I saw this show when I was 4 or 5. I really liked it. I didn't understand it but I liked it.
Then it disappeared for decades and it became a kind of holy grail for me to find it again.
I would rediscover it again in my teens on UHF reruns, and think to myself, "boy, that was a really smart show."
In later years I watched about the first season when it ran for a while on cable, after I was married and cable was new.
Warren Beatty & Tuesday Weld starred in the first season, impossibly young and good looking.
And that statue of Rodin's Thinker.
Dobie was great, but Maynard G Krebs' send up of a beatnik, right around the peak of the Beats' popularity, was sheer genius.
Zelda Gilroy was hilarious, and of course Dobie's Dad, as the Grocer-Philosopher we all know and love (if you're from an ethnic family) was dead on.
Just a brilliant, perfect show. Capped off by the directorial device of having Dobie talk to the camera.
At least 40-50 years ahead of its time.
Then it disappeared for decades and it became a kind of holy grail for me to find it again.
I would rediscover it again in my teens on UHF reruns, and think to myself, "boy, that was a really smart show."
In later years I watched about the first season when it ran for a while on cable, after I was married and cable was new.
Warren Beatty & Tuesday Weld starred in the first season, impossibly young and good looking.
And that statue of Rodin's Thinker.
Dobie was great, but Maynard G Krebs' send up of a beatnik, right around the peak of the Beats' popularity, was sheer genius.
Zelda Gilroy was hilarious, and of course Dobie's Dad, as the Grocer-Philosopher we all know and love (if you're from an ethnic family) was dead on.
Just a brilliant, perfect show. Capped off by the directorial device of having Dobie talk to the camera.
At least 40-50 years ahead of its time.