The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 1 Episode 1 - Caper At The Bijou (Full Episode)

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Dobie is desperate for money so he can take Thalia to the dance, so he and Maynard hatch a plot to dishonestly win $100 at the Bijou Theater on Jackpot Night.
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[@aviewer390]

I discovered this show in reruns in the 90s. It would be on late night tv after I got home from my summer job waiting tables. My sweet dad was amused that I liked it. Discovered The Honeymooners and Gidget at the same time. If my dad was up, he would come down and watch them with me in the living room. He passed away recently, after four years with Dementia. I moved in the last year to take care of him. I tried to play as much music and television shows from his day to keep him ‘with’ me. I miss him so much.

[@tynosille6747]

I am 60 years old but I love a lot of those shows from the "golden age" of TV! That's why i really enjoyed that movie pleasantv ille those simpler times. I grew up in the 60s and seventies and I have so many picturesque memories from then. Miss those days!

[@maldonadomaldonado3298]

Hugs 🫂 my sincere condolences to you and your family

[@tynosille6747]

I hope 9 months later time has healed your heart

[@murdock8068]

Thanks for sharing. Sorry to here about your daddy. I pray one day my 2yr old daughter will share the same moments with me when she gets older. God bless

[@markenriquez1486]

I grew up watching Dobie Gillis reruns in the mid to late 60s. Great shows back then. Land of the Giants, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, Lost in space, RAT patrol, Outter Limits, Twilight Zone...

[@thunderwarriorprods]

Grew up watching this show with my Dad. He’s unfortunately passed away but being able to revisit this show and the great memories that came from it really brightens my day. Thanks for posting it and keeping Dobie alive.

[@BrutishYetDelightful]

I just now read that Dwayne Hickman passed away at the age of 87. RIP Dobie.

[@ishmael802]

The actor passed at 87. I was impressed with his life line. I was pretty sure he had 2 more year. RIP

[@myyoutubepage199]

im surprised at this episode when they had no clue what a portable radio was . And bob denver cracks me up with his deep voice saying "whats the difference" cause im so use to seeing him as gilligan

[@Baron_Von_Weasle]

I was born in 1957 and remember this opening theme music and Dobie talking into the camera next to the thinker statue, and that is about it as I was pretty young then. Still it brings me back to those wonderful times and almost makes me cry as I remember how innocent the world was then and how happy we were and all the people gone now from my life. I'll always be sentimental about those days until I am gone. I was just another grain of sand on the beach back then. How fleeting this life is.

[@disintegrationnation9352]

Fellow '57 here right with ya.

[@steveheywood9428]

I used to watch this show 60 years ago when it first aired on TV...there were so many great shows back then including Phil Silvers show, Car 54 where are you etc...ahh the memories. 🤓🤪🤩

[@jacksanfelipe]

Car 54 was one of the funniest ever

[@talclipse]

I first watched this back in the 90s when nick at night first started out.guess i was around 12 at the time.great show.

[@howiegale6777]

I would watch Phil Silvers with my dad. All those WW11 Veterans loved the show. It was great. Car 54 too. Funny. today doesn't compare

[@GH-oi2jf]

Steve Heywood - Phil Silvers, for sure. Car 54, not so much. The Honeymooners was the best, by far.

[@wleebraz]

Me too. I wanted to be like Maynard. I missed out on the Beats so I almost got to be a hippie. I became a Jesus People in a Christian Commune.

[@525Lines]

One of the severely underrated TV shows, at least the first two seasons.

[@steve2474]

I would agree with the caveat being for season one, season three, and the first part of season two (before they went into the army). I felt the show languished during the army stint, but recovered nicely when they got out and enrolled in junior college. The plots in season four got a little far fetched, but it was still okay, just not as good as the previous three seasons.

[@califdad4]

@@steve2474 my brothers were almost 10 and 12 years older than me, and the first couple seasons I doubt they missed a show , it went way over my young head, but do remember the characters

[@donkeyslayer4661]

Apply some brakes, man. This is before she became famous.

[@525Lines]

@@donkeyslayer4661 Dobie for, like, president.

[@jodibang3401]

They used the characters in this show to create the characters in scooby spo

[@SteveBrant55]

Rest In Peace, Dwayne Hickman. You and Bob Denver are together again 😢💔🙏🏻

[@joepangean6770]

No he's not. Gilligan is still stuck on the island with the Howells.

