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Status: Ended
First Aired: September 29, 1959
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 147
Networks: CBS
Genres: Comedy

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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis(1959)

TMDB Rating: 5.8 (14 votes)

Overview

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.

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Season 1

39 episodes • 1959

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Caper at the Bijou	Sep 29, 1959
2	The Best Dressed Man	Oct 6, 1959
3	Love is a Science	Oct 13, 1959
4	The Right Triangle	Oct 20, 1959
5	Maynard's Farewell to the Troops	Nov 3, 1959
6	The Sweet Singer of Central High	Nov 10, 1959
7	Greater Love Hath No Man	Nov 17, 1959
8	The Old Goat	Nov 24, 1959
9	Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor	Dec 1, 1959
10	It Takes Two	Dec 8, 1959
11	Dobie's Birthday Party	Dec 15, 1959
12	Deck the Halls	Dec 22, 1959
13	Couchville, USA	Dec 29, 1959
14	The Gaucho	Jan 5, 1960
15	The Smoke-Filled Room	Jan 12, 1960
16	The Fist Fighter	Jan 19, 1960
17	The Hunger Strike	Jan 26, 1960
18	The Flying Millicans	Feb 2, 1960
19	Room at the Bottom	Feb 9, 1960
20	The Power of Positive Thinking	Feb 16, 1960
21	Dobie Spreads a Rumor	Feb 23, 1960
22	Love is a Fallacy	Mar 1, 1960
23	The Chicken from Outer Space	Mar 8, 1960
24	Dobie's Navy Blues	Mar 15, 1960
25	Taken to the Cleaners	Mar 29, 1960
26	That's Show Biz	Apr 5, 1960
27	The Prettiest Collateral in Town	Apr 12, 1960
28	Live Alone and I Like It	Apr 19, 1960
29	The Big Sandwich	Apr 26, 1960
30	Soup and Fish	May 3, 1960
31	Where There's a Will	May 10, 1960
32	Put Your Feet in Our Hands	May 17, 1960
33	Competition is the Life of Trade	May 24, 1960
34	The French, They Are a Funny Race	May 31, 1960
35	The Unregistered Nurse	Jun 7, 1960
36	The Long Arm of the Law	Jun 14, 1960
37	Here Come the Groom	Jun 21, 1960
38	A Taste of Lobster	Jun 28, 1960
39	Rock-a-Bye Dobie	Jul 5, 1960

Season 2

36 episodes • 1960

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Who Needs Elvis?	Sep 27, 1960
2	You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog	Oct 4, 1960
3	Baby Talk	Oct 18, 1960
4	Dobie Goes Beatnik	Oct 25, 1960
5	The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs	Nov 1, 1960
6	The Face That Stopped the Clock	Nov 15, 1960
7	Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire	Nov 22, 1960
8	Around My Room in 80 Days	Nov 29, 1960
9	Drag Strip Dobie	Dec 6, 1960
10	Jangle Bells	Dec 20, 1960
11	Parlez-Vous English	Dec 27, 1960
12	The Day the Teachers Disappeared	Jan 3, 1961
13	What's My Lion?	Jan 10, 1961
14	The Big Question	Jan 24, 1961
15	Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?	Jan 31, 1961
16	The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard	Feb 7, 1961
17	Zelda, Get Off My Back	Feb 14, 1961
18	I Was a High School Scrooge	Feb 21, 1961
19	Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?	Feb 28, 1961
20	The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis	Mar 7, 1961
21	Dobie Versus the Machine	Mar 14, 1961
22	Baby Shoes	Mar 21, 1961
23	I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine	Mar 28, 1961
24	The Chicken Corporal	Apr 4, 1961
25	The Solid Gold Dog Tag	Apr 11, 1961
26	The Battle of Maynard's Beard	Apr 18, 1961
27	Spaceville	Apr 25, 1961
28	Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow	May 2, 1961
29	Dobie Plays Cupid	May 9, 1961
30	Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble	May 16, 1961
31	Be It Ever So Humble	May 23, 1961
32	Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes	May 30, 1961
33	Everything But the Truth	Jun 6, 1961
34	Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips	Jun 13, 1961
35	Take Me to Your Leader	Jun 20, 1961
36	This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It	Jun 27, 1961

