The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (Season 3)

Ruptured Duck (Episode 1)

Air date: 1961-10-10

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

Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie? (Episode 2)

Air date: 1961-10-17

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

Move Over, Perry Mason (Episode 3)

Writer: Dean Riesner

Air date: 1961-10-24

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

The Fast White Mouse (Episode 4)

Air date: 1961-10-31

Runtime: 30 min

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

The Gigolo (Episode 5)

Air date: 1961-11-07

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

Dig, Dig, Dig (Episode 6)

Air date: 1961-11-14

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

Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom! (Episode 7)

Air date: 1961-11-21

Overview: Maynard predicts the end of the world.

The Richest Squirrel in Town (Episode 8)

Air date: 1961-11-28

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

The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Episode 9)

Writer: Max Shulman

Air date: 1961-12-05

Runtime: 30 min

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

This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning (Episode 10)

Air date: 1961-12-12

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Have Reindeer, Will Travel (Episode 11)

Air date: 1961-12-19

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

Crazylegs Gillis (Episode 12)

Writer: Terry Ryan

Air date: 1961-12-26

Overview: 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.

Blue Tail Fly (Episode 13)

Air date: 1962-01-02

Overview: Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

I Do Not Choose to Run (Episode 14)

Air date: 1962-01-09

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

Happiness Can't Buy Money (Episode 15)

Air date: 1962-01-16

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

Magnificent Failure (Episode 16)

Air date: 1962-01-23

Overview: Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls (Episode 17)

Air date: 1962-01-30

Runtime: 30 min

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

Girls Will Be Boys (Episode 18)

Writer: Joel Kane

Air date: 1962-02-13

Overview: 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.

Marriage Counselor (Episode 19)

Air date: 1962-02-20

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

The Big Blunder and Egg Man (Episode 20)

Air date: 1962-02-27

Overview: 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.

Birth of a Salesman (Episode 21)

Writer: Joel Kane

Air date: 1962-03-06

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

Like, Oh Brother (Episode 22)

Air date: 1962-03-13

Overview: 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.

Wanted: Dead or Alive (Episode 23)

Air date: 1962-03-20

Overview: 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.

Names My Mother Called Me (Episode 24)

Air date: 1962-03-27

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

Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive (Episode 25)

Writer: Joel Kane

Air date: 1962-04-03

Overview: In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on an exam to pass his poetry class.

The Truth Session (Episode 26)

Air date: 1962-04-10

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

I Remember Muu Muu (Episode 27)

Air date: 1962-04-17

Overview: 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.

Sweet Success of Smell (Episode 28)

Writer: Stanley Z. Cherry

Air date: 1962-04-24

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

When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot (Episode 29)

Air date: 1962-05-01

Overview: Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.

I Was a Boy Soronity Girl (Episode 30)

Air date: 1962-05-08

Runtime: 30 min

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

It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home (Episode 31)

Air date: 1962-05-15

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

Back-to-Nature Boy (Episode 32)

Writer: Joel Kane

Air date: 1962-05-22

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

How to Cheat an Honest Man (Episode 33)

Air date: 1962-05-29

Overview: 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.

Bachelor Father and Son (Episode 34)

Writer: Joel Kane

Air date: 1962-06-05

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

Like Low Noon (Episode 35)

Writer: Dean Riesner

Air date: 1962-06-12

Overview: 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.

The Frat's in the Fire (Episode 36)

Air date: 1962-06-26

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