[@williamlevenson5607]

Thank you for putting this on KZbin. God bless Dwayne Hickman, RIP. I watched Dobie Gillis as a 7-year-old kid and I've loved this show ever since. Dobie and cast captured the zeitgeist of the late 1950's and early 1960's, a time of youthful innocence, or so it seemed, to us kids and young adults. I loved seeing the old cash register in the grocery store...high school kids in conventional clothes and without tattoos...Dear God, what happened? What happened?

[@johnfranklin5277]

I'm 62, and feel the same. Remember talented guys and gals fingers flying on cash registers, and making correct change by doing it in thier heads. I think things really started falling apart in the late 90s . Sad to say but I think in general, my generation wasn't real great at parenting...

[@danw5414]

@@johnfranklin5277 I'm 62 myself and everything you have stated here is exactly what I've been saying about today's generation. Even though I'm disabled and never had children I could see many people our age spawned a new generation really caught up in drugs.

[@dntlss]

@@johnfranklin5277 Things started to go down in the mid 60s and progressively got worse, drugs, liberation, Vietnam,assassinations,riots then you had the 70s with cocaine and punk music then the 80s with more craziness and finally to the mess we have today, computers, social media and smartphones sealed the deal.

[@fmlAllthetime]

What happened? Jim crow was overthrown, Women as a class were allowed more freedom, the wasteful governments that the kids of the 50's and 60's voted for exported poverty to other nations in return for cheap goods and lesser career prospects, Reagan gutted the mental health system of CA and then moved on to the rest of the country and gay people weren't systematically attacked in every which way. That's what happened, along with a multitude of other things. Honestly, your nostalgia glasses have you all sorts of fucked up. If you were black or queer you'd probably not have such rose tinted glasses on.

[@gordyvon]

Frank Faylen as Dobie's dad was a terrific character and an integral member of the cast. Very funny man - he played wonderful roles in the movies too like the cabby in "It's a Wonderful Life" in 1946.

[@kristazieschang1205]

Was a little too young to appreciate this when it aired originally. Rip Dobie, hanging now with Maynard in the park.

[@bradthompsonuk2011]

See, if Maynard would have paid more attention in class, he wouldn't have had to take that job on the Minnow!

[@wiseguymaybe]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@raellmoreland2373]

Or better yet get hit in a head and pretend to be a mighty sailor man

[@daleeloph7759]

😂

[@rickrick5041]

What's the Minnow?

[@bradthompsonuk2011]

@@rickrick5041 That was the name of the ship on Gilligan's Island. Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, co-starred as Dobie's best friend Maynard.

[@BrianLannoye]

I used to sneek out of bed in the 80's and watch Dobie Gillis with my brother. Such a classic.

[@kentclark6420]

I hadn't seen this show in decades until they started showing the reruns on Decades a year or so ago. Glad to see them again! RIP Dobie and Maynard!

[@raulmacias1311]

I was born in 1957 and as a very young boy, I used to watch this series in the early 1960's. I was mesmerized by Dwayne Hickman's opening monologue! He was very charismatic! I was very young but I knew Dobie was a very smart and clever young man. Man, I sometimes wish I can go back to that innocent time!

[@janethartwig774]

My two older sisters were in love with Doberman Gillis; most of the humor went right over my head. I’m getting such a kick watching it now that I get the jokes.

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

There were jokes here?

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello, How are you doing?

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

"Doberman Gillis"? Was this his full name? 🤔

[@kellycoleman715]

@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 No. 😄

[@xaj1543]

Janet Hartwig Doberman?

[@kellycoleman715]

I loved this show when I was a kid. I called my dad ‘Daddy-O’, which I picked up from Maynard Krebs. Years later I had a miniature schnauzer I named Dobie Gillis.

[@someguy2135]

Not a doberman?

[@kellycoleman715]

@@someguy2135 😄

[@crystalheart9]

How cute! My girlfriend had a black and white kitty that had a black chin and named him Maynard.

[@eecortese]

@@someguy2135 - That was a character in the "Sgt. Bilko" show, starring Phil Silvers. 🙂

[@lynettepalecek3141]

I used to watch this show on MeTV. I loved watching it!! Dwayne Hickman died on January 9, 2022 from Parkinson's Disease at the age of 87 years old. That made me sad.

