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The Bill Dana Show
Genre	Comedy
Starring	Bill Dana Jonathan Harris Gary Crosby
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	42
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Amigo Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	22 September 1963 – 17 January 1965
Status	Ended

The Bill Dana Show was a United States comedy series starring Bill Dana and Jonathan Harris. The plot followed the daily lifestyle of Latin American, Jose Jiminez, as a bellhop in a New York hotel. The show, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, premiered on 22 September 1963 and ran for a season-and-a-half, before its run ended on January 17, 1965.

The hotel was practically Jose's entire world; he lived in special bachelor headquarters provided for hotel employees, ate in the hotel kitchen, and had social contact only with employees and guests of the hotel. In his goodhearted naivete he saw only the good in the people around him. His biggest problems were his fellow bellhop Eddie {Gary Crosby), who was constantly trying to get Jose to wise up; the less-than-understanding hotel manager Mr. Phillips (Jonathan Harris, who would soon play Dr. Smith on Lost in Space) and the bumbling hotel detective Byron Glick (Don Adams, in a prototype to the character he would soon be playing on Get Smart).

Walter Mitty-like dream sequences were occasionally used to extricate Jose from the hotel environment.

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