The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)

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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.

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

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1959)

7.68 avg 40 episodes 7.8 → 8.3 26 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Pilot	7.8	44
1	Caper at the Bijou	7.4	126
2	The Best Dressed Man	7.7	117
3	Love Is a Science	8.0	81
4	The Right Triangle	7.5	73
5	Maynard's Farewell to the Troops	7.3	73
6	The Sweet Singer of Central High	7.6	61
7	Greater Love Hath No Man	6.9	56
8	The Old Goat	7.2	56
9	Dobie Gillis, Boy Actor	7.6	61
10	It Takes Two	7.3	47
11	Dobie's Birthday Party	7.5	50
12	Deck the Halls	7.9	50
13	Couchville, USA	7.5	45
14	The Gaucho	6.7	49
15	The Smoke-Filled Room	8.0	59
16	The Fist Fighter	7.8	55
17	The Hunger Strike	8.0	59
18	The Flying Millicans	7.5	58
19	Room at the Bottom	8.0	54
20	The Power of Positive Thinking	7.0	47
21	Dobie Spreads a Rumor	7.8	45
22	Love Is a Fallacy	7.8	49
23	The Chicken from Outer Space	8.1	53
24	Dobie's Navy Blues	6.8	41
25	Taken to the Cleaners	7.6	41
26	That's Show Biz	6.7	39
27	The Prettiest Collateral in Town	7.8	49
28	Live Alone and Like It	8.2	42
29	The Big Sandwich	8.2	47
30	Soup and Fish	8.0	40
31	Where There's a Will	7.9	44
32	Put Your Feet in Our Hands	7.8	36
33	Competition Is the Life of Trade	8.1	34
34	The French, They Are a Funny Race	7.9	36
35	The Unregistered Nurse	8.0	36
36	The Long Arm of the Law	7.8	35
37	Here Comes the Groom	8.0	42
38	A Taste for Lobster	8.2	46
39	Rock-A-Bye Dobie	8.3	40

Season 2 (1960)

7.75 avg 36 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 26 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Who Needs Elvis?	8.2	41
2	You Ain't Nuthin' But a Houn' Dog	8.0	39
3	Baby Talk	8.5	48
4	Dobie Goes Beatnik	8.5	50
5	The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs	8.5	40
6	The Face That Stopped the Clock	7.3	41
7	Maynard G. Krebs, Boy Millionaire	7.8	45
8	Around My Room in 80 Days	7.6	43
9	Drag Strip Dobie	7.8	33
10	Jangle Bells	7.4	43
11	Parlez-Vous English?	7.7	42
12	The Day the Teachers Disappeared	7.6	30
13	What's My Lion?	8.1	45
14	The Big Question	8.4	47
15	Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?	8.2	33
16	The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard	7.8	44
17	Zelda, Get Off My Back	7.9	35
18	I Was a High School Scrooge	8.0	38
19	Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?	8.0	37
20	The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis	8.0	38
21	Dobie Versus the Machine	7.8	40
22	Baby Shoes	7.9	42
23	I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, Sailor or Marine	7.1	44
24	The Chicken Corporal	6.5	39
25	The Solid Gold Dog Tag	6.5	34
26	The Battle of Maynard's Beard	7.2	40
27	Spaceville	7.4	44
28	Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow	8.2	42
29	Dobie Plays Cupid	7.9	35
30	Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble	7.4	35
31	Be It Ever So Humble	7.2	34
32	Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes	7.0	36
33	Everything But the Truth	7.9	37
34	Goodbye, Mr. Pomfritt, Hello, Mr. Chips	8.2	45
35	Take Me to Your Leader	7.7	39
36	This Ain't the Way We Used to Do It	7.8	35

Season 3 (1961)

7.87 avg 36 episodes 8.0 → 8.2 26 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Ruptured Duck	8.0	45
2	Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?	7.4	34
3	Move Over, Perry Mason	8.0	42
4	The Fast White Mouse	8.3	35
5	The Gigolo	7.8	38
6	Dig, Dig, Dig	8.0	43
7	Eat, Drink, and Be Merry... for Tomorrow Ker-Boom	8.2	35
8	The Richest Squirrel in Town	7.7	36
9	The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World	7.8	35
10	This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning	8.1	36
11	Have Reindeer, Will Travel	7.1	45
12	Crazylegs Gillis	8.0	31
13	Blue-Tail Fly	8.0	30
14	I Do Not Choose to Run	8.2	33
15	Happiness Can't Buy Money	7.8	29
16	Magnificent Failure	8.5	40
17	For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls	7.5	37
18	Girls Will Be Boys	8.0	30
19	The Marriage Counselor	7.8	37
20	The Big Blunder and Egg Man	7.9	37
21	Birth of a Salesman	8.4	43
22	Like Oh, Brother	7.8	32
23	Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive	8.0	28
24	Names My Mother Called Me	8.1	39
25	An American Strategy	7.8	27
26	The Truth Session	7.7	32
27	I Remember Muu Muu	7.9	36
28	The Sweet Success of Smell	8.0	38
29	When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot	7.5	23
30	I Was a Boy Sorority Girl	7.3	34
31	It Takes a Heap o' Livin' to Make a Cave a Home	6.6	36
32	Back to Nature Boy	7.5	24
33	How to Cheat an Honest Man	7.8	32
34	Bachelor Father... and Son	8.5	35
35	Like Low Noon	8.1	29
36	The Frat's in the Fire	8.2	32

Season 4 (1962)

7.27 avg 36 episodes 7.8 → 7.7 26 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing	7.8	33
2	What's a Little Murder Between Friends	7.7	31
3	Northern Comfort	7.3	26
4	The Ugliest American	6.1	37
5	A Splinter Off the Old Block	8.0	43
6	What Makes the Varsity Drag?	7.8	39
7	Like Hi, Explosives	7.5	30
8	Where Is Thy Sting?	7.9	36
9	Flow Gently, Sweet Money	7.7	34
10	Strictly for the Birds	7.3	34
11	The Iceman Goeth	7.0	34
12	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis	6.8	29
13	Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney?	7.5	41
14	Who Did William Tell?	5.9	27
15	Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth	7.2	25
16	Vocal Boy Makes Good	6.7	25
17	All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun	7.8	32
18	And Now a Word from Our Sponsor	8.1	27
19	Two for the Whipsaw	7.6	24
20	The Moon and No Pence	6.2	31
21	The Beast with Twenty Fingers	7.0	26
22	Thanks for the Memory	7.7	34
23	Three Million Coins in the Fountain	7.6	36
24	Beethoven, Presley and Me	5.3	28
25	The Little Chimp That Couldn't	5.9	33
26	There's Always Room for One Less	7.7	34
27	The General Cried at Dawn	6.7	31
28	Now I Lay Me Down to Steal	7.8	33
29	Lassie, Get Lost	7.5	31
30	The Rice-and-Old Shoes Caper	7.5	33
31	Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight	7.5	30
32	I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.	7.6	32
33	There's a Broken Light for Every Heart on Broadway	6.2	25
34	Beauty Is Only Kin Deep	8.0	41
35	The Call of the Like Wild	8.1	39
36	The Devil and Dobie Gillis	7.7	33

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)

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