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#1 - Magnificent Failure
Season 3 Episode 16
Aired 1/23/1962
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#22 - Blue Tail Fly
Season 3 Episode 13
Aired 1/2/1962
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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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#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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#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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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
36
Avg. Rating
7.8
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.9
7.4
7.9
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".