Dobie Gillis to come to DVD?

WTF IS GOING ON NOW?! THIS IS BECOMING QUITE POPULAR AT AMAZON! damn!

 

Anyone have this ?

 

Usually it means that a number of customers returned the item with a similar complaint. Maybe the discs are scratched due to bad packaging. Maybe there's an authoring error. Who knows? Usually, however, the item will become available again from Amazon before too much time passes.

 

as were the others....

 

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I've got it. Pre-ordered the set from Amazon and received it on the release day. However, I exchanged mine cause a few of the discs were iffy, cosmetically speaking. Aside from that ("problems" most people wouldn't even notice) it's a great set! Nice graphic design, nice packaging colors, etc. I only watched the first few season one episodes, but what I saw looked pretty good - just don't expect transfers on par with the gorgeous I Love Lucy DVDs or even Shout! Factory's own Leave It To Beaver complete series set. For what they are, though, they're more than watchable and the comedy still holds up in 2013. I definitely laughed out loud more than a few times. All in all, bravo Shout! Factory! Keep the classic TV on DVD comin'!

 

I really dug this show as a kid when it was on Nick at Nite. My memory is that it was downright surreal at times. I may have to try and pick this up when the kinks are worked out.

 

they never again picked up the Fugitive Complete series 33 DVD box after all the crap with that set.

 

$65.00 ! limited time

http://www.amazon.com/Many-Loves-Do...8&qid=1396894413&sr=1-1&keywords=dobie+gillis

 

Thanks. Just ordered mine.

 

Trivia question :

When Riff like kicks Maynard
out of his store , what album
is Maynard holding ?

 

I'm on like disc 8 ,
been wanting to see
these since i first saw
a few on cable in the '80's

 

I bought this set a few months ago. I remembered this show from my childhood but considering that I was only six or seven when it first started to air, it's likely my exposure was during a daytime run in syndication. I'm only somewhere in the middle of season 2. The picture/sound quality are excellent. It's interesting to see the show and characters developing through the first season. Dobie's hair is blond for about 3/4 of the season, then, after December it goes to it's natural sandy brown but later in the season, there is at least one episode where it's blond again! (I assume this was an earlier episode that was postponed for some reason). The early shows featured Tuesday Weld (yum) and Warren Beatty but they had both moved on to bigger things before the season ended. In the second season, they really start to develop and incorporate Maynard's hip catch phrases like, "You Rang?", "Work!" and "It's only you Maynard". It seems funny in retrospect that the guy everyone thinks dresses odd and has a weird haircut is only about three years from being the coolest dude on campus. Of course, he'll need to exchange his Jazz albums for the Beatles and Stones. By the way, the producers try to kick-start Dwayne Hickman's singing career (mandatory for teen actors at this time) but it's pretty weak and of course went nowhere.

My biggest complaint about this show is the fact that they have 20-somethings portraying high school students. I watched an episode the other day that had the students in a band practice at school. The guy on standup bass was going bald! What high school is this? Anyway, I think around season three or four they all move to Community College and things don't seem quite so weird. So far I'm enjoying these shows. Thanks to Shout! Factory for making them available.

 

Dwayne & Bob were like 24 , 25 when the
show started , and yeah that bass player
looked at least 35


Anyone else prefer Zelda to Thalia ?

 

Funny, the scripts try to make Zelda seem bookish and nerdy but she's actually cute and not nearly as square as she might be if real. I can remember thinking she was cute even as a kid. Thalia however, what can I say about Thalia? Tuesday Weld was smokin' in my opinion but not much of an actress. Based on the characters and given the choice at 17, I would have picked Thalia. However, today as a much older and far wiser man, I'd go with Zelda.

Did you notice that when Zelda's family was introduced in season one (Dobie Starts A Rumor) she had a bunch of sisters and her parents seem stretched for cash but in a later episode (Here Comes The Groom (if I recall)) they seem to live in a much nicer house and there is no mention of all those sisters? I think both these episodes were in season one. I guess continuity was not important back then. Why else would they use the same woman to play Milton's mother and then, when Warren Beatty left, cast the same person as Chadsworth's mother? They weren't brothers as they have different last names. It seems like an easier solution would have been to just call the new guy Milton and, like a soap opera, make it seems as if no one notices that Milton is a completely different person.

 

Gabrielle Carteris was 29 when she played a 16 year old on "Beverly Hills 90210".

 

Tuesday & Sheila were
16 & 18 , at least they
were the right age for
High School students

 

how low will this set go?

 

If I'm not mistaken, Warren Beatty used the money from this show to finance Bonnie and Clyde.

Chad

 

Me! Even as a 10-year old (in 1960) I thought Dobie was an idiot. Zelda was smart, funny, cute as hell, was Dobie's friend, and she adored him. Nope. All he wanted was a vacuous blonde with hugh tracts of land. I would have married Zelda in a heartbeat, except that I was a child and she was fictional.

 

The cheap bastions won't spend de money on proper mastering. This is almost as bad as companies who transfer vinyl to CD and release the albums that way. Cheap, cheap, cheap.

I suspect Zelda wanted something different romantically than Dobie.

 

No, that's Sheila, not Zelda, ya MOE-ron.


Silliness Disclaimer for the Humor Impaired: I'm not really calling Vidiot a *****.

 

I thought Sheila was Zelda!

I was making... you know... a joke about Ms. Kuehl. <ahem>

 

What we have here is a failure to communicate on my part. I got your joke, thought it was funny. My brilliant rejoinder was a facetious suggestion that you were confusing the actress with the character. Hence, "MOE-ron", which was mock outrage.
We cool, Poopsie.

 

I noticed in the first season that almost all the girls have odd names. Thalia and Zelda are just two but most of Dobie's love interests also have unusual names as well. I wondered if the producers did that to ensure they wouldn't offend any real Debbies or Nancys. It seems as the show progresses there are some more common names so, I guess they decided it wasn't necessary or they ran out of unique names.