List of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episodes

This is a list of episodes for the 1959-1963 CBS-TV series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis starring Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver. Because of preemptions and postponements, the episodes were not originally broadcast in the order in which they were filmed and episodes were sometimes filmed intentionally out of sequence. The following list follows the order of scripts as they were logged by the show's producer, Rod Amateau,^[1] which most accurately chronicles the development of the characters and the comings and goings of cast members.

First Season

• 001 (1-1) Caper at The Bijou After meeting Thalia Menninger, Dobie schemes with Maynard to fix a jackpot drawing. Guests: Herbert Anderson, Stanley Adams, Jason Wingreen.
• 002 (1-2) It Takes Two Dobie's new girl fears that his father's personality traits will be passed on to their children.
• 003 (1-3) The Best Dressed Man Dobie's arrangement with a clothing store allows him to compete with rich Milton Armitage for Thalia's attention. Guest: Mel Blanc.

Note- In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 64 on it's '100 Greatest Episodes of All Time' list.^[2]

• 004 (1-4) The Big Sandwich Dobie and Thalia prepare 400 sandwiches for a school picnic that is rained out. Guest: Gordon Jones.
• 005 (1-5) Maynard's Farewell to the Troops Maynard enlists in the army. Michael J. Pollard's first appearance.
• 006 (1-6) Love Is a Science Dobie meets Zelda Gilroy in Biology. Guest: Charles Lane. Sheila James' first appearance as Zelda.
• 007 (1-7) Couchville, U.S.A. Herbert thinks that Dobie harbors a deep-seated hostility toward him. Maynard does not appear in this episode.
• 008 (1-8) The Sweet Singer of Central High A tonsillectomy leaves Dobie with a beautiful new singing voice. Michael J. Pollard's last appearance.
• 009 (1-9) Dobie Gillis - Boy Actor Dobie vies with Milton for the lead in the Civil War drama, Magnolias at Manassas.
• 010 (1-10) Dobie's Birthday Party Dobie tells his parents not to make a fuss about his birthday and resents it when they seem to take him seriously.
• 011 (1-11) Greater Love Hath No Man Maynard returns and falls for pretty Pearl Arnold, not realizing that Dobie is already in love with her.
• 012 (1-12) The Unregistered Nurse To win the sympathy of a pretty nurse, Dobie pretends to be deathly ill. Guest: Herb Vigran.
• 013 (1-13) The Gaucho The Gillises' new boarder is an Argentine charmer named Carlos.
• 014 (1-14) The Old Goat Dobie and Maynard steal the mascot of a rival school's football team.
• 015 (1-15) The Right Triangle Dobie tells a girl that he is involved with an older woman. Darryl Hickman appears as Dobie's older brother, Davey.
• 016 (1-16) Deck The Halls Herbert seems content to spend Christmas in jail. Guests: Jack Albertson, Darryl Hickman.
• 017 (1-17) The Flying Millicans Dobie's newest love is Aphrodite Millican, a health fanatic whose father eagerly welcomes Dobie into his family of acrobats. Guests: Francis X. Bushman, Yvonne Craig.
• 018 (1-18) A Taste for Lobster Dobie finally finds a girl who likes him and hates money.
