Retro Rewind TV: Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees! Since it is the holiday season and we're all celebrating, I thought I'd pull out this clip from the Monkees TV show...the original one, not the terrible reboot from the late 80s. Although the Monkees started out at the beginning of GenX in the late 60s, all of us real 80s kids grew up watching the show as youngsters in the 70s and then all through the 80s in reruns. I mean, the younger generations don't realize that GenX and 80s kids grew up on reruns