Editing Max Shulman (section)

===Later career===
Shulman's works include the novels ''Rally Round the Flag, Boys!'', which was [[Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!|made into a film]] starring [[Paul Newman]], [[Joanne Woodward]] and [[Joan Collins]]; ''The Feather Merchants''; ''The Zebra Derby''; ''Sleep till Noon''; and ''Potatoes Are Cheaper''.

In 1954 he co-wrote (with [[Robert Paul Smith]]) the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] play [[The Tender Trap (play)|''The Tender Trap'']] starring [[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]] but it wasn't a success;<ref>{{Cite book|title=American theatre: a chronicle of comedy and drama, 1930-1969 |author=Gerald Bordman|year=1996|page=324 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19509079-9 }}</ref> the work was later adapted into a [[The Tender Trap (film)|movie]] starring [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Debbie Reynolds]]. He wrote the libretto for the 1968 musical ''[[How Now, Dow Jones]]'', which was nominated for a [[Tony Award for Best Musical]].

Shulman's collegiate character Dobie Gillis was the subject of a series of short stories compiled under the title ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'', which became the basis for the 1953 movie ''[[The Affairs of Dobie Gillis]]'', followed by a [[CBS]] television series, ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]'' (1959–1963).<ref name="EB1989YB">{{Citation|title=1989 Britannica Book of the Year|year=1989|page=[https://archive.org/details/1989britannicabo00daum/page/109 109]|contribution=People of 1988: Obituaries|place=Chicago|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=0-85229-504-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/1989britannicabo00daum/page/109}}</ref>  Shulman was a script writer for the series<ref name="EB1989YB" /> and also wrote the lyrics for the series' theme song (music was composed by [[Lionel Newman]]). The same year the series began, Shulman published another Dobie Gillis story collection, ''I Was a Teenage Dwarf'' (1959). After his initial success with Dobie Gillis in the early 1950s, Shulman syndicated a humor [[columnist|column]], "On Campus", to over 350 [[student newspaper|collegiate newspaper]]s at one point.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}.  He piloted another series for CBS for the 1961 season "Daddy-O", which showed behind-the-scenes of TV sitcom production.  It was turned down by CBS.<ref>{{cite web|first=Martin|last=Schneider |url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/daddy_o_the_incredible_failed_tv_pilot |title='Daddy-O,' The Incredible Failed TV Pilot That Broke the Fourth Wall 25 Years Before Garry Shandling |date=March 4, 2015|website=dangerousminds.net}}</ref> Mr. Shulman wrote a TV movie for CBS, ''Help Wanted: MALE'', that got a 47 share of the audience and was the second highest rated movie-of-the-week of the year.

A later novel, ''Anyone Got a Match?'', satirized both the television and tobacco industries (which was ironic as his "On Campus" column was sponsored by a cigarette company), as well as the [[Southern United States|South]] and [[college football]].  His last major project was ''[[House Calls (1978 film)|House Calls]]'', which began as a 1978 movie based on one of his stories, and starred [[Walter Matthau]] and [[Glenda Jackson]]; it spun off the 1979–1982 [[House Calls (TV series)|television series of the same name]], starring [[Wayne Rogers]] and [[Lynn Redgrave]] in the leads. Shulman was the head writer.

Shulman was one of the collaborators on a 1954 non-fiction television program ''Light's Diamond Jubilee'', timed to the 75th anniversary of the [[invention]] of the [[Incandescent light bulb|light bulb]].