Max Shulman
Director
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
Season 3
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
S3E1 - Ruptured Duck
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
Oct. 10, 1961, midnight
S3E2 - Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
Oct. 17, 1961, midnight
S3E3 - Move Over, Perry Mason
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
Oct. 24, 1961, midnight
S3E4 - The Fast White Mouse
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
Oct. 31, 1961, midnight
S3E5 - The Gigolo
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
Nov. 7, 1961, midnight
S3E6 - Dig, Dig, Dig
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
Nov. 14, 1961, midnight
S3E7 - Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
Nov. 21, 1961, midnight
S3E8 - The Richest Squirrel in Town
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
Nov. 28, 1961, midnight
S3E9 - The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
Dec. 5, 1961, midnight
S3E10 - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
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.
Dec. 12, 1961, midnight
S3E11 - Have Reindeer, Will Travel
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
Dec. 19, 1961, midnight
S3E12 - Crazylegs Gillis
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.
Dec. 26, 1961, midnight
S3E13 - Blue Tail Fly
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
Jan. 2, 1962, midnight
S3E14 - I Do Not Choose to Run
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
Jan. 9, 1962, midnight
S3E15 - Happiness Can't Buy Money
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
Jan. 16, 1962, midnight
S3E16 - Magnificent Failure
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
Jan. 23, 1962, midnight
S3E17 - For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls
Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
Jan. 30, 1962, midnight
S3E18 - Girls Will Be Boys
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.
Feb. 13, 1962, midnight
S3E19 - Marriage Counselor
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
Feb. 20, 1962, midnight
S3E20 - The Big Blunder and Egg Man
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.
Feb. 27, 1962, midnight
S3E21 - Birth of a Salesman
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
March 6, 1962, midnight
S3E22 - Like, Oh Brother
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.
March 13, 1962, midnight
S3E23 - Wanted: Dead or Alive
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.
March 20, 1962, midnight
S3E24 - Names My Mother Called Me
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
March 27, 1962, midnight
S3E25 - Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive
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.
April 3, 1962, midnight
S3E26 - The Truth Session
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
April 10, 1962, midnight
S3E27 - I Remember Muu Muu
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.
April 17, 1962, midnight
S3E28 - Sweet Success of Smell
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
April 24, 1962, midnight
S3E29 - When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
May 1, 1962, midnight
S3E30 - I Was a Boy Soronity Girl
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
May 8, 1962, midnight
S3E31 - It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
May 15, 1962, midnight
S3E32 - Back-to-Nature Boy
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
May 22, 1962, midnight
S3E33 - How to Cheat an Honest Man
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.
May 29, 1962, midnight
S3E34 - Bachelor Father and Son
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
June 5, 1962, midnight
S3E35 - Like Low Noon
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.
June 12, 1962, midnight
S3E36 - The Frat's in the Fire
Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.
June 26, 1962, 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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