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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...
Genre:Comedy
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Season 1

  • Caper at the Bijou
    7.6/10108 votes
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    Caper at the Bijou

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1959

    Dobie and Maynard conspire to rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • The Best Dressed Man
    8.0/10101 votes
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    The Best Dressed Man

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1959

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

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • Love is a Science
    7.9/1071 votes
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    Love is a Science

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1959

    Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • The Right Triangle
    7.6/1063 votes
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    The Right Triangle

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1959

    Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • Maynard's Farewell to the Troops
    7.0/1062 votes
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    Maynard's Farewell to the Troops

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1959

    Maynard gets drafted.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman, Rod Amateau

  • The Sweet Singer of Central High
    7.4/1053 votes
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    The Sweet Singer of Central High

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1959

    After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • Greater Love Hath No Man
    6.8/1048 votes
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    Greater Love Hath No Man

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1959

    Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Joel Kane

  • The Old Goat
    7.2/1049 votes
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    The Old Goat

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1959

    Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor
    7.6/1054 votes
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    Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1959

    Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It Takes Two
    7.2/1042 votes
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    It Takes Two

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1959

    Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • Dobie's Birthday Party
    7.4/1045 votes
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    Dobie's Birthday Party

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1959

    Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Ed James

  • Deck the Halls
    7.7/1043 votes
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    Deck the Halls

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1959

    Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • Couchville, USA
    7.2/1039 votes
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    Couchville, USA

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/1959

    Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Irving Brecher

  • The Gaucho
    6.5/1044 votes
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    The Gaucho

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/1960

    Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • The Smoke-Filled Room
    7.9/1052 votes
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    The Smoke-Filled Room

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/1960

    Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • The Fist Fighter
    7.7/1048 votes
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    The Fist Fighter

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1960

    Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hunger Strike
    7.8/1053 votes
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    The Hunger Strike

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1960

    Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • The Flying Millicans
    7.4/1051 votes
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    The Flying Millicans

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1960

    Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Room at the Bottom
    7.9/1049 votes
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    Room at the Bottom

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1960

    Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • The Power of Positive Thinking
    6.9/1041 votes
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    The Power of Positive Thinking

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1960

    In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • Dobie Spreads a Rumor
    7.6/1039 votes
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    Dobie Spreads a Rumor

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1960

    Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Rod Amateau

  • Love is a Fallacy
    7.6/1045 votes
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    Love is a Fallacy

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1960

    Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • The Chicken from Outer Space
    8.0/1048 votes
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    The Chicken from Outer Space

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1960

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

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • Dobie's Navy Blues
    6.6/1036 votes
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    Dobie's Navy Blues

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1960

    Dobie and a girl friend take a baby-sitting job. However, the Gillies suspect Dobie is secretly a father.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Terry Ryan

  • Taken to the Cleaners
    7.3/1036 votes
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    Taken to the Cleaners

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/29/1960

    Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • That's Show Biz
    6.6/1033 votes
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    That's Show Biz

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/5/1960

    Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • The Prettiest Collateral in Town
    7.8/1040 votes
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    The Prettiest Collateral in Town

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/12/1960

    Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Jerry Davis

  • Live Alone and I Like It
    8.0/1037 votes
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    Live Alone and I Like It

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/19/1960

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Sandwich
    8.0/1042 votes
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    The Big Sandwich

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/26/1960

    Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Ben Gershman

  • Soup and Fish
    7.8/1035 votes
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    Soup and Fish

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/3/1960

    Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Rod Amateau

  • Where There's a Will
    7.6/1039 votes
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    Where There's a Will

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/10/1960

    Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • Put Your Feet in Our Hands
    7.5/1031 votes
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    Put Your Feet in Our Hands

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/17/1960

    Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: N/A

  • Competition is the Life of Trade
    7.7/1030 votes
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    Competition is the Life of Trade

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/24/1960

    Dobie's newest girlfriend's father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.

    Director: Robert Gordon

    Writer: N/A

  • The French, They Are a Funny Race
    7.7/1032 votes
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    The French, They Are a Funny Race

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/31/1960

    Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

  • The Unregistered Nurse
    7.8/1031 votes
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    The Unregistered Nurse

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/7/1960

    Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.

    Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Arm of the Law
    7.5/1031 votes
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    The Long Arm of the Law

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/14/1960

    Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Joel Kane

  • Here Come the Groom
    7.8/1037 votes
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    Here Come the Groom

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/21/1960

    A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Max Shulman

  • A Taste of Lobster
    8.0/1042 votes
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    A Taste of Lobster

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/28/1960

    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

  • Rock-a-Bye Dobie
    8.1/1037 votes
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    Rock-a-Bye Dobie

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/5/1960

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

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Terry Ryan