The Bill Dana Show

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 opened 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) 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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