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The Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4

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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 adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 1 - A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #1 - A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing

    S4:E1

    Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 2 - What's a Little Murder Between Friends
    7.7/10(30 votes)

    #2 - What's a Little Murder Between Friends

    S4:E2

    Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Max Shulman

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  3. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 3 - Northern Comfort
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #3 - Northern Comfort

    S4:E3

    Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  4. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 4 - The Ugliest American
    6.1/10(36 votes)

    #4 - The Ugliest American

    S4:E4

    On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Joel Kane

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  5. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 5 - A Splinter Off the Old Block
    8.0/10(42 votes)

    #5 - A Splinter Off the Old Block

    S4:E5

    Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writers:Max Shulman, Rod Amateau

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  6. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 6 - What Makes the Varsity Drag?
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #6 - What Makes the Varsity Drag?

    S4:E6

    Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 7 - Like Hi, Exlosives
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #7 - Like Hi, Exlosives

    S4:E7

    Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Joel Kane

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  8. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 8 - Where is Thy Sting
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #8 - Where is Thy Sting

    S4:E8

    Dobie pretends to be terminaly ill to gain a girl's sympathy. However, due to a mixup, Dobie is led to believe he's really in poor health.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Joel Kane

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  9. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money
    7.5/10(32 votes)

    #9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money

    S4:E9

    An older woman teaches Duncan how to be rotten to succeed in the world so he'll be able to provide for her younger sister. But meanwhile the younger sister is falling for nice, honest Dobie.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 10 - Strictly for the Birds
    7.3/10(33 votes)

    #10 - Strictly for the Birds

    S4:E10

    Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 11 - The Iceman Goeth
    7.0/10(32 votes)

    #11 - The Iceman Goeth

    S4:E11

    Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Max Shulman

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  12. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 12 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis

    S4:E12

    To avoid failing an upcoming test that will cause him to flunk out of school, Maynard drinks a potion that is supposed to turn him into a genius, but ends up transforming him into a monster.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  13. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 13 - Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
    7.5/10(40 votes)

    #13 - Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney

    S4:E13

    To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 14 - Who Did William Tell?
    5.8/10(25 votes)

    #14 - Who Did William Tell?

    S4:E14

    Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth

    S4:E15

    Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good
    6.7/10(24 votes)

    #16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good

    S4:E16

    Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun

    S4:E17

    A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 18 - And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
    8.1/10(26 votes)

    #18 - And Now a Word From Our Sponsor

    S4:E18

    Dobie is the new DJ on the college radio station. A mobster tries to give him payola to make his country-singer girlfriend a star.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 19 - Two for the Whipsaw
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    #19 - Two for the Whipsaw

    S4:E19

    Chatsworth pays Dobie to take his place at a fancy dinner with old friends of the family, whose daughter he remembers as being particularly ugly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 20 - The Moon and No Pence
    6.2/10(29 votes)

    #20 - The Moon and No Pence

    S4:E20

    Dobie falls for brainy a Russian ballerina and solicits Zelda's aid to improve his grades. When that fails, he ends up dancing outside her window.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 21 - The Beast with Twenty Fingers
    7.0/10(24 votes)

    #21 - The Beast with Twenty Fingers

    S4:E21

    Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 22 - Thanks for the Memory
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    #22 - Thanks for the Memory

    S4:E22

    When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Max Shulman

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  23. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 23 - Three Million Coins in the Fountain
    7.6/10(35 votes)

    #23 - Three Million Coins in the Fountain

    S4:E23

    When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 24 - Beethoven, Presley, and Me
    5.3/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Beethoven, Presley, and Me

    S4:E24

    The song-analyzing qualities of a computer are transfered to Maynard, and cousin Virgil uses his ability to predict hit songs to become a singing star.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  25. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 Episode 25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't
    5.9/10(31 votes)

    #25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't

    S4:E25

    A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing" is the best rated episode of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" season 4. It scored 7.9/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by Rod Amateau and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/26/1962. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "What's a Little Murder Between Friends".