• 019 (1-19) The Fist Fighter Dobie enlists the help of a former athletic legend and develops a reputation as "Top Fist."
• 020 (1-20) The Smoke-Filled Room Thalia campaigns for Dobie when he runs against Milton for Junior Class President. Guest: John Rockwell.
• 021 (1-21) The Power of Positive Thinking Dobie utilizes "magnetic power" to win Thalia away from the more dominant Chatsworth. Guest: John Abbott.
• 022 (1-22) Room at the Bottom Dobie must earn 100 on the next math test or be shipped off to an exclusive prep school. Guest: Ronny Howard.
• 023 (1-23) Hunger Strike To woo Thalia away from Chatsworth Osborne, Jr., Dobie goes on a hunger strike. Guests: Ryan O'Neal and Margaret (Marlo) Thomas.
• 024 (1-24) Taken to the Cleaners Dobie and Thalia become involved with a pair of crooked dry cleaners.
• 025 (1-25) Love Is a Fallacy While Thalia attempts to teach Dobie logic, a wealthy, but insecure, newcomer named Whitney offers to take Dobie as he is. Guest (uncredited): Ronnie Haran.
• 026 (1-26) Dobie Spreads a Rumor Dobie invents a story about a rich Uncle Max who leaves Zelda's family a fortune.
• 027 (1-27) Rock-A-Bye Dobie When Dobie starts a baby-sitting business, Herbert concludes that Dobie is married - and a father. Originally filmed as Almost A Father, this episode was pulled from the schedule because of affiliate complaints. This revised version was shown later in the season. Guests: Denise Alexander, Don Knotts, Kathleen Freeman.
• 028 (1-28) The Chicken From Outer Space Dobie, Zelda and Maynard are lab partners in an experiment involving a chicken and an extra large dose of male hormones.
• 029 (1-29) Dobie's Navy Blues Myrna Lomax's father is an ex-chief petty officer who thinks Dobie is planning to enlist in the Navy. Guests: Yvonne Craig, Harry Von Zell.
• 030 (1-30) That's Show Biz Dobie's parents participate in the school talent show, the CHSSPBL Capers. Guests: Reta Shaw, Richard Deacon, Roberta Shore.
• 031 (1-31) Live Alone and Like It Dobie and Maynard move into their own apartment - briefly.
• 032 (1-32) The Prettiest Collateral in Town (Working title: "He Who Gets Slapped") To secure a bank loan for his father, Dobie agrees to date the banker's self-possessed daughter, even if it means losing adorable Melissa Frome. Guests: Sherry Jackson, Rose Marie.
• 033 (1-33) Soup and Fish Invited to a formal party by wealthy Sabrina Armitage, Dobie and Maynard talk her cousin Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. into sharing his tuxedo with them.
• 034 (1-34) Where There's a Will Herbert is superstitious about signing his newly created will. Guests: Darryl Hickman, Robert Nichols, Ronny Howard.
• 035 (1-35) Put Your Feet In Our Hands To impress ambitious Daphne Root, Dobie and Chatsworth go to work in her father's shoe store.
• 036 (1-36) Competition Is the Life of Trade Dobie and Chatsworth compete for the daughter of a rival grocer. Guest: Jack Albertson.
• 037 (1-37) The French They Are a Funny Race A lovely French girl latches on to Maynard as her protector.
• 038 (1-38) The Long Arm of the Law After making a bad impression on a new policeman, Dobie learns that the officer is the father of pretty Arabella Parmalee.
• 039 (1-39) Here Comes the Groom Dobie proposes to Zelda. Guests: Dabs Greer, Burt Mustin

