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Season 2

Season 2

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1960
Episodes: 36

Episodes

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1. Who Needs Elvis?

September 27, 1960

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

Guest Stars: William Schallert

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2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

October 4, 1960

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

Guest Stars: Jack Albertson

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3. Baby Talk

October 18, 1960

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Guest Stars: Jo Anne Worley

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4. Dobie Goes Beatnik

October 25, 1960

Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.

Guest Stars: Dick Wessel, Susan Silo

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5. The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

November 1, 1960

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

Guest Stars: Doris Packer, John Banner, William Schallert

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6. The Face That Stopped the Clock

November 15, 1960

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

Guest Stars: Steve Franken, Marjorie Bennett, Richard Reeves

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7. Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

November 22, 1960

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

Guest Stars: Jack Albertson, Milton Frome, Marianna Hill

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8. Around My Room in 80 Days

November 29, 1960

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

Guest Stars: Diana Millay, William Schallert

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9. Drag Strip Dobie

December 6, 1960

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

Guest Stars: Jody Fair

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10. Jangle Bells

December 20, 1960

Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard and feels guilty enough to have a Scrooge-like dream.

Guest Stars: Doris Packer, William Schallert

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11. Parlez-Vous English

December 27, 1960

Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.

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12. The Day the Teachers Disappeared

January 3, 1961

30 min

All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

Guest Stars: Steve Franken, Marjorie Bennett, William Schallert

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13. What's My Lion?

January 10, 1961

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

Guest Stars: Tommy Farrell, Henry Corden

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14. The Big Question

January 24, 1961

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

Guest Stars: William Schallert

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15. Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

January 31, 1961

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

Guest Stars: Arlene Harris, Jack Albertson, Marjorie Bennett

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16. The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

February 7, 1961

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

Guest Stars: William Schallert

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17. Zelda, Get Off My Back

February 14, 1961

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

Guest Stars: Doris Packer

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18. I Was a High School Scrooge

February 21, 1961

30 min

Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

Guest Stars: Douglass Dumbrille

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19. Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

February 28, 1961

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

Guest Stars: Joyce Jameson

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20. The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

March 7, 1961

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

Guest Stars: Marvin Kaplan, Robert Foulk

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21. Dobie Versus the Machine

March 14, 1961

Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.

Guest Stars: William Schallert, Tommy Farrell

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22. Baby Shoes

March 21, 1961

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

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23. I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

March 28, 1961

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

Guest Stars: Steve Franken, John Fiedler, Frank Wilcox

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24. The Chicken Corporal

April 4, 1961

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

Guest Stars: Jack Mullaney, Burt Metcalfe

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25. The Solid Gold Dog Tag

April 11, 1961

Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

Guest Stars: Doris Packer, Judy Nugent

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26. The Battle of Maynard's Beard

April 18, 1961

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

Guest Stars: Richard Bakalyan, Kaye Elhardt

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27. Spaceville

April 25, 1961

30 min

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

Guest Stars: Bea Benaderet, Willis Bouchey

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28. Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

May 2, 1961

Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.

Guest Stars: Ralph Sanford, Yvonne Craig

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29. Dobie Plays Cupid

May 9, 1961

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

Guest Stars: Doris Packer

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30. Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

May 16, 1961

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.

Guest Stars: Howard Petrie, Dick Clair

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31. Be It Ever So Humble

May 23, 1961

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

Guest Stars: Dick Clair, Norman Fell, Paul Bryar

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32. Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

May 30, 1961

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

Guest Stars: Dick Clair

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33. Everything But the Truth

June 6, 1961

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

Guest Stars: Marjorie Bennett

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34. Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

June 13, 1961

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

Guest Stars: Jo Anne Worley, William Schallert, Eddie Firestone

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35. Take Me to Your Leader

June 20, 1961

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

Guest Stars: Peter Brocco, Alan Carney, Herb Vigran

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36. This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

June 27, 1961

Offended by what he sees a laxity in today's army, ex-sergeant Herbert Gillis puts his son's squad through some rugged training exercises before they graduate.

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