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American TV sitcom

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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Also known equally	Dobie Gillis (seasons 2–3) Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis (flavor 4)
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Max Shulman
Based on	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf by Max Shulman
Directed by	Rod Amateau Stanley Z. Cherry David Davis Robert Gordon Tom Montgomery Ralph Murphy
Starring	Dwayne Hickman Frank Faylen Florida Friebus Bob Denver
Theme music composer	Lionel Newman Max Shulman
Opening theme	"Dobie", performed past Judd Conlon's Rhythmaires (season 1–2) "Dobie" (Instrumental) (seasons 3–4)
Catastrophe theme	"Dobie", performed past Judd Conlon's Rhythmaires (seasons ane–two) "Dobie" (Instrumental) (seasons 3–4)
Composer	Lionel Newman
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	four
No. of episodes	147 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Martin Manulis
Producer	Rod Amateau
Production location	20th Century Trick Studios – Hollywood, California
Cinematography	James Van Copse
Editors	Johnny Ehrin Willard Nico Robert Moore
Camera setup	Single-camera setup
Running fourth dimension	26 min
Production companies	20th Century-Fox Idiot box Martin Manulis Productions (1959–1961) (seasons 1–2) Marman Productions (1961–1963) (seasons 3–4)
Distributor	20th Century-Fox Television set
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	Black and white, film
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 29, 1959 (1959-09-29) – June 5, 1963 (1963-06-05)
Chronology
Preceded by	The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
Followed by	Zelda (1962, airplane pilot) Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis (1978, airplane pilot) Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988, telefilm)

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (as well known as simply Dobie Gillis or Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis in later seasons and in syndication) is an American sitcom starring Dwayne Hickman that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963. The series was adapted from the "Dobie Gillis" short stories written by Max Shulman since 1945, and start collected in 1951 under the same title as the subsequent Tv set serial, which drew directly on the stories in some scripts. Shulman likewise wrote a feature-film accommodation of his "Dobie Gillis" stories for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953, titled The Diplomacy of Dobie Gillis, which featured Bobby Van in the title role.

Hickman in Dobie Gillis was one of amongst the first leads to play a teenager on an American telly program.^[ane] Dobie Gillis broke footing by depicting elements of the electric current counterculture, specially the Crush Generation, primarily embodied in a stereotypical version of the "beatnik".^[2] ^[3] Serial star Dwayne Hickman later said that Dobie represented "the cease of innocence of the 1950s before the oncoming 1960s revolution".^[ii]

Overview [edit]

Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs [edit]

Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman, left), Maynard 1000. Krebs (Bob Denver, right), and one of Dobie's "many loves", Yvette LeBlanc (Danielle De Metz), in a nevertheless from the Dobie Gillis episode "Parlez-Vous English", originally aired December 27, 1960

The series revolved around teenager Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman), who aspired to take popularity, money, and the attention of beautiful and unattainable girls.^[1] He did not have any of these qualities in abundance, and the tiny crises surrounding Dobie's lack of success fabricated the story in each weekly episode. Also constantly in question, by Dobie and others, was Dobie's future, as the male child proved to exist a poor student and an aimless drifter.

His sidekick and de facto all-time friend was American television's showtime crackpot, Maynard M. Krebs (Bob Denver), who became the series' breakout character. An enthusiastic fan of jazz music (with a potent distaste for the music of Lawrence Welk), Maynard plays the bongos, collects tinfoil and petrified frogs, and steers clear of romance, authority figures, and work (yelping "Work?!" every time he hears the word). Always speaking with the colloquial and slang of the beatniks and jazz musicians he admired, Maynard punctuates his sentences with the word "like" and has a tendency towards malapropisms. The main running gag on Dobie Gillis would have Dobie or one of the other characters rattling off a series of adjectives describing something undesirable or disgusting ("I'd exist a ragged, useless, dirty wreck!"), at which point a previously unseen Maynard would appear (entering the scene in close-upwardly), saying "You rang?"

