September 29, 1959 - June 5, 1963
CBS Situation Comedy - 147 Filmed Episodes
Cast:
| Dobie Gillis: | Dwayne Hickman |
| Maynard G. Krebs: | Bob Denver |
| Thalia Menninger: | Tuesday Weld |
| Herbert T. Gillis: | Frank Faylen |
| Winnie Gillis: | Florida Friebus |
| Zelda Gilroy: | Sheila James |
| Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.: | Steve Franken |
| Clarissa Osborne: | Doris Packer |
| Leander Pomfritt: | Herbert Anderson |
| William Schallert | |
| Ruth Adams: | Jean Byron |
| Imogene Burkhart: | Jean Byron |
| Davey Gillis: | Darryl Hickman |
| Duncan Gillis: | Bob Diamond |
| Virgil T. Gillis: | Roy Hemphill |
| Jerome Krebs: | Michael J. Pollard |
| Charlie Wong: | James Yagi |
| John Lee | |
| Milton Armitage: | Warren Beatty |
| Clarice Armitage: | Doris Packer |
| Riff Ryan: | Tommy Farrell |
| Maude Pomfritt: | Joyce Van Patten |
| Trembly, Osborne butler: | David Bond |
| The Osborne Chauffeur: | Angelo DeMeo |
| Dean Magruder: | Raymond Bailey |
| Lt. Meriwether: | Richard Clair |
| Blossom Kenny: | Marjorie Bennett |
| Melissa Frome: | Yvonne Lime |
Dobie Gillis was a "typical" American teenager, with three
primary interests in life: Beautiful women, fancy cars,
and money. Unfortunately he was the son of a grocer and
not the most attractive of boys, which put a certain crimp
in his aspirations. Dobie and his beatnik buddy Maynard,
to who work was a dirty word, did their best to get by with
a minimum of effort. Dobie had two real nemeses in life.
The first was intelligent but unattractive Zelda Gilroy,
who was constantly trying to get herself married to Dobie.
The second, through most of the series, was millionaire
Chatsworth Osborne, Jr., a spoiled young man who flaunted
his social status, not to mention his money, to snare the
attractive girls who eluded Dobie.
285 Norwood Street, Central City, was the business location
and residence of the Gillis family. Stories related Dobie's
continual thoughts about the future, his running battle
with his father over the prospect of acquiring work, his
relationship with his "good buddy" Maynard G. Krebs, and
his endless romantic heartaches, most of which center
around Thalia Menniger, a beautiful, greedy, self-centered
young woman who struggles to improve Dobie and find him
the job that will enable him to make "oodles and oodles of
money" though not for her, the last hope her family has,
but for her family, a sixty-year-old father with a kidney
condition, a mother who isn't getting any younger, a
sister who married a loafer, and a brother who is
becoming a public charge.
Season three related Dobie and Maynard's
experiences as army privates.
In season four after completing their military service,
and still undecided about life, Dobie and Maynard
enroll in college.
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