𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗕𝗦 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟲𝟳 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗼 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 starring Dwayne Hickman that aired on CBS from September 29, 1959, to June 5, 1963. The series was 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, which drew directly on the stories in some scripts. Shulman also wrote a feature-film adaptation of his Dobie Gillis stories for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953, titled The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, which featured Bobby Van in the title role. Hickman in Dobie Gillis was among the first leads to play a teenager on an American television program. Dobie Gillis broke ground by depicting elements of the contemporaneous counterculture, particularly the Beat Generation, primarily embodied in ...