Max Shulman
Director
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
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.
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
S4E1 - A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
Sept. 26, 1962, midnight
S4E2 - What's a Little Murder Between Friends
Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
Oct. 3, 1962, midnight
S4E3 - Northern Comfort
Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
Oct. 10, 1962, midnight
S4E4 - The Ugliest American
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
Oct. 17, 1962, midnight
S4E5 - A Splinter Off the Old Block
Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
Oct. 24, 1962, midnight
S4E6 - What Makes the Varsity Drag?
Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
Oct. 31, 1962, midnight
S4E7 - Like Hi, Exlosives
Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
Nov. 7, 1962, midnight
S4E8 - Where is Thy Sting
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.
Nov. 14, 1962, midnight
S4E9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money
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.
Nov. 21, 1962, midnight
S4E10 - Strictly for the Birds
Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
Nov. 28, 1962, midnight
S4E11 - The Iceman Goeth
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
Dec. 5, 1962, midnight
S4E12 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
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.
Dec. 12, 1962, midnight
S4E13 - Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.
Dec. 19, 1962, midnight
S4E14 - Who Did William Tell?
Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
Jan. 2, 1963, midnight
S4E15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.
Jan. 9, 1963, midnight
S4E16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
Jan. 16, 1963, midnight
S4E17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
Jan. 23, 1963, midnight
S4E18 - And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
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.
Jan. 30, 1963, midnight
S4E19 - Two for the Whipsaw
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.
Feb. 6, 1963, midnight
S4E20 - The Moon and No Pence
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.
Feb. 13, 1963, midnight
S4E21 - The Beast with Twenty Fingers
Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.
Feb. 20, 1963, midnight
S4E22 - Thanks for the Memory
When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory
Feb. 27, 1963, midnight
S4E23 - Three Million Coins in the Fountain
When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
March 6, 1963, midnight
S4E24 - Beethoven, Presley, and Me
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.
March 13, 1963, midnight
S4E25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't
A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
March 20, 1963, midnight
S4E26 - There's Always Room for One Less
Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
March 27, 1963, midnight
S4E27 - The General Cried at Dawn
Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
April 3, 1963, midnight
S4E28 - Now I Lay Me Down to Steal
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.
April 10, 1963, midnight
S4E29 - Lassie, Get Lost
A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
April 17, 1963, midnight
S4E30 - The Rice and Old Shoes Caper
Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.
April 24, 1963, midnight
S4E31 - Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
May 1, 1963, midnight
S4E32 - I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.
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.
May 8, 1963, midnight
S4E33 - There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway
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.
May 15, 1963, midnight
S4E34 - Beauty Is Only Kin Deep
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.
May 22, 1963, midnight
S4E35 - The Call of the, Like, Wild
A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
May 29, 1963, midnight
S4E36 - The Devil and Dobie Gillis
Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.
June 5, 1963, 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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