Second Season

• 040 (2-1) Who Needs Elvis? Zelda helps Dobie win a jazz competition, even though it may mean losing him to six-foot Esme Lauterback.
• 041 (2-2) You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog Maynard alters Dobie's essay about his dog and enters it in a "Why My Dad is My Pal" contest. Guest: Jack Albertson.
• 042 (2-3) Take Me to Your Leader Dobie and Maynard tell their sergeant about the dark and stormy night the Martians invaded Central City. This episode, which takes place during the time Dobie and Maynard are in the army, would be broadcast later in the season.
• 043 (2-4) Dobie Goes Beatnik Dobie makes a bad first impression on a visiting bigwig from Herbert's lodge, so Maynard shaves his beard and pretends to be Dobie and vice versa.
• 044 (2-5) Baby Talk Maynard discovers an abandoned baby in the park. Guest: Jo Anne Worley.
• 045 (2-6) The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs Maynard's newly discovered powers of ESP catapult him to instant fame. This rarely seen episode was taken out of syndication after John F. Kennedy's assassination because it concerned the Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960.
• 046 (2-7) Around My Room in 80 Days Dobie and Maynard try to convince a brilliant, but bitter friend not to drop out of school.
• 047 (2-8) Maynard G. Krebs - Boy Millionaire The money Maynard found in the park is all his - if no one claims it.
• 048 (2-9) Drag Strip Dobie In order to compete with Chatsworth for the attention of speed-lover, Charlotte Lamarr, Dobie dupes Zelda into helping him build a sporty hot-rod.
• 049 (2-10) What's My Lion? Maynard captures a runaway lion, the gift of an oil-rich Eastern potentate.
• 050 (2-11) The Day the Teachers Disappeared A flu epidemic among the teachers forces Mr. Pomfritt to recruit parents as substitute teachers.
• 051 (2-12) The Face That Stopped the Clock Encouraged by Dobie to go to work, Maynard takes a job selling job-lot clocks in a surplus store.
• 052 (2-13) Jangle Bells Dobie passes up an invitation to Maynard's Christmas party in favor of a ritzy affair at Osborne Manor.
• 053 (2-14) Parlez-Vous English? Winifred's plan to introduce Dobie to culture falters when the bohemian daughter of a visiting French artist makes a play for Herbert.
• 054 (2-15) Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife? Dobie talks Herbert into renewing his courtship of Winnie.
• 055 (2-16) Zelda, Get off My Back To improve his grades, Chatsworth woos the brainy Zelda Gilroy.
• 056 (2-17) The Big Question About to graduate from high school, Dobie and Maynard must consider the question, "Whither are we drifting?"
• 057 (2-18) The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard Maynard fears that he is holding his good buddy back, so he masterminds a feud to break up their friendship.
• 058 (2-19) Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother? Winifred enters a contest using Dobie's name and wins him a much-publicized date with a blonde starlet.
• 059 (2-20) I Was a High School Scrooge Dobie campaigns to raise money to help an ex-football hero, unaware that the old grad is a rich industrialist who plans to sue for defamation of character. Guest: Douglas Dumbrille.
• 060 (2-21) The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis Ashamed because he never graduated from high school, Herbert takes a night class from the same professor who teaches Dobie during the day.
• 061 (2-22) Baby Shoes Dobie is about to leave for the Army.
• 062 (2-23) Dobie Vs. the Machine Dobie and Maynard seek advice about their future from a variety of sources, including a computer.
• 063 (2-24) I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, Sailor or Marine When Maynard misses the bus to boot camp, Dobie convinces Chatsworth to stand-in for his missing buddy. Guest: John Fiedler.
• 064 (2-25) The Chicken Corporal To keep a double-date, Dobie must help Maynard pass an Army fitness test.
• 065 (2-26) This Ain't the Way We Used To Do It Herbert shows Dobie's platoon what a real soldier should be.
• 066 (2-27) The Solid Gold Dog-Tag Chatsworth enlists.
• 067 (2-28) Spaceville Dobie, Maynard, and a chimpanzee participate in the ground testing of a space capsule.
• 068 (2-29) The Battle of Maynard's Beard Dobie defends Maynard's right to keep his beard while in the Army.
• 069 (2-30) Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow Winnie learns that the mother of Dobie's latest girl is one of Herbert's old flames. Guest: Yvonne Craig.
• 070 (2-31) Dobie Plays Cupid Dobie tries to bolster Maynard's confidence with women, but his timid buddy becomes an eyebrow-twitching Casanova.
• 071 (2-32) Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble Starring in a play about a gallant war hero, Dobie continues his role offstage in order to impress the pretty daughter of an Army Colonel.
• 072 (2-33) Be It Ever So Humble When Dobie thinks Maynard is AWOL, he secures a pass by claiming his father is deathly ill - just as Herbert is facing an insurance physical.
• 073 (2-34) Everything But the Truth Zelda brags that she and Dobie are having a wild affair.
• 074 (2-35) Ah! Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes Dobie tells a pretty WAC that his war-hero father was "missing in action."
• 075 (2-36) Goodbye, Mr. Pomfritt - Hello, Mr. Chips Hoping to prevent Mr. Pomfritt from quitting teaching, Dobie and Maynard plan a reunion of his former students.

