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

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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...

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  1. 8.4/10(38 votes)

    #1 - Magnificent Failure

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    S3:E16

    Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.3/10(40 votes)

    #2 - Birth of a Salesman

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    S3:E21

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Joel Kane
  3. 8.3/10(33 votes)

    #3 - Bachelor Father and Son

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    S3:E34

    Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Joel Kane
  4. 8.1/10(31 votes)

    #4 - The Fast White Mouse

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    S3:E4

    Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.1/10(31 votes)

    #5 - Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!

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    S3:E7

    Maynard predicts the end of the world.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.1/10(29 votes)

    #6 - The Frat's in the Fire

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    S3:E36

    Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.0/10(33 votes)

    #7 - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning

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    S3:E10

    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.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.0/10(30 votes)

    #8 - I Do Not Choose to Run

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    S3:E14

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.0/10(27 votes)

    #9 - Girls Will Be Boys

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    S3:E18

    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.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Joel Kane
  11. 8.0/10(38 votes)

    #10 - Names My Mother Called Me

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    S3:E24

    When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  12. 8.0/10(27 votes)

    #11 - Like Low Noon

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    S3:E35

    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.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
  13. 7.9/10(41 votes)

    #12 - Ruptured Duck

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    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.9/10(36 votes)

    #13 - Move Over, Perry Mason

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    S3:E3

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
  15. 7.9/10(41 votes)

    #14 - Dig, Dig, Dig

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    S3:E6

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.9/10(26 votes)

    #15 - Wanted: Dead or Alive

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    S3:E23

    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.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.9/10(35 votes)

    #16 - Sweet Success of Smell

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    S3:E28

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

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    Director:N/A
  18. 7.8/10(37 votes)

    #17 - The Gigolo

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    S3:E5

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.8/10(33 votes)

    #18 - The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World

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    S3:E9

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

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  20. 7.8/10(27 votes)

    #19 - Crazylegs Gillis

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    S3:E12

    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.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Terry Ryan
  21. 7.8/10(30 votes)

    #20 - Like, Oh Brother

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    S3:E22

    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.

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  22. 7.8/10(33 votes)

    #21 - I Remember Muu Muu

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    S3:E27

    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.

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  23. 7.7/10(27 votes)

    #22 - Blue Tail Fly

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    S3:E13

    Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.7/10(27 votes)

    #23 - Happiness Can't Buy Money

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    S3:E15

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

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  25. 7.7/10(34 votes)

    #24 - Marriage Counselor

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    S3:E19

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

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.7/10(34 votes)

    #25 - The Big Blunder and Egg Man

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    S3:E20

    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.

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    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:N/A

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 38 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".