Dobie Gillis is set in Central City, a fictitious urban center in the Midwestern United states of america (the original curt stories are explicitly set in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul expanse). One of the show's running gags is the reference, especially past Maynard, to a flick chosen The Monster that Devoured Cleveland and its sequels, 1 of which ever seems to exist playing at the local cinema.

Supporting characters [edit]

Dobie's often apoplectic father, Herbert T. Gillis (Frank Faylen), owned a grocery store and was simply happy when Dobie was behind a broom. Dobie'southward female parent, Winifred (Florida Friebus), was a usually calm and serene woman who protected Dobie to the best of her ability and tended to babe him. Herbert Gillis, a proud, hard-working child of the Cracking Depression and Globe War Two veteran, was often (during the first season of the evidence) heard to declare, in relation to Dobie, "I gotta impale that boy, I just gotta!" The Gillis family also originally included an older son, Davey Gillis (portrayed by Dwayne Hickman'southward own older brother, Darryl Hickman), who fabricated three appearances during the beginning season while home on suspension from higher before beingness written out of the prove.^[iv]

Dobie'southward two main antagonists were rich kids Milton Armitage (played past Warren Beatty), who appeared in five episodes, and after Beatty's departure, Chatsworth Osborne Jr., Milton's cousin (played by Steve Franken). Both characters represented the wealth and popularity to which Dobie aspired, simply also served every bit romantic and competitive rivals for Dobie. Beatty'southward Milton was taller, better looking, and more than able-bodied than Chatsworth. Doris Packer played Clarissa Osborne, Chatsworth'south overbearing and snobbish mother.

Dobie was hopelessly attracted to the beautiful but greedy blonde Thalia Menninger (Tuesday Weld). Thalia was written out of the series after the first season and was succeeded by a seemingly countless stream of women for whom Dobie hankered. Weld returned as a slightly wiser Thalia for 2 guest appearances in seasons 3 and four.

Zelda Gilroy (Sheila James) was a brilliant and eager young girl, hopelessly in dearest with Dobie, much to his annoyance. Zelda did non notice Dobie particularly attractive, but fell in honey with him because she found him helpless and needing of her care, and too because of the concept of "propinquity" (or nearness; as Gillis and Gilroy, they were typically seated together in class).^[three] Despite his protests, Dobie was clearly addicted of Zelda, and Zelda claimed Dobie loved her, but but had not realized it withal. To show this, she would wrinkle her nose at Dobie, who would reflexively do the aforementioned back to Zelda and then protest "at present cut that out!" Dobie and Zelda later on appeared as a middle-aged married couple in the two spin-off Dobie Gillis reunion projects of the 1970s/1980s.

Leander Pomfritt (Herbert Anderson in the pilot, William Schallert thereafter) was Dobie's English and scientific discipline teacher at Central High School, and subsequently, when Dobie went to S. Peter Pryor Inferior College, Pomfritt (played by Schallert) was on the faculty at that place, too. A stern educator fond of deadpan quips, Pomfritt referred to his pupils as "my immature barbarians" and served as a father effigy to both Dobie and Maynard.

Format [edit]

Maynard was non prepared to give up his bristles later on entering the army. Bob Denver and Kaye Elhardt are featured in this however from the Dobie Gillis episode "The Ballad of Maynard's Beard", originally aired April 18, 1961.

Most of the activeness for the first season-and-a-half of Dobie Gillis centered on the Gillis grocery shop, Central Loftier School, and the Central City park. The park scenes are used as the show'south framing device, with Dobie sitting on a park bench in front of a reproduction of Auguste Rodin'due south statue The Thinker. Breaking the quaternary wall, he would explicate to the viewing audition his problem of the calendar week, usually girls or coin (in the earliest episodes, Dobie is seen emulating the trademark pose of The Thinker – head planted on fist in deep contemplation – earlier turning and acknowledging the camera).^[iv]

The teen characters graduated from high school halfway through the second season, and Dobie and Maynard (along with Chatsworth) subsequently did a cursory stint in the U.Southward. Regular army.^[4] Dobie continued to interruption the fourth wall and characterize the episodes, with the park prepare eschewed for an abstruse set with the same reproduction of The Thinker.

