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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 1 - Who Needs Elvis?
    8.3/10(42 votes)

    #1 - Who Needs Elvis?

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 2 - You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #2 - You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 3 - Baby Talk
    8.5/10(46 votes)

    #3 - Baby Talk

    S2:E3

    Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 4 - Dobie Goes Beatnik
    8.5/10(49 votes)

    #4 - Dobie Goes Beatnik

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 5 - The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
    8.4/10(38 votes)

    #5 - The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 6 - The Face That Stopped the Clock
    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #6 - The Face That Stopped the Clock

    S2:E6

    Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 7 - Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
    7.8/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

    S2:E7

    Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 8 - Around My Room in 80 Days
    7.6/10(42 votes)

    #8 - Around My Room in 80 Days

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 9 - Drag Strip Dobie
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    #9 - Drag Strip Dobie

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 10 - Jangle Bells
    7.4/10(42 votes)

    #10 - Jangle Bells

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 11 - Parlez-Vous English
    7.7/10(44 votes)

    #11 - Parlez-Vous English

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Max Shulman

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  12. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 12 - The Day the Teachers Disappeared
    7.5/10(29 votes)

    #12 - The Day the Teachers Disappeared

    S2:E12

    All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  13. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 13 - What's My Lion?
    8.1/10(45 votes)

    #13 - What's My Lion?

    S2:E13

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

    Director:Robert Gordon
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  14. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 14 - The Big Question
    8.3/10(47 votes)

    #14 - The Big Question

    S2:E14

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 15 - Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
    8.2/10(32 votes)

    #15 - Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

    S2:E15

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

    Director:Robert Gordon
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 16 - The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard
    7.7/10(42 votes)

    #16 - The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

    S2:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 17 - Zelda, Get Off My Back
    7.9/10(35 votes)

    #17 - Zelda, Get Off My Back

    S2:E17

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 18 - I Was a High School Scrooge
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    #18 - I Was a High School Scrooge

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 19 - Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    #19 - Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

    S2:E19

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 20 - The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #20 - The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

    S2:E20

    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

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  21. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 21 - Dobie Versus the Machine
    7.8/10(40 votes)

    #21 - Dobie Versus the Machine

    S2:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 22 - Baby Shoes
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #22 - Baby Shoes

    S2:E22

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

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 23 - I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine
    7.1/10(42 votes)

    #23 - I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

    S2:E23

    Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 24 - The Chicken Corporal
    6.6/10(38 votes)

    #24 - The Chicken Corporal

    S2:E24

    Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episode 25 - The Solid Gold Dog Tag
    6.5/10(32 votes)

    #25 - The Solid Gold Dog Tag

    S2:E25

    Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Who Needs Elvis?" is the best rated episode of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Rod Amateau and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1960. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog".