In this series opener, lovesick teen Dobie Gillis and his beatnik buddy, Maynard G. Krebs, conspire to rig a raffle so that Dobie can win enough money to take the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger to his high school prom.
Dobie competes with rich kid (and Warren Beatty lookalike) Milton Armitage to see who's wardrobe can most impress the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger.
For the first time, Dobie meets the nerdy but loving Zelda Gilroy who teaches him about the concept of propinquity.
Older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman in order to impress a new girl in school but, as usual, things blow up in his face.
After learning that his beatnik pal Maynard has been drafted, Dobie decides to give him a special send-off.
After a throat operation, Dobie now has an unusual singing voice which Thalia assures him will lead to fame and riches with her as his manager.
Dobie decides to coach Maynard in the art of love when his beatnik pal says he's interested in a girl. Unknown to Dobie, the girl who interests his goateed friend is his own.
Dobie believes he can become a hero at his high school (and thus have his choice of women) by abducting the hated rival school's mascot on the eve of the big football game.
Dobie and rich Warren Beatty lookalike Milton Armitage compete for the attention of a lovely damsel by auditioning for a role in the school play.
Dobie falls for another pretty damsel but to win her he ends up having to convince the lass that his own father is a very unusual man.
It's Dobie's birthday and it appears that everyone has forgotten the date.
It Christmas time and all that yuletide spirit is beginning to drive Herbert crazy. So crazy that he thinks spending some time in jail might be preferrable.
In order to raise money for a date with the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger, Dobie goes to work in his father's grocery store and proceeds to drive dear old dad crazy. So crazy that Herbert goes to a psychologist for advice.
Herbert and Winnie take in a handsome boarder from South America but Dobie isn't too pleased since he sets Thalia's heart all aflutter.
The smokin' hot Thalia Menninger persuades Dobie to run for junior class president and even volunteers to serve as his campaign manager. His opponent: Warren Beatty lookalike Milton Armitage.
After Dobie knocks out a school bully he's known as the "Top Fist" on campus but soon must defend his title against Warren Beatty lookalike Milton Armitage in order to keep the affections of the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger.
Dobie tries a new way to win the heart of the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger: he goes on a hunger strike until she agrees to be his gal.
When the circus hits town, Dobie falls for a trapeze artist who strongly resembles Batgirl.
The smokin' hot Thalia Menninger persuades Dobie's parents to send him to an exclusive prep school in hopes that it will inspire our hero to begin seeking his fortune.
In order to win the smokin' hot Thalia from Milton, Dobie decides to become the domineering man he thinks Thalia wants.
To get Zelda off his back and get other boys interested in her, Dobie spreads a rumor that she's just inherited a fortune. Then the rumor appears to be coming true.
Dobie is given a crash course in logical thinking by the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger.
Zelda talks Maynard and Dobie into joining her biology class then wishes she hadn't when Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones.
Dobie decides to enlist in the Navy in order to impress the retired seadog father of his latest galpal.
Dobie, Maynard, and the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger cook up a scheme to get even with crooked dry cleaners.
Dobie persuades his parents to join the Students and Parents Betterment League in hopes that this will impress the parents of his latest galpal.
Herbert wants Dobie to romance a banker's bitchy daughter so he can get a loan but the younger Gillis prefers a sweeter lass.
Tired of being treated like a child at home by his parents, Dobie moves into a tiny apartment with good buddy Maynard.
On the day of the school picnic, Dobie can't go because he has to man his parents' grocery store but the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger comes up with a money making scheme. They'll sell sandwiches at the picnic.
Dobie and Maynard find themselves invited to a swank society party at the mansion of the wealthy Osborne clan.
Herbert's lawyer advises him to draw up a will but sees it as an admission that he's getting old.
To win the heart of a pretty damsel, Dobie must make the ultimate sacrifice--find a job.
The father of Dobie's new sweetie opens a grocery store right down the street from the Gillis grocery store.
Maynard falls for a smokin' hot French chick even though neither can speak the language of the other.
Dobie falls for a smokin' hot nurse and then fakes an illness in order to be near her in the hospital.
Dobie's latest flame is the daughter of a policeman who has him pegged as a troublemaker.
Tired of being dumped by hot chicks, Dobie decides to ask the plain Zelda Gilroy to marry him.
Dobie thinks he's met his dream gal in Gwyneth Krausmeyer who doesn't care about money. Then her younger sister starts going on fancier dates with a rich boy.
