Max Shulman — Writer
Episodes 18
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 MoreMaynard's Farewell to the Troops
Maynard gets drafted.
Read MoreThe Smoke-Filled Room
Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
Read MoreRoom at the Bottom
Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.
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 MoreThat's Show Biz
Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.
Read MoreHere Come the Groom
A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
Read MoreParlez-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.
Read MoreThe Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
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 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 MoreThe Iceman Goeth
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
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 MoreThe Devil and Dobie Gillis
Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.
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