Comments on: What Was the First Backdoor Pilot of a TV Series? https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-first-backdoor-pilot-of-a-tv-series/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-first-backdoor-pilot-of-a-tv-series/#comment-6520 Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:47:13 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3135#comment-6520 In reply to Tim Pendergast.

Yeah, exactly.

]]> By: Tim Pendergast https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-first-backdoor-pilot-of-a-tv-series/#comment-6514 Sat, 19 Nov 2022 03:20:32 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3135#comment-6514 Now we know why Henning ended Green Acres with two back to back completely awful back door pilots.

]]> By: Allen Winstead https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-first-backdoor-pilot-of-a-tv-series/#comment-6280 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:00:35 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3135#comment-6280 Dobie Gillis wasn’t a hit solely because of Dwayne Hickman. The show featured several other great characters such as Maynard G. Krebs, Mr. and Mrs. Gillis, Zelda Gilroy and Thalia Menninger. It was one of the earliest shows to tell stories from a teenage point of view and it launched the careers of both Tuesday Weld and Warren Beaty. Simply putting Dwayne Hickman in a sitcom wouldn’t necessarily make the show as good as Dobie Gillis.

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