Third Season

• 076 (3-1) The Ruptured Duck Dobie and Maynard receive their discharges and enroll in S. Peter Pryor Junior College.
• 077 (3-2) Move Over, Perry Mason After getting his hand caught in a gum machine, Maynard sues Herbert's insurance company. Guest: Douglas Dumbrille.
• 078 (3-3) The Frat's in the Fire Herbert bribes the snobbish Silver Spoons Club into inviting Dobie to join their group.
• 079 (3-4) Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got the Dobie? A beautiful girl decides that if Zelda wants Dobie, there must be more to him than meets the eye.
• 080 (3-5) The Fast, White Mouse An experiment in heredity convinces Zelda that Chatsworth is a more suitable mate.
• 081 (3-6) The Gigolo To remain true to her absent fiancee, a pretty co-ed bribes Maynard into being her regular escort. Guest: Bill Bixby.
• 082 (3-7) Dig, Dig, Dig Herbert suspects that Dobie's real interest in Egyptology is his attractive professor.
• 083 (3-8) Eat, Drink and Be Merry - For Tomorrow Ker-Boom Maynard is convinced that there is no hope for the future.
• 084 (3-9) The Richest Squirrel in Town Mr. Pomfritt has $41.37 stolen from his desk.
• 085 (3-10) The Second Most Beautiful Girl in The World Dobie competes with Chatsworth for the sympathy of a tender-hearted beauty.
• 086 (3-11) This Town Ain't Big Enough For Me and Robert Browning Inspired by a poem, Dobie goes after an unattainable girl.
• 087 (3-12) The Blue-Tail Fly Dobie's issue-oriented campaign for Student Council can't compete against Chatsworth's show biz glitter.
• 088 (3-13) Have Reindeer, Will Travel Soft-hearted Maynard gives the Christmas Party Fund to a poor Mexican boy.
• 089 (3-14) Crazylegs Gillis Dobie helps out a campus football star who has a wife and five sons.
• 090 (3-15) The Magnificent Failure When Herbert decides to sell his grocery store, he discovers that it isn't worth a fraction of what he had expected.
• 091 (3-16) Happiness Can't Buy Money Chatsworth hopes that Herbert T. Gillis can make a man out of him.
• 092 (3-17) I Do Not Choose To Run Herbert runs for City Planning Commissioner.
• 093 (3-18) For Whom The Wedding Bell Tolls Dobie and Maynard stow away on a cargo ship, unaware that Zelda is a passenger. Guest: Betty Rollin.
• 094 (3-19) Girls Will Be Boys Maynard meets a kooky tomboy named Eddie. Guest: Lynn Loring.
• 095 (3-20) Like Low Noon Butch Baumgartner, a former rival, is returning to town to get even with Dobie.
• 096 (3-21) The Marriage Counselor After Dobie agrees to marry Zelda, Maynard convinces them to postpone the nuptials indefinitely.
• 097 (3-22) Like, Oh, Brother! Dobie and Maynard volunteer at a neighborhood settlement house.
• 098 (3-23) Names My Mother Called Me Dobie is invited to meet the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who inspired his unusual first name.
• 099 (3-24) Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive While babysitting for Professor Pomfritt, Dobie and Maynard find a copy of their final exam in Poetry.
• 100 (3-25) How To Cheat an Honest Man Dobie falls for a girl who is a stickler for honesty.
• 101 (3-26) Birth of a Salesman Traveling saleswoman Thalia Menninger tries to recruit Dobie and Professor Pomfritt for her company. Guest: Tuesday Weld.
• 102 (3-27) I Was a Boy Sorority Girl Working as waiters at a Sorority Open House, the boys must don dresses to avoid being recognized by Dobie's ultra-snobbish new girlfriend.
• 103 (3-28) An American Strategy Dobie must choose between a poor but loving girl and the daughter of his new employer.
• 104 (3-29) Sweet Success of Smell To take advantage of Maynard's uncanny sense of smell, Dobie and Maynard become private eyes. Guest: Yvonne Craig.
• 105 (3-30) The Big Blunder and Egg Man When Dobie invests in the commodities market, he inadvertently ends up owning fifteen thousand dozen eggs.
• 106 (3-31) The Truth Session Maynard's excessive honesty antagonizes everyone he knows.
• 107 (3-32) I Remember Muu Muu Maynard writes a provocative newspaper article about anthropology professor, Dr. Burkhardt.
• 108 (3-33) When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot Maynard comes to live with the Gillises.
• 109 (3-34) It Takes a Heap o' Livin' To Make a Cave a Home Maynard discovers a Stone Age Indian living in a local cave. Guest: Mike Mazurki.
• 110 (3-35) Back-To-Nature Boy Maynard runs into an old tomboy friend, Eddie, who has grown into a wealthy society debutante. Guest: Lynn Loring.
• 111 (3-36) Bachelor Father...and Son Winifred visits her sister, leaving Dobie and Herbert to fend for themselves.

