The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959–1963
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20th Century Fox Television
Seasons
Season 1
- E0 Pilot
- E1 Caper at the Bijou Dobie and Maynard conspire to rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.
- E2 The Best Dressed Man Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.
- E3 Love is a Science Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.
- E4 The Right Triangle Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.
- E5 Maynard's Farewell to the Troops Maynard gets drafted.
- E6 The Sweet Singer of Central High After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.
- E7 Greater Love Hath No Man Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
- E8 The Old Goat Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.
- E9 Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.
- E10 It Takes Two Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
- E11 Dobie's Birthday Party Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
- E12 Deck the Halls Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.
- E13 Couchville, USA Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.
- E14 The Gaucho Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.
- E15 The Smoke-Filled Room Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
- E16 The Fist Fighter Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.
- E17 The Hunger Strike Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.
- E18 The Flying Millicans Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.
- E19 Room at the Bottom Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
- E20 The Power of Positive Thinking In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.
- E21 Dobie Spreads a Rumor Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.
- E22 Love is a Fallacy Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
- E23 The Chicken from Outer Space Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .
- E24 Dobie's Navy Blues Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.
- E25 Taken to the Cleaners Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.
- E26 That's Show Biz Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
- E27 The Prettiest Collateral in Town Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
- E28 Live Alone and I Like It Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.
- E29 The Big Sandwich Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
- E30 Soup and Fish Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.
- E31 Where There's a Will Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.
- E32 Put Your Feet in Our Hands Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.
- E33 Competition is the Life of Trade Dobie's newest girlfriend's father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.
- E34 The French, They Are a Funny Race Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
- E35 The Unregistered Nurse Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.
- E36 The Long Arm of the Law Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.
- E37 Here Come the Groom A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
- E38 A Taste of Lobster Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.
- E39 Rock-A-Bye Dobie Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobie is secretly a father.
Season 2
- E1 Who Needs Elvis? Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
- E2 You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
- E3 Baby Talk Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
- E4 Dobie Goes Beatnik Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.
- E5 The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
- E6 The Face That Stopped the Clock Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
- E7 Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
- E8 Around My Room in 80 Days Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
- E9 Drag Strip Dobie Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
- E10 Jangle Bells Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard and feels guilty enough to have a Scrooge-like dream.
- E11 Parlez-Vous English Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.
- E12 The Day the Teachers Disappeared All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
- E13 What's My Lion? A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
- E14 The Big Question In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
- E15 Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife? Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
- E16 The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
- E17 Zelda, Get Off My Back Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
- E18 I Was a High School Scrooge Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
- E19 Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother? Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
- E20 The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
- E21 Dobie Versus the Machine Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.
- E22 Baby Shoes Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
- E23 I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
- E24 The Chicken Corporal Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
- E25 The Solid Gold Dog Tag Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
- E26 The Battle of Maynard's Beard The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
- E27 Spaceville Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
- E28 Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.
- E29 Dobie Plays Cupid Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
- E30 Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.
- E31 Be It Ever So Humble Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.
- E32 Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
- E33 Everything But the Truth Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
- E34 Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
- E35 Take Me to Your Leader Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
- E36 This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It Offended by what he sees a laxity in today's army, ex-sergeant Herbert Gillis puts his son's squad through some rugged training exercises before they graduate.
Season 3
- E1 Ruptured Duck Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
- E2 Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie? Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
- E3 Move Over, Perry Mason Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
- E4 The Fast White Mouse Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
- E5 The Gigolo Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
- E6 Dig, Dig, Dig Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
- E7 Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom! Maynard predicts the end of the world.
- E8 The Richest Squirrel in Town A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
- E9 The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
- E10 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning Inspired by Robert Browning's assertion that a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Dobie goes after an unattainable girl, putting his relationship with Zelda at risk.
- E11 Have Reindeer, Will Travel Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
- E12 Crazylegs Gillis Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football player's kids and he ends up having to fill in for him during the game.
- E13 Blue Tail Fly Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
- E14 I Do Not Choose to Run Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
- E15 Happiness Can't Buy Money Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
- E16 Magnificent Failure Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
- E17 For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
- E18 Girls Will Be Boys Maynard goes out with a female version of himself. Dobie thinks she should act more feminine. When she realizes it's fun to be feminine, Maynard gets scared away.
- E19 Marriage Counselor When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
- E20 The Big Blunder and Egg Man To impress a girl, Dobie invests more than he should in his economics class project. He buys stock in an egg company and ends up with a room full of eggs.
