Dobie Gillis Classic TV Memories and Fun Facts

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

I used to watch Dobie Gillis on Nick At Nite 30 years ago, but shows like this one are no longer on.

[@gregofthelake]

That's when I first saw it too. It is streaming on Tubi and Amazon's Freevee. I watched it again not too long ago.

[@joel2406]

Dobie Gillis is still on the cable channel Catchy Comedy at 02:30am eastern.

[@CletusHunnicutt]

WOW. Mention of Dobie Gillis. Dobie Gillis is just unknown now. I was watching as a young teen too. So long ago...in the early 90s during Nick at Nite's golden age.

[@dwaynelangerhr6985]

I will never forget Dobie Gills and you may guess.

[@kirk1968]

I graduated in 86 and watched this show on cable as well all through high school. Always funny. That episode with the giant chicken still makes me laugh! They definitely went to creative lengths with that show.

[@cadeevans4623]

Loved how every time someone mention work Bob Denver says work in a high pitch voice lol😂😂😂😂

[@tvcrazyman]

Yeah, I used to mimic that line when I was a kid. It's still one of my favorite lines.😀

[@cadeevans4623]

I do the same thing sometimes lol😂😂😂😂mimic the line one of My favourite lines as well 😀

[@patriciaaturner289]

I watched Dobie in its first run; I was a pre-teen at the time. I had a huge crush on Dwayne Hickman.

[@nelsontoondrawer7618]

I remembered seeing a few of these in 1960 when I came to the US. I just recalled how Maynard's voice went up 8 octaves when he said "work?!" 😊😂❤🎉

[@SharonPadget]

I was born in 1951. I loved this show.

[@patrickryan1515]

Sme here. Appreciated it even more years later.

[@richardranke3158]

In 1965,Dobie Gillis was rerun in order every weekday. I became a regular watcher for the 7 months it was on.

[@sameoldsonganddance]

I somehow never watched an episode of this show! It was never on reruns in the 70’s for me! Just Gilligans Island!

[@Grampasarous-Rex]

I'm a 73 year old Chicago one and a jazz fan. I remember Maynard g Krebs always commenting about Charlie Mingus.

[@VJaber]

I LOVED Dobie Gillis! Just thought you should know.

[@christiangibbs8534]

I loved watching reuns of this show! I still use the phrase "Good stuff, Maynard!"

[@clasicradiolover]

I can't remember how old I was. A TV channel was playing these in the morning before school

[@stanzelko5243]

Should bring back these old shows to primetime TV. 10 times better than the reality crap on there now.

[@clintprovance8047]

Find a shows its time was between 1959 to 1963 one of the most sophisticated shows in the history of television when you find it it's like finding gold pure gold

[@patrickryan1515]

Got to AGREE!

[@michaelshada262]

I happen to be watching an episode of "The many loves of dobie gillis" right now! It's on an over-the-air station called catchy TV.😁 1am CST

[@johnnyrocketed2225]

Used to watch this all the time on Nick at Nite. 😍

[@larrymcclure3842]

I grew up watching that show.

[@barbara-pigeonbray4579]

My favorite show when I was a teen ...

[@jackiwheeler6963]

This was before my time but its hilarious. Never saw much of Tuesday Weld. She's still alive as far as i know

[@njjeff201]

Ahhhh…. Great memories!!! Ty!

[@JB-js4xi]

Loved this show in reruns in the 70s and 80s. Great job

[@gregofthelake]

I love Bob Denver as Maynard more than Gilligan. I think it's one of the greatest TV characters of all time. And Zelda was great with her wit and nose wrinkles. She would have been my pick if I was Dobie. Same way I preferred Mary Ann to Ginger.

[@tvcrazyman]

I saw Gilligan first in the 70s, and was a big fan of that show. That's probably what got me watching Dobie, then Dobie became one of my all time favorites as well.

[@SevenDaysToNoon]

I’m from the UK and have never heard of this, but I have to say it looks real good. 😀 Think I missed out.

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

8:32. William Schallert also played a KAOS agent, Earl Kibbie, on a season five episode of Get Smart.

[@jackiwheeler6963]

Loved that show

[@Pratman]

Never watched this show but looked hilarious lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@tvcrazyman]

It's funny, especially the first season. 😀 The giant chicken episode really cracks me up and Frank Faylen as the father. He was hilarious. Bob Denver is always fun to see on anything.

