Monkees, auditioned today on the set of The Farmers Daughter TV show.

A clip of the screen test would eventually air on the episode “Here Come the Monkees (Pilot)” on Nov. 14, 1966.

Video: 'Monkees Screen Tests'