Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs
The series revolved around teenager Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman), who aspired to have popularity, money, and the attention of beautiful and unattainable girls. He did not … See more

Max Shulman's first Dobie Gillis short stories were printed in 1945, and a short-story compilation, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, was published in 1951. These stories were … See more

The program spawned two 20th Century Fox-produced sequels, the pilot Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? (1977) and the TV movie Bring … See more

On July 2, 2013, Shout! Factory released The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis – The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The set included all 147 episodes of the series, plus the original … See more

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• Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis is a clean-cut teenager (later young adult) and unremarkable student whose young heart finds poetry and … See more

After the first season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis had aired, Capitol Records attempted to make a recording star out of Dwayne Hickman, ignoring the fact that Hickman, by his own admission, was not a singer. Recording engineers had to piece together numerous … See more

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was a major influence on the characters for another successful CBS program, the Hanna-Barbera See more