Season 2

The Many Loves of Dobie GillisSeason 2

1960
36 Episodes

Episodes

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S02E01

Who Needs Elvis?

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

27 Sept 1960
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S02E02

You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

04 Oct 1960
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S02E03

Baby Talk

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

18 Oct 1960
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S02E04

Dobie Goes Beatnik

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.

25 Oct 1960
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S02E05

The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

01 Nov 1960
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S02E06

The Face That Stopped the Clock

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

15 Nov 1960
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S02E07

Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

22 Nov 1960
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S02E08

Around My Room in 80 Days

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

29 Nov 1960
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S02E09

Drag Strip Dobie

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

06 Dec 1960
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S02E10

Jangle Bells

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.

20 Dec 1960
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S02E11

Parlez-Vous English

Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.

27 Dec 1960
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S02E12

The Day the Teachers Disappeared

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

03 Jan 196130m
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S02E13

What's My Lion?

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

10 Jan 1961
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S02E14

The Big Question

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

24 Jan 1961
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S02E15

Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

31 Jan 1961
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S02E16

The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

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

07 Feb 1961
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S02E17

Zelda, Get Off My Back

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

14 Feb 1961
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S02E18

I Was a High School Scrooge

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

21 Feb 196130m
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S02E19

Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

28 Feb 1961
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S02E20

The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

07 Mar 1961
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S02E21

Dobie Versus the Machine

Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.

14 Mar 1961
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S02E22

Baby Shoes

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

21 Mar 1961
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S02E23

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

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

28 Mar 1961
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S02E24

The Chicken Corporal

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

04 Apr 1961
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S02E25

The Solid Gold Dog Tag

Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

11 Apr 1961
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S02E26

The Battle of Maynard's Beard

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

18 Apr 1961
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S02E27

Spaceville

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

25 Apr 196130m
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S02E28

Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

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

02 May 1961
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S02E29

Dobie Plays Cupid

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

09 May 1961
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S02E30

Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

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

16 May 1961
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S02E31

Be It Ever So Humble

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

23 May 1961
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S02E32

Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

30 May 1961
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S02E33

Everything But the Truth

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

06 Jun 1961
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S02E34

Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

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

13 Jun 1961
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S02E35

Take Me to Your Leader

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

20 Jun 1961
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S02E36

This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

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

27 Jun 1961