Introducing the first portable music player

[@pumasgoya]

I had a portable Federal AM radio in the early 70s. I loved that thing. They had jacks for an ear piece.

[@fazbell]

I had forgotten how fun this show was. Dobie and Maynard were cool.

[@tannertoys]

It's one of my favorites

[@cindylira9503]

ooh woawwww...i never seen that show before

[@singinjohnny]

Transistor radios were around since shortly after the transistor was invented in 1947. But in the mid to late '50s, as in all technology, they started to get smaller. I had one about this size for Christmas in '59. It was my pride and joy and I carried it around everywhere, except school, of course. It was AM only as FM really didn't have much on at that time. I loved this show as well. Even as a kid, I was blown away by all the beautiful women in the show. Thank you for posting this.

[@katyhaymus1029]

🎶 📻👃📻 🎶

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Original pocket radios

[@gregnorman2181]

MAYNARD G KREBS IS STILL THE MAN

[@gregnorman2181]

I’M A HUGE FAN OF MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS

[@censusgary]

I had a radio similar to Maynard's when I was a kid. Mine was a Philco, a gift from my Uncle Paul. I used it to listen to music after my bedtime.

[@KokoRicky]

Amazing that this was 50 years ago!

[@BruceHurley]

That's 60 years now!

[@JustinTimeForParties]

That’s 60 years and 10 days now!

[@BilliusEllison]

Excellent. I currently have 73 episodes of Dobie Gillis saved with my DVR's so I can get my Maynard fix whenever I need it!

[@jessie4127]

Bill Ellison I'd love to know what channel it shows on. Maybe I could call my cable provider and have it added to my set up.

[@jimtrue1465]

@@jessie4127 Don't know what network carries it, but all episodes are available on Amazon Prime.

[@devonhughes3805]

He's actually like a proto-Kramer

[@georgeshelton6281]

It's hard to believe just how much of a goofball Maynard Krebbs was. He should've kept it home. He's not going to believe just how much wiser I've gotten. 😌

[@jdollinter]

Heard someone say that model,the Zenith Royal 500 cost $75 back then,about the same amount as their house payment.

[@InAConundrum]

This is a man who was ahead of his time. Even his haircut and facial hair were from 40 years in advance.

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Many shirt-pocket transistor radios of the late 1950s and early 1960s were designed to be the size of a pack of cigarettes, because, everybody smoked then, and was familiar with the dimensions.

[@batterymakermarkii2654]

Maynard has a zenith royal 500

[@tannertoys]

Cool! Thanks!

[@bpkeane1]

We had these in Junior High School in the late 60's. When the teachers came by and saw you listening with the ear plug wire they took it away and you had to get detention in order to get it back. Zenith and Motorola way years before Sony Panasonic and RCA tramsmitter radios. Nowadays they have ipods ipads cell phones and laptops and they allow them in every classroom. Why!!, I have no idea?...

[@gregnorman2181]

I JUST GOT MY NEW PROTABLE RADIO THATS SMALL

[@4utubemyusername]

WORK!!

[@gregnorman2181]

I’M GETTING MY PRESONAL PROTABLE WALKMAN BUT ITS GONNA BE A BIT SMALLER

[@halbie71]

I remember when transistor radios were the rage back then. Dobie Gillis was one of my favorite TV shows, right Zelda?

[@songman1955]

batterymaker- I was just listening to my Zenith Royal 550 D - Long Distance- still works after all these years! it is maroon- cool man cool!

[@dickylobster]

Maynard, my hero

[@peterraymond8470]

Hey, it's Dennis The Menace's dad.

[@samlongoria5268]

Bob (as Maynard) was 26 here.

[@hebneh]

My father had a Zenith portable radio like that, and it was maroon, which i bet this one is also. My mother had a similar-sized portable of a different design, and it was turquoise. Very '50s colors in plastic.

[@LJG907]

Great clip !!

[@Peshkatari]

Errr....try 1959, not 1961. This clip is from the pilot.

[@jason75]

I remember this show...