[@michaelanderson2755]

I had a rare spat with my wife, and in my sadness I came opon this episode, and at minute 8:30 Thalia gets introduced as a character. Hitting me like a body blow. She was my first big crush, and I never realized what a dead ringer my new bride is to Ms. Weld. I instantly recognized a hidden reason for my continual fervor for my Irene ... she fulfilled my very first crush. No wonder I am crazy about her, she is what I always wanted. My fervor has mirrorred Dobie's ardor, and I suddenly understand a bit more as to why. Ah, the glory that is a girl! May we all chase after our own Thalia, wholeheartedly, without reticence. The value that we impart into something is the worth it has for us, so I hope that all of us have something as precious as Dobie finds Thalia. It took me a half century of chasing, but I finally had my old sigh of yearning become the smile of possession. I love my girl, as much as Dobie loves his.

[@Jazzie654]

Awwww🥰

[@frankstonrat]

Ahead of its time, great cast, clever scripts.

[@almapendergrass7810]

It shocks me how I remember this from when I was 6. Especially the statue. Having fun watching!

[@bradthompsonuk2011]

I went by the statue often in Paris. Never once saw Dobie or Maynard. They must have been banned from sitting there in another episode.

[@jccurran9327]

Hi. Hey, does anyone what years this Sẻies ran? I remember watching the series, just cannot recall being that young (ha). Thanks.

[@tcams76]

@@jccurran9327 I think '59- 63, I must have watched when I was six as well. TV was great back then only three channels. Everyone watched the same shows.

[@richard40x]

Yes, the statue is what I always remembered the most as well.

[@johnsaunders2109]

The statue was the best character!

[@1mespud]

Thank you, DWAYNE HICKMAN for doing your part to help tame mankind with your comedy, gift and talent. May GOD bless your legacy and surviving family.

[@rachael8a]

Great memories watching these. I loved watching this show on Nick at Nite when I was a kid.

[@JeffreyFalkenstein]

RIP Dwayne Hickman, thnx for the memories! 🙏

[@Mickkie]

I always thought Dobie Gillis was mad corny. But, as a young child, i had no choice but to watch what my folks watched. Or, "go outside" and "play".Way back when in the day. Rest In Peace Dwayne Hickman.🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@sexymama1966]

I remember seeing the product placement of the sponsors mid two seasons at the grocery store: Philip Morris and Colgate-Palmolive company. Also, the comparison of the first season of this show to the the early seasons of Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. Dobie/Fred, Zelda/Velma, Thalia/Daphne and Maynard/Shaggy.

[@michaelwalton4017]

My life is a Dobie Gillis sitcom!🤪👍

[@Barbe]

You a cutie like him too?

[@trevorinthailand]

Never seen this show before its hilarious and brilliant!!!!

[@shawnallen1639]

First time I’ve seen the show too . Very clever show

[@beyourself2444]

I’ve heard of it but I never saw an episode until today.

[@wallacecallow2255]

Another fun show back then was the Ozzie and Harriet Show, with Ricky and David Nelson as the two sons. If you're not aware of it.

[@AJSmith96]

Hears about it on This is important podcast

[@gordonadams5891]

Loved this show 😊 I had a crush on Tuesday Weld. She was underrated.

[@AB-nk5wv]

Dang Dobie was a predator 😂

[@jwise5204]

Who in their right mind didn't have a crush on Tuesday Weld?

[@fiziwig]

It was this show that taught me a very important word that I still use to this day: "propinquity"

[@sandraandrews9907]

A classic 📺 show. RIP Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver.🙏 They're getting reacquainted in heaven 🌈.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

Dwayne Hickman actually died on Bob Denver's birthday...

[@Jazzie654]

Indeed 😉🌈🌈🌈🌈

[@Pyrolonn]

My mom used to watch the repeats on Nick at Night, so I watched a few back then. I found it interesting that it spawned Scooby Doo, with Dobie as the Fred character, Zelda as Velma, and Maynard as Shaggy.

[@maxnullifidian]

I was pretty young when I watched this, so a lot of it went right over my head. But I still enjoyed it.

[@jenniferjacobs228]

Dennis The Menace's father as the teacher..lol... I loved this show so much. The Beat generation, daddio...lol... was just before my time but loved Maynard..he was the rebel, the bad boy.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

Herbert Anderson was in BOTH first episodes of _Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis_ and _Dennis The Menace_ that began and ended the SAME years...

