The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (Season 2)

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.

  • Poster for Who Needs Elvis?

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    Air date: 1960-09-27

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

  • Poster for You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

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    Air date: 1960-10-04

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

  • Poster for Baby Talk

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    Air date: 1960-10-18

    Overview: Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

  • Poster for Dobie Goes Beatnik

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    Air date: 1960-10-25

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

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    Air date: 1960-11-01

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

  • Poster for The Face That Stopped the Clock

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    Air date: 1960-11-15

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

  • Poster for Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

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    Air date: 1960-11-22

    Overview: Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

  • Poster for Around My Room in 80 Days

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    Air date: 1960-11-29

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

  • Poster for Drag Strip Dobie

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    Air date: 1960-12-06

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

  • Poster for Jangle Bells

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    Air date: 1960-12-20

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Parlez-Vous English

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    Air date: 1960-12-27

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Day the Teachers Disappeared

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    Air date: 1961-01-03

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for What's My Lion?

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    Air date: 1961-01-10

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

  • Poster for The Big Question

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    Air date: 1961-01-24

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

  • Poster for Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

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    Air date: 1961-01-31

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

  • Poster for The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

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    Air date: 1961-02-07

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

  • Poster for Zelda, Get Off My Back

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    Air date: 1961-02-14

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

  • Poster for I Was a High School Scrooge

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    Air date: 1961-02-21

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

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    Air date: 1961-02-28

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

  • Poster for The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

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    Air date: 1961-03-07

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

  • Poster for Dobie Versus the Machine

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    Air date: 1961-03-14

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Baby Shoes

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    Air date: 1961-03-21

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

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

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    Air date: 1961-03-28

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

  • Poster for The Chicken Corporal

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    Air date: 1961-04-04

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

  • Poster for The Solid Gold Dog Tag

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    Air date: 1961-04-11

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

  • Poster for The Battle of Maynard's Beard

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    Air date: 1961-04-18

    Overview: The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

  • Poster for Spaceville

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    Air date: 1961-04-25

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

  • Poster for Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

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    Air date: 1961-05-02

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Dobie Plays Cupid

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    Air date: 1961-05-09

    Overview: Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

  • Poster for Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

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    Air date: 1961-05-16

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

  • Poster for Be It Ever So Humble

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    Air date: 1961-05-23

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

  • Poster for Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

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    Air date: 1961-05-30

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

  • Poster for Everything But the Truth

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    Air date: 1961-06-06

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

  • Poster for Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

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    Air date: 1961-06-13

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

  • Poster for Take Me to Your Leader

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    Air date: 1961-06-20

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

  • Poster for This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

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    Air date: 1961-06-27

    Overview: 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.

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