
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a fea...
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a fea...

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Episode 1: The Caper at the Bijou (Unaired Pilot)
This pilot episode was trimmed down and run as the first episode of season 1.
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...
Episode 2: The Best Dressed Man
Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.
Episode 3: Love is a Science
Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific con...
Episode 4: The Right Triangle
Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new...
Episode 5: Maynard's Farewell to the Troops
Maynard gets drafted.
Episode 6: The Sweet Singer of Central High
After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.
Episode 7: Greater Love Hath No Man
Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
Episode 8: The Old Goat
Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.
Episode 9: Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor
Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.
Episode 10: It Takes Two
Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
Episode 11: Dobie's Birthday Party
Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
Episode 12: Deck the Halls
Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail...
Episode 13: Couchville, USA
Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.
Episode 14: The Gaucho
Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.
Episode 15: The Smoke-Filled Room
Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
Episode 16: The Fist Fighter
Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thail...
Episode 17: The Hunger Strike
Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.
Episode 18: The Flying Millicans
Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.
Episode 19: Room at the Bottom
Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
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 dominati...
Episode 21: Dobie Spreads a Rumor
Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to bec...
Episode 22: Love is a Fallacy
Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
Episode 23: The Chicken from Outer Space
Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .
Episode 24: Dobie's Navy Blues
Dobie and a girl friend take a baby-sitting job. However, the Gillies suspect Dobie is secretly a fa...
Episode 25: Taken to the Cleaners
Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.
Episode 26: That's Show Biz
Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
Episode 27: The Prettiest Collateral in Town
Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
Episode 28: Live Alone and I Like It
Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.
Episode 29: The Big Sandwich
Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
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...
Episode 31: Where There's a Will
Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.
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 j...
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 sp...
Episode 34: The French, They Are a Funny Race
Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
Episode 35: The Unregistered Nurse
Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.
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 flower...
Episode 37: Here Come the Groom
A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
Episode 38: A Taste of Lobster
Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance da...
Episode 39: Rock-a-Bye Dobie
Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father.
Episode 1: Who Needs Elvis?
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested...
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 t...
Episode 3: Baby Talk
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
Episode 4: Dobie Goes Beatnik
Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor whic...
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 president...
Episode 6: The Face That Stopped the Clock
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Episode 7: Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Episode 8: Around My Room in 80 Days
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
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.
Episode 10: Jangle Bells
Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard an...
Episode 11: Parlez-Vous English
Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She...
Episode 12: The Day the Teachers Disappeared
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
Episode 13: What's My Lion?
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
Episode 14: The Big Question
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Driftin...
Episode 15: Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
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 end...
Episode 17: Zelda, Get Off My Back
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
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...
Episode 19: Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
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...
Episode 21: Dobie Versus the Machine
Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional h...
Episode 22: Baby Shoes
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
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.
Episode 24: The Chicken Corporal
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suf...
Episode 25: The Solid Gold Dog Tag
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
Episode 26: The Battle of Maynard's Beard
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
Episode 27: Spaceville
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
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...
Episode 29: Dobie Plays Cupid
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
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 h...
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 an...
Episode 32: Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
Episode 33: Everything But the Truth
Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
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 Hi...
Episode 35: Take Me to Your Leader
Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien...
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 t...
Episode 1: Ruptured Duck
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
Episode 2: Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
Episode 3: Move Over, Perry Mason
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
Episode 4: The Fast White Mouse
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in...
Episode 5: The Gigolo
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
Episode 6: Dig, Dig, Dig
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
Episode 7: Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
Episode 8: The Richest Squirrel in Town
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
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 ta...
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...
Episode 11: Have Reindeer, Will Travel
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
Episode 12: Crazylegs Gillis
Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football player's kids and he ends up having...
Episode 13: Blue Tail Fly
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
Episode 14: I Do Not Choose to Run
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
Episode 15: Happiness Can't Buy Money
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
Episode 16: Magnificent Failure
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
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,...
Episode 18: Girls Will Be Boys
Maynard goes out with a female version of himself. Dobie thinks she should act more feminine. When s...
Episode 19: Marriage Counselor
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time...
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 i...
Episode 21: Birth of a Salesman
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
Episode 22: Like, Oh Brother
Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the...
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...
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...
Episode 25: Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive
In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on a...
Episode 26: The Truth Session
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
Episode 27: I Remember Muu Muu
Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about a primitive dance demonstration in his ant...
Episode 28: Sweet Success of Smell
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynar...
Episode 29: When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
Episode 30: I Was a Boy Soronity Girl
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
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
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 s...
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 g...
Episode 34: Bachelor Father and Son
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachel...
Episode 35: Like Low Noon
Dobie's old nemesis Butch Baumgartner, now the army's heavyweight boxing champ, is coming home and t...
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 girlfr...
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.
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...
Episode 3: Northern Comfort
Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singi...
Episode 4: The Ugliest American
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
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 nee...
Episode 6: What Makes the Varsity Drag?
Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfri...
Episode 7: Like Hi, Exlosives
Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nit...
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...
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 f...
Episode 10: Strictly for the Birds
Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
Episode 11: The Iceman Goeth
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
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 potio...
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 Christm...
Episode 14: Who Did William Tell?
Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unawar...
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-C...
Episode 16: Vocal Boy Makes Good
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
Episode 17: All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and compli...
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 cou...
Episode 19: Two for the Whipsaw
Chatsworth pays Dobie to take his place at a fancy dinner with old friends of the family, whose daug...
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...
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...
Episode 22: Thanks for the Memory
When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to im...
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...
Episode 24: Beethoven, Presley, and Me
The song-analyzing qualities of a computer are transfered to Maynard, and cousin Virgil uses his abi...
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.
Episode 26: There's Always Room for One Less
Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
Episode 27: The General Cried at Dawn
Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
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...
Episode 29: Lassie, Get Lost
A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
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 w...
Episode 31: Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
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 sough...
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...
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 m...
Episode 35: The Call of the, Like, Wild
A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
Episode 36: The Devil and Dobie Gillis
Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outc...
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