At the start of the third season, Dobie and Maynard received their Ground forces discharges, after which they, Zelda, and Chatsworth enroll in South. Peter Pryor Junior College, where Mr. Pomfritt was at present a professor after having resigned from his position at Cardinal High. Dobie's science and history teacher at the college was Dr. Imogene Burkhart (Jean Byron, whose existent proper noun was used for that of the character). In season four, Dobie'due south teenaged cousin Duncan "Dunky" Gillis (Bobby Diamond) moves in with the Gillises, and becomes something of a tag-along for Dobie and Maynard. The quaternary-season episodes tended more towards surreal plots and situations featuring Maynard equally the cardinal character rather than Dobie.^[5]

Cast [edit]

Principal [edit]

Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis is a groomed teenager (later young adult) and unremarkable educatee whose young heart finds poetry and literature resonant. He aspires to have dates with all of the cute girls he pursues, despite the pressures of home life, high school, and afterwards the military machine and college. Dobie also serves every bit the series narrator, relating his observations to the audition from in front of a statue of Rodin'south The Thinker.
Frank Faylen equally Herbert T. Gillis, Dobie's quondam-fashioned, short-tempered, and gruff father who runs a small contained grocery store.
Florida Friebus as Winifred "Winnie" Gillis is Dobie'due south adoring mother, who tends to baby her son and critique her husband's parenting skills.
Bob Denver equally Maynard One thousand. Krebs is Dobie's lazy and somewhat goofy best friend. Maynard is a would-be crackpot who shuns romance, authority figures, and work. Like Dobie does later, Maynard briefly joins the Army in season two betwixt his high-school graduation and enrollment in higher.

Semiregulars [edit]

Tuesday Weld equally Thalia Menninger (season one) is a beautiful high-school classmate of Dobie'southward. Thalia is simply willing to appointment Dobie when he has money or helps her in her schemes to make some for herself (with a father in poor health and a sister who married a layabout, Thalia sees information technology every bit her duty to bring some coin into the family; she acknowledges that were this not a cistron, she would date Dobie).^[6] Weld departed the serial subsequently the first season, later on returning to make two guest appearances, as a somewhat chastened Thalia, once in season 3 and once in flavor four.
Warren Beatty equally Milton Armitage (flavor i) is a rich jock at Dobie's high school and a rival of Dobie'south for Thalia's affections. Beatty quit the series midway through the showtime season.
Sheila James equally Zelda Gilroy is the smartest girl in Dobie'south loftier schoolhouse and college. Zelda is in love with the uninterested Dobie and schemes ways to get him to date and marry her.
Steve Franken equally Chatsworth Osborne, Jr., is a spoiled rich boy and a classmate of Dobie'south in loftier schoolhouse and college. Chatsworth assumed the role left vacant by the departure of Milton from the serial. Like Dobie, Chatsworth likewise briefly joins the Army in season two between his high-schoolhouse graduation and enrollment in higher.
William Schallert as Professor Leander Pomfritt is a dry-wit English language and scientific discipline teacher at Dobie's loftier school and later one of Dobie's college professors at S. Peter Pryor Junior Higher (seasons i-three). Herbert Anderson plays Mr. Pomfritt in the pilot episode.
Jean Byron as Mrs. Ruth Adams is Dobie's math instructor in high school (flavor one), and as Dr. Imogene Burkhart, is 1 of Dobie'due south professors at S. Peter Pryor Junior College. (seasons iii and iv). I of the series' inside jokes was that Jean Byron'due south birth name was Imogene Audette Burkhart.
Doris Packer every bit Mrs. Clarice Armitage is Milton's female parent, a rich and eccentric socialite. She shifted to Mrs. Clarissa Osborne (Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.'due south female parent) when Franken replaced Beatty midway through season 1. She has disdain for anyone outside her social class and considers all boys, including her own son, equally "nasty".