[@klyvemurray]

Well there ya go!! I always thought that it was Lurch from the Addams Family who popularized the "You Rang" trope

[@19king14]

The actor that played Lurch said it in copying Maynard. Lurch was to always be speachles. But the film crew heard Lurch copying Maynard and allowed it in. Lurch started having more speaking parts after that.

[@klyvemurray]

@@19king14 Ted Cassidy was 32 years old when the Addams Family started. I guess he was a real "Hep Cat" Sadly, Ted passed away in 1979 at just 46 years of age :(

[@Mark-td5ux]

Beatniks and the Daddy Os 😅😅

[@rhonda7070]

Such a nicely weird show, with people popping up from behind bushes.

[@jons.6216]

I had to go look it up, but Dobie also had an older brother Davey in the first season that went off to college a la Chuck Cunningham! Haha! He was played by Dwayne Hickman's real life brother Daryl! A funny thing I noticed when the Decades Channel was showing blocks of episodes was that right around 1962-63 the same time June Cleaver got bouffant hair, so did Florida Freibus that played Mrs Gillis!

[@tvcrazyman]

There was another interesting bit of trivia I didn't get a chance to add to the video, both Hickman brothers played on the Lone Ranger, once as the same character at different points in the character's life.

[@shannonmanley9217]

I so Remember this show. I watched alot of the reruns growing up. Another Great Video, keep them coming. take care my Friend. 🙂

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@shannonmanley9217]

@@tvcrazyman yvw!!!

[@nerdytalk1755]

Along with Scooby-Doo, I firmly believe that The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was the inspiration for Saved by the Bell. Dobie talked to the audience in front of The Thinker statue, Zak Morris spoke to the audience in front of the school lockers. Screech is Maynard, Kelly is Thalia, Slater is Milton. Saved by the Bell began as Good Morning Miss Bliss. It was later reworked to focus on the kids. I believe the creators looked to Dobie to for inspiration.

[@tvcrazyman]

You're probably right. There's probably a few other teen shows that drew inspiration from Dobie as well.

[@steveconn1375]

They didn't show Dobie here in the uk but looks good to watch Tuesday weld been in many movies rock rock rock her voice was dumb by singer Connie Fancies

[@1950Grendel]

I've been watching this on Tubi (free app); I hadn't seen it since the 1960's. Outraged PTA's demanded the writers drop the "I gotta kill that boy" line during the second season.

[@tvcrazyman]

That was one of the funniest lines on the show. Reminded me of when I was a kid.😀

[@tvcrazyman]

What are your favorite Dobie Gillis memories?

[@tpcdude]

i took on some of maynard's characteristics

[@joeanderson9852]

❤❤

[@steveconn1375]

Dobies hair changed from blonde to black In Later series yes definitely base scooby doo on them

[@tvcrazyman]

Yep, I think the producer made him go blond. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere he was forced to do that which is why he went to his natural color later on.

[@paulsarnik8506]

The "G" in Maynard's middle name was "Goldbrick" obviously, RIGHT Sgt. Carter? 🤓😎✌🏼

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

I wonder if the catch phrase you rang? uttered by Lurch on The Addams Family was inspired by Maynard G. Krebs?

[@gregofthelake]

Maybe. I do think Maynard calling Dobie "good buddy" evolved in the Skipper calling Gilligan "little buddy."

[@bartstewart8644]

I don't guess it is out in reruns anywhere now. I wonder what young people would think of it?

[@tvcrazyman]

I'm not sure. I have the whole series on DVD.

[@kevenmitchell2562]

Maynard G. Crebbs the G is for Gilligan Bob Denver said it years ago in an interview. I saw it and don't remember who or where the interview came from. 😢🎉❤❤

[@19king14]

By the second season the censors banned Dobie's father from saying the threatening "I gotta kill that boy - I just gotta." So in a second season episode, for the last time, he turned to the camera in his usual way and frustratingly said; "Ooooh, I just can't say it." A tease to the censors.

[@OhBear-j8l]

Blonde Dobie = Cody Rhodes

[@user-js3wc4ci8o]

Is there anyone out. There named dobie dave w.