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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 - Ruptured Duck
Release Date: 1961-10-10Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
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Episode 2 - Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Release Date: 1961-10-17Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
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Episode 3 - Move Over, Perry Mason
Release Date: 1961-10-24Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
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Episode 4 - The Fast White Mouse
Release Date: 1961-10-31Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
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Episode 5 - The Gigolo
Release Date: 1961-11-07Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
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Episode 6 - Dig, Dig, Dig
Release Date: 1961-11-14Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
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Episode 7 - Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
Release Date: 1961-11-21Maynard predicts the end of the world.
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Episode 8 - The Richest Squirrel in Town
Release Date: 1961-11-28A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
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Episode 9 - The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Release Date: 1961-12-05Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
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Episode 10 - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
Release Date: 1961-12-12Inspired 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.
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Episode 11 - Have Reindeer, Will Travel
Release Date: 1961-12-19Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
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Episode 12 - Crazylegs Gillis
Release Date: 1961-12-26Dobie 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.
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Episode 13 - Blue Tail Fly
Release Date: 1962-01-02Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
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Episode 14 - I Do Not Choose to Run
Release Date: 1962-01-09Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
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Episode 15 - Happiness Can't Buy Money
Release Date: 1962-01-16Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
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Episode 16 - Magnificent Failure
Release Date: 1962-01-23Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
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Episode 17 - For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls
Release Date: 1962-01-30Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
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Episode 18 - Girls Will Be Boys
Release Date: 1962-02-13Maynard 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.
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Episode 19 - Marriage Counselor
Release Date: 1962-02-20When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
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Episode 20 - The Big Blunder and Egg Man
Release Date: 1962-02-27To 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.
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Episode 21 - Birth of a Salesman
Release Date: 1962-03-06When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
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Episode 22 - Like, Oh Brother
Release Date: 1962-03-13Dobie 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.
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Episode 23 - Wanted: Dead or Alive
Release Date: 1962-03-20Dobie 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.
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Episode 24 - Names My Mother Called Me
Release Date: 1962-03-27When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
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Episode 25 - Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive
Release Date: 1962-04-03In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on an exam to pass his poetry class.
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Episode 26 - The Truth Session
Release Date: 1962-04-10Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
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Episode 27 - I Remember Muu Muu
Release Date: 1962-04-17Maynard 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.
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Episode 28 - Sweet Success of Smell
Release Date: 1962-04-24When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
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Episode 29 - When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
Release Date: 1962-05-01Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
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Episode 30 - I Was a Boy Soronity Girl
Release Date: 1962-05-08Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
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Episode 31 - It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
Release Date: 1962-05-15Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
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Episode 32 - Back-to-Nature Boy
Release Date: 1962-05-22Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
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Episode 33 - How to Cheat an Honest Man
Release Date: 1962-05-29When 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.
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Episode 34 - Bachelor Father and Son
Release Date: 1962-06-05Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
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Episode 35 - Like Low Noon
Release Date: 1962-06-12Dobie'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.
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Episode 36 - The Frat's in the Fire
Release Date: 1962-06-26Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.