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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)

Comedy · Family

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.

IMDb rating
7.7 (2,304 votes)
Seasons
4
Streaming (US)
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Language
EN
Type
TV series

Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 4 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1959)

7.68 avg 40 episodes 7.8 → 8.3 26 min avg

Ep 0: 7.8 · 44 votesEp 1: 7.4 · 126 votesEp 2: 7.7 · 117 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 81 votesEp 4: 7.5 · 73 votesEp 5: 7.3 · 73 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 61 votesEp 7: 6.9 · 56 votesEp 8: 7.2 · 56 votesEp 9: 7.6 · 61 votesEp 10: 7.3 · 47 votesEp 11: 7.5 · 50 votesEp 12: 7.9 · 50 votesEp 13: 7.5 · 45 votesEp 14: 6.7 · 49 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 59 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 55 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 59 votesEp 18: 7.5 · 58 votesEp 19: 8.0 · 54 votesEp 20: 7.0 · 47 votesEp 21: 7.8 · 45 votesEp 22: 7.8 · 49 votesEp 23: 8.1 · 53 votesEp 24: 6.8 · 41 votesEp 25: 7.6 · 41 votesEp 26: 6.7 · 39 votesEp 27: 7.8 · 49 votesEp 28: 8.2 · 42 votesEp 29: 8.2 · 47 votesEp 30: 8.0 · 40 votesEp 31: 7.9 · 44 votesEp 32: 7.8 · 36 votesEp 33: 8.1 · 34 votesEp 34: 7.9 · 36 votesEp 35: 8.0 · 36 votesEp 36: 7.8 · 35 votesEp 37: 8.0 · 42 votesEp 38: 8.2 · 46 votesEp 39: 8.3 · 40 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
0Pilot7.844
1Caper at the Bijou7.4126
2The Best Dressed Man7.7117
3Love Is a Science8.081
4The Right Triangle7.573
5Maynard's Farewell to the Troops7.373
6The Sweet Singer of Central High7.661
7Greater Love Hath No Man6.956
8The Old Goat7.256
9Dobie Gillis, Boy Actor7.661
10It Takes Two7.347
11Dobie's Birthday Party7.550
12Deck the Halls7.950
13Couchville, USA7.545
14The Gaucho6.749
15The Smoke-Filled Room8.059
16The Fist Fighter7.855
17The Hunger Strike8.059
18The Flying Millicans7.558
19Room at the Bottom8.054
20The Power of Positive Thinking7.047
21Dobie Spreads a Rumor7.845
22Love Is a Fallacy7.849
23The Chicken from Outer Space8.153
24Dobie's Navy Blues6.841
25Taken to the Cleaners7.641
26That's Show Biz6.739
27The Prettiest Collateral in Town7.849
28Live Alone and Like It8.242
29The Big Sandwich8.247
30Soup and Fish8.040
31Where There's a Will7.944
32Put Your Feet in Our Hands7.836
33Competition Is the Life of Trade8.134
34The French, They Are a Funny Race7.936
35The Unregistered Nurse8.036
36The Long Arm of the Law7.835
37Here Comes the Groom8.042
38A Taste for Lobster8.246
39Rock-A-Bye Dobie8.340

Season 2 (1960)

7.75 avg 36 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 26 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 41 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 39 votesEp 3: 8.5 · 48 votesEp 4: 8.5 · 50 votesEp 5: 8.5 · 40 votesEp 6: 7.3 · 41 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 45 votesEp 8: 7.6 · 43 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 33 votesEp 10: 7.4 · 43 votesEp 11: 7.7 · 42 votesEp 12: 7.6 · 30 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 45 votesEp 14: 8.4 · 47 votesEp 15: 8.2 · 33 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 44 votesEp 17: 7.9 · 35 votesEp 18: 8.0 · 38 votesEp 19: 8.0 · 37 votesEp 20: 8.0 · 38 votesEp 21: 7.8 · 40 votesEp 22: 7.9 · 42 votesEp 23: 7.1 · 44 votesEp 24: 6.5 · 39 votesEp 25: 6.5 · 34 votesEp 26: 7.2 · 40 votesEp 27: 7.4 · 44 votesEp 28: 8.2 · 42 votesEp 29: 7.9 · 35 votesEp 30: 7.4 · 35 votesEp 31: 7.2 · 34 votesEp 32: 7.0 · 36 votesEp 33: 7.9 · 37 votesEp 34: 8.2 · 45 votesEp 35: 7.7 · 39 votesEp 36: 7.8 · 35 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Who Needs Elvis?8.241
2You Ain't Nuthin' But a Houn' Dog8.039
3Baby Talk8.548
4Dobie Goes Beatnik8.550
5The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs8.540
6The Face That Stopped the Clock7.341
7Maynard G. Krebs, Boy Millionaire7.845
8Around My Room in 80 Days7.643
9Drag Strip Dobie7.833
10Jangle Bells7.443
11Parlez-Vous English?7.742
12The Day the Teachers Disappeared7.630
13What's My Lion?8.145
14The Big Question8.447
15Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?8.233
16The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard7.844
17Zelda, Get Off My Back7.935
18I Was a High School Scrooge8.038
19Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?8.037
20The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis8.038
21Dobie Versus the Machine7.840
22Baby Shoes7.942
23I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, Sailor or Marine7.144
24The Chicken Corporal6.539
25The Solid Gold Dog Tag6.534
26The Battle of Maynard's Beard7.240
27Spaceville7.444
28Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow8.242
29Dobie Plays Cupid7.935
30Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble7.435
31Be It Ever So Humble7.234
32Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes7.036
33Everything But the Truth7.937
34Goodbye, Mr. Pomfritt, Hello, Mr. Chips8.245
35Take Me to Your Leader7.739
36This Ain't the Way We Used to Do It7.835