Notable recurring roles [edit]

Darryl Hickman equally Davey Gillis (flavour one) is Dobie'due south older brother, a higher student no more responsible and no less girl-crazy than Dobie. Davey was written out of the serial afterwards season ane and Dobie is regarded every bit an only child thereafter.
Michael J. Pollard as Jerome Krebs (season i) is Maynard'south cousin, also a beatnik. Jerome was intended as a replacement for Maynard when Bob Denver was drafted in mid-1959, and was written out of the show after Denver failed his Ground forces physical and returned to the serial.
Marjorie Bennett as Blossom Kenney (seasons one and two) is a frequent and persnickety client of the Gillises' grocery store.
Tommy Farrell as Riff Ryan (seasons one and ii) is a beatnik record-store and java-house proprietor who serves as something of a reluctant mentor for Maynard.
Lynn Loring equally Edwina "Eddie" Kegel (season three) is Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.'s beatnik cousin.
Raymond Bailey as Dean McGruder (seasons 3 and four) is the caput of S. Peter Pryor Junior College.

Episodes [edit]

Product [edit]

Max Shulman'south first Dobie Gillis brusk stories were printed in 1945, and a brusk-story compilation, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, was published in 1951.^[8] These stories were originally published in such magazines equally Cosmopolitan and The Saturday Evening Post.

A follow-upwardly collection, I Was a Teen-age Dwarf, appeared in 1959. The titular graphic symbol appeared at various ages in these stories, all of which are set in St. Paul, Minnesota, though the majority of the stories centered on his higher years at the Academy of Minnesota.^[9] Aside from Dobie and his parents, Zelda Gilroy was the only other grapheme from the books straight adapted to the series as a regular or recurring character.^[3]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced the showtime media adaptation of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1953 equally The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, a black-and-white musical film starring Debbie Reynolds, Bob Fosse, and Bobby Van as Dobie Gillis. Post-obit its release, Shulman set almost attempting to bring Dobie Gillis to television. An initial pilot was produced by comedian and producer George Burns in 1957, with his son Ronnie Burns starring as Dobie.^[4]

Afterward this airplane pilot did not sell, Shulman took Dobie Gillis to 20th Century Fox Tv, run at the time by Martin Manulis. Manulis asked Shulman to reduce the Dobie grapheme's age from 19 to 17, making him a high-schoolhouse pupil instead of a college student and an age peer of Ricky Nelson from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) from Leave It to Beaver.^[10] Shulman agreed to the change subsequently negotiating employment for himself on the series as bear witness runner.^[ten] The Pull a fast one on airplane pilot, "Caper at the Bijou", featured Dwayne Hickman equally Dobie, Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus as his parents, newcomer Bob Denver equally a new grapheme, Dobie'southward crackpot all-time friend Maynard K. Krebs, and Tuesday Weld as Dobie's unattainable love interest Thalia Menninger.

First pitched to and rejected by NBC, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was greenlit for series by CBS. Phillip Morris' Marlboro was the programme'south primary sponsor, and it sold a calendar week-to-calendar week alternating co-sponsorship to Pillsbury Visitor for the beginning two seasons, with Dwayne Hickman actualization in one of the Pillsbury commercials.^[3] Colgate-Palmolive replaced Pillsbury as the alternate sponsor in season three.^[3]

While the pilot for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was shot at the primary 20th Century Fox lot in Century City, California, principal photography and production for the series proper took place at the original Fox Film Corporation studio at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue (next to the headquarters of Deluxe) in Hollywood.^[iv] Dobie Gillis was filmed with two cameras, a method that producer and managing director Rod Amateau had learned while working on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. Play a joke on turned out one episode of Dobie Gillis a calendar week, working from May to December of each year. Dwayne Hickman's fourth wall-breaking monologues were saved for the end of the production of each episode; their length resulted in Hickman requesting and getting a teleprompter from which to read them for season two frontwards.^[2]

