The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis — Season 3
About this season
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.
Episodes (36)
1. Ruptured Duck
Aired 10 October 1961
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
2. Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Aired 17 October 1961
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
3. Move Over, Perry Mason
Aired 24 October 1961
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
4. The Fast White Mouse
Aired 31 October 1961 • 30 min
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
5. The Gigolo
Aired 7 November 1961
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
6. Dig, Dig, Dig
Aired 14 November 1961
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
7. Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
Aired 21 November 1961
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
8. The Richest Squirrel in Town
Aired 28 November 1961
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
9. The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Aired 5 December 1961 • 30 min
Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
10. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
Aired 12 December 1961 • 30 min
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.
11. Have Reindeer, Will Travel
Aired 19 December 1961
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
12. Crazylegs Gillis
Aired 26 December 1961
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.
13. Blue Tail Fly
Aired 2 January 1962
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
14. I Do Not Choose to Run
Aired 9 January 1962
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
15. Happiness Can't Buy Money
Aired 16 January 1962
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
16. Magnificent Failure
Aired 23 January 1962
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
17. For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls
Aired 30 January 1962 • 30 min
Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
18. Girls Will Be Boys
Aired 13 February 1962
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.
19. Marriage Counselor
Aired 20 February 1962
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
20. The Big Blunder and Egg Man
Aired 27 February 1962
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.
21. Birth of a Salesman
Aired 6 March 1962
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
22. Like, Oh Brother
Aired 13 March 1962
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.
23. Wanted: Dead or Alive
Aired 20 March 1962
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.
24. Names My Mother Called Me
Aired 27 March 1962
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
25. An American Strategy
Aired 3 April 1962
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.
26. The Truth Session
Aired 10 April 1962
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
27. I Remember Muu Muu
Aired 17 April 1962
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.
28. Sweet Success of Smell
Aired 24 April 1962
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
29. When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
Aired 1 May 1962
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
30. I Was a Boy Soronity Girl
Aired 8 May 1962 • 30 min
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
31. It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
Aired 15 May 1962
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
32. Back-to-Nature Boy
Aired 22 May 1962
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
33. How to Cheat an Honest Man
Aired 29 May 1962
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.
34. Bachelor Father and Son
Aired 5 June 1962
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
35. Like Low Noon
Aired 12 June 1962
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.
36. The Frat's in the Fire
Aired 26 June 1962
Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.