[@michellepost5232]

This show is so funny...I love these old shows. I was born 1960, so I didn't get to watch this new, but saw alot of its eps when it was on a local channel during 1980 and 1981. I like the singing theme of it. Bob Denver sure looks young...before he was ever on the SS Minow. LOL. Dobie was a goof, but he was really sweet.

[@katmackie778207]

I loved that show!

[@jessenone3708]

I remember thinking of Dobie as a grown up back when the show was new,, course I was just a little kid when this show first aired. Now i see him differently, he looks like a teenager in this episode.

[@mikecassie3523]

He was actually 25 when the show first started

[@jimhanold9026]

This classic situation comedy-"The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"-originally aired on CBS from September, 1959 to September, 1963! It featured the comedic talents of Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver,Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Sheila James, Tuesday Weld, Warren Beatty, Tommy Farrell, Yvonne Lime, Darryl Hickman, William Schallert, Doris Packer, Steve Franken, Jean Byron, Richard Clair, Raymond Bailey, and Bobby Diamond. The show was based on characters created by author Max Shulman. I've enjoyed watching reruns of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" since 1980! :)

[@MovieMakingMan]

William Shallert was Mr TV! He was on countless shows. He was in 388 films! I don’t know what the record is but he had to be close to the top. We just lost him in 2016.

[@adjuster57]

WHOA!! Did Bob Denver just call Dobie "good buddy"? Like the skipper used to call Gilligan? My head is spinning.

[@johnmichaelkarma]

@Proud2be White yes

[@kevinmontgomery1383]

Little Buddy.

[@panatypical]

Pretty well written show

[@ishmael802]

RIP Dwayne Hickmen. Its strange that I checked up to see if he was still alive Jan 3 and was impressed only to find out he passed on Jan 10. Seems like we are losing all our stars.

[@paulakpacente]

I'll be 70 in less than a month. I watched this show in first run or reruns. This was the first time I saw Frank Faylen. Much later I learned that he had a career in the movies.

[@marieandpreciouscuteanimal5010]

Remember watching this show in the 60’s. Classic television shows!

[@thedealer777]

Maynard G.Krebbs. In the words of Obi Wan Kenobi, "Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time, ...a LONG time!"

[@richardtester2859]

RIP Dwayne.

[@robinshaw1673]

Maynard is more beatnik-y in the early episodes, using lots of beat words & making his voice sound jazzy. He wasn’t as stupid in the first few episodes - he connived with Dobie & gave him some good advice sometimes. As the show went on they dropped the beat words, just using the occasional “big daddy.” Beats were already getting outdated when the show started, so Maynard was turned into more of an innocent idiot than a beatnik who talked about jazz & wanted to be cool. But he still didn’t change his clothes. Beats were known for wearing dark clothes, whereas Maynard wore light colored clothes & shoes. Could’ve been the network censors insisting that the character not be too dark in character or clothes, or it just could be that white looked better onscreen & showed off the dirt & holes in Maynard’s outfit. Showrunners were portraying beatniks as dirty & sloppy stereotypes. The dirt disappeared as time went on & there were fewer holes in his clothes as the Maynard character became more dim & childish. Dobie calms down in later episodes. His manic obsessive stalking of Thalia in early episodes was tamped down & eventually the show featured Dobie & Maynard’s adventures more than Dobie chasing girls. There was just so much you could do with a girl-chaser character in 1959. Even double entendres were forbidden on teen shows back then. You’ll notice Dobie became less manic & less stupid as his hair darkens over time. By the end of the series Dobie disappears (Hickman started looking too old) & was replaced by his younger cousin “Dunky” while Maynard turns into a unicorn type fantasy character, eventually wearing footie pajamas & hugging a teddy bear as he waits for Santa in what looks like an oversized child’s bed in the Gillis household on Christmas Eve. Some of Maynard’s later episodes feature fantasy/dream sequences that were lifted straight from Dobie Gillis & plunked onto Gilligan’s Island a few years later. CBS, like all networks, retreaded their sitcom tropes over & over again (like chimpanzees - you couldn’t have a 60s sitcom without a chimpanzee in there somewhere).

[@lawsonj39]

Excellent analysis!

[@rachael8a]

Thank you for this!

[@mtncreekdawn]

The chimpanzee thing carried into the 70s, except it switched more into the comedy-adventure genre. Anyone remembsper "B J & the Bear"?

[@keeponcruisin7876]

Thank you

[@mudduck754]

Damn I remember seeing this when it first ran. Feeling a little old.