The testify was not filmed before a live studio audition; during the showtime season, a alive audience viewed each episode and provided its laugh track.^[11] Subsequent seasons used a standard laugh track provided by technician Charles Douglass.^[12]

Creator Max Shulman served as the prove runner for and an uncredited producer of Dobie Gillis.^[xiii] He contributed scripts for episodes of the prove during all four seasons, with several stories – including "Honey is a Science" (flavor one, episode iii), "Dearest is a Fallacy" (flavour one, episode 22), and "Parlez-Vous English" (flavour two, episode 11) – directly adapted past Shulman from his original Dobie Gillis curt stories.^[3] ^[13]

During its fourth season, the show, by then known as Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis, suffered both from competition with NBC's colour Western The Virginian and from the growing inattention from Max Shulman.^[2] Shulman began spending increasing amounts of time at his home in Westport, Connecticut, while the show was in active product,^[2] ^[thirteen] ceding his part as prove runner to associate producers Joel Kane and Guy Scarpitta. CBS decided not to renew Dobie Gillis after production had concluded on its fourth season.^[two]

The theme song "Dobie" was written by 20th Century-Play a joke on musical director Lionel Newman, with lyrics by Shulman. The theme was sung past Judd Conlon's Rhythmaires, with music conducted by Newman. Session singer Gloria Wood of the Rhythmaires provided the scat singing used equally incidental score during the commencement two seasons.^[14] ^[fifteen]

Series regular casting notes [edit]

Dwayne Hickman, at the fourth dimension the breakout star on The Bob Cummings Show (also known equally Beloved That Bob) every bit nephew Chuck MacDonald, gained the part of Dobie Gillis over several other candidates, including Michael Landon.^[1] Despite being bandage every bit a 17-twelvemonth-old, Hickman was 24 when he starred in the pilot in the summertime of 1958. Because Hickman had appeared for several years on Bob Cummings as Chuck, he was required by Shulman and CBS to bleach his dark dark-brown hair blond for the role of Dobie to altitude himself from that graphic symbol in the public'south (and the sponsors') minds.^[16] By the second flavor, however, Hickman was permitted to return to his natural hair color, after he had complained to the producers that the abiding bleaching required to keep his low crew cut hairstyle blond was causing his scalp to pause out.^[4]

Bob Denver, a 23-year-erstwhile course-schoolhouse instructor and postal worker with no previous professional interim experience, won the role of 18-year-old Maynard G. Krebs after his sister, a casting director's secretary, added his proper name to a list of candidates auditioning for the role.^[17] Denver and Hickman had both attended Loyola University together several years earlier and were casually acquainted earlier Dobie Gillis.^[2] After filming the tertiary episode of Dobie Gillis, Denver announced that he had received his draft notice. The graphic symbol of Maynard enlisted in the Army and was given an elaborate sendoff in the bear witness's next episode, "Maynard'due south Farewell to the Troops". Stage thespian Michael J. Pollard was brought out from New York to play Maynard'due south cousin, Jerome Krebs, who was introduced at the terminate of "Maynard'south Farewell to the Troops" and was to assume Maynard's role in hereafter scripts.^[17]

Earlier Pollard had completed his commencement episode, "The Sweetness Singer of Central High", notwithstanding, Denver returned and appear that he had been designated "4F" – unfit for service – during his physical considering of a neck injury he had sustained some years earlier.^[17] After completing "The Sweet Singer of Central High", Pollard was bought out of his contract – he had signed a "play-or-pay" contract and was paid for all 30 episodes in which he was to have appeared, while Denver was rehired. Maynard'due south return was explained by stating that the Army had given Maynard a "hardship belch" – the Ground forces's hardship, not Maynard's.^[17] ^[eighteen]

Initially just a supporting character, Denver's Maynard had graduated to co-lead by flavor two, equally the graphic symbol's "beatnik" mannerisms and eccentricities made him a hit with the viewing audience.^[17] For a handful of episodes towards the end of season three, Maynard became the show's atomic number 82 character while Dwayne Hickman was hospitalized with and subsequently recovering from pneumonia.^[2]

