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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Season 2 1960 - 1961
TV-PG

  • 1960-09-27T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 26m
  • 15h 15m (36 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

36 episodes

Season Premiere

1960-09-27T04:00:00Z

2x01 Who Needs Elvis?

Season Premiere

2x01 Who Needs Elvis?

  • 1960-09-27T04:00:00Z25m

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

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

1960-10-18T04:00:00Z

2x03 Baby Talk

2x03 Baby Talk

  • 1960-10-18T04:00:00Z25m

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

1960-10-25T04:00:00Z

2x04 Dobie Goes Beatnik

2x04 Dobie Goes Beatnik

  • 1960-10-25T04:00:00Z25m

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.

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

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

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

1960-11-29T05:00:00Z

2x08 Around My Room in 80 Days

2x08 Around My Room in 80 Days

  • 1960-11-29T05:00:00Z25m

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

1960-12-06T05:00:00Z

2x09 Drag Strip Dobie

2x09 Drag Strip Dobie

  • 1960-12-06T05:00:00Z25m

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

1960-12-20T05:00:00Z

2x10 Jangle Bells

2x10 Jangle Bells

  • 1960-12-20T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1960-12-27T05:00:00Z

2x11 Parlez-Vous English

2x11 Parlez-Vous English

  • 1960-12-27T05:00:00Z25m

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.

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

1961-01-10T05:00:00Z

2x13 What's My Lion?

2x13 What's My Lion?

  • 1961-01-10T05:00:00Z25m

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

1961-01-24T05:00:00Z

2x14 The Big Question

2x14 The Big Question

  • 1961-01-24T05:00:00Z25m

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

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

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

1961-02-14T05:00:00Z

2x17 Zelda, Get Off My Back

2x17 Zelda, Get Off My Back

  • 1961-02-14T05:00:00Z25m

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

2x18 I Was a High School Scrooge

  • 1961-02-21T05:00:00Z30m

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

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

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

1961-03-14T05:00:00Z

2x21 Dobie Versus the Machine

2x21 Dobie Versus the Machine

  • 1961-03-14T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1961-03-21T05:00:00Z

2x22 Baby Shoes

2x22 Baby Shoes

  • 1961-03-21T05:00:00Z25m

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

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

1961-04-04T05:00:00Z

2x24 The Chicken Corporal

2x24 The Chicken Corporal

  • 1961-04-04T05:00:00Z25m

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

1961-04-11T05:00:00Z

2x25 The Solid Gold Dog Tag

2x25 The Solid Gold Dog Tag

  • 1961-04-11T05:00:00Z25m

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

2x26 The Battle of Maynard's Beard

  • 1961-04-18T05:00:00Z25m

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

1961-04-25T05:00:00Z

2x27 Spaceville

2x27 Spaceville

  • 1961-04-25T05:00:00Z30m

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

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.

1961-05-09T04:00:00Z

2x29 Dobie Plays Cupid

2x29 Dobie Plays Cupid

  • 1961-05-09T04:00:00Z25m

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.

1961-05-23T04:00:00Z

2x31 Be It Ever So Humble

2x31 Be It Ever So Humble

  • 1961-05-23T04:00:00Z25m

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

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

1961-06-06T04:00:00Z

2x33 Everything But the Truth

2x33 Everything But the Truth

  • 1961-06-06T04:00:00Z25m

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

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

1961-06-20T04:00:00Z

2x35 Take Me to Your Leader

2x35 Take Me to Your Leader

  • 1961-06-20T04:00:00Z25m

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

Season Finale

1961-06-27T04:00:00Z

2x36 This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

Season Finale

2x36 This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

  • 1961-06-27T04:00:00Z25m

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.

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