Overview
Plot
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. It follows teenager Dobie Gillis and his beatnik friend Maynard G. Krebs as Dobie navigates high school, the military, college, his parents, and his pursuit of wealth and girls.
- Directors
- Max Shulman
- Cast
- Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Sheila James Kuehl
- Country
- United States of America
- Genre
- Comedy
- First aired
- 1959-09-29
- Studios
- Martin Manulis Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Episodes
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Episode 1 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.
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Episode 2 The Best Dressed Man Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.
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Episode 3 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.
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Episode 4 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.
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Episode 5 Maynard's Farewell to the Troops Maynard receives his draft notice and Mr. Pomfritt and Dobie host a testimonial farewell dinner for him. This episode introduces Michael J. Pollard as Maynard's beatnik cousin Jerome.
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Episode 6 The Sweet Singer of Central High After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.
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Episode 7 Greater Love Hath No Man Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
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Episode 8 The Old Goat Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.
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Episode 9 Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.
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Episode 10 It Takes Two Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
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Episode 11 Dobie's Birthday Party Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
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Episode 12 Deck the Halls Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.
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Episode 13 Couchville, USA Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.
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Episode 14 The Gaucho Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.
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Episode 15 The Smoke-Filled Room Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
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Episode 16 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.
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Episode 17 The Hunger Strike Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.
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Episode 18 The Flying Millicans Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.
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Episode 19 Room at the Bottom Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
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Episode 20 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.
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Episode 21 Dobie Spreads a Rumor Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.
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Episode 22 Love is a Fallacy Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
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Episode 23 The Chicken from Outer Space Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .
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Episode 24 Dobie's Navy Blues Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.
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Episode 25 Taken to the Cleaners Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.
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Episode 26 That's Show Biz Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
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Episode 27 The Prettiest Collateral in Town Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
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Episode 28 Live Alone and I Like It Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.
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Episode 29 The Big Sandwich Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
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Episode 30 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.
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Episode 31 Where There's a Will Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.
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Episode 32 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.
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Episode 33 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.
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Episode 34 The French, They Are a Funny Race Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
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Episode 35 The Unregistered Nurse Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.
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Episode 36 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.
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Episode 37 Here Come the Groom A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
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Episode 38 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.
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Episode 39 Rock-A-Bye Dobie Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobie is secretly a father.
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Episode 1 Who Needs Elvis? Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
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Episode 2 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.
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Episode 3 Baby Talk Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
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Episode 4 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.
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Episode 5 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.
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Episode 6 The Face That Stopped the Clock Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
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Episode 7 Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
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Episode 8 Around My Room in 80 Days Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
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Episode 9 Drag Strip Dobie Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
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Episode 10 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.
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Episode 11 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.
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Episode 12 The Day the Teachers Disappeared All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
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Episode 13 What's My Lion? A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
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Episode 14 The Big Question In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
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Episode 15 Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife? Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
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Episode 16 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.
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Episode 17 Zelda, Get Off My Back Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
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Episode 18 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.
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Episode 19 Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother? Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
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Episode 20 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.
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Episode 21 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.
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Episode 22 Baby Shoes Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
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Episode 23 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.
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Episode 24 The Chicken Corporal Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
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Episode 25 The Solid Gold Dog Tag Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
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Episode 26 The Battle of Maynard's Beard The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
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Episode 27 Spaceville Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
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Episode 28 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.
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Episode 29 Dobie Plays Cupid Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
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Episode 30 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.
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Episode 31 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.
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Episode 32 Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
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Episode 33 Everything But the Truth Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
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Episode 34 Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
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Episode 35 Take Me to Your Leader Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
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Episode 36 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.
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Episode 1 Ruptured Duck Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
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Episode 2 Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie? Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
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Episode 3 Move Over, Perry Mason Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
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Episode 4 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.
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Episode 5 The Gigolo Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
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Episode 6 Dig, Dig, Dig Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
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Episode 7 Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom! Maynard predicts the end of the world.
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Episode 8 The Richest Squirrel in Town A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
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Episode 9 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.
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Episode 10 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.
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Episode 11 Have Reindeer, Will Travel Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
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Episode 12 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.
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Episode 13 Blue Tail Fly Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
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Episode 14 I Do Not Choose to Run Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
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Episode 15 Happiness Can't Buy Money Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
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Episode 16 Magnificent Failure Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
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Episode 17 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.
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Episode 18 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.
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Episode 19 Marriage Counselor When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
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Episode 20 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.
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Episode 21 Birth of a Salesman When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
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Episode 22 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.
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Episode 23 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.
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Episode 24 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.
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Episode 25 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.
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Episode 26 The Truth Session Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
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Episode 27 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.
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Episode 28 Sweet Success of Smell When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
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Episode 29 When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
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Episode 30 I Was a Boy Soronity Girl Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
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Episode 31 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
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Episode 32 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.
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Episode 33 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.
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Episode 34 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.
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Episode 35 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.
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Episode 36 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.
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Episode 1 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.
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Episode 2 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.
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Episode 3 Northern Comfort Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
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Episode 4 The Ugliest American On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
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Episode 5 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.
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Episode 6 What Makes the Varsity Drag? Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
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Episode 7 Like Hi, Exlosives Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
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Episode 8 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.
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Episode 9 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.
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Episode 10 Strictly for the Birds Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
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Episode 11 The Iceman Goeth Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
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Episode 12 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.
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Episode 13 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.
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Episode 14 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.
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Episode 15 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.
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Episode 16 Vocal Boy Makes Good Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
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Episode 17 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.
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Episode 18 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.
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Episode 19 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.
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Episode 20 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.
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Episode 21 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.
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Episode 22 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
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Episode 23 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.
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Episode 24 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.
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Episode 25 The Little Chimp That Couldn't A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
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Episode 26 There's Always Room for One Less Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
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Episode 27 The General Cried at Dawn Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
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Episode 28 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.
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Episode 29 Lassie, Get Lost A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
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Episode 30 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.
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Episode 31 Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
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Episode 32 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.
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Episode 33 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.
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Episode 34 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.
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Episode 35 The Call of the, Like, Wild A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
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Episode 36 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.
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Adapted from Max Shulman's 1951 short story collection, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The show centers on young Dobie Gillis and his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, as Dobie faces the challenges of high school, military service, college, and his parents while chasing wealth and romance. Produced by Martin Manulis Productions with 20th Century Fox Television, the series featured a theme song by Shulman and Lionel Newman.
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