The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 3

Air Date

October 10, 1961

Episodes

36 episodes

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Season 3

Episodes

1. Ruptured Duck

October 10, 1961

Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.

2. Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?

October 17, 1961

Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.

3. Move Over, Perry Mason

October 24, 1961

Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.

4. The Fast White Mouse

October 31, 1961
30 min

Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.

5. The Gigolo

November 7, 1961

Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.

6. Dig, Dig, Dig

November 14, 1961

Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.

7. Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!

November 21, 1961

Maynard predicts the end of the world.

8. The Richest Squirrel in Town

November 28, 1961

A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.

9. The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World

December 5, 1961
30 min

Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.

10. This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning

December 12, 1961
30 min

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.

11. Have Reindeer, Will Travel

December 19, 1961

Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.

12. Crazylegs Gillis

December 26, 1961

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.

13. Blue Tail Fly

January 2, 1962

Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.

14. I Do Not Choose to Run

January 9, 1962

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.

15. Happiness Can't Buy Money

January 16, 1962

Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.

16. Magnificent Failure

January 23, 1962

Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

17. For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls

January 30, 1962
30 min

Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.

18. Girls Will Be Boys

February 13, 1962

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.

19. Marriage Counselor

February 20, 1962

When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.

20. The Big Blunder and Egg Man

February 27, 1962

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.

21. Birth of a Salesman

March 6, 1962

When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.

22. Like, Oh Brother

March 13, 1962

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.

23. Wanted: Dead or Alive

March 20, 1962

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.

24. Names My Mother Called Me

March 27, 1962

When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.

25. Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive

April 3, 1962

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.

26. The Truth Session

April 10, 1962

Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.

27. I Remember Muu Muu

April 17, 1962

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.

28. Sweet Success of Smell

April 24, 1962

When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.

29. When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot

May 1, 1962

Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.

30. I Was a Boy Soronity Girl

May 8, 1962
30 min

Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.

31. It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home

May 15, 1962

Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him

32. Back-to-Nature Boy

May 22, 1962

Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.

33. How to Cheat an Honest Man

May 29, 1962

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.

34. Bachelor Father and Son

June 5, 1962

Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.

35. Like Low Noon

June 12, 1962

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.

36. The Frat's in the Fire

June 26, 1962

Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.