[@hmdwn]

The original Hipster ... Daddy-O

[@drlee2]

Maynard had a Gilligan moment near the end! LOL

[@illinoisan]

Maynard was TV's first beat and Zelda was TV's first lesbian.

[@jessie4127]

Larry Stevens Zelda? Zelda who? Doesn't ring a bell

[@anje93061]

A tomboyish genius Dobbie gets paired up with as biology partner and who boldly falls in love with him, much to Dobbie's discomfort.

[@martinmahern7268]

Zelda Gilroy

[@SaltyFloridian]

Hey, the teacher is the dad from "Dennis the Menace" !!!

[@gittahfiend]

Dude,Henry Mitchell took mynards radio.

[@FatalChaz33]

Sneaking a radio in to listen to Jazz. Glad I was born much later than this.

[@pumasgoya]

If you don't like Jazz you have bad taste. 😜

[@jamescpotter]

This character blows away anything else he ever did on television! Bob was a very talented actor.

[@Drummed]

I wouldn't say the "first" transistor radio. Maybe the poster meant the first to be "shown" off and exposed on a regular sitcom T.V. program. I've never seen one prior to Dobie Gillis.

[@highheadjester]

@RJRanke I dug what ya saying Daddy O. Maybe we can bring it all back . with a futuristic twist! Slip me some skin for the win! ;)

[@cosmosolis]

I-transistor! before the I-pod!

[@7734Duke]

Dennis the Menaces dad is the teacher!!!

[@richardranke3158]

Only in that one episode. During the rest of the series,the teacher was Patty Duke's dad...and another college teacher was Patty Duke's mom.

[@tannertoys]

Cool!

[@andreww1212]

Lol this is so bad ass.

[@Juliaflo]

Herbert Anderson as the teacher.

[@maynardgkrebsiii]

Awesome!

[@juliaflo3172]

Herbert Anderson of 'Dennis the Menace' fame.

[@lauribricker9439]

The forerunner of the iPod! In the movie "Beach Blanket Bingo" you'll see a girl with a transistor radio clipped to her bikini bottom! Cool!

[@frankshearin3901]

I had a much smaller radio in the 7th grade. 1958

[@RawUmbers1]

teacher was dad on Dennis the Menace. Cool!

[@JakeandElwoodBlues]

The teacher is the father from Dennis the Menace.

[@julianc6374]

No airpods? Maynard was broke

[@screwyootube1]

Strange show.

[@zapkvr]

That's the father of Dennis the menace

[@hydrolito]

Red Foxx star of Sanford and son played Fred Sanford his real name was John Elroy Sanford.

[@heylover3]

oh yeah, sure is! awesome!

[@onefootinthegroove39]

Zenith Royal 500 series radio.

[@anje93061]

Is it a real song Maynard is humming or something of his own?

[@tannertoys]

His own.

[@zefallafez]

Henry Mitchell!!!

[@piper77]

that's the first freakin' iPod! it was a gasser!

[@NathanLeeJames]

Ha, classic!

[@MrTweeto]

I Was Hear!

[@chumshot1]

LOL People do this in class all the time...

[@hydrolito]

You have to make the house payments more than once not so with the $75 dollar radio.

[@nunyabidness4946]

Even after "our property is paid off", we'll never own it cuz taxes. It's a soul trap when this forming global currency is in effect(don't forget the electronic prison). Maybe this tech isn't so cool after all. These classrooms are simply for satanic indoctrination. See piltdown man. Tip of iceberg.

[@sydbob16]

they used his real name in the show? wow, i wish shows these days did that, i hate calling them by their movie/show names.

[@accretioncleansing]

the O.G. maynard... not my favorite maynard but hes the O.G for sure

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@mrbobbyh Sad the teacher did that to be a jerk, but that's a fun story to have! I wanted to bring a pocket TV to school so I could watch the billionth rerun of the Flintstones like on The Jetsons!

[@censusgary]

Yikes! Now you can get a similar pocket radio for under $10, which would be more like $1 in 1960 money.

[@yes18325]

More like the first JEFF SPICOLI!

[@derman077]

The first filmed instance of schizophonia , lol

[@BestOf90sCCM]

@maggio888 Then you must have LOVED Dusty's Trails lol