Season 1: 1959-1960
| Number in series |
Number in season |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Caper at The Bijou" |
| After meeting Thalia Menninger, Dobie schemes with Maynard to fix a jackpot drawing. Guests: Herbert Anderson, Stanley Adams, Jason Wingreen. | ||
| 2 | 2 | "It Takes Two" |
| Dobie's new girl fears that his father's personality traits will be passed on to their children. | ||
| 3 | 3 | "The Best Dressed Man" |
| Dobie's arrangement with a clothing store allows him to compete with rich Milton Armitage for Thalia's attention. Guest: Mel Blanc. | ||
| 4 | 4 | "The Big Sandwich" |
| Dobie and Thalia prepare 400 sandwiches for a school picnic that is rained out. Guest: Gordon Jones. | ||
| 5 | 5 | "Maynard's Farewell to the Troops" |
| Maynard enlists in the army. Michael J. Pollard's first appearance. | ||
| 6 | 6 | "Love Is a Science" |
| Dobie meets Zelda Gilroy in Biology. Guest: Charles Lane. | ||
| 7 | 7 | "Couchville, U.S.A." |
| Herbert thinks that Dobie harbors a deep-seated hostility toward him. Maynard does not appear in this episode. | ||
| 8 | 8 | "The Sweet Singer of Central High" |
| A tonsillectomy leaves Dobie with a beautiful new singing voice. Michael J. Pollard's last appearance. | ||
| 9 | 9 | "Dobie Gillis - Boy Actor" |
| Dobie vies with Milton for the lead in the Civil War drama, Magnolias at Manassas. | ||
| 10 | 10 | "Dobie's Birthday Party" |
| Dobie tells his parents not to make a fuss about his birthday and resents it when they seem to take him seriously. | ||
| 11 | 11 | "Greater Love Hath No Man" |
| Maynard returns and falls for pretty Pearl Arnold, not realizing that Dobie is already in love with her. | ||
| 12 | 12 | "The Unregistered Nurse" |
| To win the sympathy of a pretty nurse, Dobie pretends to be deathly ill. Guest: Herb Vigran. | ||
| 13 | 13 | "The Gaucho" |
| The Gillises' new boarder is an Argentine charmer named Carlos. | ||
| 14 | 14 | "The Old Goat" |
| Dobie and Maynard steal the mascot of a rival school's football team. | ||
| 15 | 15 | "The Right Triangle" |
| Dobie tells a girl that he is involved with an older woman. Darryl Hickman appears as Dobie's brother, Davey. | ||
| 16 | 16 | "Deck The Halls" |
| Herbert seems content to spend Christmas in jail. Guests: Jack Albertson, Darryl Hickman. | ||
| 17 | 17 | "The Flying Millicans" |
| Dobie's newest love is Aphrodite Millican, a health fanatic whose father eagerly welcomes Dobie into his family of acrobats. Guests: Francis X. Bushman, Yvonne Craig. | ||
| 18 | 18 | "A Taste for Lobster" |
| Dobie finally finds a girl who likes him and hates money. | ||
| 19 | 19 | "The Fist Fighter" |
| Dobie enlists the help of a former athletic legend and develops a reputation as "Top Fist." | ||
| 20 | 20 | "The Smoke-Filled Room" |
| Thalia campaigns for Dobie when he runs against Milton for Junior Class President. Guest: John Rockwell. | ||
| 21 | 21 | "The Power of Positive Thinking" |
| Dobie utilizes "magnetic power" to win Thalia away from the more dominant Chatsworth. Guest: John Abbott. | ||
| 22 | 22 | "Room at the Bottom" |
| Dobie must earn 100 on the next math test or be shipped off to an exclusive prep school. Guest: Ronny Howard. | ||
| 23 | 23 | "Hunger Strike" |
| To woo Thalia away from Chatsworth Osborne, Jr., Dobie goes on a hunger strike. Guests: Ryan O'Neal and Margaret (Marlo) Thomas. | ||
| 24 | 24 | "Taken to the Cleaners" |
| Dobie and Thalia become involved with a pair of crooked dry cleaners. | ||
| 25 | 25 | "Love Is a Fallacy" |
| While Thalia attempts to teach Dobie logic, a wealthy, but insecure, newcomer named Whitney offers to take Dobie as he is. Guest (uncredited): Ronnie Haran. | ||
| 26 | 26 | "Dobie Spreads a Rumor" |
| Dobie invents a story about a rich Uncle Max who leaves Zelda's family a fortune. | ||
| 27 | 27 | "Rock-A-Bye Dobie" |
| When Dobie starts a baby-sitting business, Herbert concludes that Dobie is married - and a father. Originally filmed as Almost A Father, this episode was pulled from the schedule because of affiliate complaints. This revised version was shown later in the season. Guests: Denise Alexander, Don Knotts, Kathleen Freeman. | ||
| 28 | 28 | "The Chicken From Outer Space" |
| Dobie, Zelda and Maynard are lab partners in an experiment involving a chicken and an extra large dose of male hormones. | ||
| 29 | 29 | "Dobie's Navy Blues" |
| Myrna Lomax's father is an ex-chief petty officer who thinks Dobie is planning to enlist in the Navy. Guests: Yvonne Craig, Harry Von Zell. | ||
| 30 | 30 | "That's Show Biz" |
| Dobie's parents participate in the school talent show, the CHSSPBL Capers. Guests: Reta Shaw, Richard Deacon, Roberta Shore. | ||
| 31 | 31 | "Live Alone and Like It" |
| Dobie and Maynard move into their own apartment - briefly. | ||
| 32 | 32 | "The Prettiest Collateral in Town" |
| (Working title: "He Who Gets Slapped") To secure a bank loan for his father, Dobie agrees to date the banker's self-possessed daughter, even if it means losing adorable Melissa Frome. Guests: Sherry Jackson, Rose Marie. | ||
| 33 | 33 | "Soup and Fish" |
| Invited to a formal party by wealthy Sabrina Armitage, Dobie and Maynard talk her cousin Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. into sharing his tuxedo with them. | ||
| 34 | 34 | "Where There's a Will" |
| Herbert is superstitious about signing his newly created will. Guests: Darryl Hickman, Robert Nichols, Ronny Howard. | ||
| 35 | 35 | "Put Your Feet In Our Hands" |
| To impress ambitious Daphne Root, Dobie and Chatsworth go to work in her father's shoe store. | ||
| 36 | 36 | "Competition Is the Life of Trade" |
| Dobie and Chatsworth compete for the daughter of a rival grocer. Guest: Jack Albertson. | ||
| 37 | 37 | "The French They Are a Funny Race" |
| A lovely French girl latches on to Maynard as her protector. | ||
| 38 | 38 | "The Long Arm of the Law" |
| After making a bad impression on a new policeman, Dobie learns that the officer is the father of pretty Arabella Parmalee. | ||
| 39 | 39 | "Here Comes the Groom" |
| Dobie proposes to Zelda. Guests: Dabs Greer, Burt Mustin |
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