• Air date: 27 Sep '60 36 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (36)
    • 1. Who Needs Elvis?

      27 Sep '60
      Dwayne Hickman had recorded an album of weak teenage pop songs during the off-season
    • 2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

      04 Oct '60
      Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay "My Dog" in a newpaper Father's Day contest,but changes it to "My Dad". Dobie unexpectedly wins the newpapers contest-and becomes closer to his father as a result.
    • 3. Baby Talk

      18 Oct '60
      Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
    • 4. Dobie Goes Beatnik

      25 Oct '60
      Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos! But Herbert needa a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.
    • 5. The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

      01 Nov '60
      Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow hiw to prodict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon pressidential election
    • 6. The Face That Stopped the Clock

      15 Nov '60
      Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
    • 7. Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

      22 Nov '60
      Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
    • 8. Around My Room in 80 Days

      29 Nov '60
      A rare glimpse of Maynard's home life. Most of this episode has to do with Dobie and Maynard helping a classmate not to drop out of school.
    • 9. Drag Strip Dobie

      06 Dec '60
      Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race. This may be the episode where Dobie drives a Sunbeam Alpine or that episode might be "It Takes Two".
    • 10. Jangle Bells

      20 Dec '60
      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.
    • 11. Parlez-Vous English

      27 Dec '60
      This episode is based on one of the stories from "I Was A Teenagers Dwarf", Max Shulman's second Dobie book. Dobie meets a pretty fatalistiically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf, and Dobie hates her bleak attitude "like poison" but she keeps coming around and Dobie can't understand why.
    • 12. The Day the Teachers Disappeared

      03 Jan '61
      All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
    • 13. What's My Lion?

      10 Jan '61
      A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
    • 14. The Big Question

      24 Jan '61
      In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject "Whither Are We Drifting?"
    • 15. Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

      31 Jan '61
      Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
    • 16. The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

      07 Feb '61
      Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
    • 17. Zelda, Get Off My Back

      14 Feb '61
      Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
    • 18. I Was a High School Scrooge

      21 Feb '61
      Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actualy a big exective.
    • 19. Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

      28 Feb '61
      Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
    • 20. The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

      07 Mar '61
      It's Dobie's graduation, and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
    • 21. Dobie Versus the Machine

      14 Mar '61
      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.
    • 22. Baby Shoes

      21 Mar '61
      The first of a dismal series of episode featuring Dobie and Maynard in the military. A very bad idea that was finally ababdoned near the end of this second season.
    • 23. I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

      28 Mar '61
      Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him. After they switch back, Maynard finds that thanks to Chatsworth, he has become eligible for Officer Candidate School.
    • 24. The Chicken Corporal

      04 Apr '61
      Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers, along with the opportunity for a double date.
    • 25. The Solid Gold Dog Tag

      11 Apr '61
      Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.