Rod Amateau — Director
Episodes 101
This pilot episode was trimmed down and run as the first episode of season 1.
Read MoreCaper at the Bijou
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.
Read MoreThe Best Dressed Man
Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.
Read MoreLove is a Science
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.
Read MoreThe Right Triangle
Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.
Read MoreMaynard's Farewell to the Troops
Maynard gets drafted.
Read MoreThe Sweet Singer of Central High
After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.
Read MoreGreater Love Hath No Man
Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
Read MoreIt Takes Two
Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
Read MoreDobie's Birthday Party
Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
Read MoreDeck the Halls
Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.
Read MoreThe Gaucho
Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.
Read MoreThe Smoke-Filled Room
Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
Read MoreThe Hunger Strike
Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.
Read MoreRoom at the Bottom
Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
Read MoreThe Power of Positive Thinking
In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.
Read MoreDobie Spreads a Rumor
Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.
Read MoreLove is a Fallacy
Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
Read MoreThe Chicken from Outer Space
Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .
Read MoreDobie's Navy Blues
Dobie and a girl friend take a baby-sitting job. However, the Gillies suspect Dobie is secretly a father.
Read MoreThat's Show Biz
Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
Read MoreThe Prettiest Collateral in Town
Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
Read MoreThe Big Sandwich
Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
Read MoreSoup and Fish
Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.
Read MoreWhere There's a Will
Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.
Read MoreThe French, They Are a Funny Race
Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
Read MoreHere Come the Groom
A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
Read MoreA Taste of Lobster
Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.
Read MoreRock-a-Bye Dobie
Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father.
Read MoreWho Needs Elvis?
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
Read MoreYou 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.
Read MoreThe Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
Read MoreThe Face That Stopped the Clock
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Read MoreMaynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Read MoreAround My Room in 80 Days
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
Read MoreDrag Strip Dobie
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
Read MoreJangle 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.
Read MoreThe Day the Teachers Disappeared
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
Read MoreThe Big Question
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
Read MoreZelda, Get Off My Back
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreWill Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
Read MoreDobie 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.
Read MoreBaby Shoes
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreThe Chicken Corporal
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
Read MoreThe Battle of Maynard's Beard
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
Read MoreSpaceville
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
Read MoreLike 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.
Read MoreDobie Plays Cupid
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
Read MoreBe 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.
Read MoreAah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
Read MoreTake Me to Your Leader
Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
Read MoreRuptured Duck
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
Read MoreDobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
Read MoreMove Over, Perry Mason
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
Read MoreThe Fast White Mouse
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
Read MoreThe Gigolo
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
Read MoreDig, Dig, Dig
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
Read MoreThe Richest Squirrel in Town
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
Read MoreThis Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
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.
Read MoreHave Reindeer, Will Travel
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
Read MoreCrazylegs Gillis
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.
Read MoreBlue Tail Fly
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council.
Read MoreI Do Not Choose to Run
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
Read MoreMagnificent Failure
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
Read MoreGirls Will Be Boys
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.
Read MoreMarriage Counselor
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
Read MoreThe Big Blunder and Egg Man
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.
Read MoreBirth of a Salesman
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
Read MoreWanted: Dead or Alive
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.
Read MoreNames My Mother Called Me
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
Read MoreDobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive
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.
Read MoreThe Truth Session
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
Read MoreWhen Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
Read MoreIt Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
Read MoreLike Low Noon
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.
Read MoreA Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
Read MoreWhat's a Little Murder Between Friends
Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
Read MoreNorthern Comfort
Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
Read MoreThe Ugliest American
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
Read MoreA Splinter Off the Old Block
Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
Read MoreLike Hi, Exlosives
Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
Read MoreWhere is Thy Sting
Dobie pretends to be terminaly ill to gain a girl's sympathy. However, due to a mixup, Dobie is led to believe he's really in poor health.
Read MoreFlow Gently, Sweet Money
An older woman teaches Duncan how to be rotten to succeed in the world so he'll be able to provide for her younger sister. But meanwhile the younger sister is falling for nice, honest Dobie.
Read MoreThe Iceman Goeth
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
Read MoreDr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
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.
Read MoreWill the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.
Read MoreWho Did William Tell?
Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
Read MoreVocal Boy Makes Good
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
Read MoreAll Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
Read MoreAnd Now a Word From Our Sponsor
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.
Read MoreThe Moon and No Pence
Dobie falls for brainy a Russian ballerina and solicits Zelda's aid to improve his grades. When that fails, he ends up dancing outside her window.
Read MoreThe Beast with Twenty Fingers
Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.
Read MoreThanks for the Memory
When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory
Read MoreThree Million Coins in the Fountain
When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
Read MoreLassie, Get Lost
A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
Read MoreThe Rice and Old Shoes Caper
Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.
Read MoreRequiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
Read MoreBeauty Is Only Kin Deep
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.
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