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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 - A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
Release Date: 1962-09-26Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
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Episode 2 - What's a Little Murder Between Friends
Release Date: 1962-10-03Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
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Episode 3 - Northern Comfort
Release Date: 1962-10-10Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
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Episode 4 - The Ugliest American
Release Date: 1962-10-17On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
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Episode 5 - A Splinter Off the Old Block
Release Date: 1962-10-24Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
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Episode 6 - What Makes the Varsity Drag?
Release Date: 1962-10-31Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
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Episode 7 - Like Hi, Exlosives
Release Date: 1962-11-07Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
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Episode 8 - Where is Thy Sting
Release Date: 1962-11-14Dobie 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.
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Episode 9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money
Release Date: 1962-11-21An 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.
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Episode 10 - Strictly for the Birds
Release Date: 1962-11-28Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
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Episode 11 - The Iceman Goeth
Release Date: 1962-12-05Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
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Episode 12 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
Release Date: 1962-12-12To 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.
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Episode 13 - Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
Release Date: 1962-12-19To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.
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Episode 14 - Who Did William Tell?
Release Date: 1963-01-02Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
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Episode 15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
Release Date: 1963-01-09Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.
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Episode 16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good
Release Date: 1963-01-16Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
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Episode 17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
Release Date: 1963-01-23A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
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Episode 18 - And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
Release Date: 1963-01-30Dobie is the new DJ on the college radio station. A mobster tries to give him payola to make his country-singer girlfriend a star.
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Episode 19 - Two for the Whipsaw
Release Date: 1963-02-06Chatsworth pays Dobie to take his place at a fancy dinner with old friends of the family, whose daughter he remembers as being particularly ugly.
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Episode 20 - The Moon and No Pence
Release Date: 1963-02-13Dobie 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.
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Episode 21 - The Beast with Twenty Fingers
Release Date: 1963-02-20Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.
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Episode 22 - Thanks for the Memory
Release Date: 1963-02-27When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory
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Episode 23 - Three Million Coins in the Fountain
Release Date: 1963-03-06When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
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Episode 24 - Beethoven, Presley, and Me
Release Date: 1963-03-13The 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.
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Episode 25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't
Release Date: 1963-03-20A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
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Episode 26 - There's Always Room for One Less
Release Date: 1963-03-27Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
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Episode 27 - The General Cried at Dawn
Release Date: 1963-04-03Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
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Episode 28 - Now I Lay Me Down to Steal
Release Date: 1963-04-10Staying 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.
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Episode 29 - Lassie, Get Lost
Release Date: 1963-04-17A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
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Episode 30 - The Rice and Old Shoes Caper
Release Date: 1963-04-24Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.
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Episode 31 - Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
Release Date: 1963-05-01Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
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Episode 32 - I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.
Release Date: 1963-05-08On 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.
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Episode 33 - There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway
Release Date: 1963-05-15Maynard 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.
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Episode 34 - Beauty Is Only Kin Deep
Release Date: 1963-05-22Dobie 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.
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Episode 35 - The Call of the, Like, Wild
Release Date: 1963-05-29A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
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Episode 36 - The Devil and Dobie Gillis
Release Date: 1963-06-05Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.