[@mufcdevil7411]

I'm 1993 born tbh I'm loving these 60's sitcoms , although it's 2020 with same problem "to get a girl you need money" true Af

[@morrigan7066]

Ketan Awale Try being 2003 born😂 I found this after looking back at the influence for Scooby Doo characters and it’s aged surprisingly well.

[@mudduck754]

@@morrigan7066 like around Sept 1969 might have been like ahhh the 13 th. Another one I seen first run. Maynard and Shaggy are like total depiction's of beatnik's.

[@shannoncrawford8902]

Wowie... Tuesday Wells you are beautiful... so young ...so innocent... so gorgeous.. you made the first episode of Dobie Gillis senstational.....

[@Lets_Go_Canes]

Weld… Tuesday Weld. And yes. 😊

[@erinwalker6185]

Oh cool! I was wondering if they will put "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" on DVD. I especially love the character Maynard G.Krebs portrayed by Bob Denver and it was the First Hipster/Slacker TV character.Around that era, The Beatniks were the thing and they were the counterculture before we even knew.

[@525Lines]

That was the role Bob Denver should have been famous for.

[@erinwalker6185]

525Lines Maynard G.Krebs predated the Hipster culture by 40 Years.

[@brucehutchison3946]

Erin Walker w. work!,,,,,,

[@bradthompsonuk2011]

All seasons of the show are on dvd. Search Amazon.

[@erinwalker6185]

@Meade Vlog channel Yes,then around,um,1965, came the hippies 🕊️🌼☮️,then in the late '70s to the '80s, came the punks,then in the early '90s came the slackers/grunge-types, and then around 1997, came the hipsters.

[@spleengrrrl]

I always heard about Bob"Gilligan" Denver being Maynard first and what a good character he was. Just from watching this, I totally agree! I am an 80s kid so I never got to watch this show. It's too bad that he became better-known for Gilligan since that got syndicated and this show didn't. He was actually quite good looking and it's funny how he's totally Shaggy! (All the Scooby Doo characters are inspired by this show)

[@antonialeigh]

Oh god yes, Bob Denver was beautiful.

[@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy]

@@antonialeigh Yeah, but Gilligan was a dipwad…

[@howardkerr8174]

@spleengrrrl Before Dobie, Dwayne Hickman was in a fairly decent show: The Bob Cummings Show (aka Love That Bob). Besides Dwayne Hickman, the show co-starred Ann B. Davis (aka Alice, on The Brady Bunch). As a kid I didn't understand most of the situations on either show, but it wasn't until just now that I may have realized how Love That Bob may have influenced Dobie's character. BTW, occasionally Dwayne's real life older brother appears on Dobie as Dobie's older brother, though just like on Happy Days, the older brother is rarely mentioned or seen.

[@wiseguymaybe]

@@howardkerr8174 In theory, that's because Marty McFly changed the 1950's time line. 😜

[@nudnikjeff]

I will always remember him as Maynard G. Krebs.

[@mylindacasbarro777]

A show from the good ole school.💡❤😊

[@Ninjamohawk]

This is one show that slipped by me in my 1990's youth of watching tons of old shows. I would have really dug it

[@shizuehicks7442]

Wonderful to hear Shiela Kuehl’s (Zelda) reminiscences of both Bob Denver and Dwayne Hickman here oin KZbin. Lovely to hear that they were both lovely to work with. I loved Dobie Gillis as a kid. Love it that much more now.

[@daisyglaze1817]

Neil Patrick Harris always reminds me of Zelda, lol. Same face.

[@jguerrero447]

Frank Faylen and Florida Freibus were favorite TV parents. More realistic; like mine. 1959-60 were great years.

[@williewillaims9069]

RIP MY FRIEND

[@jlassh]

this show rules, I just found it in 2022 and it's funnier than anything on tv this year

[@Anglynn74]

r.i.p. dobie and thank you

[@robert5712]

Agree this TV show impressed me when I was a young teen. I related to Maynard BTW.

[@YouCantHoldOnTooLong]

Tuesday Weld was so gorgeous! I always loved her soft spoken voice and her beautiful blonde hair! ~Dutch

[@briliant8]

I remember watching this. Reruns. The dad is a trip.

[@someguy2135]

My fav actor in the series.

[@jackpullen3820]

Tuesday Weld was quite the gal!!!

[@alexthompson9516]

She's exquisite.