Despite Maynard'south increasing screen time, however, Denver – who had signed on as a Fox contract player without an agent – was unable to negotiate a raise in his $250 a calendar week salary until season four.^[12] ^[17] Denver was able to parlay his role on Dobie Gillis into pb roles on later telly series, in particular the ane for which he is best remembered, the 1964–67 CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island.^[17]

Established actors Frank Faylen, a longtime acquaintance of the Hickman family and a young man parishioner at their church,^[2] and Florida Friebus were bandage as Dobie's parents, Herbert T. Gillis and Winifred Gillis. Faylen'south gruff, no-nonsense father character, which according to Hickman, was substantially the same equally Faylen'south real-life personality,^[2] was more of an adversary to Dobie during the first flavor of the show, his demeanor underscored by his often-repeated catchphrase "I gotta kill that boy! I only gotta!" Both CBS and Marlboro strongly disapproved of the catchphrase and the Herbert T. Gillis character'due south hard edges.^[two] An early season-two episode, "Y'all Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog" (episode two), in which Dobie inadvertently wins a father-and-son essay contest, was produced to explain why Herbert ceased utilize of his catchphrase. Herbert was further softened as the series wore on, the graphic symbol'due south anger tempered to frustration.^[2]

Recurring casting notes [edit]

Experienced child actress Tuesday Weld was cast as Dobie'south love interest in "Antic at the Bijou" and stayed on as a semiregular. Weld and Dwayne Hickman had previously appeared as a teenaged couple in the 1958 Fox characteristic film Rally 'Circular the Flag, Boys!, based on a Max Shulman novel, though produced without his input.^[2] Neither Hickman nor Weld was addicted of the other, with Hickman later stating he felt Weld was non equally dedicated as necessary to rehearsal and referring to her equally "a hurting in the neck". Weld reportedly plant Hickman pushy and out-of-affect. Aged 15 at the time of shooting the airplane pilot, Weld had to legally spend much of her fourth dimension on ready in school with a tutor,^[2] and the production periodically ran into bug involving Weld'southward subsequently publicly known hard abode life.^[8]

Her work in Dobie Gillis and the feature moving picture The Five Pennies made Weld a star, leading to substantial publicity.^[12] She departed the series after the first year to star in features, although she was persuaded by Max Shulman to return for two guest appearances, "Nascency of a Salesman" (season three, episode 21) and "What's a Piddling Murder Between Friends?" (season four, episode 2).^[2]

Herbert Anderson was cast every bit Mr. Pomfritt, Dobie and Maynard's English instructor at school. Anderson appeared in a lead role in the pilot for Dennis the Menace; when that show was picked upward (also past CBS), he chose to stay with that cast, and actor William Schallert appeared in the recurring role of Mr. Pomfritt through the finish of season three.

Warren Beatty was cast as Milton Armitage, a recurring rival of Dobie's at his high schoolhouse, during the get-go half of season ane.^[19] Hickman later recalled that Beatty "looked at me like I was a issues" while on set.^[2] Beatty did remain friends with his brief co-star Michael J. Pollard. The ii co-starred in Bonnie and Clyde eight years later. He quit the series in September 1959, midway through product of the starting time flavor afterward filming his 5th and terminal Dobie episode, "The Smoke-Filled Room", to announced in A Loss of Roses on Broadway.^[19]

Erstwhile child actress Sheila James, who, playing daughter "Jackie" on The Stu Erwin Show, had worked with Dwayne Hickman on that series and The Bob Cummings Show, was cast without an audition equally Zelda Gilroy, the tomboyish brainy girl who was in love with Dobie.^[3] Originally intended every bit a one-shot character for the episode "Love is a Science" (flavor one, episode three), Max Shulman liked both Zelda and Sheila James and had Zelda retained as a semiregular character. Signing a contract with Dobie Gillis necessitated James, then an eighteen-year-onetime college student, changing her major from theater to English, so Shulman could assist her with her studies on prepare.^[3]

