The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Sep 29, 1959 (en) Comedy [56] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 29, 1959
  • Production
    Martin Manulis Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
  • Rotten tomato
    59.23%
  • Original title
    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
  • Release
    Sep 29, 1959
  • en
    -

Overview

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Martin Manulis

    Producer

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Casts

  1. Dwayne Hickman

    Dobie Gillis

  2. Bob Denver

    Maynard G. Krebs

  3. Frank Faylen

    Herbert T. Gillis

  4. Florida Friebus

    Winifred Gillis

  5. Sheila James Kuehl

    Zelda Gilroy

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 5 / Crews : 1

Specials ( )

The Caper at the Bijou (Unaired Pilot)

Episode: 1

Season 1 ( 1959-09-29)

Caper at the Bijou

Episode: 1

The Best Dressed Man

Episode: 2

Love is a Science

Episode: 3

The Right Triangle

Episode: 4

Maynard's Farewell to the Troops

Episode: 5

The Sweet Singer of Central High

Episode: 6

Greater Love Hath No Man

Episode: 7

The Old Goat

Episode: 8

Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor

Episode: 9

It Takes Two

Episode: 10

Dobie's Birthday Party

Episode: 11

Deck the Halls

Episode: 12

Couchville, USA

Episode: 13

The Gaucho

Episode: 14

The Smoke-Filled Room

Episode: 15

The Fist Fighter

Episode: 16

The Hunger Strike

Episode: 17

The Flying Millicans

Episode: 18

Room at the Bottom

Episode: 19

The Power of Positive Thinking

Episode: 20

Dobie Spreads a Rumor

Episode: 21

Love is a Fallacy

Episode: 22

The Chicken from Outer Space

Episode: 23

Dobie's Navy Blues

Episode: 24

Taken to the Cleaners

Episode: 25

That's Show Biz

Episode: 26

The Prettiest Collateral in Town

Episode: 27

Live Alone and I Like It

Episode: 28

The Big Sandwich

Episode: 29

Soup and Fish

Episode: 30

Where There's a Will

Episode: 31

Put Your Feet in Our Hands

Episode: 32

Competition is the Life of Trade

Episode: 33

The French, They Are a Funny Race

Episode: 34

The Unregistered Nurse

Episode: 35

The Long Arm of the Law

Episode: 36

Here Come the Groom

Episode: 37

A Taste of Lobster

Episode: 38

Rock-a-Bye Dobie

Episode: 39

Season 2 ( 1960-09-27)

Who Needs Elvis?

Episode: 1

You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

Episode: 2

Baby Talk

Episode: 3

Dobie Goes Beatnik

Episode: 4

The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

Episode: 5

The Face That Stopped the Clock

Episode: 6

Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

Episode: 7

Around My Room in 80 Days

Episode: 8

Drag Strip Dobie

Episode: 9

Jangle Bells

Episode: 10

Parlez-Vous English

Episode: 11

The Day the Teachers Disappeared

Episode: 12

What's My Lion?

Episode: 13

The Big Question

Episode: 14

Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

Episode: 15

The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

Episode: 16

Zelda, Get Off My Back

Episode: 17

I Was a High School Scrooge

Episode: 18

Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

Episode: 19

The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

Episode: 20

Dobie Versus the Machine

Episode: 21

Baby Shoes

Episode: 22

I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

Episode: 23

The Chicken Corporal

Episode: 24

The Solid Gold Dog Tag

Episode: 25

The Battle of Maynard's Beard

Episode: 26

Spaceville

Episode: 27

Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

Episode: 28

Dobie Plays Cupid

Episode: 29

Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

Episode: 30

Be It Ever So Humble

Episode: 31

Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

Episode: 32

Everything But the Truth

Episode: 33

Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

Episode: 34

Take Me to Your Leader

Episode: 35

This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

Episode: 36

Season 3 ( 1961-10-10)

Ruptured Duck

Episode: 1

Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?

Episode: 2

Move Over, Perry Mason

Episode: 3

The Fast White Mouse

Episode: 4

The Gigolo

Episode: 5

Dig, Dig, Dig

Episode: 6

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

Episode: 7

The Richest Squirrel in Town

Episode: 8

The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Episode: 9

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

Episode: 10

Have Reindeer, Will Travel

Episode: 11

Crazylegs Gillis

Episode: 12

Blue Tail Fly

Episode: 13

I Do Not Choose to Run

Episode: 14

Happiness Can't Buy Money

Episode: 15

Magnificent Failure

Episode: 16

For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls

Episode: 17

Girls Will Be Boys

Episode: 18

Marriage Counselor

Episode: 19

The Big Blunder and Egg Man

Episode: 20

Birth of a Salesman

Episode: 21

Like, Oh Brother

Episode: 22

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Episode: 23

Names My Mother Called Me

Episode: 24

Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive

Episode: 25

The Truth Session

Episode: 26

I Remember Muu Muu

Episode: 27

Sweet Success of Smell

Episode: 28

When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot

Episode: 29

I Was a Boy Soronity Girl

Episode: 30

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

Episode: 31

Back-to-Nature Boy

Episode: 32

How to Cheat an Honest Man

Episode: 33

Bachelor Father and Son

Episode: 34

Like Low Noon

Episode: 35

The Frat's in the Fire

Episode: 36

Season 4 ( 1962-09-26)

A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing

Episode: 1

What's a Little Murder Between Friends

Episode: 2

Northern Comfort

Episode: 3

The Ugliest American

Episode: 4

A Splinter Off the Old Block

Episode: 5

What Makes the Varsity Drag?

Episode: 6

Like Hi, Exlosives

Episode: 7

Where is Thy Sting

Episode: 8

Flow Gently, Sweet Money

Episode: 9

Strictly for the Birds

Episode: 10

The Iceman Goeth

Episode: 11

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis

Episode: 12

Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney

Episode: 13

Who Did William Tell?

Episode: 14

Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth

Episode: 15

Vocal Boy Makes Good

Episode: 16

All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun

Episode: 17

And Now a Word From Our Sponsor

Episode: 18

Two for the Whipsaw

Episode: 19

The Moon and No Pence

Episode: 20

The Beast with Twenty Fingers

Episode: 21

Thanks for the Memory

Episode: 22

Three Million Coins in the Fountain

Episode: 23

Beethoven, Presley, and Me

Episode: 24

The Little Chimp That Couldn't

Episode: 25

There's Always Room for One Less

Episode: 26

The General Cried at Dawn

Episode: 27

Now I Lay Me Down to Steal

Episode: 28

Lassie, Get Lost

Episode: 29

The Rice and Old Shoes Caper

Episode: 30

Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight

Episode: 31

I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.

Episode: 32

There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway

Episode: 33

Beauty Is Only Kin Deep

Episode: 34

The Call of the, Like, Wild

Episode: 35

The Devil and Dobie Gillis

Episode: 36
Sep 29, 1959 (en)
Comedy
[56] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 29, 1959
  • Production
    Martin Manulis Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
  • Rotten tomato 59.23%
Original Title The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
en

Overview

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Martin Manulis

    Producer