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Season 1

39 Episodes

1959

E01

Caper at the Bijou

9/29/1959

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.

E02

The Best Dressed Man

10/6/1959

Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.

E03

Love is a Science

10/13/1959

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.

E04

The Right Triangle

10/20/1959

Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.

E05

Maynard's Farewell to the Troops

11/3/1959

Maynard gets drafted.

E06

The Sweet Singer of Central High

11/10/1959

After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.

E07

Greater Love Hath No Man

11/17/1959

Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.

E08

The Old Goat

11/24/1959

Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.

E09

Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor

12/1/1959

Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.

E10

It Takes Two

12/8/1959

Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.

E11

Dobie's Birthday Party

12/15/1959

Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.

E12

Deck the Halls

12/22/1959

Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.

E13

Couchville, USA

12/29/1959

Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.

E14

The Gaucho

1/5/1960

Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.

E15

The Smoke-Filled Room

1/12/1960

Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.

E16

The Fist Fighter

1/19/1960

Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.

E17

The Hunger Strike

1/26/1960

Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.

E18

The Flying Millicans

2/2/1960

Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.

E19

Room at the Bottom

2/9/1960

Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

E20

The Power of Positive Thinking

2/16/1960

In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.

E21

Dobie Spreads a Rumor

2/23/1960

Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.

E22

Love is a Fallacy

3/1/1960

Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.

E23

The Chicken from Outer Space

3/8/1960

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

E24

Dobie's Navy Blues

3/15/1960

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.

E25

Taken to the Cleaners

3/29/1960

Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.

E26

That's Show Biz

4/5/1960

Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.

E27

The Prettiest Collateral in Town

4/12/1960

Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.

E28

Live Alone and I Like It

4/19/1960·30m

Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.

E29

The Big Sandwich

4/26/1960

Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

E30

Soup and Fish

5/3/1960

Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.

E31

Where There's a Will

5/10/1960·30m

Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.

E32

Put Your Feet in Our Hands

5/17/1960

Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.

E33

Competition is the Life of Trade

5/24/1960

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.

E34

The French, They Are a Funny Race

5/31/1960·30m

Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.

E35

The Unregistered Nurse

6/7/1960

Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.

E36

The Long Arm of the Law

6/14/1960·30m

Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.

E37

Here Come the Groom

6/21/1960

A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.

E38

A Taste of Lobster

6/28/1960

Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.

E39

Rock-A-Bye Dobie

7/5/1960

Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobie is secretly a father.

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Season 3

36 Episodes

1961

E01

Ruptured Duck

10/10/1961

Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.

E02

Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?

10/17/1961

Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.

E03

Move Over, Perry Mason

10/24/1961

Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.

E04

The Fast White Mouse

10/31/1961·30m

Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

E05

The Gigolo

11/7/1961

Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.

E06

Dig, Dig, Dig

11/14/1961

Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.

E07

Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!

11/21/1961

Maynard predicts the end of the world.

E08

The Richest Squirrel in Town

11/28/1961

A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.

E09

The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World

12/5/1961·30m

Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

E10

This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning

12/12/1961·30m

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.

E11

Have Reindeer, Will Travel

12/19/1961

Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.

E12

Crazylegs Gillis

12/26/1961

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.

E13

Blue Tail Fly

1/2/1962

Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

E14

I Do Not Choose to Run

1/9/1962

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.

E15

Happiness Can't Buy Money

1/16/1962

Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.

E16

Magnificent Failure

1/23/1962

Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

E17

For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls

1/30/1962·30m

Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.

E18

Girls Will Be Boys

2/13/1962

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.

E19

Marriage Counselor

2/20/1962

When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.

E20

The Big Blunder and Egg Man

2/27/1962

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.

E21

Birth of a Salesman

3/6/1962

When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.

E22

Like, Oh Brother

3/13/1962

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.

E23

Wanted: Dead or Alive

3/20/1962

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.

E24

Names My Mother Called Me

3/27/1962

When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

E25

An American Strategy

4/3/1962

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.

E26

The Truth Session

4/10/1962

Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.

E27

I Remember Muu Muu

4/17/1962

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.

E28

Sweet Success of Smell

4/24/1962

When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.

E29

When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot

5/1/1962

Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.

E30

I Was a Boy Soronity Girl

5/8/1962·30m

Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.

E31

It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home

5/15/1962

Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him

E32

Back-to-Nature Boy

5/22/1962

Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.

