Maynard G. Krebs..........and the beat goes on. 50"s Retro.

[Dover]

Dobie Gillis, Maynard G. Krebs (before he was marooned on a desert isle with the skipper), and Zelda Gilroy.




W..w...w..w....wOrK!

[Ruffhowse]

1. Classic show!!! Loved Maynard!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Zelda was pretty cool

I liked the way she could make Dobie flinch. Isn't the actress who played her a gay/lesbian activist?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Yes and she was a State (?) Rep in CA.

[Dover]

4. She WAS Kuehl.......... Sheila James Kuehl, that is.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. That's it!

[Longgrain]

5. I remember watching Dobie on Nick at Night

back when I was around 19, and remember thinking how cool it must have been back in the oh so prim 50's to watch a show where one of the main characters was obviously a burn out. :hippie:

[Dover]

7. Kind of a reference to the beat generation...Jack Kerouac's, On the Road.

[Longgrain]

9. Yep, I'm a fan of Kerouac and the Beats

Just funny how TV of the fifties, which was usually so squeaky clean, let a character like him in, even if it was mostly for comic relief.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. hey man

whats your problem daddy-o?


it was KEWL

I wore a black leotard , a pony tail and eye make up

I was one happenin' chick

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. there was a lot of "under the radar" unrest

Kerouak, Ginsberg and the like

it was not as it seemed to be --the 50s

and then in the early 60s Dylan happened--
the war happened --

and life aint never been the same since

[Hardrada]

11. Some of it wasn't so undercover.

The HUAC riots in late 1950's, the early rock and roll images were counter-cultural for the Fifties (the wild ones etc.), the gangs of that time were quite clearly hostile to the established order, antinuke stuff started in the UK late fifties and early 60's, Freedom Riders 1961 I believe. The beats were a more arty subsection of all this. The American Left had been destroyed by then but a new group of splinter leftists was on the way. Oh yes, SDS Port Huron Statement in 1961.