was received by young Dwayne Hickman, a student at Loyola University in Los Angeles, who appeared as the nephew and became a favorite with young female viewers. During the last season of The Bob Cummings Show, he was cast as the lead in CBS's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. This program represented the height of Cummings' television career. Although he later starred in two other early-'60s series, The New Bob Cummings Show and My Living Doll, and made guest appearances on several other TV series, he never again achieved that level of success on television. Episodes Cast Bob Cummings (Bob Collins) – a womanizing photographer Note that he also played Grandpa Collins in the December 1955 episode "Grandpa's Christmas Visit" Rosemary DeCamp (Margaret MacDonald) – Bob's widowed sister who always tried her best to raise her brother's moral level Dwayne Hickman (Chuck MacDonald) – Margaret's son and Bob's nephew, a teenager always vying for his uncle's attention Ann B. Davis (Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz) – Bob's young secretary, who pines for him and occasionally sabotages his love schemes with other women Production Cummings had earlier starred in the 1952 sitcom My Hero, which ran one season. Taft Schreiber of MCA brought George Burns and Paul Henning to Cummings and pitched him the idea for The Bob Cummings Show. They formed a company, Laurel, to make the show. Rod Amateau wrote many episodes. Henning drew extensively on Cummings' real-life past in creating the show. The show was sold in August 1954, but Cummings did not agree to go on air until January "when we had a comfortable backlog of scripts." He did this due to his experience on My Hero, where he felt the show went to air without a sufficient supply of scripts. "I also resolved we wouldn't aim at the kid audience", he added. "Sure, it's easy to develop a following that way, but kids are the most fickle audience in the world. Once they drop you, you're finished forever. So we aimed at the adults, but strangely enough, we started to develop a strong kid following anyway." The role of Schultzy was created for Jane Withers. However, she had too many demands, which the producers were not willing to meet. Eddie Rubin suggested Ann B. Davis, who was cast. The show started in January 1955 on NBC at Sunday 10:30 pm. In June, the series was shifted from