E33

How to Cheat an Honest Man

5/29/1962

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.

E34

Bachelor Father and Son

6/5/1962

Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

E35

Like Low Noon

6/12/1962

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.

E36

The Frat's in the Fire

6/26/1962

Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.

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Season 4

36 Episodes

1962

E01

A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing

9/26/1962

Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.

E02

What's a Little Murder Between Friends

10/3/1962

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

E03

Northern Comfort

10/10/1962

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

E04

The Ugliest American

10/17/1962

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

E05

A Splinter Off the Old Block

10/24/1962·30m

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

E06

What Makes the Varsity Drag?

10/31/1962

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

E07

Like Hi, Exlosives

11/7/1962

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

E08

Where is Thy Sting

11/14/1962

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.

E09

Flow Gently, Sweet Money

11/21/1962

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.

E10

Strictly for the Birds

11/28/1962

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

E11

The Iceman Goeth

12/5/1962

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

E12

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis

12/12/1962

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.

E13

Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney

12/19/1962

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

E14

Who Did William Tell?

1/2/1963

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

E15

Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth

1/9/1963

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

E16

Vocal Boy Makes Good

1/16/1963

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

E17

All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun

1/23/1963

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

E18

And Now a Word From Our Sponsor

1/30/1963

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.

E19

Two for the Whipsaw

2/6/1963

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.

E20

The Moon and No Pence

2/13/1963·30m

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.

E21

The Beast with Twenty Fingers

2/20/1963

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

E22

Thanks for the Memory

2/27/1963·30m

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

E23

Three Million Coins in the Fountain

3/6/1963

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

E24

Beethoven, Presley, and Me

3/13/1963

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.

E25

The Little Chimp That Couldn't

3/20/1963

A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.

E26

There's Always Room for One Less

3/27/1963

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

E27

The General Cried at Dawn

4/3/1963·30m

Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.

E28

Now I Lay Me Down to Steal

4/10/1963

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.

E29

Lassie, Get Lost

4/17/1963

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

E30

The Rice and Old Shoes Caper

4/24/1963

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

E31

Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight

5/1/1963

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

E32

I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.

5/8/1963

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.

E33

There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway

5/15/1963

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.

E34

Beauty Is Only Kin Deep

5/22/1963

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.

E35

The Call of the, Like, Wild

5/29/1963

A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.

E36

The Devil and Dobie Gillis

6/5/1963·30m

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

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Season 2

36 Episodes

1960

E01

Who Needs Elvis?

9/27/1960

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

E02

You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

10/4/1960

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

E03

Baby Talk

10/18/1960

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

E04

Dobie Goes Beatnik

10/25/1960

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.

E05

The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

11/1/1960

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

E06

The Face That Stopped the Clock

11/15/1960

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

E07

Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

11/22/1960

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

E08

Around My Room in 80 Days

11/29/1960

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

E09

Drag Strip Dobie

12/6/1960

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

E10

Jangle Bells

12/20/1960

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.

E11

Parlez-Vous English

12/27/1960

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.

E12

The Day the Teachers Disappeared

1/3/1961·30m

All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

E13

What's My Lion?

1/10/1961

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

E14

The Big Question

1/24/1961

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

E15

Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

1/31/1961

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

E16

The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

2/7/1961

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

E17

Zelda, Get Off My Back

2/14/1961

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

E18

I Was a High School Scrooge

2/21/1961·30m

Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

E19

Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

2/28/1961

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

E20

The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

3/7/1961

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

E21

Dobie Versus the Machine

3/14/1961

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.

E22

Baby Shoes

3/21/1961

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

E23

I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

3/28/1961

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

E24

The Chicken Corporal

4/4/1961

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

E25

The Solid Gold Dog Tag

4/11/1961

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

E26

The Battle of Maynard's Beard

4/18/1961

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

E27

Spaceville

4/25/1961·30m

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

E28

Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

5/2/1961

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.

E29

Dobie Plays Cupid

5/9/1961

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

E30

Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

5/16/1961

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.

E31

Be It Ever So Humble

5/23/1961

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

E32

Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

5/30/1961

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

E33

Everything But the Truth

6/6/1961

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

E34

Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

6/13/1961

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

E35

Take Me to Your Leader

6/20/1961

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

E36

This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

6/27/1961

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.