7.5/1029 votes#1 - A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1962
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1029 votes
#2 - What's a Little Murder Between Friends
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1962
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
- 7.2/1024 votes
#3 - Northern Comfort
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1962
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
- 6.1/1035 votes
#4 - The Ugliest American
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1962
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Joel Kane
- 7.9/1039 votes
#5 - A Splinter Off the Old Block
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1962
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
Writer: Max Shulman, Rod Amateau
- 7.5/1036 votes
#6 - What Makes the Varsity Drag?
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1962
Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1026 votes
#7 - Like Hi, Exlosives
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1962
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
- 7.5/1030 votes
#8 - Where is Thy Sting
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1962
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
- 7.4/1029 votes
#9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1962
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: N/A
- 7.2/1031 votes
#10 - Strictly for the Birds
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1962
Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1029 votes
#11 - The Iceman Goeth
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1962
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Max Shulman
- 6.8/1024 votes
#12 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1962
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
- 7.5/1034 votes
#13 - Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1962
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: N/A
- 5.9/1022 votes
#14 - Who Did William Tell?
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1963
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: N/A
- 7.1/1021 votes
#15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1963
Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1021 votes
#16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1963
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1028 votes
#17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1963
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1023 votes
#18 - And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1963
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: N/A
- 7.2/1020 votes
#19 - Two for the Whipsaw
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1963
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1027 votes
#20 - The Moon and No Pence
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1963
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: N/A
- 6.8/1022 votes
#21 - The Beast with Twenty Fingers
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1963
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: N/A
- 7.5/1031 votes
#22 - Thanks for the Memory
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1963
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
- 7.3/1032 votes
#23 - Three Million Coins in the Fountain
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1963
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: N/A
- 5.2/1025 votes
#24 - Beethoven, Presley, and Me
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1963
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: N/A
Writer: Dean Riesner
- 5.9/1029 votes
#25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1963
A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4
Every episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 4!
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
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 7.5/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Rod Amateau and written by N/A, it aired on 9/26/1962. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "What's a Little Murder Between Friends".