The Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Joel Kane

Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

Director: N/A

Writer: Joel Kane

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Terry Ryan

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

Director: N/A

Writer: Joel Kane

Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Maynard predicts the end of the world.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Max Shulman

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Max Shulman

Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Arnold Horwitt

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

Director: Robert Gordon

Writer: Dean Riesner

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

Director: Robert Gordon

Writer: N/A

Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Joel Kane

When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: Dean Riesner