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Do you remember the time when Michael Jackson resembled something more like a human and less like a prop from “Men in Black II”?

Dateline does. The NBC news magazine will show audiences the clay-by-clay of Jacko’s surgical transformation in a special edition set to air at 9 p.m. Feb. 17. “Michael Jackson Unmasked” will give viewers the “inside story as told by some of the people who knew him best,” according to a network statement.

The 44-year-old King of Pop has made headlines for bizarre behavior–not the least of which has been his metamorphosis: lightened skin tone, shrunken nose and what appears to be permanent mascara and lip coloring.

And that fake stubble that shows up periodically. What is that, a fright-o-clock shadow?