Season 3

36 episodes • 1961

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Ruptured Duck	Oct 10, 1961
2	Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?	Oct 17, 1961
3	Move Over, Perry Mason	Oct 24, 1961
4	The Fast White Mouse	Oct 31, 1961
5	The Gigolo	Nov 7, 1961
6	Dig, Dig, Dig	Nov 14, 1961
7	Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!	Nov 21, 1961
8	The Richest Squirrel in Town	Nov 28, 1961
9	The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World	Dec 5, 1961
10	This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning	Dec 12, 1961
11	Have Reindeer, Will Travel	Dec 19, 1961
12	Crazylegs Gillis	Dec 26, 1961
13	Blue Tail Fly	Jan 2, 1962
14	I Do Not Choose to Run	Jan 9, 1962
15	Happiness Can't Buy Money	Jan 16, 1962
16	Magnificent Failure	Jan 23, 1962
17	For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls	Jan 30, 1962
18	Girls Will Be Boys	Feb 13, 1962
19	Marriage Counselor	Feb 20, 1962
20	The Big Blunder and Egg Man	Feb 27, 1962
21	Birth of a Salesman	Mar 6, 1962
22	Like, Oh Brother	Mar 13, 1962
23	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Mar 20, 1962
24	Names My Mother Called Me	Mar 27, 1962
25	Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive	Apr 3, 1962
26	The Truth Session	Apr 10, 1962
27	I Remember Muu Muu	Apr 17, 1962
28	Sweet Success of Smell	Apr 24, 1962
29	When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot	May 1, 1962
30	I Was a Boy Soronity Girl	May 8, 1962
31	It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home	May 15, 1962
32	Back-to-Nature Boy	May 22, 1962
33	How to Cheat an Honest Man	May 29, 1962
34	Bachelor Father and Son	Jun 5, 1962
35	Like Low Noon	Jun 12, 1962
36	The Frat's in the Fire	Jun 26, 1962

Season 4

36 episodes • 1962

#	Episode	Air Date
1	A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing	Sep 26, 1962
2	What's a Little Murder Between Friends	Oct 3, 1962
3	Northern Comfort	Oct 10, 1962
4	The Ugliest American	Oct 17, 1962
5	A Splinter Off the Old Block	Oct 24, 1962
6	What Makes the Varsity Drag?	Oct 31, 1962
7	Like Hi, Exlosives	Nov 7, 1962
8	Where is Thy Sting	Nov 14, 1962
9	Flow Gently, Sweet Money	Nov 21, 1962
10	Strictly for the Birds	Nov 28, 1962
11	The Iceman Goeth	Dec 5, 1962
12	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis	Dec 12, 1962
13	Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney	Dec 19, 1962
14	Who Did William Tell?	Jan 2, 1963
15	Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth	Jan 9, 1963
16	Vocal Boy Makes Good	Jan 16, 1963
17	All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun	Jan 23, 1963
18	And Now a Word From Our Sponsor	Jan 30, 1963
19	Two for the Whipsaw	Feb 6, 1963
20	The Moon and No Pence	Feb 13, 1963
21	The Beast with Twenty Fingers	Feb 20, 1963
22	Thanks for the Memory	Feb 27, 1963
23	Three Million Coins in the Fountain	Mar 6, 1963
24	Beethoven, Presley, and Me	Mar 13, 1963
25	The Little Chimp That Couldn't	Mar 20, 1963
26	There's Always Room for One Less	Mar 27, 1963
27	The General Cried at Dawn	Apr 3, 1963
28	Now I Lay Me Down to Steal	Apr 10, 1963
29	Lassie, Get Lost	Apr 17, 1963
30	The Rice and Old Shoes Caper	Apr 24, 1963
31	Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight	May 1, 1963
32	I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.	May 8, 1963
33	There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway	May 15, 1963
34	Beauty Is Only Kin Deep	May 22, 1963
35	The Call of the, Like, Wild	May 29, 1963
36	The Devil and Dobie Gillis	Jun 5, 1963

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