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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959–19635 Seasons148 Episodes
Comedy

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.

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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.

Network / Platform
CBS
Status
Ended
First Aired
29/Sep/1959
Language
English
Schedule
Wednesday · 20:30

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S4 E36The Devil and Dobie Gillis05/Jun/1963 • 30m
S4 E35The Call of the, Like, Wild29/May/1963 • 30m
S4 E34Beauty Is Only Kin Deep22/May/1963 • 30m
S4 E33There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway15/May/1963 • 30m
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Season 40 / 36 watched
S4 E1A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing26/Sep/1962 • 30m
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S4 E2What's a Little Murder Between Friends03/Oct/1962 • 30m
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S4 E3Northern Comfort10/Oct/1962 • 30m
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S4 E4The Ugliest American17/Oct/1962 • 30m
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S4 E5A Splinter Off the Old Block24/Oct/1962 • 30m
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S4 E6What Makes the Varsity Drag?31/Oct/1962 • 30m
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S4 E7Like Hi, Exlosives07/Nov/1962 • 30m
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S4 E8Where is Thy Sting14/Nov/1962 • 30m
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S4 E9Flow Gently, Sweet Money21/Nov/1962 • 30m
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S4 E10Strictly for the Birds28/Nov/1962 • 30m
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S4 E11The Iceman Goeth05/Dec/1962 • 30m
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S4 E12Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis12/Dec/1962 • 30m
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S4 E13Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney19/Dec/1962 • 30m
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S4 E14Who Did William Tell?02/Jan/1963 • 30m
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S4 E15Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth09/Jan/1963 • 30m
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S4 E16Vocal Boy Makes Good16/Jan/1963 • 30m
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S4 E17All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun23/Jan/1963 • 30m
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S4 E18And Now a Word From Our Sponsor30/Jan/1963 • 30m
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S4 E19Two for the Whipsaw06/Feb/1963 • 30m
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S4 E20The Moon and No Pence13/Feb/1963 • 30m
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S4 E21The Beast with Twenty Fingers20/Feb/1963 • 30m
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S4 E22Thanks for the Memory27/Feb/1963 • 30m
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S4 E23Three Million Coins in the Fountain06/Mar/1963 • 30m
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S4 E24Beethoven, Presley, and Me13/Mar/1963 • 30m
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S4 E25The Little Chimp That Couldn't20/Mar/1963 • 30m
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S4 E26There's Always Room for One Less27/Mar/1963 • 30m
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S4 E27The General Cried at Dawn03/Apr/1963 • 30m
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S4 E28Now I Lay Me Down to Steal10/Apr/1963 • 30m
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S4 E29Lassie, Get Lost17/Apr/1963 • 30m
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S4 E30The Rice and Old Shoes Caper24/Apr/1963 • 30m
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S4 E31Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight01/May/1963 • 30m
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S4 E32I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.08/May/1963 • 30m
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S4 E33There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway15/May/1963 • 30m
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S4 E34Beauty Is Only Kin Deep22/May/1963 • 30m
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S4 E35The Call of the, Like, Wild29/May/1963 • 30m
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S4 E36The Devil and Dobie Gillis05/Jun/1963 • 30m
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Season 30 / 36 watched
S3 E1Ruptured Duck10/Oct/1961 • 30m
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S3 E2Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?17/Oct/1961 • 30m
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S3 E3Move Over, Perry Mason24/Oct/1961 • 30m
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S3 E4The Fast White Mouse31/Oct/1961 • 30m
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S3 E5The Gigolo07/Nov/1961 • 30m
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S3 E6Dig, Dig, Dig14/Nov/1961 • 30m
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S3 E7Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!21/Nov/1961 • 30m
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S3 E8The Richest Squirrel in Town28/Nov/1961 • 30m
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S3 E9The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World05/Dec/1961 • 30m
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S3 E10This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning12/Dec/1961 • 30m
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S3 E11Have Reindeer, Will Travel19/Dec/1961 • 30m
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S3 E12Crazylegs Gillis26/Dec/1961 • 30m
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S3 E13Blue Tail Fly02/Jan/1962 • 30m
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S3 E14I Do Not Choose to Run09/Jan/1962 • 30m
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S3 E15Happiness Can't Buy Money16/Jan/1962 • 30m
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S3 E16Magnificent Failure23/Jan/1962 • 30m
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S3 E17For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls30/Jan/1962 • 30m
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S3 E18Girls Will Be Boys13/Feb/1962 • 30m
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S3 E19Marriage Counselor20/Feb/1962 • 30m
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S3 E20The Big Blunder and Egg Man27/Feb/1962 • 30m
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S3 E21Birth of a Salesman06/Mar/1962 • 30m
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S3 E22Like, Oh Brother13/Mar/1962 • 30m
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S3 E23Wanted: Dead or Alive20/Mar/1962 • 30m
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S3 E24Names My Mother Called Me27/Mar/1962 • 30m
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S3 E25An American Strategy03/Apr/1962 • 30m
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S3 E26The Truth Session10/Apr/1962 • 30m
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S3 E27I Remember Muu Muu17/Apr/1962 • 30m
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S3 E28Sweet Success of Smell24/Apr/1962 • 30m
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S3 E29When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot01/May/1962 • 30m
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S3 E30I Was a Boy Soronity Girl08/May/1962 • 30m
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S3 E31It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home15/May/1962 • 30m
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S3 E32Back-to-Nature Boy22/May/1962 • 30m
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S3 E33How to Cheat an Honest Man29/May/1962 • 30m
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S3 E34Bachelor Father and Son05/Jun/1962 • 30m
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S3 E35Like Low Noon12/Jun/1962 • 30m
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S3 E36The Frat's in the Fire26/Jun/1962 • 30m
