The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (Season 4)

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

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    Air date: 1962-09-26

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

  • Poster for What's a Little Murder Between Friends

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    Air date: 1962-10-03

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

  • Poster for Northern Comfort

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    Air date: 1962-10-10

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

  • Poster for The Ugliest American

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    Air date: 1962-10-17

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

  • Poster for A Splinter Off the Old Block

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    Air date: 1962-10-24

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for What Makes the Varsity Drag?

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    Air date: 1962-10-31

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

  • Poster for Like Hi, Exlosives

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    Air date: 1962-11-07

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

  • Poster for Where is Thy Sting

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    Air date: 1962-11-14

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Flow Gently, Sweet Money

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    Air date: 1962-11-21

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Strictly for the Birds

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    Air date: 1962-11-28

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

  • Poster for The Iceman Goeth

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    Air date: 1962-12-05

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

  • Poster for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis

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    Air date: 1962-12-12

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney

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    Air date: 1962-12-19

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

  • Poster for Who Did William Tell?

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    Air date: 1963-01-02

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

  • Poster for Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth

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    Air date: 1963-01-09

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

  • Poster for Vocal Boy Makes Good

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    Air date: 1963-01-16

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

  • Poster for All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun

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    Air date: 1963-01-23

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

  • Poster for And Now a Word From Our Sponsor

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    Air date: 1963-01-30

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Two for the Whipsaw

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    Air date: 1963-02-06

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Moon and No Pence

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    Air date: 1963-02-13

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Beast with Twenty Fingers

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    Air date: 1963-02-20

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

  • Poster for Thanks for the Memory

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    Air date: 1963-02-27

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for Three Million Coins in the Fountain

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    Air date: 1963-03-06

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

  • Poster for Beethoven, Presley, and Me

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    Air date: 1963-03-13

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Little Chimp That Couldn't

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    Air date: 1963-03-20

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

  • Poster for There's Always Room for One Less

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    Air date: 1963-03-27

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

  • Poster for The General Cried at Dawn

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    Air date: 1963-04-03

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.

  • Poster for Now I Lay Me Down to Steal

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    Air date: 1963-04-10

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Lassie, Get Lost

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    Air date: 1963-04-17

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

  • Poster for The Rice and Old Shoes Caper

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    Air date: 1963-04-24

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

  • Poster for Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight

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    Air date: 1963-05-01

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

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

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    Air date: 1963-05-08

    Overview: 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.

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

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    Air date: 1963-05-15

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Beauty Is Only Kin Deep

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    Air date: 1963-05-22

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Call of the, Like, Wild

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    Air date: 1963-05-29

    Overview: A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.

  • Poster for The Devil and Dobie Gillis

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    Air date: 1963-06-05

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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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