The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

  • Premiered: Sep 1959
  • Episodes: 148
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Tuesday
  • Comedy Family

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Season 3
3x1
The Ruptured Duck
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 1961
Dobie and Maynard are honorably discharged from the Army and immediately join Zelda in enrolling at S. Peter Pryor Junior College, where their old high school teacher Mr. Pomfritt is now a professor.
3x2
Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
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Oct 17, 1961
Dobie's romances with other women are torpedoed by Zelda's clever schemes.
3x3
Move Over, Perry Mason
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Oct 24, 1961
Maynard sues after getting his hand stuck in Gillis Grocery's gumball machine.
3x4
The Fast White Mouse
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Oct 31, 1961
Dobie uses the heredity factor to convince Zelda to abandon her dreams of marrying and having children with him and to turn her affections towards a more suitable mate: Chatsworth Osborn, Jr.
3x5
The Gigolo
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Nov 07, 1961
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him. Maynard lets this go to his head and Dobie tries to snap him back to his old, simple self
3x6
Dig, Dig, Dig
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Nov 14, 1961
Mr. Gillis fears Dobie's interest in Egyptology is inspired less by mouldering mummies and more by the beautiful Dr. Burkhart.
3x7
Eat , Drink, and Be Merry... For Tomorrow... Ker-boom
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Air date
Nov 21, 1961
Dr. Burkhart asks her class to bring items to include in a time capsule, but Maynard refuses, discouraged by his conviction that within a matter of years the world will go "boom, boom, .. show full overview
3x8
The Richest Squirrel in Town
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Nov 28, 1961
Mr. Pomfritt reports $41.37 has disappeared from his desk. Earlier that day Maynard arrived to school in a taxi, telling Dobie a squirrel gave him $41.37. Dobie tries to right the wrong, .. show full overview
3x9
The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
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Dec 05, 1961
Dobie falls for the soft-hearted Sally Bean, whose parents insist she must date two boys at a time. Can Dobie hope to compete for Sally's affections against Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.?
3x10
This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
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Dec 12, 1961
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp," wrote Robert Browning, and Dobie is inspired to reach for the unattainable Poppy Jordan.
3x11
Have Reindeer, Will Travel
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Dec 19, 1961
Maynard befriends a poor Mexican shoeshine boy and generously gives him $55.78--all the money his classmates had saved to fund their Christmas dance. To earn back the money, Maynard takes a job as a department store Santa Claus.
3x12
Crazylegs Gillis
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Dec 26, 1961
When the irresponsible quarterback the Gillises and Maynard have been trying to help and keep from getting cut from the team disappears just before kickoff, a gridiron veteran volunteers to come out of mothballs to cover for him.
3x13
Blue Tail Fly
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Jan 02, 1962
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council. Campaign manager Zelda wants to have Dobie sing like Chatsworth and his hired folk-singers, but Dobie wants to run on the issues alone.
3x14
I Do Not Choose to Run
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Jan 09, 1962
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
3x15
Happiness Can't Buy Money
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Jan 16, 1962
Chatsworth asks Herbert T. Gillis to come to Osborn Manor and mold him from being a namby-pamby weakling into a a manly man among men, but Mumsy and Trembley conspire to quash Chatsworth's conversion.
3x16
Magnificent Failure
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Jan 23, 1962
Mr. Gillis entertains big dreams of selling his grocery store to a supermarket chain for a big price and being able to give his family more time and luxuries.
3x17
For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls
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Jan 30, 1962
A wedding-by-proxy sparks Zelda's mania to get married, so Dobie and Maynard seek to escape by stowing away on a cargo ship bound for South America, not realizing Zelda is also aboard.
3x18
Girls Will Be Boys
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Air date
Feb 13, 1962
Maynard meets his kind of girl in Edwina "Eddie" Kegel, a tomboy who enjoys hacking around with him, watching building demolitions and sewer excavations and laughing at the "oblongs" at the sophomore dance.
3x19
Marriage Counselor
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Air date
Feb 20, 1962