After the third flavour of Dobie Gillis, Rod Amateau and Max Shulman produced a airplane pilot for a Zelda spinoff starring Sheila James as Zelda Gilroy, with Joe Flynn and Jean Byron bandage equally her parents.^[3] However, CBS president James Aubrey lingered over moving forward with the Zelda series for a long time before firmly rejecting the series, with Amateau telling James in private that Aubrey had found Zelda (and by extension James, then a closeted lesbian) "besides butch".^[viii] James' contract for the pilot and the resulting waiting period caused her to be absent from much of the fourth and concluding flavor of Dobie Gillis, though Amateau was able to hire her to return as Zelda for four episodes towards the end of the season.^[3] Acting roles became thin for James by the late 1960s; she went into law and politics nether her birth name of Sheila Kuehl, and later became the first openly gay person elected to the California State Legislature.^[viii]

Steve Franken, a 28-year-old character histrion, was cast immediately after Beatty's departure every bit Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr., a replacement character for Milton Armitage. While both Milton and Chatsworth were rich rivals of Dobie Gillis'due south (and both characters shared the same extra, Doris Packer, for a mother) and were, co-ordinate to canon, cousins, where Beatty's Milton was a menacing and athletic physical threat, Franken's pompous, foppish Chatsworth tended to plot and scheme his way through competitions with Dobie, mostly using his riches to get alee.^[13] The Chatsworth character became popular plenty that the producers had to consciously limit his appearances on the series to roughly one per month to forbid Franken from upstaging Hickman and Denver, but Franken stated both during and after Dobie Gillis that playing Chatsworth led him to be typecast and stifled his career.^[13]

Young thespian Bobby Diamond was brought on at the beginning of season four equally Dobie's teenaged cousin, Duncan "Dunky" Gillis. By 1962, the 28-year-old Dwayne Hickman had begun to look too mature to carry the teenager-based plot lines,^[2] and instead Diamond's "Dunky" was given this fabric, with the older however young Maynard as a running partner. The character was dropped midway through the quaternary season, with attention shifting dorsum to the characters of Dobie, Maynard, Chatsworth, and Zelda for the remaining episodes of the series.^[2]

Actresses who played Dobie'southward dear interests included Cheryl Holdridge, Michele Lee, Susan Watson, Marlo Thomas, Sally Kellerman, Ellen Burstyn (and so billed equally Ellen McRae), Barbara Babcock, Sherry Jackson, and Danielle De Metz. Yvonne Craig appeared in the opening credits and the closing sequence of the pilot film used to sell the series to CBS, but did not appear in the bodily episode, "Caper at The Bijou", when it was broadcast. She eventually played five different girlfriends on the evidence, more than than any other actress.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Actress Sherry Alberoni, an original Mickey Mouse Order "Mouseketeer", played ane of Zelda Gilroy's sisters in the 1960 episode "Dobie Spreads a Rumor".

Other media [edit]

Later on the first season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis had aired, Capitol Records attempted to make a recording star out of Dwayne Hickman, ignoring the fact that Hickman, by his ain admission, was not a singer.^[two] Recording engineers had to piece together numerous takes to get a usable vocal runway from Hickman for each song. Hickman introduced several of the songs from the Dobie! anthology on the evidence during its second season, including "I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter" and "Don't Ship a Rabbit".^[2] Earlier, while Hickman was actualization on Love That Bob, he had recorded a unmarried, "Schoolhouse Trip the light fantastic toe", for ABC-Paramount Records, merely both the single and the later Capitol anthology sold very few copies.^[20]

DC Comics published a Many Loves of Dobie Gillis comic volume that ran for 26 bug from 1960 to 1964, featuring artwork past Bob Oksner. Stories from this comic-book series were later reprinted, with updates to the artwork and lettering to remove whatever references to Dobie Gillis, by DC as a brusk-lived series titled Windy and Willy in 1969.^[21]

Sequel films [edit]

