The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2
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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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.
Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.
Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
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.
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
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.
It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
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.
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.
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
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 finds an abandoned baby in the park.
Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
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.
20th Century Fox Television , Martin Manulis Productions
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