The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also known as simply Dobie Gillis or Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis in later seasons and in syndication) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from the "Dobie Gillis" short stories written by Max Shulman since 1945, and first collected in 1951 under the same title as the subsequent TV series. Shulman also wrote a feature film adaptation of his "Dobie Gillis" stories for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953, entitled The Affairs of Dobie Gillis which featured Bobby Van in the title role. Dobie Gillis is significant as the first American television program produced for a major network to feature teenagers as leading characters. In other series, such as Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, teenagers were portrayed as supporting characters in a family story. An even earlier 1954 series, Meet Corliss Archer, featured teenagers in leading roles and aired in syndication. Dobie Gillis broke ground by depicting elements of the current counterculture, particularly the Beat Generation, primarily embodied in a stereotypical version of the "beatnik". Series star Dwayne Hickman would later say that Dobie represented “the end of innocence of the 1950s before the oncoming 1960s revolution”.

Year:
1959
6,627 Views

Dobie Gillis:
[Dobie bemoans his situation, suffering through science class, turns to his table mate] And as for you, you don't make things any easier, you know? A whole month I've been sitting here next to you and I haven't heard one word out of you, not one single word, not even "hello." You just sit there doing everything right and giving me a big freeze. For Pete's sake, speak to me. Say something! Say anything!

Zelda Gilroy:
I love you.

Dobie Gillis:
[Stunned] I beg your pardon?

Zelda Gilroy:
That's right. I love you.

Dobie Gillis:
Zelda, I am, of course, flattered...

Zelda Gilroy:
Now, don't get a swelled head. You're nothing so special. You're dumb as a post, you're pigeon-toed and you'll be bald before you're 30.

Dobie Gillis:
Is that so? Well, I don't want to be unkind, but you're not exactly a traffic-stopper yourself.

Zelda Gilroy:
Yeah, we're a couple of dogs all right. But still, we're not too repulsive. Anyway, what's the difference? We're victims of propinquity.

Dobie Gillis:
What's that?

Zelda Gilroy:
Propinquity: nearness, closeness. Sigafoos and Wembling of Harvard, in a study of 2,900 married couples, proved that in 87% of the cases the couples first fell in love because of propinquity. You put a boy and a girl close to each other for long enough and it's bound to happen. It's a scientific fact.

Dobie Gillis:
No offense, Zelda, but I don't love you.

Zelda Gilroy:
You will. You're Gillis and I'm Gilroy. Don't forget they seat students alphabetically in science classes. You'll be sitting next to me all year long, and next year, too. And then when we go on to to medical school: eight more years of propinquity. Don't fight it, Dobie. You can't beat science.

Dobie Gillis:
I can try, Zelda. I can try.

Zelda Gilroy:
Fool. [goes back to lab work]


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