THE MANY LIVES OF DOPEY GILLIS

THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS
CBS 1959-1963

THE MANY LIVES OF DOPEY GILLIS
Sick #14, August 1962
w: Joe Simon
a: Bob Powell

Between the n-word a few days ago in the Mandingo parody and word “retard” in this, people tuning in just now might think this blog is one big hatefest. Oh well, that's the price we pay by posting things from the past.

Based on the short stories of Max Shulman, this sitcom focused on the adventures of girl-crazy teenager Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman) and his beatnik friend Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Tuesday Weld played a character named Thalia Meninger in some of the earlier episodes.

They didn't actually join the army. This article was a prediction of what could happen if revamping the characters continued.

Before this, Dwayne Hickman had been a regular in the series Love That Bob, or as it was known when it was first run, The Bob Cummings Show.

DC had a series based on the show.

They did a lot of comics of sitcoms and celebrities but didn't own them, so since they couldn't reprint them, they redrew them and change them slightly.

Sometimes they made no effort to redraw the stories, only updating their fashions.