When Dobie and his new galpal take a babysitting job, Herbert mistakenly gets the idea that his son is secretly a father.
Dobie joins the school band to be near his latest heartthrob and even manages to belt out a tune in this episode.
Dobie enters a newspaper essay contest in order to get the cash for a date with a Southern belle but Maynard changes the title from "My Dog" to "My Dad."
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park and for his own sentimental reasons doesn't want to inform the authorities. Dobie tries to set his good buddy straight and find a home for the infant.
Maynard is all set to attend the Thelonius Monk concert but then Dobie needs him to switch identities as a favor to his father.
Maynard discovers that he has extrasensory perception.
When Dobie gets a job, Maynard gets envious and decides to find employment as well. He gets hired to sell clock statues at an Army Surplus store.
Maynard finds a purse full of cash in the park and is told by the police that he can keep it provided no one steps forward within six months to claim the loot.
Mr. Pomfritt gets Dobie and Maynard to try to talk a fellow classmate out of quitting school.
Dobie competes in a drag race against Chatsworth to win the heart of a pretty damsel and has to get Zelda to serve as his mechanic.
Maynard decides to throw a Christmas party in his garage but most of the other kids, Dobie included, have accepted invitations to a swank party thrown by Chatsworth.
Winnie introduces Dobie to the daughter of a French painter in hopes that her son will get some culture but the two dislike each other on sight.
When the school board denies their request for a raise, the teachers come down with the flu forcing the parents to takeover teaching classes.
A lion escapes from the zoo and amazingly becomes attached to Maynard.
Dobie and Maynard approach graduation from high school and Mr. Pomfritt assigns them to write an essay entitled "Whither are We Drifting."
After taking a course on love and romance, Dobie tries to get Herbert to spend more time with Winnie.
Maynard becomes convinced he's a bad influence on Dobie so he decides to antagonize his good buddy into ending their friendship once and for all.
Tired of being rejected by Dobie, Zelda decides to turn her amorous attentions towards Chatsworth.
Working for the school newspaper, Dobie and Maynard are handed an assignement to discover whatever happened to a former Central High athletic great.
Winnie enters a contest and signs Dobie's name. First prize is a date with a Hollywood starlet.
When Dobie discovers that his father never graduated from high school, Herbert begins attending night school so as to graduate with his son.
Dobie and Maynard are unable to decide their future after graduation from high school so they decide to let a computer make the decision for them.
Dobie and Maynard have enlisted in the Army and Herbert, a former sergeant, is determined to whip both his slacker son and beatnik pal into shape.
After enlisting in the Army, Maynard misses the bus to the classification center. Dobie gets Chatsworth to take his place temporarily but when they switch back it's learned that thanks to a classification test Chatsworth took, Maynard is eligible for Officer Candidate School.
Being in the Army hasn't slowed Dobie's libido. He's promised a date with a smokin' hot waitress from the PX provided he can find a date for her plain roommate. Guess who he picks?
Dobie and Maynard are shocked when they discover that their old high school nemesis, Chatsworth Osborne, Jr., has joined the Army and been assigned to their unit.
Maynard is ordered to shave off his goatee by the Army but Dobie convinces him to object on principle.
The Army is searching for someone to join a chimp in an outer space experiment. The soldier must be neither brilliant nor particularly capable. The soldier must be Maynard G. Krebs.
Home on a weekend pass from the Army, Dobie meets a smokin' hot chick (who resembles Batgirl) who turns out to be the daughter of an old galpal of Herbert's.
Home on yet another weekend pass, Dobie drags the girl shy Maynard to a dance.
Private Dobie Gillis isn't having much luck getting a date with a hot chick because she's only interested in officers.
Dobie mistakenly thinks that a homesick Maynard has gone AWOL so he wrangles a three day pass to bring him back to the base.
Dobie tries to impress a smokin' hot WAC by telling her that his father was a World War II hero.
Zelda has been telling everyone back home that she and soldier Dobie are engaged. Then he unexpectedly arrives in town on a weekend pass.
Dobie and Maynard try to convince their old high school teacher, Mr. Pomfritt, not to leave Central High.
Pulling guard duty one night on their Army post, Dobie and Maynard recall via flashbacks an incident from their civilian days when they were certain that the Martians were invading.
In the final Army episode, Dobie's parents arrive at his base to see how the Army has made a man out of their son.
