Dobie Gillis opening

Animated intro to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Includes countdown leader and "brought to you by Pillsbury" bumper.
Re-upload: fixed sync problem.

[@soniasanchez4375]

I absolutely LOVED THIS SHOW!!...ESPECIALLY Maynard and Dobie near the thinking statue ...bring it back!!!

[@drgonzo369]

holy CRAP! I've been talking this show up for years, and yet no one I know remembers it. Thanks for this. Maybe now some episodes will appear online.

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

Out of all the classic TV shows. This is my all time fave. This show deserves a proper release instead of the crap they have spoon fed us so far.

[@ftsjr]

Great Show! I was a wee child when it was first on, but I had vague memories of it. Then CBN started showing reruns of it at 1 a.m. in the mid-80's. When Nick at Nite picked it up, all the terrific memories flooded back. I just wish it was available on DVD. Television comedy was so innocent and enjoyable back then.

[@ilovetortillas]

i wish nick at nite would go back to showing old classics like this. i used to watch all of this as a kid in the 80s.

[@edkienzler406]

RIP Dobie...1934-2001

[@blackhorse11thACR]

I always watched Dobie Gillis from 1959 to 63. I still love it and get a memorable experience watching it.

[@singinjohnny]

There's so many theme songs from TV shows, I've lost count. But the ones that carry me back to those times are those we usually don't hear for many years. The "I Love Lucy" theme song, though it goes back to my very early youth, doesn't do that for me because I've heard it all of my life right up to now. The show, along with others ("I Dream of Jeannie", etc.) have been in syndication for so long that the music doesn't relay any memories to me whatsoever. Have a nice weekend, my friend.

[@KOSMICKEN09]

"I'm gonna kill that boy"- Dobie's dad every episode. 🤣

[@JeffTheNebraskaDJ]

OH THOSE GREAT CLASSIC TV SHOW THEME SONGS!!, IT REALLY WAS THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION! the dj

[@DrHogfan]

I remember gilligan(Bob Denver)played a beatnik type guy named Maynard on this show

[@billjosephson73]

I never missed one growing up. Favorite show. You can't forget his pose as the Thinker, bantering with Zelda, and laughs with Maynard G Krebs. Scenes with him working at his parents' mom and pop store.. Just a phenomenal show with many laughs.

[@ohhhwolfy]

Yeah, but they really DO sing, "Dobie...wants a girl who's dreamy! Dobie...wants a girl who's creamy!" Just that much had us laughing all the time! LOL!

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

TV shows were much better years ago. Back then, just about every show was good. Life was better too! George Vreeland Hill

[@soniasanchez4375]

I was watching a beach movie from the 60s on the weekend and saw guy on it that I couldn't place...it was Dobie!!!..I googled his name when the credits came up!!!!

[@clarkewi]

one of the first "hip" TV shows I watched. I was 7.

[@kasteman1]

Sakes alive, why did I watch this? Now it's going to be stuck in my head for another 10 years.

[@MissyHolland]

That's about the time I first saw it, too. Cropped up on Nick at Night, and I watched it with my mom and dad.

[@robertvillarreal4525]

That’s when I 1st saw Dobie & I couldn’t get enough.

[@garywrightny]

lol...the show that Gilliigan did b4 his forever memorable Island dummy character. in this show he was pretty cool, right? but still the comic foiil to Dobie, right? i'm glad the pilsbury cake commercial is at the end. the shadows of Mom in that perfect hair after making a cake pushing boy outta the way to kiss perfect model Daddy - such joy over Moms cake is so funny!

[@BigDuckKetterer]

This show was really cool!!!! Sadly Bob Denver is no longer with us, but I believe Dwayne Hickman is though!!!! Thanks for posting this!!!!

[@ftsjr]

One of my favorite shows, ever!

[@americanfellow]

FINALLY! Something that was before my time

[@fromthesidelines]

This is from the first season of "THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS" (1959-'60), which was originally sponsored on alternate weeks by The Pillsbury Company and Philip Morris' "Marlboro" {PM also "sponsored" a monthly humor column by creator Max Shulman in a leading college magazine at the time}...