[@GH-oi2jf]

Jack Pullen - Yes, and she later did films. She was a good actress, but didn’t take many roles.

[@howardkerr8174]

@@alexthompson9516 Watch her as the older sister in the movie Looking For Mr Goodbar. She wasn't just a pretty face, when Ms Weld got decent parts she did a very good job with them.

[@Charon58]

She was stunning. And a decent actress

[@joncarr6248]

She's my grandmother's cousin 👀😯

[@christineokey]

"you're fancy groceries" HAHAAAA

[@gregnorman2181]

I’M A HUGE FAN OF TMLDG

[@maxnullifidian]

Hey, I didn't know Maynard could play piano!

[@DoevoMarcus]

Use to love this shit as a kid when they played it on Nick at night lol none of my friends never knew what I was talking bout

[@scronx]

Shit's the word. Been wanting to see it again for almost 60 years -- what a letdown, what utter superficial degrading trash.

[@scronx]

@Meade Vlog channel But that's not saying anything, MV. Paper tastes better than poop, but it doesn't make it edible.

[@malcolmnicholls2893]

I'm British but I used to watch this when 12 years old as a £10. Pom in Oz. We all loved it but no-one in the UK knows of it!

[@suzeauster2223]

shout Out From Florida 🌴I enjoyed British shows! On the Bus 🚌 was a fav! Also, Bread was Great! and Upstairs/downstairs...Carry On Series were so funny! I still prefer British shows and movies! We took the premise of “ All in Family” from You!! I’m sure their were others !!Take care and God Bless 🙏

[@malcolmnicholls2893]

@@suzeauster2223 Thank you. Thats too nice. x

[@suzeauster2223]

malcolm nicholls ❤️

[@johnsaunders2109]

Never shown in the UK, and you can see why! It makes The Dukes of Hazzard look like As you Like It !!

[@manuelrocha9477]

I watched all the episodes of this tv comedy program, it's so old that even the new young american teens don't know about this. I always laughed when his dad said "I gotta kill this boy" so hilarious.

[@Anakhrahn]

I just realized how much I loved this show in junior high-- esp. Maynard!

[@richeyrich]

watched this show many times. wholesome entertainment.

[@PepperWarren]

RIP Dwayne Hickman

[@petelarosa282]

I remember when I was young watching this show all the time and really enjoying it.

[@classicrocker8780]

This show feels so much like a Proto- "That 70's Show"

[@leper73]

Herbert Gillis is definitely the precursor to Red Forman.

[@billr3724]

Watched this show in syndication years after it’s run and enjoyed it. Dobie reminded me of the old Archie comics. I’m disappointed that I didn’t hear much about Hickman’s passing in the media.

[@vnonkwinn6233]

I remember from 8 years old give or take a year, The late 50s/ early 60s , Pretty clean-cut programs back then

[@mikeymartin80]

I remember watching this with my grandmother and my grandfather on the old Nick at night. Along with car 54 and the Donna Reed show.

[@barbaragraceful]

So this was when the use of the word ''like'' as it's used now, started!

[@wleebraz]

Like, yeah man

[@wleebraz]

@Jeffery Pullin hey you talking about her or me. you should have seen me in the 70`s

[@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard]

@Jeffery Pullin Uh oh, we got another Dobie Gillis in the house.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@Jeffery Pullin I always thought that was more of a young adult subculture than teenage.

[@melodylove1893]

This was the time of the 'beatnik' generation. "Like" was a beat speak.

[@georgewilliams6251]

I once worked in a Mom and Pop Grocery once. It was very like the one Herbert Gillis owed. No one can identify with that in the age of Walmart.

[@Barbe]

I honestly would love to work in one.

[@kevinmontgomery1383]

I walked in one, asking for a soda. They sent me to baking soda. Oh you mean pop. I guess I was the first long hair they had seen, and they were having fun.

[@xaj1543]

George Williams You should have stayed in English class instead.

[@Massiveminion]

One of the best shows from the '60's. I watched it when first aired as a teenager and liked it immensely. I still find it quite relevant exploring American mores....just wish the canned laughter was axed.

[@essessessesq]

well, the canned laughter here is MILD compared to it now

[@Frank_42]

Love how they timed the laugh track wrong. "My Father's 60 years old and has a kidney condition..." hahahaha

[@56bluegold]

A very good tv show. Tuesday Weld was very Beautiful, back in her day.

