Too Many Girls

In one scene Nesmith is playing a 12 string guitar with only 6 strings.

"Too Many Girls" takes the notion of Davy's being irresistible to girls to its logical extreme, as an ambitious stage mother (Reta Shaw) believes he can help her daughter (Kelly Jean Peters) succeed on Mr. Hack's Amateur Hour. The first scene has the band actually playing "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," but after a few seconds it comes to a halt because Davy is entranced by every girl he sees. Kelly Jean Peters is probably best remembered as Dustin Hoffman's Swedish wife in 1970's "Little Big Man," very adept at hysterics. The Amateur Hour features good turns from Peter (as magician 'The Astonishing Pietro'), Micky (impressionist 'Locksley Mendoza'), and Mike (folk singer 'Billy Roy Hodstetter'), the latter doing an impromptu rendition of his own composition, "Different Drum," soon to be a hit for Linda Ronstadt's Stone Poneys. The lone track featured has the group solidly miming a performance of Neil Diamond's "I'm a Believer" (its third straight appearance), Micky singing behind his drum kit, Peter on organ, Davy on tambourine, Nesmith on guitar. Broadcast no. 15 (Dec 19 1966), "Too Many Girls" was 14th in production, filmed Sept 20-22.