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Season 20 / 36 watched
S2 E1Who Needs Elvis?27/Sep/1960 • 30m
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S2 E2You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog04/Oct/1960 • 30m
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S2 E3Baby Talk18/Oct/1960 • 30m
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S2 E4Dobie Goes Beatnik25/Oct/1960 • 30m
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S2 E5The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs01/Nov/1960 • 30m
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S2 E6The Face That Stopped the Clock15/Nov/1960 • 30m
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S2 E7Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire22/Nov/1960 • 30m
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S2 E8Around My Room in 80 Days29/Nov/1960 • 30m
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S2 E9Drag Strip Dobie06/Dec/1960 • 30m
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S2 E10Jangle Bells20/Dec/1960 • 30m
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S2 E11Parlez-Vous English27/Dec/1960 • 30m
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S2 E12The Day the Teachers Disappeared03/Jan/1961 • 30m
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S2 E13What's My Lion?10/Jan/1961 • 30m
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S2 E14The Big Question24/Jan/1961 • 30m
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S2 E15Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?31/Jan/1961 • 30m
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S2 E16The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard07/Feb/1961 • 30m
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S2 E17Zelda, Get Off My Back14/Feb/1961 • 30m
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S2 E18I Was a High School Scrooge21/Feb/1961 • 30m
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S2 E19Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?28/Feb/1961 • 30m
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S2 E20The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis07/Mar/1961 • 30m
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S2 E21Dobie Versus the Machine14/Mar/1961 • 30m
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S2 E22Baby Shoes21/Mar/1961 • 30m
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S2 E23I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine28/Mar/1961 • 30m
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S2 E24The Chicken Corporal04/Apr/1961 • 30m
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S2 E25The Solid Gold Dog Tag11/Apr/1961 • 30m
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S2 E26The Battle of Maynard's Beard18/Apr/1961 • 30m
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S2 E27Spaceville25/Apr/1961 • 30m
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S2 E28Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow02/May/1961 • 30m
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S2 E29Dobie Plays Cupid09/May/1961 • 30m
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S2 E30Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble16/May/1961 • 30m
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S2 E31Be It Ever So Humble23/May/1961 • 30m
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S2 E32Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes30/May/1961 • 30m
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S2 E33Everything But the Truth06/Jun/1961 • 30m
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S2 E34Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips13/Jun/1961 • 30m
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S2 E35Take Me to Your Leader20/Jun/1961 • 30m
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S2 E36This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It27/Jun/1961 • 30m
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Season 10 / 39 watched
S1 E1Caper at the Bijou29/Sep/1959 • 30m
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S1 E2The Best Dressed Man06/Oct/1959 • 30m
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S1 E3Love is a Science13/Oct/1959 • 30m
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S1 E4The Right Triangle20/Oct/1959 • 30m
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S1 E5Maynard's Farewell to the Troops03/Nov/1959 • 30m
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S1 E6The Sweet Singer of Central High10/Nov/1959 • 30m
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S1 E7Greater Love Hath No Man17/Nov/1959 • 30m
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S1 E8The Old Goat24/Nov/1959 • 30m
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S1 E9Dobie Gillis: Boy Actor01/Dec/1959 • 30m
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S1 E10It Takes Two08/Dec/1959 • 30m
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S1 E11Dobie's Birthday Party15/Dec/1959 • 30m
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S1 E12Deck the Halls22/Dec/1959 • 30m
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S1 E13Couchville, USA29/Dec/1959 • 30m
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S1 E14The Gaucho05/Jan/1960 • 30m
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S1 E15The Smoke-Filled Room12/Jan/1960 • 30m
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S1 E16The Fist Fighter19/Jan/1960 • 30m
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S1 E17The Hunger Strike26/Jan/1960 • 30m
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S1 E18The Flying Millicans02/Feb/1960 • 30m
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S1 E19Room at the Bottom09/Feb/1960 • 30m
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S1 E20The Power of Positive Thinking16/Feb/1960 • 30m
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S1 E21Dobie Spreads a Rumor23/Feb/1960 • 30m
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S1 E22Love is a Fallacy01/Mar/1960 • 30m
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S1 E23The Chicken from Outer Space08/Mar/1960 • 30m
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S1 E24Dobie's Navy Blues15/Mar/1960 • 30m
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S1 E25Taken to the Cleaners29/Mar/1960 • 30m
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S1 E26That's Show Biz05/Apr/1960 • 30m
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S1 E27The Prettiest Collateral in Town12/Apr/1960 • 30m
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S1 E28Live Alone and I Like It19/Apr/1960 • 30m
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S1 E29The Big Sandwich26/Apr/1960 • 30m
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S1 E30Soup and Fish03/May/1960 • 30m
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S1 E31Where There's a Will10/May/1960 • 30m
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S1 E32Put Your Feet in Our Hands17/May/1960 • 30m
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S1 E33Competition is the Life of Trade24/May/1960 • 30m
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S1 E34The French, They Are a Funny Race31/May/1960 • 30m
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S1 E35The Unregistered Nurse07/Jun/1960 • 30m
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S1 E36The Long Arm of the Law14/Jun/1960 • 30m
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S1 E37Here Come the Groom21/Jun/1960 • 30m
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S1 E38A Taste of Lobster28/Jun/1960 • 30m
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S1 E39Rock-A-Bye Dobie05/Jul/1960 • 30m
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Season 00 / 1 watched
S0 E1The Caper at the Bijou (Unaired Pilot)—
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Format
Scripted
Created by
Max Shulman
Country
United States
Original language
English
Network / Platform
CBS
First aired
29/Sep/1959
Last aired
05/Jun/1963
Seasons
5
Episodes
148
Runtime
30 min
Official schedule
Wednesday · 20:30
Official timezone
America/New_York
External IDs
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Cast