Season 3 (1961)

7.87 avg 36 episodes 8.0 → 8.2 26 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 45 votesEp 2: 7.4 · 34 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 42 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 35 votesEp 5: 7.8 · 38 votesEp 6: 8.0 · 43 votesEp 7: 8.2 · 35 votesEp 8: 7.7 · 36 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 35 votesEp 10: 8.1 · 36 votesEp 11: 7.1 · 45 votesEp 12: 8.0 · 31 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 30 votesEp 14: 8.2 · 33 votesEp 15: 7.8 · 29 votesEp 16: 8.5 · 40 votesEp 17: 7.5 · 37 votesEp 18: 8.0 · 30 votesEp 19: 7.8 · 37 votesEp 20: 7.9 · 37 votesEp 21: 8.4 · 43 votesEp 22: 7.8 · 32 votesEp 23: 8.0 · 28 votesEp 24: 8.1 · 39 votesEp 25: 7.8 · 27 votesEp 26: 7.7 · 32 votesEp 27: 7.9 · 36 votesEp 28: 8.0 · 38 votesEp 29: 7.5 · 23 votesEp 30: 7.3 · 34 votesEp 31: 6.6 · 36 votesEp 32: 7.5 · 24 votesEp 33: 7.8 · 32 votesEp 34: 8.5 · 35 votesEp 35: 8.1 · 29 votesEp 36: 8.2 · 32 votes
Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Ruptured Duck8.045
2Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?7.434
3Move Over, Perry Mason8.042
4The Fast White Mouse8.335
5The Gigolo7.838
6Dig, Dig, Dig8.043
7Eat, Drink, and Be Merry... for Tomorrow Ker-Boom8.235
8The Richest Squirrel in Town7.736
9The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World7.835
10This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning8.136
11Have Reindeer, Will Travel7.145
12Crazylegs Gillis8.031
13Blue-Tail Fly8.030
14I Do Not Choose to Run8.233
15Happiness Can't Buy Money7.829
16Magnificent Failure8.540
17For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls7.537
18Girls Will Be Boys8.030
19The Marriage Counselor7.837
20The Big Blunder and Egg Man7.937
21Birth of a Salesman8.443
22Like Oh, Brother7.832
23Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive8.028
24Names My Mother Called Me8.139
25An American Strategy7.827
26The Truth Session7.732
27I Remember Muu Muu7.936
28The Sweet Success of Smell8.038
29When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot7.523
30I Was a Boy Sorority Girl7.334
31It Takes a Heap o' Livin' to Make a Cave a Home6.636
32Back to Nature Boy7.524
33How to Cheat an Honest Man7.832
34Bachelor Father... and Son8.535
35Like Low Noon8.129
36The Frat's in the Fire8.232

Season 4 (1962)

7.27 avg 36 episodes 7.8 → 7.7 26 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 33 votesEp 2: 7.7 · 31 votesEp 3: 7.3 · 26 votesEp 4: 6.1 · 37 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 43 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 39 votesEp 7: 7.5 · 30 votesEp 8: 7.9 · 36 votesEp 9: 7.7 · 34 votesEp 10: 7.3 · 34 votesEp 11: 7.0 · 34 votesEp 12: 6.8 · 29 votesEp 13: 7.5 · 41 votesEp 14: 5.9 · 27 votesEp 15: 7.2 · 25 votesEp 16: 6.7 · 25 votesEp 17: 7.8 · 32 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 27 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 24 votesEp 20: 6.2 · 31 votesEp 21: 7.0 · 26 votesEp 22: 7.7 · 34 votesEp 23: 7.6 · 36 votesEp 24: 5.3 · 28 votesEp 25: 5.9 · 33 votesEp 26: 7.7 · 34 votesEp 27: 6.7 · 31 votesEp 28: 7.8 · 33 votesEp 29: 7.5 · 31 votesEp 30: 7.5 · 33 votesEp 31: 7.5 · 30 votesEp 32: 7.6 · 32 votesEp 33: 6.2 · 25 votesEp 34: 8.0 · 41 votesEp 35: 8.1 · 39 votesEp 36: 7.7 · 33 votes
Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing7.833
2What's a Little Murder Between Friends7.731
3Northern Comfort7.326
4The Ugliest American6.137
5A Splinter Off the Old Block8.043
6What Makes the Varsity Drag?7.839
7Like Hi, Explosives7.530
8Where Is Thy Sting?7.936
9Flow Gently, Sweet Money7.734
10Strictly for the Birds7.334
11The Iceman Goeth7.034
12Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis6.829
13Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney?7.541
14Who Did William Tell?5.927
15Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth7.225
16Vocal Boy Makes Good6.725
17All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun7.832
18And Now a Word from Our Sponsor8.127
19Two for the Whipsaw7.624
20The Moon and No Pence6.231
21The Beast with Twenty Fingers7.026
22Thanks for the Memory7.734
23Three Million Coins in the Fountain7.636
24Beethoven, Presley and Me5.328
25The Little Chimp That Couldn't5.933
26There's Always Room for One Less7.734
27The General Cried at Dawn6.731
28Now I Lay Me Down to Steal7.833
29Lassie, Get Lost7.531
30The Rice-and-Old Shoes Caper7.533
31Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight7.530
32I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.7.632
33There's a Broken Light for Every Heart on Broadway6.225
34Beauty Is Only Kin Deep8.041
35The Call of the Like Wild8.139
36The Devil and Dobie Gillis7.733