[@systembust]

this was one of my favorite shows to watch on nick at nite as a kid. dwayne hickman is a pretty cool guy too, he e-mailed me a few years back

[@Jsd8675]

Watched this when I was little in about 1990... This was maybe 28 years old then.. now 1990 was 22 years ago. I remember how long I thought that was made ago and now I remember 20 years like nothing.

[@Jsd8675]

Now 30

[@John80220]

I wonder who it was at CBS or Fox that decided to dump the original pilot episode opening, featuring Dwayne Hickman and a group of live-action girls (including a fence-painting Yvonne Craig) and go with the animated one, which dumped the real-life girls but kept the fence.

[@sgpollock]

Loved this show! My favs growing up were 3 Stooges, Rascals, Maynard G Crebbs, Eddie Haskle and Pepe le Pew..no wonder I'm a mess!

[@jerrylaverty60]

This Sitcom i used to like as i was coming into my early teen years in Worcester,Mass. Followed later Color Specials,Dobie married Zelda! Saw Theatre,Bob Denver,TAKE HER! SHE'S MINE,1963,Dwayne Hickman,CAT BALLOU,1965,Frank Faylen,FUNNY GIRL,1968.

[@mmaddoxes]

The series was based on a book that I read when I was in junior high. I remembered the series. And I remember the opening with The Thinker too!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

In 1953 there had been a Hollywood film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis starring Bobby Van, Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse. The book you read was likely the anthology of Max Schulman short stories, upon which the film and later tv series were based. That tv series DG park statue was a replica of Rodin's famous 19th century The Thinker.

[@cheyenne86]

couldnt get this song outta my mind last night

[@stacyblue1980]

Heyyy! I LOVE this show! Havent it in years! Lovd it growing up! I just wish TV Land...or something...would bring it back! thanks 4 posting. XD

[@marioTmaggot]

I used to watch this on nick at nite in the 80s!! This show was really funny. What happened to being funny without being vulgar.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Co~think & dream in Peace, Dwayne Hickman (who January 10, 2022 joined Bob Denver in God's Island / Park / Corner Grocery store in the Sky) ... nevermore to have to "work : WORK ?!." He was versatile, plausible and funny as a fake itinerant preacher in the film Cat Ballou (1965).

[@dougandlina]

I like the number countdown at the beginning of the show.

[@robertvillarreal4525]

Counting off to excitement!

[@singinjohnny]

@LosAngeleno1959 Music certianly does that. The same thing happens to me only in different surroundings on the East coast during those years. My brother and I used to watch it on a black & white TV set that was almost 10 years old at the time (almost as old as I was then). There actually was a slightly different and shorter opening theme song in later seasons of the show. I know of so many songs that put me in different places in my youth. Music is a beatutiful thing. Ahh yes, '60 Chevy Imaplas!

[@Juliaflo]

Happy 50th Anniversary, Dobie Gillis.

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

Dobie was the ultimate pimp.

[@G7flat5]

Great music, cool=

[@CineRocco]

One of my favorite characters was Warren Beatty's Milton Armitage, who often competed with Dobie for Thalia Menninger's affection!

[@stacyblue1980]

omg all these yrs I never realized that! haha! thanks! XD

[@ChasBeauregarde]

Was there an older Non musical) intro to this show? I remember Hickman sitting next to a statue of "The Thinker". This may be when the show went into syndication. I was only about 5 Y.o. but my older brothers watched it regularly.

[@greggi47]

I think that scene occurred time to time during episodes, not at the beginning,

[@MALESTROMS]

Warren Beatty as Milton Armitage, the spoiled rich boy, was in several episodes fighting over Tuesday Weld (Thalia Menninger---gold digger)....they are classic episodes which Beatty tries to hide from.

[@jason75]

I used to watch this in the 70's

[@malindarusse6527]

"Is she blonde? Is she tall? Is she *dark* ? Is she small?" I know the 1950s/60s wasn't that progressive but I can't hear any other word there!

[@hebneh]

"Nothin' says lovin' Like somethin' from the oven And Pillsbury says it best!" The lyrics to the short Pillsbury song heard here. And yes, this animation DOES look creepy and suggestive.

[@titostacos]

Dobie Gillis "opening" indeed!

