Blu Ray
The Complete Series

The original release date was January 29, then pushed back to April 29,
then June 27 and finally released on July 8.

Some people reported that the inner packaging was damaged
and/or the lenticular cover was detached (mine was). Rhino offered to replace damaged cases
and mailed out replacement boxes in the Fall of 2016. Rhino then went back and replaced the inner
packaging with a redesigned configuration better designed to hold the discs in place.

 

The booklet has a brief introduction to each episode,
however there are no liner notes. The set features exclusive packaging
and a 7 inch record with two previously unreleased TV mixes.

My set is 8200/10,000.
Check the back of the booklet for your number.

 

BD2-552705
July 8, 2016
$199.95

 

Blu Rays:

 

Bonus Single:

More info on this single here

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The ongoing saga of these sets

 

July 8, 2016

John Hughes on Facebook:

"What we know: Looks like the boxes may be damaged during shipping. the weight of the 10 discs may be causing the sides of the box to rip when jostled side to side during transport. We hear you and we are working on a plan to make any damages right. Please be patient with us for the next couple weeks while we work this out..."

 

November 18, 2017

Andrew had this to say on the Hoffman Music Forums:

"I will address a couple of Blu-Ray issues now that some time has passed:

 1) The Jerry Lee Lewis part [From the 33 1/3 TV Special] was excised because the publishing of the song was in dispute between two parties (neither of them Sony or Rhino). I suggested that Rhino put the money is escrow until the dispute between these parties was resolved, but they countered that they were opening themselves up to a lawsuit - which is true. They said either take the TV special off the box, or edit out the few seconds of that song. When I explained that the special was essential and so was this song...it was a legal issue that I had no control over.

 2) Rhino had good intentions about including the repeat songs in the set, but they assumed they could just dub in the tracks from the stereo album masters. When I explained that the mixes and edits were unique, and we could only do this if the material was found through Sony, we went back to Sony and there was no willingness on their part to allow us to review every source they had to find these or if they even still had them. FYI - the rerun versions are not labelled, which is why they randomly showed up in syndication and on the Japanese laser disc. Frankly, Sony only had one obligation: that was to deliver to Rhino the 58 shows with original music selections. Sony owns the rights to syndicate the shows and with such a small number of episodes, their chances of making back the money of their restoration are slim. Each show cost about $5000 to transfer and that was before clearances of the songs.

 Every additional song from the reruns required a new publishing clearance, and that was something that Rhino did not understand from the outset. We had many calls and discussions about this - the more I drilled down into the details of the 1969/70 reruns with the people at Rhino & Sony......Sony didn't have the hours to deal with these requests, they were on a deadline to deliver the HD versions of the show. Rhino's business and publishing people had no idea from the outset what the myriad of variations were in this property - this was one of dozens of projects they had to clear and they had to chose their battles.

 They did generously allow me to transfer my personal 35mm's of the rerun songs and Ed Reilly also loaned me all of his 16mm film reels - neither of us were paid to do this. We did this to preserve what we could of the show. I also purchased other film outtakes and donated them to the project - I was happy to see these legitimately and professionally presented. That was payment enough.

 3) The packaging: I had no involvement in the design or concept of the packaging. My main goal was getting Sony & Rhino to agree to the investment on restoring the show which was about $250k - that took several years. I know for $200 you expected more, Rhino owed you fixed boxes, I hope everyone got them."

 

March 15, 2019

No longer for sale at Monkees.com, however Andrew has confirmed that these
are in fact NOT sold out. Rhino only sold through the assembled box sets and
it is a money/labor issue why the others have not been put together and offered for sale.

April 22, 2020

Andrew had this to say on eBay in one of his listings:

"Only a few thousand of these sets were released to the public via Rhino mail order
and on tour. People always ask me when they will be available again
and I will tell you the absolute truth: I do not know and I am kinda doubting
with the world in lockdown it will happen at all. I have asked Rhino and they say they
can no longer find the unassembled parts for these."

April 2022

They are back in stock at Monkees.com but there are issues with some of the booklets
having duplicate and/or missing pages. After a brief time of being available Rhino
removed them from the site; presumably to correct these issues.

 

November 26, 2022

Once again, back in stock:

Rhino Email

 

December 10, 2022

John Hughes on Facebook:

"These parts (the discs, the booklets, etc.) were printed to make 10K full units
when assembled. Some parts were lost in a warehouse move [2019], then found.
Since then, Rhino has been assembling units - this is the remaining set."