8.0/1035 votes#1 - Who Needs Elvis?
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1960
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
- 7.8/1034 votes
#2 - You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1960
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
- 8.3/1041 votes
#3 - Baby Talk
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1960
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1045 votes
#4 - Dobie Goes Beatnik
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1960
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
- 8.1/1033 votes
#5 - The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1960
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1037 votes
#6 - The Face That Stopped the Clock
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1960
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1041 votes
#7 - Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/1960
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1040 votes
#8 - Around My Room in 80 Days
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1960
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1030 votes
#9 - Drag Strip Dobie
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1960
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: N/A
- 7.3/1035 votes
#10 - Jangle Bells
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1960
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
- 7.7/1041 votes
#11 - Parlez-Vous English
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1960
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: N/A
Writer: Max Shulman
- 7.4/1027 votes
#12 - The Day the Teachers Disappeared
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1961
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.0/1039 votes
#13 - What's My Lion?
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1961
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
Director: Robert Gordon
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 8.2/1045 votes
#14 - The Big Question
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1961
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
- 8.0/1029 votes
#15 - Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1961
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
Director: Robert Gordon
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1038 votes
#16 - The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1961
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1031 votes
#17 - Zelda, Get Off My Back
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1961
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1033 votes
#18 - I Was a High School Scrooge
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1961
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
- 7.9/1032 votes
#19 - Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1961
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1033 votes
#20 - The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1961
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
- 7.8/1036 votes
#21 - Dobie Versus the Machine
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1961
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
- 7.9/1036 votes
#22 - Baby Shoes
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/1961
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1038 votes
#23 - I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/28/1961
Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1036 votes
#24 - The Chicken Corporal
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/4/1961
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1029 votes
#25 - The Solid Gold Dog Tag
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/11/1961
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2
Every episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2!
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...
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Network:CBS
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Who Needs Elvis?" is the best rated episode of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Rod Amateau and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1960. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog".