Dobie Gillis opening

[steve7138]

Dwayne Hickman's cartoon character (peeping thru the hole) looks like overweight pervert

[SenhordoBonfim]

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

[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.

[Phoenixx119]

I watch Dobie on Me TV. Good Show.

[kristell9]

Gotta say Dobie Gillis is a pretty good show. Surprisingly so for a black & white program. A rare jem.

[scarletngold]

@baller same one.

[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????

[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.

[americanfellow]

FINALLY! Something that was before my time

[cippy2k]

dwayne was a cbs executive

[louismkaufman]

I loved this show. Watched it religiously as a child. Brings back some fond memories!

[Jeff98177]

@louismkaufman Do you have MeTV? They show it 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.

[kristell9]

Maynard was a much more interesting character than Gilligan.

[MrCombat1965]

"Someday I'm gonna kill that boy"

[songanddanceman100]

@MrCombat1965

Frank Faylen!

[radioclash81]

I discovered this show on cable in the early 80's--loved it. I named a black cat I had at the time Maynard.

[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.

[ignorecorporatenews]

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

[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.

[DavelovesRealMusic]

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

[yowzephyr]

I remember watching this TV show as a kid. This opening seemed so innocent back then.

But damn. Look at 0:21. That guy is such an evil looking peeping Tom, isn't he? And then next that innocent, doe eyed girl looks so sweet and innocent....until she starts shaking her booty at 0:26. I mean what's up with that? (Dobie's dong, that's what.)

More booty at 0:29. More ass wagging at 0:31.

I was so naive in those days. I had no clue that the animator was thinking about fucking at every frame.

[cap1900]

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

[pieword]

Nick at Night and TV Land started off great and then went down hill fast, they both stink now.

[Juliaflo]

@pieword I totally second that motion.

Don't you just detest what is done to the closing credits on TV Land?

[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.

[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!

[tracispazz]

i agree with mario. i loved this show. and f troop and my three sons.

[MerleOberon]

Gee, Dobie would be on the sexual predator's list now looking through a peephole!

[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.

[cheyenne86]

couldnt get this song outta my mind last night

[noacronym]

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

[JubalCalif]

Warren Beatty was a regular during the first half of the first season of this show. He played a stuck up rich guy. Wonder whatever happened to him....

[ftsjr]

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

[suspekt29]

Dobie was the ultimate pimp.

[Drivermatic]

Love the theme music, note how it does not have any hint of Rock, typical of most theme music for shows and commercials pre 1967

[jsilence418]

The cake looks better than the show!

[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!!!!

[skeilak]

I always thought the best part of this show was Dobie's pal, Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). TV's coolest Beatnik, and proto-hippie.

[suspekt29]

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.

[hzzqvv00]

If the knot hole in the fence reminds you of any body part on your wife or girlfriend, then you need to find another woman real quick.

[chronocream]

Used to love watching this on Nick-at-Nite during the 80s (and possibly the 90s, but I don't remember if I was watching it then, but definitely in the 80s). Never noticed the hole as being perverted. Silly me. But yeah, Dobe does look like a pervert with the way he looks at you and points at the girls. And creamy... always made me think Avon because a lot of people were selling Avon back then.... lotion... anyways, good show :)

[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.

[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.

[loocee95]

@chronocream

You mean you weren't entralled by Pillsbury?

They claim it added a loving touch....

Hahahahahhaha!

[rolex452]

Dobie, like many guys, loved all the pretty girls...but they didn't love him...such is youth, and classic TV. Thanks for the books and the show, Max Shulman!

[MPL029]

dobie appears to be a peeping tom pervert in the intro

[LosAngeleno1959]

Wow, I close my eyes hearing this and I'm in my childhood bedroom with my brothers and I can clearly see out our window our driveway and my Dad's 1960 Chevrolet Impala and my neighbors house across the street. Funny how a simple tune can bring all that back.

[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!

