31 Still Popular in the 70's from How the Monkees Changed Television

from Rosanne Welch (http://rosannewelch.com) Rosanne Welch, Ph.D., Author of Why The Monkees Matter (http://amzn.to/1YQCstZ), presents "How The Monkees Changed Television" at a Cal State Fullerton Lunch Lecture on May 8, 2018. In this talk, she shows how The Monkees, and specifically their presence on television, set the stage for large changes to come in the late 1960s. Transcript: In the 70s they're still selling 16 magazine. They're still front page worthy material right? The show's been off the air for a few years. You can buy a Honeycomb cereal and get the record on the back and you cut the record out and put it on your turntable and it played. It was a plastic over the cardboard and you could play a record that you know that was your free gift on your cereal. Sgain in the 70s based on their reruns Saturday morning. In the 80s MTV ran a marathon and brought them back in their 20th anniversary. It was a one weekend. It was called Pleasant Valley weekend and Rachel Maddow interviewed Peter Tork after Davy Jones died and she said to him "I learned what it was like to be a kid in the 60s from watching those reruns when I was a kid in the 80s." and he couldn't believe that she even knew who he was. So even in the 80s now they're coming to a new group. About Rosanne Welch, PhD Rosanne Welch, Ph.D. is a writer, producer and university professor with credits that include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, Touched by an Angel and ABC NEWS/Nightline. Other books include Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture (McFarland, 2017) and Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection (ABC-CLIO, 2017), named to the 2018 Outstanding References Sources List, by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association. Welch has also published chapters in Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television (I.B.Tauris) and The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color (Lexington Books, 2018) and essays in Doctor Who and Race: An Anthology and Outside In Makes it So, and Outside in Boldly Goes (both edited by Robert Smith). By day she teaches courses on the history of screenwriting and on television writing for the Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting programs. Her talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room” at the 2016 TEDxCPP can be viewed at    • A Female Voice in the Room | Rosanne Welch...  .