The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis

Based on the novels created by Max Shulman, this TV classic starred Dwayne Hickman as Dobie, a 17-year-old whose main goal in life was to find the girl of his dreams, Bob Denver co-stars as Dobie's beatnik friend Maynard G. Krebs, whose passion was to avoid work at any cost, and Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus as Dobie's parents, who were never too far away to worry about Dobie's future.
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  1. S4 E1 - A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To A Funny Thing
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    September 25, 1962
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    Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but ends up falling off the ledge himself and taken to a hospital psychiatric ward.
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  2. S4 E2 - What's A Little Murder Between Friends?
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    October 2, 1962
    26min
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    The smokin' hot Thalia Menninger returns for a visit and Dobie decides to make her the beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Then he becomes paranoid that she's trying to kill him.
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  3. S4 E3 - Northern Comfort
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    October 9, 1962
    26min
    13+
    Dobie's hillbilly cousin, Virgil, arrives in town determined to become the next Elvis and puts the bite on the Gilleses for financial backing.
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  4. S4 E4 - The Ugliest American
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    October 16, 1962
    26min
    13+
    Dobie signs himself and Maynard up for an expedition to the Amazon in order to follow a hot chick. Once there, Maynard gets made chief of a tribe of cannibals.
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  5. S4 E5 - A Splinter Off The Old Block
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    October 23, 1962
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    Uncle Tim arrives in town and wants Herbert and Winnie to look after son Duncan while he's away on business.
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  6. S4 E6 - What Makes The Varsity Drag?
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    October 30, 1962
    26min
    13+
    Dobie goes out for the college football team when he discovers that a hot chick adores athletes.
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  7. S4 E7 - Like Hi, Explosives
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    November 6, 1962
    26min
    13+
    Dobie, Maynard, and cousin Duncan take jobs as truck drivers. Their first cargo: nitroglycerine.
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  8. S4 E8 - Where Is Thy Sting?
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    November 13, 1962
    26min
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    Dobie feigns illness in order to win the affections of a hot chick.
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  9. S4 E9 - Flow Gently, Sweet Money
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    November 20, 1962
    26min
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    Dobie and Duncan get involved with a greedy chick who played Dobie for money and now is getting her younger sister to play Duncan.
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  10. S4 E10 - Strictly For The Birds
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    November 27, 1962
    26min
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    Dobie and Maynard aren't doing too well in their history class so they train a mynah bird to help them with an exam.
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  11. S4 E11 - The Iceman Goeth
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    December 4, 1962
    26min
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    Dobie, Maynard, and Duncan accidentally lock Herbert in his own meat freezer. Then they mistakenly believe they've killed him.
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  12. S4 E12 - Doctor Jekyll And Mister Gillis
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    December 11, 1962
    26min
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    In danger of flunking out of college, Maynard hears about a chemical that can change him into a genius--or a monster.
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  13. S4 E13 - Will The Real Santa Claus Please Come Down The Chimney?
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    December 18, 1962
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    When Maynard announces that he still believes in Santa Claus, the Gilleses decide to cure him of his fantasy.
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  14. S4 E14 - Who Did William Tell?
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    January 1, 1963
    26min
    7+
    Cousin Duncan falls for a visiting opera diva who just came down from Quebec.
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  15. S4 E15 - Too Many Kooks Spoil The Broth
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    January 8, 1963
    26min
    13+
    This time Dobie falls for the daughter of a kitchenware king.
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  16. S4 E16 - Vocal Boy Makes Good
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    January 15, 1963
    26min
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    When the Lettermen appear on campus, they recruit Dobie to fill in when one of their members has to take an unexpected leave of absence.
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  17. S4 E17 - All Right, Dobie, Drop The Gun
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    January 22, 1963
    26min
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    A fugitive and his moll hold the Gillis family hostage in their grocery store. Then Maynard comes along and stumbles into things as well.
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  18. S4 E18 - And Now A Word From Our Sponsor
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    January 29, 1963
    26min
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    After Dobie gets hired as a disc jockey for the campus radio station, Zelda decides to cut an album and gets Maynard to be her producer.
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  19. S4 E19 - Two For The Whipsaw
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    February 5, 1963
    26min
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    Chatsworth pays Dobie to impersonate him on a date with a damsel whom he remembers as being quite ugly.
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  20. S4 E20 - The Moon And No Pence
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    February 12, 1963
    26min
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    To impress a hot chick, Dobie gets Zelda to help him improve his grades without telling her the real reason.
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  21. S4 E21 - The Beast With Twenty Fingers
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    February 19, 1963
    26min
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    Maynard and Herbert get stuck together by a finger toy.
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  22. S4 E22 - Thanks For The Memory
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    February 26, 1963
    26min
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    Dobie finally decides to give into Zelda but her ardor appears to have cooled off completely - or has it?
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  23. S4 E23 - Three Million Coins In The Fountain
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    March 5, 1963
    26min
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    After the Osborne family loses its fortune, Chatsworth ropes Maynard and Duncan into a get rich quick scheme.
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  24. S4 E24 - Beethoven, Presley And Me
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    March 12, 1963
    26min
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    A freak accident turns Maynard into a songwriting machine which cousin Virgil T. Gillis hopes to use to his advantage in becoming a singing sensation.
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  25. S4 E25 - The Little Chimp That Couldn't
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    March 19, 1963
    26min
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    In the college animal behaviour laboratory, Maynard is assigned to develop the talents of a chimp. If he doesn't succeed the simian might meet a terrible fate.
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Content advisory
Violencealcohol usesmokingfoul language
Subtitles
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Directors
Kenneth L. Evans
Cast
Dwayne HickmanBob DenverFrank FaylenFlorida Friebus
Studio
Shout! Factory
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