The Monkees (TV series) project by his agent. Englishman Davy Jones was a former jockey who had achieved some initial success on the musical stage, appearing with the cast of "Oliver!" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the night of the Beatles' live American debut. He was appearing in Columbia Pictures productions and recording for the Colpix record label and had been identified in advance as a potential star for the series. Texan Michael Nesmith's mother Bette Nesmith Graham had invented a correction fluid and founded the company that became Liquid Paper. He had served a brief stint in the U.S. Air Force and had
Typewriter in the Sky and won reader polls at the time." In his biography of the author, "Bare-Faced Messiah" (1987), Russell Miller characterized "Typewriter in the Sky" as one of Hubbard's works which "would come to be regarded as classics", along with "Fear" and "Final Blackout". In a biography of Hubbard written by Kent State University professor Donald M. Hassler in "The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" (1988), he noted, ""Typewriter in the Sky" (1940/1951), which anticipates plot gimmicks now popular among experimental metafictionists, ought to be taken seriously by the critics who will evaluate his strange genius". In a review upon the 1995