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The Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 3

Every episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 3!

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
Network:CBS
Episodes
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  • Magnificent Failure
    8.4/10(37)
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    #1 - Magnificent Failure

    Season 3 Episode 16

    Aired 1/23/1962

    Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • Birth of a Salesman
    8.3/10(40)
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    #2 - Birth of a Salesman

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Aired 3/6/1962

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

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Joel Kane

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  • Bachelor Father and Son
    8.3/10(33)
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    #3 - Bachelor Father and Son

    Season 3 Episode 34

    Aired 6/5/1962

    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

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  • The Fast White Mouse
    8.1/10(31)
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    #4 - The Fast White Mouse

    Season 3 Episode 4

    Aired 10/31/1961

    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

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  • Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
    8.1/10(31)
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    #5 - Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!

    Season 3 Episode 7

    Aired 11/21/1961

    Maynard predicts the end of the world.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Frat's in the Fire
    8.1/10(29)
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    #6 - The Frat's in the Fire

    Season 3 Episode 36

    Aired 6/26/1962

    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

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  • Dig, Dig, Dig
    8.0/10(40)
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    #7 - Dig, Dig, Dig

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 11/14/1961

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

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
    8.0/10(33)
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    #8 - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning

    Season 3 Episode 10

    Aired 12/12/1961

    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

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  • I Do Not Choose to Run
    8.0/10(30)
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    #9 - I Do Not Choose to Run

    Season 3 Episode 14

    Aired 1/9/1962

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

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • Girls Will Be Boys
    8.0/10(27)
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    #10 - Girls Will Be Boys

    Season 3 Episode 18

    Aired 2/13/1962

    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

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  • Names My Mother Called Me
    8.0/10(38)
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    #11 - Names My Mother Called Me

    Season 3 Episode 24

    Aired 3/27/1962

    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

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  • Like Low Noon
    8.0/10(27)
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    #12 - Like Low Noon

    Season 3 Episode 35

    Aired 6/12/1962

    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

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  • Ruptured Duck
    7.9/10(41)
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    #13 - Ruptured Duck

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 10/10/1961

    Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • Move Over, Perry Mason
    7.9/10(36)
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    #14 - Move Over, Perry Mason

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/24/1961

    Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Dean Riesner

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  • Wanted: Dead or Alive
    7.9/10(26)
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    #15 - Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Season 3 Episode 23

    Aired 3/20/1962

    Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then a successful college dropout shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt to come work for her as salesmen.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sweet Success of Smell
    7.9/10(35)
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    #16 - Sweet Success of Smell

    Season 3 Episode 28

    Aired 4/24/1962

    When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Stanley Z. Cherry

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  • The Gigolo
    7.8/10(37)
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    #17 - The Gigolo

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 11/7/1961

    Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
    7.8/10(33)
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    #18 - The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 12/5/1961

    Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Max Shulman

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  • Crazylegs Gillis
    7.8/10(27)
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    #19 - Crazylegs Gillis

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 12/26/1961

    Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football player's kids and he ends up having to fill in for him during the game.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: Terry Ryan

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  • Like, Oh Brother
    7.8/10(30)
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    #20 - Like, Oh Brother

    Season 3 Episode 22

    Aired 3/13/1962

    Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the little delinquents by talking to them at their own level.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • I Remember Muu Muu
    7.8/10(33)
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    #21 - I Remember Muu Muu

    Season 3 Episode 27

    Aired 4/17/1962

    Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about a primitive dance demonstration in his anthropology class, but takes his cue from tabloid writing and makes it sound like an orgy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Blue Tail Fly
    7.7/10(26)
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    #22 - Blue Tail Fly

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 1/2/1962

    Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • Happiness Can't Buy Money
    7.7/10(27)
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    #23 - Happiness Can't Buy Money

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 1/16/1962

    Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Marriage Counselor
    7.7/10(34)
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    #24 - Marriage Counselor

    Season 3 Episode 19

    Aired 2/20/1962

    When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Big Blunder and Egg Man
    7.7/10(34)
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    #25 - The Big Blunder and Egg Man

    Season 3 Episode 20

    Aired 2/27/1962

    To impress a girl, Dobie invests more than he should in his economics class project. He buys stock in an egg company and ends up with a room full of eggs.

    Director: Rod Amateau

    Writer: N/A

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Magnificent Failure" is the best rated episode of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" season 3. It scored 8.4/10 based on 37 votes. Directed by Rod Amateau and written by N/A, it aired on 1/23/1962. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Birth of a Salesman".