[LosAngeleno1959]

You are so right friend. Another theme that takes me back to my childhood home is the opening and closing theme from "The Fugitive" That was such a favorite show for my family all through the sixties. Those themes and the music from those times are etched in my soul.

[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.

[MagicalMysteryTube]

@LosAngeleno1959 yep... that's the magic of music. Especially the great old TV themes, which were instantly identifiable and singable. They don't write that kind anymore.

[septrenarion]

Yes, vagina symbolism here.

[javamonkee]

Not hardly, if you see such a thing as that here, you must see it everywhere on TV, even Barney, I guess.

[oldaxekid]

yep, you were the only one perv

[cameiaux]

Am I the only one who sees the "vagina shaped" hole featured over and over again, and the Pillsbury ad showing the woman as so submissive.... Notice how "dobie" sees women through the V shaped hole in the fence... they could have made the hole round or any shape.... ok......

[pgy002]

Oh me, leave it to some IDIOT to make 21st century trash out of a GREAT show like this!

[duckman531]

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

[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?

[titostacos]

Dobie Gillis "opening" indeed!

[loocee95]

Nope...I caught it too...I'll bet the censors had a wonderful discussion over that hole....Of course they could always beat up on Ward Cleaver for being so "hard" on the beaver.....hahaha!

[Juliaflo]

Happy 50th Anniversary, Dobie Gillis.

[loocee95]

Let's talk 50's porn....

Dobie wants a girl who's "creamy"...duhhhh....

And take a look at that hole in the fence......Take a good look....

Yea...This stuff is great!!

Much better than the crap we have today...

[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

[RJRanke]

I remember that,too.Maynard's middle name was given at least twice on the show.I think he said that the name,'walter,'was after his aunt.

[fromthesidelines]

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

[RJRanke]

The original title was The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis-but in the later years a better title might have been The Misadventures of Dobie and Maynard.

[ChickLover721]

Heres the intro! lol

[MysticRubyFaerie]

lol! Listen to that harmony! Just the animation whew boy needs some help! lol!

[Juliaflo]

Happy 50th anniversary to Dobie Gillis.

Happy 75th birthday (this coming May), Dwayne Hickman.

[jason75]

I used to watch this in the 70's

[dontcallmedan]

I remember the show in the fall of 1960, where Maynard G Krebbs had "ESP" and,  just maybe, was going to reveal who was to win the upcoming election--Kennedy or Nixon. Or was it all just a dream? A Number 9 Dream?

[RJRanke]

I have that episode on tape.Maynard was going to predict the winner of the election-but Dobie convinced him not to because it would sway the election and spoil the American's right to chose.Maynard then did not name the winner and although he was frowned on by most,Dobie called him an unsung American hero.

[noacronym]

Actually Nixon won that election by honest count, but it ended up a practical dead heat because of the cemetery residents in Chicago all voting Democrat. Nixon didn't contest because he didn't want to tear the country apart like Algore did later. It wasn't the first election that cemetery residents voted Democrat in, and it won't be the last.

[Schrittwieser]

Nixon Sucked

[zapkvr]

It doesn't matter, the illegal war still continued in Vietnam. Nixon only bombed the neutral country Cambodia back to the stone age - oh and gave the world the mass murderer Pol Pot. (who made Saddam Hussein look like a Sunday school Nun)

[OldMrMemories]

Yeah but you conveniently forget to mention that the communist regime were running weapons and sabotoge that killed our troops so its a good thing we bombed the shit out of our enemies. The communist even enjoyed having their fifth column sympathizers here doing their very best to destroy America and those useful idiots on te college campuses then, now are the teachers in those same bastions of marxism.

