The Monkees 1966 1968 Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid 1960s LA, members of a struggling country folk rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TVmovie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series The real life young men occasionally discuss off camera matters with their producer, Robert Rafelson, at the end of episodes, and perform a litany engaging country folk rock songs each week