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Old 01-10-2022, 10:51 AM
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Default RIP Dwayne Hickman

Dwayne Hickman, known widely as 'Dobie Gillis', passed away Sunday from Parkinson's. He was 87.

His trademark show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, was very popular in the late 50s and early 60s and gave a newcomer to TV, Bob Denver, his first national exposure. The year after Dobie Gillis went off the air, Denver was back on with his own show Gilligan's Island.

Rest in peace Dwayne.

Story link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...-87/9151963002/

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Fun to watch The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis reruns - show was a bit ahead of it’s time and genuinely funny. Dwayne was a lucky man getting to do scenes with the delightful Tuesday Weld!
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Fun to watch The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis reruns - show was a bit ahead of it’s time and genuinely funny. Dwayne was a lucky man getting to do scenes with the delightful Tuesday Weld!


It really was a bit ahead of its time and is one of the funnier early sitcoms.

And it featured early screen appearances from several actors and actresses who would go on to greater fame in the 60s and onward. Tuesday Weld as you mention, along with a young Warren Beatty, Marlo Thomas, Bob Denver (as also already noted), Steve Franken, and Michael J. Pollard.

Franken, as the very rich Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. was notably very, very funny, as was his mother, Doris Packer. Doris is well-known to fans of the Andy Griffith show as Mrs. Wiley, who’s nice little proper society dance in her home is attended by a polished up Earnest T. Bass, having been coached and cleaned up by Andy. Anyway, Franken’s and Packer’s goings on vs. the ‘underclass’ on Dobie Gillis is very funny.

But the primary and leading characters were mostly all kids, and with Dobie routinely breaking the ‘fourth wall’ to talk directly to the camera/audience was very different for early TV.

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