24 credits
Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Hickman Dobie Gillis Bob Denver Bob Denver Maynard G. Krebs Frank Faylen Frank Faylen Herbert T. Gillis Florida Friebus Florida Friebus Winifred Gillis Sheila James Kuehl Sheila James Kuehl Zelda Gilroy Michael J. Pollard Michael J. Pollard Credit details unavailable Dabbs Greer Dabbs Greer Credit details unavailable Jo Anne Worley Jo Anne Worley Credit details unavailable Jody Fair Jody Fair Credit details unavailable Peter Brocco Peter Brocco Cedric Van Horn Earl Hammond Earl Hammond Credit details unavailable Bill Bixby Bill Bixby Credit details unavailable Argentina Brunetti Argentina Brunetti Credit details unavailable David Frankham David Frankham Derek Eleanor Audley Eleanor Audley Credit details unavailable Doris Packer Doris Packer Credit details unavailable Mike Mazurki Mike Mazurki Credit details unavailable Jean Byron Jean Byron Dr. Imogene Burkhart Ryan O'Neal Ryan O'Neal Herm Joel Crothers Joel Crothers Credit details unavailable Verna Felton Verna Felton Mrs. Lapping Francis X. Bushman Francis X. Bushman Credit details unavailable Harry von Zell Harry von Zell Credit details unavailable Rose Marie Rose Marie Credit details unavailable

Crew

15 credits
H. Bruce Humberstone H. Bruce Humberstone Director Robert Butler Robert Butler Director Robert Gordon Robert Gordon Director Rod Amateau Director, Writer Martin Manulis Producer Arnold Horwitt Writer Ben Gershman Writer Dean Riesner Dean Riesner Writer Ed James Writer Irving Brecher Writer Jerry Davis Writer Joel Kane Writer Max Shulman Writer Stanley Z. Cherry Writer Terry Ryan Writer
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