The Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Director: Rod Amateau

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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.

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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

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 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, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

Director: Robert Gordon

Writer: Joel Kane

Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

Director: N/A

Writer: Joel Kane

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.

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Writer: Max Shulman

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

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Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Offended by what he sees a laxity in today's army, ex-sergeant Herbert Gillis puts his son's squad through some rugged training exercises before they graduate.

Director: N/A

Writer: Stanley Z. Cherry

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

Director: Rod Amateau

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Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard and feels guilty enough to have a Scrooge-like dream.

Director: Rod Amateau

Writer: N/A