Mr. Pomfritt's lecture on marriage convinces Dobie that marrying Zelda is his only logical choice. But is marriage meant to be a logical choice?
3x20
The Big Blunder and Egg Man
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Air date
Feb 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. Cheryl Holdridge guest stars as .. show full overview
3x21
Birth of a Salesman
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Mar 06, 1962
Thalia Menninger, now the assistant sales manager for the Pylon Corporation, reenters Dobie's life. Dobie vows not to fall under her spell again since he knows she will ultimately break .. show full overview
3x22
Like, Oh Brother
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Mar 13, 1962
Dobie and Maynard agree to volunteer as big brothers at the Settlement House for underprivileged children and in doing so help Dr. Burkhart bridge the gap between sociological theory and practice.
3x23
Birth of a Salesman
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Mar 20, 1962
Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then successful college dropout Thalia Menninger shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt to come work for her as salesmen.
3x24
Names My Mother Called Me
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 27, 1962
Dobie discovers the significance of his unusual name when his distinguished namesake summons him to New York City to share a parting message. A thoughtful episode with an inspiring message for young people.
3x23
Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 1962
A remake of the first season's "Room at the Bottom," with Mr. Pomfritt playing the part of the put-upon teacher with a dissatisfied spouse. Dobie and Maynard babysit the Pomfritts' .. show full overview
3x26
The Truth Session
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Apr 10, 1962
Maynard learns that while honesty may be the best policy, it's not always the best way to win friends and influence people.
3x27
I Remember Muu Muu
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Apr 17, 1962
Yellow journalist Maynard writes a scandalous article for The Pryor Crier, sensationalizing Dr. Burkhart's anthropology class' planned reenactment of a native dance into a "pagan revel" that raises the blood pressure of outraged parents.
3x28
Sweet Success of Smell
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Air date
Apr 24, 1962
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose. Kristen Nelson, Ricky's wife, guest stars.
3x29
When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
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Air date
May 01, 1962
Dobie determines to toss the co-dependent Maynard from the nest of their friendship to let him learn self-sufficiency, but the tossing proves more difficult than anticipated.
3x30
I Was a Boy Sorority Girl
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May 08, 1962
To earn $20 to woo his high-class girlfriend Samantha, Dobie and Maynard take a job as waiters at a sorority house party, but when Samantha shows up as a guest, the boys become girls to avoid being detected.
3x31
It Takes a Heap O' Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
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May 15, 1962
On an anthropology class field trip, Maynard stumbles into a hidden cave and discovers and befriends a stone-age caveman.
3x32
Back-to-Nature Boy
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May 22, 1962
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina drops out of high society to hack around with her childhood chum Maynard. Fearing Eddie's infatuation will lead to marriage, the scandalized Osbornes set to work making a gentleman of Maynard.
3x33
How to Cheat an Honest Man
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May 29, 1962
When Dobie tries to impress a girl who expects complete honesty, he, his dad, and Maynard get arrested for trying to reverse a "fixed" parking ticket.
3x34
Bachelor Father... and Son
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Jun 05, 1962
Mrs. Gillis leaves to visit relatives in Cleveland for a few weeks and the Gillis boys welcome the freedom, but quickly learn how much they need her firm and guiding hand upon them.
3x35
Like Low Noon
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Air date
Jun 12, 1962
Bully Butch Baumgartner is due into town on the noon bus and has a score to settle with Dobie. Will Dobie muster the courage to face the man who hates him, or lie a coward in his grave?
3x25
An American Strategy
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Air date
Jun 19, 1962
Dobie lands a job at Lumpkin Lumber through the influence of his girlfriend Gloria, but when the boss' brash daughter takes a shine to him, Dobie sees a chance to climb the corporate ladder to success.
3x36 Season finale
The Frat's in the Fire
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Air date
Jun 26, 1962
Due to his humble origins, Dobie is denied membership in Chatsworth's exclusive Silver Spoon Club, so he and Maynard scheme to deliver a low blow to the highbrow frat boys.

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