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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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Episode 1 - Who Needs Elvis?
Release Date: 1960-09-27Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
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Episode 2 - You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog
Release Date: 1960-10-04Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
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Episode 3 - Baby Talk
Release Date: 1960-10-18Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
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Episode 4 - Dobie Goes Beatnik
Release Date: 1960-10-25Thelonius 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.
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Episode 5 - The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
Release Date: 1960-11-01Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
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Episode 6 - The Face That Stopped the Clock
Release Date: 1960-11-15Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
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Episode 7 - Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
Release Date: 1960-11-22Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
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Episode 8 - Around My Room in 80 Days
Release Date: 1960-11-29Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
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Episode 9 - Drag Strip Dobie
Release Date: 1960-12-06Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
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Episode 10 - Jangle Bells
Release Date: 1960-12-20Dobie 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.
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Episode 11 - Parlez-Vous English
Release Date: 1960-12-27Dobie 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.
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Episode 12 - The Day the Teachers Disappeared
Release Date: 1961-01-03All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
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Episode 13 - What's My Lion?
Release Date: 1961-01-10A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
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Episode 14 - The Big Question
Release Date: 1961-01-24In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
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Episode 15 - Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
Release Date: 1961-01-31Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
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Episode 16 - The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard
Release Date: 1961-02-07Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
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Episode 17 - Zelda, Get Off My Back
Release Date: 1961-02-14Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
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Episode 18 - I Was a High School Scrooge
Release Date: 1961-02-21Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
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Episode 19 - Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Release Date: 1961-02-28Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
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Episode 20 - The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis
Release Date: 1961-03-07It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
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Episode 21 - Dobie Versus the Machine
Release Date: 1961-03-14Dobie 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.
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Episode 22 - Baby Shoes
Release Date: 1961-03-21Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
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Episode 23 - I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine
Release Date: 1961-03-28Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
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Episode 24 - The Chicken Corporal
Release Date: 1961-04-04Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
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Episode 25 - The Solid Gold Dog Tag
Release Date: 1961-04-11Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
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Episode 26 - The Battle of Maynard's Beard
Release Date: 1961-04-18The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
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Episode 27 - Spaceville
Release Date: 1961-04-25Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
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Episode 28 - Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow
Release Date: 1961-05-02Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.
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Episode 29 - Dobie Plays Cupid
Release Date: 1961-05-09Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
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Episode 30 - Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble
Release Date: 1961-05-16Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.
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Episode 31 - Be It Ever So Humble
Release Date: 1961-05-23Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.
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Episode 32 - Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes
Release Date: 1961-05-30Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
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Episode 33 - Everything But the Truth
Release Date: 1961-06-06Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
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Episode 34 - Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips
Release Date: 1961-06-13Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
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Episode 35 - Take Me to Your Leader
Release Date: 1961-06-20Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
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Episode 36 - This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It
Release Date: 1961-06-27Offended 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.