Max Shulman
Director
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
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.
Released Sept. 29, 1959
Episode 30 min
10+
Keywords: tmdb.high-school, tmdb.sitcom, imdb.character-name-in-series-title, imdb.dobie-gillis-character, imdb.six-word-series-title, imdb.beatnik, imdb.high-school-class + 13 more, imdb.parents-son-relationship, imdb.grocery-store, imdb.reference-to-rodin-s-the-thinker, imdb.ice-cream-parlor, imdb.cult-tv, imdb.teenager, imdb.family-business, imdb.classmates, imdb.quirky-comedy, imdb.sitcom, imdb.monologue, imdb.breaking-the-fourth-wall, imdb.laugh-track
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Production Companies: Martin Manulis Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Who Needs Elvis?
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
Sept. 27, 1960, midnight
S2E2 - You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog
Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
Oct. 4, 1960, midnight
S2E3 - Baby Talk
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
Oct. 18, 1960, midnight
S2E4 - Dobie Goes Beatnik
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.
Oct. 25, 1960, midnight
S2E5 - The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
Nov. 1, 1960, midnight
S2E6 - The Face That Stopped the Clock
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Nov. 15, 1960, midnight
S2E7 - Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Nov. 22, 1960, midnight
S2E8 - Around My Room in 80 Days
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
Nov. 29, 1960, midnight
S2E9 - Drag Strip Dobie
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
Dec. 6, 1960, midnight
S2E10 - Jangle Bells
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.
Dec. 20, 1960, midnight
S2E11 - Parlez-Vous English
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.
Dec. 27, 1960, midnight
S2E12 - The Day the Teachers Disappeared
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
Jan. 3, 1961, midnight
S2E13 - What's My Lion?
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
Jan. 10, 1961, midnight
S2E14 - The Big Question
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
Jan. 24, 1961, midnight
S2E15 - Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
Jan. 31, 1961, midnight
S2E16 - The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
Feb. 7, 1961, midnight
S2E17 - Zelda, Get Off My Back
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
Feb. 14, 1961, midnight
S2E18 - I Was a High School Scrooge
Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
Feb. 21, 1961, midnight
S2E19 - Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
Feb. 28, 1961, midnight
S2E20 - The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis
It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
March 7, 1961, midnight
S2E21 - Dobie Versus the Machine
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.
March 14, 1961, midnight
S2E22 - Baby Shoes
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
March 21, 1961, midnight
S2E23 - I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine
Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
March 28, 1961, midnight
S2E24 - The Chicken Corporal
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
April 4, 1961, midnight
S2E25 - The Solid Gold Dog Tag
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
April 11, 1961, midnight
S2E26 - The Battle of Maynard's Beard
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
April 18, 1961, midnight
S2E27 - Spaceville
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
April 25, 1961, midnight
S2E28 - Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow
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.
May 2, 1961, midnight
S2E29 - Dobie Plays Cupid
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
May 9, 1961, midnight
S2E30 - Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble
Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.
May 16, 1961, midnight
S2E31 - Be It Ever So Humble
Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.
May 23, 1961, midnight
S2E32 - Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
May 30, 1961, midnight
S2E33 - Everything But the Truth
Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
June 6, 1961, midnight
S2E34 - Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips
Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
June 13, 1961, midnight
S2E35 - Take Me to Your Leader
Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
June 20, 1961, midnight
S2E36 - This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It
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.
June 27, 1961, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 4410 min.
Released: Sept. 29, 1959
Last Air Date: June 5, 1963, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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