After the series was cancelled, the Monkees made a movie called Head. It was produced by the show's creators Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider along with Jack Nicholson. You read that right...Jack Nicholson. Dean was an extra and stuntman. Click on the pictures below to view his various scenes. The ladder stunt was a favorite of Dean's.

There's an interesting story with the hard hat that he wore for that stunt. You'll notice the red and white checker pattern. Dean had a prop man decorate the helmet from the pattern that was on Damon Runyon's typewriter case. It was Dean's quiet salute to his favorite writer.

Below you'll see a couple of pictures that came from the liner notes book of the Monkees CD box set. The captions explain the reason for each picture.

For the song Daydream Believer the Monkees were on the hunt for some great horn players. The story goes that Dean gave producer Chip Douglas a few numbers out of his address book. These phone numbers just happened to belong to some of the top jazz musicians of the day. Two of the guys that wound up on the record were Shorty Rogers (who also arranged the song) and Pete Candoli. Dean, Pete, and Shorty became friends when Dean interviewed each of them for Girlie-Q magazine. Shorty and Pete also appeared on the King Bennett - To Be or Not to Be album (see that section of the web page for more details). Shorty eventually would do future arranging and session work for the Monkees as would Pete and his brother, Conte.

To thank Dean for turning them on to these great musicians the Monkees decided to do an episode based in Las Vegas. On December 11, 1967 NBC aired The Monkees on the Wheel. Dean was asked to write the episode, but a scheduling conflict prevented him from doing that. He did however make a cameo appearance in a casino scene. Micky walks up to Dean at a craps table and says, "Hey, have you seen Peter?". Dean then replies, "No, but if he's missing I know a good detective that can find him." (insert canned laughter) Unfortunately, I don't have a tape of that episode to show you some still frames. Sorry.

Micky was talking to Dean one day on the phone and mentioned that they were trying to promote their new single, Someday Man, with some TV appearances. After they hung up Dean called his old Rat Pack buddy, Joey Bishop, who currently had a late night talk show on ABC. Joey had the Monkees booked on his show within a week. Dean himself made five appearances on Joey's show during its two and a half year run.