The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

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.

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.

Maynard gets drafted.

Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.

Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.

Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.

Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.

Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobies campaign manager.

Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.

Thalia talks Dobies parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.

Doblies dad wants him to romance a bankers daughter so he can get a loan.

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

Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after hes gone.

Dobies newest girlfriends father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.

Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.

A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girls sea-mined father.

Maynard enters Dobies old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Fathers Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Its Dobies graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

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

Being put in charge of his squads barracks goes to Dobies head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

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

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

Dobie exaggerates his dads war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

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

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

Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobies affections.

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

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

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

Inspired by Robert Brownings assertion that a mans reach should exceed his grasp, Dobie goes after an unattainable girl, putting his relationship with Zelda at risk.

Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football players kids and he ends up having to fill in for him during the game.

Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponents daughter.

Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.

Maynard goes out with a female version of himself. Dobie thinks she should act more feminine. When she realizes its fun to be feminine, Maynard gets scared away.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.

On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.

Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.

Dobie pretends to be terminaly ill to gain a girls sympathy. However, due to a mixup, Dobie is led to believe hes really in poor health.

Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.

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.

Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.

Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.

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.

Dobie falls for brainy a Russian ballerina and solicits Zeldas aid to improve his grades. When that fails, he ends up dancing outside her window.

When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

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.

Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.

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.

Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.

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.

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.

Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.