[@MissyHolland]

Also, two of his dream girls have just one giant eye with two pupils at either end. You can't say he's overly picky! *lol*

[@davidpar2]

They kind of creeped me out when I watched this as a kid on Nick at Nite, heh

[@Juliaflo]

Happy 50th anniversary to Dobie Gillis. Happy 75th birthday (this coming May), Dwayne Hickman.

[@ignorecorporatenews]

The show "77 Sunset Strip" needs to be released on DVD's !

[@crystalheart9]

I loved this show as an 8 yr old kid. The animated introduction kind of scared ,me because the Dobie character looked kind of creepy and didn't resemble Dobie at all and one of the girls had a big giant eye with two pupils. I've been watching the reruns and it's still a great show.

[@joltinjack]

There are Gillises on my dad's side of my family.

[@misplacednewyawker]

I think the 'hole' in the fence was symbolic, if you get me drift. Even the shape looked like the shape of something else.

[@dkoch2]

holy crap, i remember watching this show when i was a kid on nickelodeon in the mornings

[@jdie6959]

Cliffs and Hills Contracting

[@Phoenixx119]

I watch Dobie on Me TV. Good Show.

[@racookster]

I found this opening kinda scary as a kid, and I can still see why. Dobie looks like a creep, and I do believe a couple of those girls have cyclopia: one huge eyeball with two irises and pupils. Ewwww... The black limbo background doesn't help, either. The figures look ghostly. No wonder it creeped me out.

[@systembust]

I know, right... agreed 1000%

[@BLANKNOTING]

@tvland "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" or "The Dobie Gillis Show"!!!

[@verdew8181]

I'm 63 and last saw this at the age of about 9.

[@debbystardust]

do you think Warren Beatty is making it hard for people to see Dobie Gillis anywhere because he's said he doesn't like himself in it? just wondering because it's so expensive and hard to find, which is weird because it's such a classic

[@cap1900]

This is when health food was considered del'Monte canned peaches in heavy cream.

[@davidpar2]

This was also a time when the number of obese people in existence were a fraction of the number around today...

[@rickgill3364]

songs we get lyrics

[@jamesholz63]

Catchy tune

[@imetdebbie]

This may sound silly, does anyone remember what the "G" stands for in MAYNARD G KREBBS. It was WALTER....dont ask me, its just one of those things that I remember

[@ftsjr]

I wish they'd release this entire series on DVD.

[@CharlesFreshly]

I'm an 80's baby and I remember watching this on Nick at Nite when I was a kid. Most TV today is garbage, especially compared to the good stuff that used to air on Nickelodeon. Sponge Bob or Doug? I'll take Doug please!

[@carmstrong6507]

Spongebob is the only good show that's still on Nickelodeon.

[@malakairodriguez6524]

Dont forget "hey arnold"

[@darishi9]

I totally agree!!! Man I miss these days of Nick at Nite!!!

[@Ballerfella2007]

I use to watch this on Nick at Nite in the early 90s great show...One question though Dobies friend the beatnik was that gilligan off of Gilligans Islands????

[@MrCook1227]

Are you kidding? You must be the only person who's ever watched this show who doesn't know this, but I won't tell you.

[@fromthesidelines]

By the second season, the series' title officially became "Max Shulman's DOBIE GILLIS", minus the animated opening.

[@tdavidray]

THANKS FOR FINDING AND POSTING THIS!!! I've been searching on KZbin for along time for someone to post the opening. I wish this show was available on DVD. Do you have openings from latter seasons? The song had a different ending.

[@SyBabyProductions]

I still can't believe Dobie settled for Zelda.

[@Nash1a]

Geez that is a little creepy, don't you think? That leer and peeping thur the hole in the fence? Having enjoyed the series, I find that intro just a little bizarre.

[@mollylea2643]

I heard a parody of this on Beverly Hills 90210!

[@karlakor]

@chronocream I thought the same thing you did. Dobie did impress me as being a pervert, peeking through a knothole. Of course, I never thought that when the series originally aired.

[@EternalDarknessAboveTheBlueSky]

I never thought that in my life and I still don't.

[@Juliaflo]

@pieword I totally second that motion. Don't you just detest what is done to the closing credits on TV Land?

