The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

4 Seasons 1959 - 1963 TV-Y7 30m 7.7

A young man schemes and attempts to get the "better things in life" mostly popularity, success, and most importantly, girls.

Sensitive teenager Dobie Gillis exasperates his grocer father Herbert T. Gillis and is the apple of his mother Winnie Gillis' eye. Dobie has an almost singular focus on the opposite sex, more often than not the object of his affection being the beautiful but money hungry Thalia Menninger, who in turn often loves Dobie but always loves money more, which Dobie never has and in his current life direction probably will never have to the extent that would satisfy Thalia. If not Thalia, Dobie pursues several other girls in his search for true love. His best friend is Maynard G. Krebs, a largely clueless but kind-hearted beatnik and lover of jazz music, he who always does what his best buddy Dobie does, often much to the chagrin of others in Dobie's life. While Dobie chases girls, the one girl he knows he does not want but who in turn knows that one day she will become Mrs. Dobie Gillis is bright Zelda Gilroy, who largely uses logic to convince Dobie that she is the girl for him.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Caper at the Bijou

1. Caper at the Bijou

Aired: Sep 29, 1959

Dobie is desperate for money so he can take Thalia to the dance, so he and Ma...

Episode 2 The Best Dressed Man

2. The Best Dressed Man

Aired: Oct 6, 1959

Dobie launches a runway offensive versus wealthy, better-dressed hunk Milton ...

Episode 3 Love Is a Science

3. Love Is a Science

Aired: Oct 13, 1959

Dobie forsakes poetry and sets to studying science so he can become a wealthy...

Episode 4 The Right Triangle

4. The Right Triangle

Aired: Oct 20, 1959

Brother Davey, home from college, gives Dobie some bad relationship advice.

Episode 8 The Old Goat

8. The Old Goat

Aired: Nov 23, 1959

With the big football game coming up and Central High doomed to lose, Dobie, ...

Episode 10 It Takes Two

10. It Takes Two

Aired: Dec 7, 1959

Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but his father must also win her approval

Episode 12 Deck the Halls

12. Deck the Halls

Aired: Dec 21, 1959

Herbert T. Gillis finds himself in jail on Christmas Eve after being stripped...

Episode 13 Couchville, USA

13. Couchville, USA

Aired: Dec 28, 1959

All Dobie wants is six dollars so he can take Thalia to the junior prom, but ...

Episode 14 The Gaucho

14. The Gaucho

Aired: Jan 4, 1960

Carlos, the suave son of an Argentinian general, boards with the Gillis famil...

Episode 16 The Fist Fighter

16. The Fist Fighter

Aired: Jan 18, 1960

Thalia will give her love only to an athlete, so Dobie schemes to set himself...

Episode 17 The Hunger Strike

17. The Hunger Strike

Aired: Jan 25, 1960

Inspired by a poem and the prospect of winning Thalia's heart, Dobie embarks ...

Episode 18 The Flying Millicans

18. The Flying Millicans

Aired: Feb 1, 1960

Dobie falls in love with the beautiful and brainy Aphrodite, whose robust fam...

Episode 19 Room at the Bottom

19. Room at the Bottom

Aired: Feb 8, 1960

Thalia wants Dobie to go to Willoughby Hall, an exclusive eastern school, and...

Episode 22 Love Is a Fallacy

22. Love Is a Fallacy

Aired: Feb 29, 1960

Thalia attempts to teach Dobie the art of thinking, Maynard thumps out a jazz...

Episode 24 Dobie's Navy Blues

24. Dobie's Navy Blues

Aired: Mar 14, 1960

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.

Episode 26 That's Show Biz

26. That's Show Biz

Aired: Apr 4, 1960

Mr and Mrs. Gillis are persuaded to help with the Central High Student-Parent...

Episode 29 The Big Sandwich

29. The Big Sandwich

Aired: Apr 26, 1960

Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

Episode 30 Soup and Fish

30. Soup and Fish

Aired: May 3, 1960

Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. agrees to assist the under-dressed Dobie and Maynard ...

Episode 31 Where There's a Will

31. Where There's a Will

Aired: May 10, 1960

Mr. Gillis dreads signing his will and suffers a nightmare of what his wife a...

Episode 38 A Taste for Lobster

38. A Taste for Lobster

Aired: Jun 28, 1960

Dobie meets Gwyneth, a simple girl who despises money, until her kid sister b...

Episode 39 Rock-A-Bye Dobie

39. Rock-A-Bye Dobie

Aired: Jul 5, 1960

Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobi...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Genres: Comedy, Family