Comments on: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

By: William Pollack

William Pollack — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:19:04 +0000

Would love to hear more about his days at KFVS prior to ’79 while it was still under local ownership. And, any pics of the TV and radio would be greatly appreciated!

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:24:09 +0000

He's still in the business of making people believe that Schnucks sells the cheapest bananas. Here are two links to some commercials he did years ago: The Tease and The commercials. Maybe he'll weigh in here with more KFVS memories. I'm still looking for more photos from the tour he gave me of the station.

By: William Pollack

William Pollack — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:25:42 +0000

Ken – What is your brother Mark doing now? I would love to hear more about his experiences at KFVS-TV and see pictures, if available. I grew up in Cape in 60′s and 70′s and worked in local radio. I was able to raid the remainders of the Ch 12 storage rooms and saved some of their great animated movie intros, the famous “Owl” weather intro, some of Don McNeely’s work from the 50′s, the 16mm special they produced on the building of both TV towers, etc – much of which was borrowed for use on their 50th anniversary show. I own TV and radio stations today and love the rich history of Cape Girardeau media. Thanks!

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:30:50 +0000

Donna,

Thanks for the update. I’m glad to hear he’s alive and well.

By: Donna McNeely

Donna McNeely — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:25:09 +0000

Hey, someone just sent me a link to your blog. Thanks for the nice nod to my dad, but….what are you doing with his mail?! He’s been waiting to receive that letter from TV GUIDE for decades!

After enjoying the past 17 years of retirement in Cape, my parents recently sold their home there and bought a condo on the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina’s beautiful Crystal Coast. They’re enjoying watching the boats go by. At age 83, Dad still rides his bike almost every morning. And with the MLB network on cable, he never misses a Cardinal game, so he’s happy as a clam.

Thanks again for mention.

By: Brenda J Hayes Blevins

Brenda J Hayes Blevins — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:45:33 +0000

I was on the morning show too. Not long before President Kennedy was assassinated a group of us were on doing exercises to the song “Go You Chicken Fat Go”. I think that was the title or something like that. It was the song for Kennedy’s national crusade for physical fitness. We had on those horrible blue gym suits. I think you had some pictures of those a while back. I think we lost some of our dignity that morning. Seems we generated a lot of laughter.

By: Margie Hoffman Reece

Margie Hoffman Reece — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:02:51 +0000

I can’t wait to see what interesting stuff you have on your site ever day. Oh, tell Lila Beth hello from her cousin.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:11:40 +0000

I’m going to have to search for the video clip of John Mueller and me appearing to promote Scout Week on the morning show.

Someone bailed at the last minute, and I was pressed into service to demonstrate sending Scouting Is Fun in Morse code. Good thing I didn’t get rattled on the last F word because a guy who worked for my dad could read code and he pronounced my transmission flawless.

Just think, I could have made KFVS famous for a Morse Code wardrobe malfunction long before Janet Jackson was born if I had gotten a few dots and dashes scrambled.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:08:18 +0000

I didn’t realize that you had been there that long.

My only question is, WHICH character did you think represented me?

1. Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman), who aspired to have popularity, money, and the attention of beautiful and unattainable girls. He didn’t have any of these qualities in abundance, and the tiny crises surrounding Dobie’s lack of success made the story in each weekly episode.

2. His partner-in-crime was American television’s first beatnik, Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Krebs had a deep aversion to the term, “Work”; Maynard was convinced life is for enjoying. Dobie’s father, Herbert T. Gillis (Frank Faylen), who owned a grocery store, was only happy when Dobie was behind a broom. Dobie’s father was often caught up in various elaborate get-rich-quick schemes, or situational bail-outs a la Ralph Kramden, with Dobie getting ensnared along with him; by the end both came around grudgingly to Maynard’s point of view.

By: Jesse James

Jesse James — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:21:07 +0000

I remember being on KAS junior Auction on KFVS with Don McNeely as the auctioneer in the early 60s, he was a very nice person. You used the value of KAS potato chip bags to bid on prizes. I got a lot of good things on the show, a science kit, rocket that when you mixed the chemicals together it would launch and go pretty high. When the show was going off the air the last show had really good prizes for the time, a TV and other nice things that I cannot remember. I thought I had a chance to get something good but someone from East Prairie, I think they had a grocery store and everyone was saving bags for them, had so many points that he got a lot of the good things. Pam Kinder was on the show as the Vana White of the 60s. She was always nice to me.