[@gregnorman2181]

I’M A HUGE FAN OF TMLODG

[@imusfan48]

Dodie Stevens ('Tan Shoes Pink Shoe Laces') should have been one of Dobies 'many loves'='Dobie & Dodie'.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

Where is the DVD release of this show--why was it never released to DVD?

[@ddd1953]

Okay, here´s a stumper, can anyone find out who drew the opening animation? It looks to me like Disney artist John Hubley. Any ideas?

[@TomHendricksMusea]

But of course, this theme song made the BIG LIST - first world list of 100 best favorites from myspace and youtube

[@jerricherribomb]

Any 90210 fans here from Brandon’s song from the senior breakfast?? Lmaooo

[@caseyg5]

Creepy?? Not how I would describe MLDG. Best wishes, Chadsworth Osborne Junior!

[@jsilence418]

The cake looks better than the show!

[@coolsweetgroovy]

Dobie Gills cute show even though I still don't understand the show

[@b30307]

@karlakor Yeah, the opening never really fit the show. The drawings of the girls were cool and very 50s - but portraying Dobie not as 17 and looking for a girlfriend, but some kinda creepy cartoon kid was misguided. Theme music was classic though.

[@KowboyUSA]

looooooool that was a really creepy show

[@BLANKNOTING]

@hallmarkchannelusa "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" or "The Dobie Gillis Show"!!!

[@Jeff98177]

@louismkaufman Do you have MeTV? They show it there.

[@FloridaManVal]

Didn’t the intro have a thinker statue that faded into dobie??

[@luxbledstone]

at least it wasnt cigarettes xD >_>

[@songanddanceman100]

@MrCombat1965 Frank Faylen!

[@jim6820]

R.I.P 2 some of the cast members that have sinced passed away. Bob Denver deceased 9/2/05 age 70, Frank Faylen deceased 8/2/85 age 79, Florida Friebus deceased 5/27/88 age 78, Steve Franken deceased 8/24/12 age 80, William Schallert deceased 5/8/16 age 93, Doris Packer deceased 3/31/79 age 74, Jean Byron deceased 2/3/06 age 80, Raymond Bailey deceased 4/15/80 age 75, Tommy Farrell deceased 5/9/04 age 82, and Marjorie Bennett deceased 6/14/82 age 86. Only Dwayne Hickman age 82, Tuesday Weld age 72, Warren Beatty age 79, Darryl Hickman age 85, Michael J. Pollard age 77, Bobby Diamond age 72, and Yvonne Lime age 81 r the only living cast members left.

[@099ed]

jim68 You forgot Shelia James who's now Shelia Kuhl.

[@charlesflinnill978]

jim68 : glad to hear Hickman is still with us. Gilligan (Maynard) died rather young. I didn't know.

[@JunkyardKid]

jim68 Dobie will outlive is all!

[@phenast]

Time for the Geezerville reboot.

[@robertvillarreal4525]

Philip Nast You referring to yourself?

[@zapkvr]

Are you serious? Have you actually been to Viet Nam in the last twenty years? I'll tell you they could teach a few of your pampered cosseted industries about the real spirit of free enterprise.

[@duckman531]

Oh, it's a guy thing! Leave him alone!

[@Telekineticfish]

Nick @ nite

[@ellsworthaudio]

" wants a gal that's creamy " ???

[@MrCook1227]

Yeah, I always wondered about that too. It's like the Addams Family being "ooky".

[@JugheadObama]

0:15 huh huh huh, I'm on the sex offender registry.

[@musicom67]

I'm quite sure even men of the 50's saw that as well - pgy002, Don't trash us 'IDIOTS' of the 21st century just cuz we're OBSERVANT OF THE OBVIOUS....I take it you are not an artist, eh?

[@noacronym]

Ahhh.... a return to the pre-Liberalism days. How refreshing.

[@charlie-obrien]

uh...whatever you say, noacrompoop!

[@525Lines]

One of those shows that was excellent in the first season and kind of fell off.

[@JunkyardKid]

525Lines I disagree. I think that it was good a majority of the seasons.

[@Schrittwieser]

Nixon Sucked