33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee Monkees through various stages of evolution until they are ready to brainwash the world via commercial exploitation. Trapped in giant test tubes, the four are stripped of all personal identity and names: Micky Dolenz becomes Monkee #1, Peter Tork becomes Monkee #2, Michael Nesmith Monkee #3, and Davy Jones Monkee #4. Each Monkee (under Driscoll's watch) attempts to regain their stripped personal identities by thinking a way out of captivity into their own world of fantasies. Monkee #1 (Dolenz) performs an R&B up-tempo duet remake of "I'm a Believer" with Driscoll; Monkee #2 (Tork) reclines on a giant cushion in
Typewriter in the Sky Weekly" posited that the book's author Fredric Brown may have been influenced by Hubbard's story. Umberto Rossi wrote in "The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick" (2011) that writer Philip K. Dick was likely influenced by "Typewriter in the Sky". Rossi noted "Typewriter in the Sky" came out in a paperback format in 1951, and a year later Dick succeeded in getting his first short story, the tale "Beyond Lies the Wub" published. Rossi said "Typewriter in the Sky" was "the text that admittedly inspired" "The Cosmic Puppets" (1957) by Philip K. Dick. In the book "Harlan Ellison's Watching" (1989),