The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

September. 29,1959      TV-PG
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis

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.

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Episode 1 - A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
September. 26,1962

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
October. 03,1962

Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.

Episode 3 - Northern Comfort
October. 10,1962

Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.

Episode 4 - The Ugliest American
October. 17,1962

On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.

Episode 5 - A Splinter Off the Old Block
October. 24,1962

Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.

Episode 6 - What Makes the Varsity Drag?
October. 31,1962

Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.

Episode 7 - Like Hi, Exlosives
November. 07,1962

Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.

Episode 8 - Where is Thy Sting
November. 14,1962

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.

Episode 9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money
November. 21,1962

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.

Episode 10 - Strictly for the Birds
November. 28,1962

Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.

Episode 11 - The Iceman Goeth
December. 05,1962

Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.

Episode 12 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
December. 12,1962

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.

Episode 13 - Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
December. 19,1962

To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.

Episode 14 - Who Did William Tell?
January. 02,1963

Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.

Episode 15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
January. 09,1963

Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.

Episode 16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good
January. 16,1963

Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.

Episode 17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
January. 23,1963

A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.

Episode 18 - And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
January. 30,1963

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.

Episode 19 - Two for the Whipsaw
February. 06,1963

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.

Episode 20 - The Moon and No Pence
February. 13,1963

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.

Episode 21 - The Beast with Twenty Fingers
February. 20,1963

Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.

Episode 22 - Thanks for the Memory
February. 27,1963

When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

Episode 23 - Three Million Coins in the Fountain
March. 06,1963

When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.

Episode 24 - Beethoven, Presley, and Me
March. 13,1963

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.

Episode 25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't
March. 20,1963

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
March. 27,1963

Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.

Episode 27 - The General Cried at Dawn
April. 03,1963

Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.

Episode 28 - Now I Lay Me Down to Steal
April. 10,1963

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.

Episode 29 - Lassie, Get Lost
April. 17,1963

A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.

Episode 30 - The Rice and Old Shoes Caper
April. 24,1963

Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.

Episode 31 - Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
May. 01,1963

Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.

Episode 32 - I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.
May. 08,1963

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.

Episode 33 - There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway
May. 15,1963

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.

Episode 34 - Beauty Is Only Kin Deep
May. 22,1963

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.

Episode 35 - The Call of the, Like, Wild
May. 29,1963

A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.

Episode 36 - The Devil and Dobie Gillis
June. 05,1963

Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.

Seasons 3 : 1961

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Seasons 2 : 1960

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