A wacky alien lands on Earth, where he is befriended by some children, who convenience their recently widowed father to hire him as their nanny. There are even a few lines that made me laugh (Chatsworth and his "bor-eye-toe"). Was this review helpful? A fun behind-the-scenes look into the 60's television series, "Gilligan's Island." Written by Stewart M. Clamen Plot Summary | Add Synopsis 2 out of 2 found this helpful. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from the "Dobie Gillis" short stories written by Max Shulmansince 1945, and first collected in 1951 under the same title as the subsequent TV series. When Bob Denver's character Maynard G. Krebs is asked where he's been all these years he tells Dobie he has been stranded on a desert island.

Anderson appeared in a lead role in the pilot for Warren Beatty was cast as Milton Armitage, a recurring rival of Dobie's at his high school, during the first half of season one.Veteran child actress Sheila James, who, playing daughter "Jackie" on Steve Franken, a 28-year-old veteran character actor, was cast immediately after Beatty's departure as Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr, a replacement character for Milton Armitage. His sidekick and de facto best friend was American television's first Dobie's often apoplectic father, Herbert T. Gillis (Dobie was hopelessly attracted to the beautiful but greedy blonde Most of the action for the first season-and-a-half of The teen characters graduated from high school halfway through the second season, and Dobie and Maynard (along with Chatsworth) subsequently did a brief stint in the At the start of the third season, Dobie and Maynard received their Army discharges and they, Zelda, and Chatsworth enroll in S. Peter Pryor Max Shulman's first Dobie Gillis short stories were printed in 1945, and a short story compilation, Creator Max Shulman served as the show runner for and an uncredited producer of During its fourth season, the show, by then known as The theme song "Dobie" was written by 20th Century-Fox musical director Bob Denver, a 23-year-old grade-school teacher and postal worker with no previous professional acting experience, won the part of 18-year-old Maynard G. Krebs after his sister, a casting director's secretary, added his name to a list of candidates auditioning for the role.Before Pollard had completed his first episode, "The Sweet Singer of Central High", however, Denver returned and announced that he had been designated "Initially, only a supporting character, Denver's Maynard had graduated to co-lead by season two, as the character's "beatnik" mannerisms and eccentricities made him a hit with the viewing audience.Despite Maynard's rise in popularity and increased screen time, however, Denver – who had signed on as a Fox contract player without an agent – was unable to negotiate a raise in his $250/week salary until season four.Veteran actors Frank Faylen, a longtime acquaintance of the Hickman family and a fellow parishioner at their church,Experienced child actress Tuesday Weld was cast as Dobie's love interest in "Caper at the Bijou" and stayed on as a semiregular.

Weld and Dwayne Hickman had previously appeared as a teenage couple in the 1958 Fox feature film Herbert Anderson was cast as Mr. Pomfritt, Dobie and Maynard's English teacher at school. The role of Thalia was taken by Connie Stevens. Arlo and Gus return in the rollicking, "ribeting" sequel to the award-winning WonderWorks family movie FROG. Cinematographer Roger Deakins cited Bring Me the Head of Alfredo … The old sit-com relationships are also revisited with considerable irony for those familiar with the original show.

Hickman returns as the titular character from the 1959-1963 sitcom. Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his ... Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 Mexican-American neo-Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-written by Peckinpah and Gordon Dawson from a story by Peckinpah and Frank Kowalski, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in supporting roles. In the film Demolition Man (1993), the police officer played by Benjamin Bratt is called Alfredo Garcia in reference to the film. Missing, of course, were Dobie's parents, Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.