[zapkvr]

And you conveniently forgot to mention the reason the communists were trying to blwo the shit out of the U.S. soldiers. What would YOU do if the gooks invaded your street? Would you just roll over and let them tickle your tummy? I think not. Within a few years of the U.S. surrendering in 1975, the people of Vietnam kicked the communists out. They would have done it much sooner if it had not been for the lying fascist's Nixon's pride

[OldMrMemories]

I don't do anything conveniently pal and as for your statement "the people of Vietnam kicked the communist out" what the "F" are you smoking? You really must be kidding. What do you call those jokers in charge in Ho Chi Minh City? John Birchers?

[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.

[OldMrMemories]

I actually work and live in a vietnamese neighborhood and have heard about what their police do to anyone caught with a bible or practicing any religion,and you have no freedom of speech or to assemble there. You have been shammed by liberal professors friend. My older brothers were both stationed in Vietnam and theyll tell you what the Communist regime did to the Hmong or anyone suspected of being against the state. Also , poverty and hunger oersist with the generalpoulation. Thats a fact

[zapkvr]

Stationed in Viet Nam? When? Thirty, forty years ago? Burning women, children, houses and villages with their napalm were they? I don't you are unbiased my friend, it is very hard to take you seriously. Forty million americans don't even have health insurance so its a bit rich to lecture the rest of the world about democracy.

[OldMrMemories]

Wow! You don't even know my brothers and you come off with insults. Spoken like a true childish socialist. Communism doesn't work. It stagnates and silences all initiative but worst of all ,it;s adherants always resort to insults as they conveniently hide behind the internet. Who has the bias friend? Your ecucation was made possible by capitalism.

[OldMrMemories]

Also,it's obvious you are not reading my post becasue the abuse of freedoms that exist in Vietnam that I have been told about were from people that still have families there TODAY,not 40 years ago. Thats what blows my mind about marxist and communist. You live in a fantasy of a socialist Utopia where everyone gets equal rewards and everyone walks in pure harmony and peace. What a croc! Any socialist nation that has existed in history has heen ruled by despots and tyrants. Wealthy ones

[TomHendricksMusea]

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

[Zphunkallstar]

i use to watch this show on nick at night in the 80's :) Now they are playing facts of life and fresh prince of bel air... i feel im getting old :(

[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.

[videoshirt]

@marioTmaggot exactly man thats exactly what i'm saying

[kjbleu]

@marioTmaggot - me too! Don't you wish TVLand actually showed old show like this instead of the BS they have on now?

[dkoch2]

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

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

TV shows were much better years ago.

Back then, just about every show was good.

Life was better too!

George Vreeland Hill

[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!

[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

[DrHogfan]

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

[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.

[imusfan48]

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

[vzeu019j]

I remember "Dobie Gillis" Being on Nick at Nite brand reruns from 1990-1993.

[yeahbuddy21]

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!

[lala0578]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DOBBIE GILLIS ROCKS!!!!!!!! Oh how i miss this show i wonder if i can order the eps. i want them all. nick at night should start showing all this stuff agian , for the kids sake so they can see what was real to us as children in our day, pure entertainment clean entertainment, i miss this

[systembust]

I know, right... agreed 1000%

[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

[john66674]

goddamn!!!!that cake looks delicious!!!!!

[EddieLandsberg]

Dobie... wants a girl who's horny...

Dobie... wants a girl who's horny...

(sorry...)

[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!

[stacyblue1980]

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

[christy340]

He was so cute on this show!!

[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.

[ILoveSnails85]

or on DVD...(crosses fingers)

[chosen11979]

I'm a bit too young (29) to have caught this show when it first aired, but I do remember when it got picked up by Nick At Night in 1990 and I couldn't get enough of it. One of my favorite programs ever.

[tdavidray]

THANKS FOR FINDING AND POSTING THIS!!!

I've been searching on Youtube 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.

[caseyg5]

Creepy?? Not how I would describe MLDG.

Best wishes, Chadsworth Osborne Junior!

[RatkoUSA]

looooooool that was a really creepy show

[G7flat5]

Great music, cool=

[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}...

[Texaslawhorn]

One of the best openings ever!