[@dbag3345]

inspiration for scooby-doo

[@jennoscura2381]

Maynard is totally Shaggy.

[@BF-cu1hu]

I'm guessing Dobie is Fred and Zelda is Velma

[@TRJ2241987]

Yeah. The animators couldn't figure out what the characters should look like, so after several failed attempts they just decided to draw a TV show that already existed, and this is what they chose to rip off

[@HBarnill]

TRJ2241987 Hanna Barbera tends to do that. Look at Flintstones.

[@austinpearce5442]

B03542754F Thalia is Daphne

[@oluhamilton2121]

He looked like a PERVERT in the opening title sequence....Actually, this WAS an intelligently written series, l watched it every week. Dig this... l was at a hospital watching TV, and saw the WHOLE SERIES sequentially. Wow.

[@johnmichaelkarma]

Well,he has that look at the same time he points to the "knot hole" that does look kind of like a .... And the show starts going into and through that hole. Symbolism can be powerful

[@oluhamilton2121]

@@johnmichaelkarma knothole..... LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[@johnsaunders2109]

It was the dire script that made him seem a pervert !

[@marcosmateoochoa]

RIP Dwayne Hickman (Dobie)

[@billbergendahl2911]

This was probably the first television program I ever saw. What I remember about this show is the statue. I saw Bob Denver in person at New River Gorge Bridge Day in 1994 in West Virginia.

[@williamfithern5664]

Thank you very much! You make the world a better place place. The more the better

[@lynettepalecek3141]

I would love it if this show came out on dvds.

[@Muirmaiden]

It is on DVD. You can purchase each season individually or as a set.

[@lynettepalecek3141]

@@Muirmaiden Thank you for letting me know that. 😊

[@stonyrerootkit1013]

@@Muirmaiden At the cost of $60 USD per Season... I will have to Pass!! Great old TV Program though!!! 👑⚠️🏁💒💒🔆📛🎆

[@ldfreitas9437]

I saw these shows as a five year old. Didn't really understand much of it, but my parents and sister were laughing.

[@ultravioletpisces3666]

I'm here for Maynard G. Krebs

[@coledarton1431]

Smoke on !!

[@michaelkaczmarski2938]

Me too! Seems that Bob Denver's voice was a lot lower as Maynard, compared to Gilligan's later.

[@smguy7]

We all are!

[@essessessesq]

" WOrK ?!!"

[@josephcampese5347]

the G. is for Walter. I know it doesn't make sense, but that's what he said.

[@jmarsh22]

I like that the dad in this show seems more realistic than the dads in most TV shows from that time - Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, etc.

[@SofiaBerruxSubs]

People: Your generation cant live without phones Me: *watches the portable radio scene* Yes, proof they be the same way

[@bluerider7922]

Lets go to the repair shop and watch Tuesday Weld. ;)

[@danobelelement7828]

I use to watch this in the early 90s brings back so much nostalgia

[@wardka]

Wow! I used to watch it in the early 60s.

[@leepe6956]

RIP Dwayne Hickman, aka Dobie Gillis!

[@joannoflanagan5229]

LOved that show!

[@gertraba4484]

RIP. Dobie

[@ralphewell8398]

Just wonderful!!

[@keithtrawick6216]

STILL MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!!

[@lisalindsey277]

Hey, the Dad played Ernie the Cab Driver in "It's a Wonderful Life!" Frank Faylen.

[@chrisk8187]

Good catch!

[@Robertodette]

Cab driver and cop were named bert and ernie. And Andrew dice clay made a movie in which he was a private eye looking for a girl named Zuzu Petals.

[@lajas46]

The teacher on Dobie Gillis would later play Dennis Mitchell's father(Dennis The Menace)

[@Robertodette]

@@lajas46 yeah I saw that too

[@lisalindsey277]

@@lajas46 Yes I recognized him too!

[@marianevick4992]

I love dobie gillis

[@skeaneable]

to think that the main characters were used as templates for Shaggy,Fred,Daphne and Velma in Scooby Doo

[@johnsaunders2109]

Fred? Hardly! Dobie was as wet as a sponge !!!

[@shigeminotoge4514]

@@johnsaunders2109 template =/= duplicate

[@howiegale6777]

True. Just like the Honeymooners were the example for the Flintstones.

[@l.rongardner2150]

I'm surprised Dobie never became a a popular name.

[@tobertoasendio2119]

Que serie más chula 😃, es para todos los públicos.