The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Sep 29, 1959

Dobie and Maynard conspire to rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.

Oct 6, 1959

Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.

Oct 13, 1959

Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.

Oct 20, 1959

Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.

Nov 3, 1959

Maynard gets drafted.

Nov 10, 1959

After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.

Nov 17, 1959

Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.

Nov 24, 1959

Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.

Dec 1, 1959

Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.

Dec 8, 1959

Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.

Dec 15, 1959

Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.

Dec 22, 1959

Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.

Dec 29, 1959

Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.

Jan 5, 1960

Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.

Jan 12, 1960

Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.

Jan 19, 1960

Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.

Jan 26, 1960

Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.

Feb 2, 1960

Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.

Feb 9, 1960

Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

Feb 16, 1960

In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.

Feb 23, 1960

Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.

Mar 1, 1960

Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.

Mar 8, 1960

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

Mar 15, 1960

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.

Mar 29, 1960

Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.

Apr 5, 1960

Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.

Apr 12, 1960

Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.

Apr 19, 1960

Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.

Apr 26, 1960

Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

May 3, 1960

Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.

May 10, 1960

Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.

May 17, 1960

Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.

May 24, 1960

Dobie's newest girlfriend's father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.

May 31, 1960

Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.

Jun 7, 1960

Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.

Jun 14, 1960

Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.

Jun 21, 1960

A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.

Jun 28, 1960

Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.

Jul 5, 1960

Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobie is secretly a father.

Sep 27, 1960

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

Oct 4, 1960

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

Oct 18, 1960

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Oct 25, 1960

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.

Nov 1, 1960

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

Nov 15, 1960

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

Nov 22, 1960

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

Nov 29, 1960

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

Dec 6, 1960

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

Dec 20, 1960

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 27, 1960

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.

Jan 3, 1961

All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

Jan 10, 1961

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

Jan 24, 1961

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

Jan 31, 1961

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

Feb 7, 1961

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

Feb 14, 1961

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

Feb 21, 1961

Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

Feb 28, 1961

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

Mar 7, 1961

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

Mar 14, 1961

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.

Mar 21, 1961

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

Mar 28, 1961

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

Apr 4, 1961

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

Apr 11, 1961

Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

Apr 18, 1961

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

Apr 25, 1961

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

May 2, 1961

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 9, 1961

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

May 16, 1961

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 23, 1961

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

May 30, 1961

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

Jun 6, 1961

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

Jun 13, 1961

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

Jun 20, 1961

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

Jun 27, 1961

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.

Oct 10, 1961

Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.

Oct 17, 1961

Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.

Oct 24, 1961

Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.

Oct 31, 1961

Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

Nov 7, 1961

Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.

Nov 14, 1961

Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.

Nov 21, 1961

Maynard predicts the end of the world.

Nov 28, 1961

A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.

Dec 5, 1961

Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

Dec 12, 1961

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 19, 1961

Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.

Dec 26, 1961

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.

Jan 2, 1962

Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

Jan 9, 1962

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.

Jan 16, 1962

Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.

Jan 23, 1962

Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

Jan 30, 1962

Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.

Feb 13, 1962

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 20, 1962

When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.

Feb 27, 1962

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.

Mar 6, 1962

When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.

Mar 13, 1962

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.

Mar 20, 1962

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.

Mar 27, 1962

When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

Apr 3, 1962

Dobie gets a job at Lumpkin Lumber thanks to his girlfriend Gloria. When the boss's brash daughter takes a shine to him, Dobie sees a chance to climb the corporate ladder to success.

Apr 10, 1962

Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.

Apr 17, 1962

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.

Apr 24, 1962

When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.

May 1, 1962

Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.

May 8, 1962

Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.

May 15, 1962

Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him

May 22, 1962

Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.

May 29, 1962

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.

Jun 5, 1962

Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

Jun 12, 1962

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.

Jun 26, 1962

Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.

Sep 26, 1962

Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.

Oct 3, 1962

Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.

Oct 10, 1962

Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.

Oct 17, 1962

On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.

Oct 24, 1962

Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.

Oct 31, 1962

Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.

Nov 7, 1962

Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.

Nov 14, 1962

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 21, 1962

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 28, 1962

Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.

Dec 5, 1962

Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.

Dec 12, 1962

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 19, 1962

To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.

Jan 2, 1963

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 9, 1963

Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.

Jan 16, 1963

Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.

Jan 23, 1963

A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.

Jan 30, 1963

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.

Feb 6, 1963

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 13, 1963

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 20, 1963

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 27, 1963

When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

Mar 6, 1963

When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.

Mar 13, 1963

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.

Mar 20, 1963

A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.

Mar 27, 1963

Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.

Apr 3, 1963

Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.

Apr 10, 1963

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.

Apr 17, 1963

A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.

Apr 24, 1963

Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.

May 1, 1963

Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.

May 8, 1963

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 15, 1963

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 22, 1963

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 29, 1963

A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.

Jun 5, 1963

Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.