The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was a situation comedy which ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The television series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories with the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. A followup novel, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, appeared in 1959. The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... An episode is to television and radio what a chapter is to a book: a part of a sequence of a body of work. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Max Shulman (March 14, 1919 – August 28, 1988) was an American writer who was popular in the third quarter of the 20th century. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...

In the TV series, teenager Dobie Gillis (played by Dwayne Hickman) aspired to have popularity, money, and the attention of beautiful women. He didn't have much of any of these qualities in abundance, and the tiny crises surrounding Dobie's lack of success made the story in each weekly episode. His partner in crime was beatnik wannabe Maynard G. Krebs (played by Bob Denver); to say he missed the point on many things would be putting it mildly. This program was from Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television; creator Shulman also wrote the theme song. A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... Dwayne Hickman (born May 18, 1934) is an American actor and television executive. ... Money Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account. ... Many see natural beauty in the folded petals of a rose. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... Stereotypical beatnik image, (from Zig-Zag cigarette papers) (Disambiguation: See also- Beatnik programming language. ... You might also be looking for an article about the Wannabe song. ... Maynard G. Krebs was the beatnik sidekick of the title character in the early 1960s U.S. television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. ... Bob Denver as Gilligan. ... Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ...

Each episode began and ended with Dobie pondering his problem, posing à la "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin. In fact, he was usually in a park on a bench with a reproduction of the famous statue immediately behind him. The Thinker, bronze cast by Alexis Rudier, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is one of Auguste Rodinxcs famous bronze sculptures. ... Auguste Rodin Rodins The Burghers of Calais in Calais, France. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ...

Dobie's two main antagonists were popular rich kids Milton Armitage (portrayed by a young Warren Beatty) and, after Beatty's departure, Armitage's cousin Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. (played by Steve Franken), and homely busybody Zelda Gilroy (portrayed by Sheila James); the former Dobie hated as he had all that Dobie wanted, and the latter Dobie despised because she was hopelessly in love with him and he was annoyed by her advances. Dobie himself was hopelessly attracted to wealthy, distant blonde Thalia Menninger (Tuesday Weld), as well as an endless number of other beautiful women. (Future "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig appeared on the series, in several different roles.) The antagonist is the character (or group of characters) of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend. ... Wealth usually refers to money and property. ... Warren Beatty Henry Goro Beaty (born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia), now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American politician and former child actress. ... Tuesday Weld, born August 27, 1943, is an American film actress. ... Batgirl is a DC Comics superhero, a female crime-fighter modeled after and associated with Batman. ... Yvonne Craig, early 60s. ...

As a high school student, Dobie lived at home with his parents in the show's early years, and his interaction with his parents was a source of much of the humor. His mother was very caring and perhaps tended to baby her son a little too much; his father, a grocer, was a very proud, somewhat belligerent World War II veteran who would often, on the slightest provocation, remind his listeners, "I was in the Big One—W W Two!" or declare "I've gotta kill that boy!", but was deep down a good and decent man. In later years, Dobie moved on from high school to S. Peter Pryor Junior College, surrounded by many of the same people; in between, he and Maynard (along with Chatsworth) even did a brief stint in the peacetime U.S. Army. (The Vietnam War was still of a minor concern to most Americans when the series ended.) Main article: Secondary education in Japan The Japanese word for a high school is kōtōgakkō (高等学校; literally high school), or kōkō (高校) in short. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... A veteran refers to a person who is experienced in a particular area, particularly referring to people in the armed forces. ... In India, a Junior College consists of classes (also known as grades by foreign schools) 11 and 12 and are taught by colleges rather than in schools. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies—notably the United States military in support of...

This program, like several others from roughly the same period, was probably more popular as a late-afternoon rerun than it had ever been in prime time and is probably remembered as well as it is for that reason. The program even spawned two sequels, the pilot Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis (1978) and TV movie Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988). In these, Dobie had married Zelda. The later of which took its title from the Sam Peckinpah film, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and its plot from the play The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Rerun van Pelt is the name of Linus and Lucys younger brother in the comic strip Peanuts. ... A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... A television movie (also TV movie, TV-movie, made-for-TV movie, etc. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984) was an American film director, known as Sam Peckinpah, famous for his films with extremely bloody climaxes. ... Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1974 film directed by Sam Peckinpah. ... The Visit is the title of various English translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts play Der Besuch der alten Dame (literally, The Visit of the Old Lady). It is probably the most well-known of his work, at least in the English-speaking world. ... Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 – December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. ...

In real life, after largely retiring as an actor, Dwayne Hickman spent many years as an employee of CBS in the programming department, at one point being its vice president. He also worked as a television director. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ...

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was a major influence on the characters for another successful CBS program, the Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. Scooby writer Mark Evanier noted that "Fred was based on Dobie, Shaggy on Maynard, Velma on Zelda and Daphne on Thalia." [1] Similarities have also been noticed between the Dobie Gillis characters and The Archies (Dobie and Archie, Maynard and Jughead, Zelda and Betty, Thalia and Veronica, Chatsworth and Reggie), which may or may not be coincidental. Scooby-Doo, Where are You! was the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. ... Mark Evanier (born March 2, 1952 in Santa Monica, California) is an American writer. ... The Archies are a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones. ...