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 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),