Max Shulman (Writing)

Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis

It's been nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who was chasing him all through high school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. All of a sudden, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds out of work and severely threatening the local economy. Dobie, as head of the town council, is looked upon to lead the town out of this desperate crisis. When all seems lost, life-long friend Maynard G. Krebs appears, representing an old acquaintance who has a strange demand.

Release Date: 1988-02-21

Department: Writing

Job: Characters

Help Wanted: Male

An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.

Release Date: 1982-01-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

House Calls

Dating someone you work with can create problems, as Charley Michaels and Ann Anderson learned. He was a surgeon at Kensington General Hospital in San Francisco, a good doctor but less than enthusiastic about conforming to hospital rules and regulations. She was the hospital's new administrative assistant, an English lady with a commitment to keeping the hospital running efficiently. They were romantically involved but often at odds. Based upon the 1978 feature film of the same name.

Release Date: 1979-12-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

House Calls

Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.

Release Date: 1978-03-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 17

Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?

Thirty-minute reunion of the classic series that includes Bob Denver and title star Dwayne Hickman.

Release Date: 1977-05-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.

Release Date: 1959-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 18

Vote Count: 14

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.

Release Date: 1958-12-23

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 23

The Tender Trap

A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.

Release Date: 1955-11-04

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 35

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.

Release Date: 1953-08-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

Half a Hero

A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.

Release Date: 1953-05-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Confidentially Connie

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.

Release Date: 1953-03-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

Release Date: 1950-02-02

Character: Self - Panelist

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 25