- E21 Birth of a Salesman When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
- E22 Like, Oh Brother Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the little delinquents by talking to them at their own level.
- E23 Wanted: Dead or Alive Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then a successful college dropout shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt to come work for her as salesmen.
- E24 Names My Mother Called Me When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
- E25 An American Strategy Dobie gets a job at Lumpkin Lumber thanks to his girlfriend Gloria. When the boss's brash daughter takes a shine to him, Dobie sees a chance to climb the corporate ladder to success.
- E26 The Truth Session Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
- E27 I Remember Muu Muu Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about a primitive dance demonstration in his anthropology class, but takes his cue from tabloid writing and makes it sound like an orgy.
- E28 Sweet Success of Smell When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
- E29 When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
- E30 I Was a Boy Soronity Girl Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
- E31 It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
- E32 Back-to-Nature Boy Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
- E33 How to Cheat an Honest Man When Dobie tries to impress a girl who expects complete honesty, he as well as his dad and Maynard get arrested for trying to reverse a fixed parking ticket.
- E34 Bachelor Father and Son Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
- E35 Like Low Noon Dobie's old nemesis Butch Baumgartner, now the army's heavyweight boxing champ, is coming home and the word is that he is coming to knock Dobie's brains out.
- E36 The Frat's in the Fire Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.
Season 4
- E1 A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
- E2 What's a Little Murder Between Friends Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
- E3 Northern Comfort Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
- E4 The Ugliest American On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
- E5 A Splinter Off the Old Block Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
- E6 What Makes the Varsity Drag? Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
- E7 Like Hi, Exlosives Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
- E8 Where is Thy Sting Dobie pretends to be terminaly ill to gain a girl's sympathy. However, due to a mixup, Dobie is led to believe he's really in poor health.
- E9 Flow Gently, Sweet Money An older woman teaches Duncan how to be rotten to succeed in the world so he'll be able to provide for her younger sister. But meanwhile the younger sister is falling for nice, honest Dobie.
- E10 Strictly for the Birds Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
- E11 The Iceman Goeth Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
- E12 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis To avoid failing an upcoming test that will cause him to flunk out of school, Maynard drinks a potion that is supposed to turn him into a genius, but ends up transforming him into a monster.
- E13 Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.
- E14 Who Did William Tell? Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
- E15 Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.
- E16 Vocal Boy Makes Good Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
- E17 All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
- E18 And Now a Word From Our Sponsor Dobie is the new DJ on the college radio station. A mobster tries to give him payola to make his country-singer girlfriend a star.
- E19 Two for the Whipsaw Chatsworth pays Dobie to take his place at a fancy dinner with old friends of the family, whose daughter he remembers as being particularly ugly.
- E20 The Moon and No Pence Dobie falls for brainy a Russian ballerina and solicits Zelda's aid to improve his grades. When that fails, he ends up dancing outside her window.
- E21 The Beast with Twenty Fingers Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.
- E22 Thanks for the Memory When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory
- E23 Three Million Coins in the Fountain When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
- E24 Beethoven, Presley, and Me The song-analyzing qualities of a computer are transfered to Maynard, and cousin Virgil uses his ability to predict hit songs to become a singing star.
- E25 The Little Chimp That Couldn't A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
- E26 There's Always Room for One Less Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
- E27 The General Cried at Dawn Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
- E28 Now I Lay Me Down to Steal Staying overnight at the Osbourne mansion with Dobie and his new girlfriend, Maynard is suspected of stealing jewelry from their safe when he is found sleepwalking.
- E29 Lassie, Get Lost A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
- E30 The Rice and Old Shoes Caper Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.
- E31 Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
- E32 I Was a Spy for the F.O.B. On a trip to Washington DC with the Gillises, Maynard gets mistaken for a rocket scientist and sought by foreign spies for his secret fuel formula.
- E33 There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway Maynard guides a fellow student to become a singing sensation, then ponders if he should step aside when a big-time agent wants to take her on.
- E34 Beauty Is Only Kin Deep Dobie falls in love with a girl at school, but family tradition prevents her from marrying until a match can be found for her older sister.
- E35 The Call of the, Like, Wild A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
- E36 The Devil and Dobie Gillis Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.
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