The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 3
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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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959 / TV-PGThe 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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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 3 Full Episode Guide
Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.
Dobie'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.
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
When 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.
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
Maynard 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.
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on an exam to pass his poetry class.
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
Dobie 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.
Dobie 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.
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
To 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.
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
Maynard 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.
Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
Dobie 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.
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
Inspired 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.
Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.