<P> Due to her talent exhibited on radio, Kuehl's agent convinced her parents to bring her to auditions for a television role . Kuehl later recalled "The same 200 kids I think were there for the interview (as had been for the radio audition) and I was called back and called back and called back and eventually I got that part . And beginning in 1950, I did that series for six years ." Kuehl was signed to play Jackie, Stuart Erwin's tomboy daughter, in the television series The Stu Erwin Show (also known as Trouble with Father) from 1950 to 1955 . </P> <P> After The Stu Erwin Show ended Kuehl continued to work as an actress while going to school . Due to academic success Kuehl had been able to skip two grades and by sixteen was attending the University of California, Los Angeles . As her college studies continued she moved into a sorority house and began spending summers as a counsellor for a children's camp . At the age of eighteen while working at the camp Kuehl met a twenty - one year - old counsellor named Kathy and fell in love . Kuehl would later recall "It was just a funny attraction that neither of us would acknowledge . Then, one night she and I were sitting together at her place . She was rubbing my back and we just, like, went to bed . It was wonderful . But then we stayed up all night wondering if we were really sick ." They concluded that they were "sick" but that nothing could be done . Kuehl later recalled "There was no movement then . There was nothing to read . I knew no lesbians . We just figured this was a rare thing and that we were two women who'd fallen in love and that we had to keep it a secret because nobody would approve . We didn't dare tell a soul ." After that summer, with Kathy going to school in San Diego, the two exchanged passionate letters daily for a year . </P> <P> During this time Kuehl began the acting in the role she is probably best known for - her portrayal of teen - aged genius Zelda Gilroy, the wannabe girlfriend of the title character in the television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963 . Zelda was originally intended to be a one - shot character in the early Dobie Gillis episode "Love is a Science", but Dobie creator Max Shulman liked Kuehl and had her signed on as a semi-regular cast member . </P> <P> Kuehl later recalled how she landed the part "Well, when you're an actor with an agent, no matter how old you are, you go on interviews . I went on lots of interviews for lots of guest shots...and I had done two (episodes) on Love that Bob (The Bob Cummings Show) with Bob Cummings and Dwayne Hickman, who played his nephew, and the director Rod Amateau, so I had met all the people who eventually were going to be much of the team for Dobie Gillis . In 1959, I was at UCLA, and I went on an interview for Dobie Gillis and I walked on the set and they all said' Oh, hi, we know your work, you're fine . Just go across the street and meet Max Schulman (the writer director).' As it turned out, Max and I were the same height, and he was like buried behind the desk when I walked in . And he said,' What's the first line?' And I said,' I love you .' And he said,' You're hired!"' </P>

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