1. An early draft of this study was presented at the Nina Leibman panel at the UFVA conference at Chapman University in 1996.
2. A well designed Dobie Gillis homepage that includes a list of episodes is located on the World Wide Web at:
   http://home.inreach.com/blindowl/
3. As well as being of social significance the show was an important early credit for many actors. The Maynard character was Bob Denver's first television role and led to his later success in Gilligan's Island. Dwayne Hickman played the title role, while Shela James played Zelda Gilroy, the girl who pursued him and Tuesday Weld played Thalia Menninger, the girl he pursued. Weld and Warren Beatty, (who played Dobie's rival for the love of Thalia) both left the show in 1960. In January of 1960, Ryan O'Neal made his television debut on The Hunger Strike episode, which also featured Marlo Thomas.
4. For those interested in the Dobie Gillis phenomenon, both Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver have written popular accounts of their lives in television, and Barry Putterman has taken a more scholarly approach to the way Dobie Gillis synthesized the disparate styles of Jack Benny and George Burns.
5. Leibman has also spoken on issues of the mass mediated family in Velvet Light Trap, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Cinema Journal.
6. I am indebted to Barbara Wilinsky for the reference to Dobie Gillis made by John J. O'Conner in the New York Times, as well as for many important insights into the mass mediated image of the family.

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