Discharged from the Army, Dobie and Maynard try to find their way in civilian life and decide to enroll at the local junior college after discovering that their favorite high school teacher, Mr. Pomfritt, is now a member of the faculty there.
Enrolled in junior college, Dobie is certain he can score with the campus hotties but Zelda is also enrolled and she continues to cramp his style.
After taking a law course in college, Maynard decides to sue Herbert when his hand gets caught in a supposedly defective gumball machine in the Gillis Grocery Store.
In order to finally get rid of Zelda, Dobie uses the laws of heredity to prove that a potential marriage would be doomed to failure.
Usually dateless Maynard comes up with a scheme to go out with chicks. He rents himself out to girls who are afraid that going out with hunky guys will make their out-of-town boyfriends jealous.
Dobie asks for Herbert's permission to go on an archaeological dig with his ancient history instructor. The older Gillis can't fathom sonny's sudden interest in the subject until he discovers that the instructor is an attractive female.
Maynard declines to contribute an item to a class time capsule scheduled to be opened in one thousand years because he's convinced that the world will have ended by then.
Maynard can't convince anyone that a squirrel and not he stole a roll of money from Mr. Pomfritt's desk drawer.
The parents of a kind-hearted damsel insist that she have two escorts when she goes out on a date.
Inspired by a Robert Browning poem, Dobie decides to reach for something unattainable namely a smokin' hot new damsel on campus. But this desire might cost him Zelda.
Appointed class treasurer, soft-hearted Maynard ends up giving the money raised for the Christmas dance to a poor Hispanic family.
Dobie and his new galpal end up having to babysit for a star football player's kids and our hero might end up Landing in Knots when he has to fill in for the athlete during the game.
When Dobie opposes Chatsworth in a campus election, the rich kid hires the folk group, The Lettermen, to aid his campaign. Despite advice from campaign manager Zelda to do something similar, he's determined to win by sticking to the issues.
Herbert T. Gillis decides to throw his hat in the political ring and run for Mayor but Dobie has fallen for the daughter of his opponent.
Chatsworth wants Herbert to move into the Osborne mansion with him so that the elder Gillis will turn him into a man.
Something's definitely wrong with Herbert T. Gillis. The normally tight-fisted patriarch loosens the family purse strings and showers his family with gifts. Then he announces he plans to sell the grocery store and settle down to a life of leisure.
In order to get away from Zelda, Dobie convinces Maynard to stow away on an ocean liner bound for South America but the diminutive love-starved damsel is also on the ship.
Maynard goes out with a chick who's a slacker just like himself but when Dobie convinces her to be more feminine his beatnik pal loses interest.
Zelda is overjoyed when Dobie finally decides to marry her after he learns in psychology class that marriage has many benefits. But then Maynard reminds her that his good buddy still hasn't shown any signs of passionate love.
In order to impress his new money hungry galpal (shades of Thalia Menninger), Dobie buys stock in an egg company.
Dobie's old galpal, the smokin' hot Thalia Menninger, arrives on the scene and announces that she's chunked college and become a successful saleswoman. Now she wants Dobie and Maynard to work for her.
Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged youths as part of their sociology class.
Dobie falls for a hottie named Gisele Hurlbut but she plans on enrolling at an exclusive women's school in order to snare herself a rich husband. That doesn't stop Dobie who decides to enroll at a correspondingly exclusive men's school.
When galpal Gisele Hurlbut decides that his first name is ridiculous, Dobie decides to change it until Winnie puts her foot down and informs him that he's named after a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
This time it's a case of too many women for Dobie as he attempts to juggle a waitress and the daughter of a lumber company executive.
Maynard decides that he will always speak the truth but this policy upsets a lot of people.
Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about primitive dances but borrows a few descriptions from a tabloid so that they seem like orgies.
A biology professor discovers that Maynard has an unusual sense of smell.
Dobie decides to terminate his friendship with Maynard after it appears that his beatnik pal has become too dependant on him.
To raise money to carry on like a rich playboy, Dobie takes a job as a waiter in a sorority house.
On an anthropology class field trip, Maynard discovers a man living in a cave and decides to move in with him.
Chatsworth's cousin visits and soon becomes bored with society life. So she gets Maynard to show her how to live like a simple gal.
Dobie's newest flame believes in complete honesty from her fellow--and his friends and family.
