Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis
Episoder 147
This pilot episode was trimmed down and run as the first episode of season 1.
Les merCaper at the Bijou
Dobie and Maynard conspire to rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.
Les merThe Best Dressed Man
Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.
Les merLove is a Science
Thalia urges Dobie to become a doctor, but he meets Zelda Gilroy and learns about the scientific concept of propinquity, the psychological tendency for people to form relationships with those whom they encounter often.
Les merThe Right Triangle
Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.
Les merMaynard's Farewell to the Troops
Maynard gets drafted.
Les merThe Sweet Singer of Central High
After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.
Les merGreater Love Hath No Man
Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
Les merThe Old Goat
Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.
Les merDobie Gillis: Boy Actor
Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.
Les merIt Takes Two
Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
Les merDobie's Birthday Party
Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
Les merDeck the Halls
Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.
Les merCouchville, USA
Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.
Les merThe Gaucho
Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.
Les merThe Smoke-Filled Room
Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
Les merThe Fist Fighter
Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.
Les merThe Hunger Strike
Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.
Les merThe Flying Millicans
Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.
Les merRoom at the Bottom
Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
Les merThe Power of Positive Thinking
In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.
Les merDobie Spreads a Rumor
Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.
Les merLove is a Fallacy
Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
Les merThe Chicken from Outer Space
Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .
Les merDobie's Navy Blues
Dobie and a girl friend take a baby-sitting job. However, the Gillies suspect Dobie is secretly a father.
Les merTaken to the Cleaners
Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.
Les merThat's Show Biz
Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
Les merThe Prettiest Collateral in Town
Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
Les merLive Alone and I Like It
Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.
Les merThe Big Sandwich
Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
Les merSoup and Fish
Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.
Les merWhere There's a Will
Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.
Les merPut Your Feet in Our Hands
Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.
Les merCompetition is the Life of Trade
Dobie's newest girlfriend's father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.
Les merThe French, They Are a Funny Race
Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
Les merThe Unregistered Nurse
Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.
Les merThe Long Arm of the Law
Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.
Les merHere Come the Groom
A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
Les merA Taste of Lobster
Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.
Les merRock-a-Bye Dobie
Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father.
Les merWho Needs Elvis?
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
Les merYou Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog
Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
Les merDobie Goes Beatnik
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.
Les merThe Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
Les merThe Face That Stopped the Clock
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Les merMaynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Les merAround My Room in 80 Days
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
Les merDrag Strip Dobie
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
Les merJangle Bells
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.
Les merParlez-Vous English
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.
Les merThe Day the Teachers Disappeared
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
Les merWhat's My Lion?
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
Les merThe Big Question
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
Les merHave You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
Les merThe Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
Les merZelda, Get Off My Back
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
Les merI Was a High School Scrooge
Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
Les merWill Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
Les merThe Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis
It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
Les merDobie Versus the Machine
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.
Les merBaby Shoes
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
Les merMaynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
Les merThe Chicken Corporal
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
Les merThe Solid Gold Dog Tag
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
Les merThe Battle of Maynard's Beard
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
Les merSpaceville
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
Les merLike Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow
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.
Les merDobie Plays Cupid
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
Les merLike Father, Like Son, Like Trouble
Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.
Les merBe It Ever So Humble
Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.
Les merAah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
Les merEverything But the Truth
Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
Les merGoodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips
Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
Les merTake Me to Your Leader
Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
Les merThis Ain't The Way We Used to Do It
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.
Les merRuptured Duck
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
Les merDobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
Les merMove Over, Perry Mason
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
Les merThe Fast White Mouse
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
Les merThe Gigolo
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
Les merDig, Dig, Dig
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
Les merEat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
Les merThe Richest Squirrel in Town
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
Les merThe Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
Les merThis Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
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.
Les merHave Reindeer, Will Travel
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
Les merCrazylegs Gillis
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.
Les merBlue Tail Fly
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
Les merI Do Not Choose to Run
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
Les merHappiness Can't Buy Money
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
Les merMagnificent Failure
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
Les merFor Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls
Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
Les merGirls Will Be Boys
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.
Les merMarriage Counselor
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
Les merThe Big Blunder and Egg Man
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.
Les merBirth of a Salesman
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
Les merLike, Oh Brother
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.
Les merWanted: Dead or Alive
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.
Les merNames My Mother Called Me
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
Les merDobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive
In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on an exam to pass his poetry class.
Les merThe Truth Session
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
Les merI Remember Muu Muu
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.
Les merSweet Success of Smell
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
Les merWhen Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
Les merI Was a Boy Soronity Girl
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
Les merIt Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
Les merBack-to-Nature Boy
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
Les merHow to Cheat an Honest Man
When Dobie tries to impress a girl who expects complete honesty, he as well as his dad and Maynard get arrested for trying to reverse a fixed parking ticket.
Les merBachelor Father and Son
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
Les merLike Low Noon
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.
Les merThe Frat's in the Fire
Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.
Les merA Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
Les merWhat's a Little Murder Between Friends
Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
Les merNorthern Comfort
Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
Les merThe Ugliest American
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
Les merA Splinter Off the Old Block
Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
Les merWhat Makes the Varsity Drag?
Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
Les merLike Hi, Exlosives
Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
Les merWhere is Thy Sting
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.
Les merFlow Gently, Sweet Money
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.
Les merStrictly for the Birds
Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
Les merThe Iceman Goeth
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
Les merDr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
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.
Les merWill the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.
Les merWho Did William Tell?
Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
Les merToo Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.
Les merVocal Boy Makes Good
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
Les merAll Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
Les merAnd Now a Word From Our Sponsor
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.
Les merTwo for the Whipsaw
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.
Les merThe Moon and No Pence
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.
Les merThe Beast with Twenty Fingers
Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.
Les merThanks for the Memory
When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory
Les merThree Million Coins in the Fountain
When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
Les merBeethoven, Presley, and Me
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.
Les merThe Little Chimp That Couldn't
A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
Les merThere's Always Room for One Less
Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
Les merThe General Cried at Dawn
Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
Les merNow I Lay Me Down to Steal
Staying overnight at the Osbourne mansion with Dobie and his new girlfriend, Maynard is suspected of stealing jewelry from their safe when he is found sleepwalking.
Les merLassie, Get Lost
A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
Les merThe Rice and Old Shoes Caper
Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.
Les merRequiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
Les merI Was a Spy for the F.O.B.
On a trip to Washington DC with the Gillises, Maynard gets mistaken for a rocket scientist and sought by foreign spies for his secret fuel formula.
Les merMaynard guides a fellow student to become a singing sensation, then ponders if he should step aside when a big-time agent wants to take her on.
Les merBeauty Is Only Kin Deep
Dobie falls in love with a girl at school, but family tradition prevents her from marrying until a match can be found for her older sister.
Les merThe Call of the, Like, Wild
A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
Les merThe Devil and Dobie Gillis
Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.
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