{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Malibu U promo.jpg | caption = Promotional shot from ''Malibu U'' | genre = Variety show | creator = | writer = Milt Larsen<br>Bob Lauher | director = Jack Shea | creative_director = | developer = | presenter = | starring = Ricky Nelson<br>Robie Porter | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = Dick Addrisi<br>Don Addrisi | open_theme = Performed by Harpers Bizarre | end_theme = | composer = | company = Four Star Television<br>Robert E. Petersen Productions<br>Teen-Age Fair Inc. | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 7 | producer = Al Burton | executive_producer = Gene McCabe | runtime = 25 min. | network = ABC | first_aired = {{start date|1967|07|21}}<ref name= "Directory">Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946 – Present'' (first edition), pages 371-372, Ballantine, 1979</ref> | last_aired = {{end date|1967|09|01}}<ref name= "Directory"/> }}
'''''Malibu U''''' is an American variety show that aired in the summer of 1967 on ABC. The series starred Ricky Nelson,<ref name= "Directory"/> and aired on Friday evenings from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.<ref name= "Summer">[https://www.newspapers.com/image/370981016/?terms=%22Malibu%20U%22&match=1 'Malibu' Is Addition to Summer Schedule, ''Hartford Courant'' (Hartford, CT), July 16, 1967, page 143]</ref>
==Overview== In the series, Nelson starred as the "Dean of the Drop-Ins" of a fictional college called Malibu U.<ref name="Summer"/> Regulars included Robie Porter as "President of the Student Body"<ref name= "Malibu">[https://www.newspapers.com/image/331737774/?terms=%22Malibu%20U%22&match=1 Good Ol' Malibu U., ''The Tampa Tribune'', July 16, 1967, page 118]</ref> and the Mali-beauties dancers.<ref name= "Summer"/>
In each episode three well-known performers, called "Visiting Professors," sang. Two of the performers were filmed on the beach, and the third was filmed in another unusual location.<ref name= "Summer"/> On the July 28, 1967 episode Leonard Nimoy sang the novelty song The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/404559211/?terms=%22Malibu%20U%22&match=1 TV Key, ''Wisconsin State Journal'' (Madison, Wisconsin), July 28, 1967, page 37]</ref> Other guest stars included Annette Funicello, Don Ho and The Four Seasons with Frankie Valli.<ref name= "Malibu"/>
Some of the classes taught at Malibu U were surfing and sunbathing.<ref name= "Directory"/> A newspaper article stated that the series would "present the new fads, fashions and foibles of the young world."<ref name= "Malibu"/>
==Episode list== # July 21: guest stars Frankie Valli, Don Ho, Annette Funicello # July 28: guest stars Leonard Nimoy, Buffalo Springfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, Bobby Rydell, Mrs. Miller # August 4: guest stars James Darren, Harper's Bizarre, Frankie Randall, The Happenings # August 11: guest stars The Turtles, Lou Rawls, Lesley Gore, Don and the Goodtimes # August 18: guest stars John Astin, The 5th Dimension, The Sunshine Company, Roger Williams # August 25: guest stars The Doors, Marvin Gaye, Chad & Jeremy, Lou Christie # September 1: guest stars Dionne Warwick, The Breed, Peter and Gordon, Sandy Posey
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0061276|Malibu U}}
Category:1967 American television series debuts Category:1967 American television series endings Category:American Broadcasting Company original programming Category:1960s American music television series Category:1960s American variety television series Category:English-language American television shows Category:Television series by 20th Century Fox Television