Winnie heads out to Cleveland to visit her sister leaving Herbert and Dobie to fend for themselves.
An old high school nemesis of Dobie is arriving back in town on the noon bus and this news has Maynard's good buddy worried. It seems as though the bully has sent word that he's going to knock Dobie's block off.
Dobie is dead set on membership in the Silver Spoon Club, the best fraternity on campus. Knowing that his son may not get accepted on his own merits, Herbert bribes the members so they'll accept Dobie.
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but ends up falling off the ledge himself and taken to a hospital psychiatric ward.
The smokin' hot Thalia Menninger returns for a visit and Dobie decides to make her the beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Then he becomes paranoid that she's trying to kill him.
Dobie's hillbilly cousin, Virgil, arrives in town determined to become the next Elvis and puts the bite on the Gilleses for financial backing.
Dobie signs himself and Maynard up for an expedition to the Amazon in order to follow a hot chick. Once there, Maynard gets made chief of a tribe of cannibals.
Uncle Tim arrives in town and wants Herbert and Winnie to look after son Duncan while he's away on business.
Dobie goes out for the college football team when he discovers that a hot chick adores athletes.
Dobie, Maynard, and cousin Duncan takes jobs as truck drivers. Their first cargo--nitroglycerine.
Dobie feigns illness in order to win the affections of a hot chick.
Dobie and Duncan get involved with a greedy chick who played Dobie for money and now is getting her younger sister to play Duncan.
Dobie and Maynard aren't doing too well in their history class so they train a mynah bird to help them with an exam.
Dobie, Maynard, and Duncan accidentally lock Herbert in his own meat freezer. Then they mistakenly believe they've killed him.
In danger of flunking out of college, Maynard hears about a chemical that can change him into a genius--or a monster.
When Maynard announces that he still believes in Santa Claus, the Gilleses decide to cure him of his fantasy.
Cousin Duncan falls for a visiting opera diva who just came down from Quebec.
This time Dobie falls for the daughter of a kitchenware king.
When the Lettermen appear on campus, they recruit Dobie to fill in when one of their members has to take an unexpected leave of absence.
A fugitive and his moll hold the Gillis family hostage in their grocery store. Then Maynard comes along and stumbles into things as well.
After Dobie gets hired as a disc jockey for the campus radio station, Zelda decides to cut an album and gets Maynard to be her producer.
Chatsworth pays Dobie to impersonate him on a date with a damsel whom he remembers as being quite ugly.
To impress a hot chick, Dobie gets Zelda to help him improve his grades without telling her the real reason.
Maynard and Herbert get stuck together by a finger toy.
Dobie finally decides to give into Zelda but her ardor appears to have cooled off completely--or has it?
After the Osborne family loses its fortune, Chatsworth ropes Maynard and Duncan into a get rich quick scheme.
A freak accident turns Maynard into a songwriting machine which cousin Virgil T. Gillis hopes to use to his advantage in becoming a singing sensation.
In the college animal behaviour laboratory, Maynard is assigned to develop the talents of a chimp. If he doesn't succeed the simian might meet a terrible fate.
After mumsie tosses him out on his ear, Chatsworth moves in with the Gilleses and Herbert tries to take full financial advantage of the situation.
On a visit to Latin America, Maynard is commandeered into impersonating a general marked for assassination.
Spending the weekend at the Osborne mansion, Maynard goes on a sleepwalking jaunt and is suspected of taking the contents of the Osborne safe.
When a teen socialite's pooch disappears she offers a $500 reward to its finder which Maynard is determined to claim.
In yet another plan to snare Dobie, Zelda announces she's going to marry Maynard figuring that Dobie will do anything (such as take his good buddy's place) to save him from such a fate.
Maynard swallows some energy pills which give him superhuman strength so Herbert decides he should enter the boxing ring with the elder Gillis as his manager.
Dobie and Maynard take a trip to Washington D.C. where enemy agents mistake the goateed beatnik for a brilliant rocket scientist.
Maynard turns a fellow student into a singing sensation but then a fast-talking agent steals her away.
Dobie falls for the smokin' hot younger sister of Dr. Burkhart but according to family tradition she must wait until her older sister gets married first.
After accidentally dousing himself with a chemical concoction, Maynard is stunned to discover that this formula makes him irresistable to women.
Dobie has a hot date but he's broke as usual so to pick up some cash he agrees to help Chatsworth fix his mother's charity raffle.