Fourth Season

• 112 (4-1) What's a Little Murder Between Friends Dobie thinks Thalia and Maynard are planning to kill him.
• 113 (4-2) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Funny Thing Maynard prevents a man from jumping off a window ledge.
• 114 (4-3) Northern Comfort Dobie's conniving cousin Virgil manipulates the Gillises into promoting his singing career.
• 115 (4-4) The Ugliest American Dobie finds himself on an expedition in the Amazon jungle.
• 116 (4-5) What Makes the Varsity Drag? Dobie joins the football team, but runs up against a jealous rival.
• 117 (4-6) Where is Thy Sting? Dobie pretends to be suffering from a fatal illness.
• 118 (4-7) A Splinter Off the Old Block Herbert's 16-year-old nephew, Duncan, comes to live with the family. Guest: Ellen Burstyn.
• 119 (4-8) Like Hi, Explosives The weed killer Maynard and Duncan think they are delivering is actually a can of nitroglycerin.
• 120 (4-9) Flow Gently, Sweet Money Duncan becomes a ruthless businessman. Guest: Yvonne Craig.
• 121 (4-10) Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney The Gillises try to shock Maynard out of his belief in Santa.
• 122 (4-11) The Iceman Goeth Duncan and Maynard think they have killed Herbert.
• 123 (4-12) Strictly for the Birds Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them pass a test. Mel Blanc provides the bird's voice. Guest: Julie Parrish.
• 124 (4-13) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis Maynard drinks a chemistry mixture which turns him into a genius.
• 125 (4-14) The Beast With Twenty Fingers Maynard and Herbert lock their fingers together in a Gypsy "love-link" just as Herbert is leaving for a Grocer's Convention.
• 126 (4-15) Too Many Kooks Spoil The Broth Cousin Virgil schemes to steal Dobie's girl, an heiress to a kitchenware fortune.
• 127 (4-16) Vocal Boy Makes Good Dobie is asked to fill in for one of the Lettermen.
• 128 (4-17) Who Did William Tell? Duncan becomes infatuated with the star of a visiting opera company.
• 129 (4-18) And Now a Word from Our Sponsor As a campus disc jockey, Dobie innocently accepts payola from ex-con Eddie Baker. Guests: Alice Pearce, Carole Cook.
• 130 (4-19) Three Million Coins in the Fountain Finding his family fortune gone, Chatsworth tricks Maynard into helping him raise funds.
• 131 (4-20) Two for the Whipsaw Mistakenly thinking that Dobie is Chatsworth, a gold-digger tries to trick him into marriage.
• 132 (4-21) Thanks for the Memory While Zelda tries to improve Dobie's memory, a rich kook named Claypool prefers Dobie as he is.
• 133 (4-22) All Right, Dobie, Drop The Gun An escaped convict holds the Gillises captive.
• 134 (4-23) The Moon and No Pence Dobie falls for a ballerina who loves to dance, Isadora-like, in open moonlit fields.
• 135 (4-24) Beethoven, Presley and Me An electrical shock provides Maynard with the ability to predict hit songs. Guest: Charles Lane.
• 136 (4-25) The Little Chimp That Couldn't Maynard befriends a dumb, but loveable chimp, who may be sacrificed to medical science.
• 137 (4-26) There's Always Room for One Less Chatsworth comes to live with the Gillises.
• 138 (4-27) The General Cried at Dawn On vacation in Latin America, Maynard substitutes for his look-alike, General Ramon Rubero.
• 139 (4-28) Now I Lay Me Down To Steal While staying at Osborne Manor, sleepwalker Maynard becomes a suspected jewel thief.
• 140 (4-29) Lassie, Get Lost Starlet Valentine Van Loon offers a $500 reward for the return of her dog, Boo-Boo. Guest: Joyce Van Patten.
• 141 (4-30) The Rice-and-Old-Shoes Caper Zelda convinces Maynard to marry her.
• 142 (4-31) Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight After swallowing an experimental drug, Maynard becomes a champion boxer.
• 143 (4-32) I Was a Spy for the F.O.B. Two spies mistake Maynard for a rocket fuel scientist. Guest: Barbara Bain.
• 144 (4-33) There's a Broken Light for Every Heart on Broadway Maynard becomes the manager of a beautiful pop singer.
• 145 (4-34) Beauty is Only Kin Deep Dobie must find a mate for his girlfriend's spinster sister, Dr. Imogene Burkhardt. Guests: Susan Watson, Peter Lupus.
• 146 (4-35) The Call of the Like Wild Maynard becomes irresistible to women when he accidentally switches his hair tonic with an experimental bottle of simulated fragrance of musk. Guest: Sally Kellerman.
• 147 (4-36) The Devil and Dobie Gillis Chatsworth convinces Dobie to help him rig the Charity Bazaar raffle. This is actually a rewrite of the first episode, Caper at The Bijou. Guest: Barbara Babcock.

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