The program spawned two 20th Century Play a joke on-produced sequels, the airplane pilot Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977) and the Television receiver movie Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988). Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? was an unsuccessful pilot for a new weekly sitcom series, which was produced, directed, and developed past James Komack later creator Max Shulman was fired from the product.^[4] It was circulate by CBS on May 10, 1977, as a one-shot special. In the pilot, Dobie had married Zelda and is helping his father Herbert run the Gillis Grocery when Maynard comes dorsum to Primal City from his world travels.^[22]

Depressed over turning 40 and not living the life he had dreamed of as a teenager, Dobie goes to his beloved Thinker statue and attempts to destroy information technology, landing in jail.^[22] The product starred Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Sheila James, Frank Faylen, and Steven Paul as Dobie and Zelda'south teenaged son Georgie, who was a lot like Dobie had been at his age.^{[ citation needed ]}

Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis, showtime aired as the CBS Sunday Motion-picture show on Feb 22, 1988, was directed and co-written by Stanley Z. Ruby after Dwayne Hickman, who was the film's producer, was forced by the network to burn down Max Shulman and Rod Amateau, with whom he had originally conceived the motion picture.^[three] ^[four] The plot features the married Dobie and Zelda running the Gillis Grocery—now likewise a chemist's—on their own, Dobie's parents having died. Meanwhile, Thalia (played past Connie Stevens after Weld declined to reprise the role) returns to Fundamental City—with Maynard, whom she has rescued from a deserted isle (a homage to Gilligan'southward Island)—after 20 years. She offers a $50,000 compensation to anyone who will kill Dobie when he refuses to divorce Zelda and ally her. Hickman, Denver, and James returned for Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis, which featured Steve Franken as Chatsworth, William Schallert as Mr. Pomfritt, and Scott Grimes as son Georgie Gillis.^[iii] ^[4] Connie Stevens' daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher, played Chatsworth'south daughter Chatsie, who chased Georgie Gillis with the aforementioned zeal Zelda had one time used chasing Dobie.

Dwelling house media [edit]

On July 2, 2013, Shout! Factory released The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis – The Consummate Series on DVD in Region 1.^[23] The set included all 147 episodes of the serial, plus the original prenetwork version of the airplane pilot and appearances by Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver on other television programs of the time. Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? and Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis were non included, the latter due to music clearances, and the former because the master copy could not be located.^[3] The first season of the prove was also made available on Amazon Prime Video on this date.

Shout! afterward released each season individually, season ane on September x, 2013,^[24] flavour 2 on January 14, 2014,^[25] season three on May half dozen, 2014^[26] and the fourth and final season on Dec 16, 2014.^[27]

In addition to the physical releases, all episodes of Dobie Gillis are likewise available on the streaming services Shout! Factory TV, Amazon Prime Video, Tubi, and Vudu.^[28]

In popular culture [edit]

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was a major influence on the characters for another successful CBS program, the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are Y'all!, which ran on the network from 1969 to 1970 followed by several spin-offs. Equally confirmed by series creators Joe Cherry and Ken Spears^[29] and author Marking Evanier,^[30] the iv teenaged pb characters of Scooby-Doo were based on four of the lead characters from Dobie Gillis: Fred Jones on Dobie, Daphne Blake on Thalia, Velma Dinkley on Zelda, and Shaggy Rogers on Maynard.^[29] ^[30]

Garry Marshall said that he drew inspiration from Dobie Gillis when he created the ABC sitcom Happy Days.^[2] ^[31]

Vocaliser-songwriter Dobie Gray'south phase name served as a reference to the Dobie Gillis character.^[32]

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^ ^a ^b Jones, Gerard (1993). Dearest, I'm Habitation!: Sitcoms: Selling The American Dream. New York:, Macmillan. p. 151; ISBN 0312-08810-viii
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External links [edit]

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis at IMDb
The Diplomacy of Dobie Gillis (1953 film) at IMDb
Any Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977 Idiot box movie) at IMDb
Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988 TV pic) at IMDb

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