The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (season 3)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (season 3) | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 36 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | October 10, 1961 – June 25, 1962 |
Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes from the third season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; the series' on-screen title was shortened to Dobie Gillis during this season.
This season begins with the enrollment of Dobie Gllis, Maynard G. Krebs, and Zelda Gilroy at Central City's S. Peter Pryor Junior College, after Dobie's and Maynard's discharges from the U.S. Army. The rest of the episodes of the season feature the trio adjusting to college life, and Dobie continuing to deal with life with his parents, Herbert and Winifred Gillis, and working in (or trying not to work in) his father's grocery store.
Broadcast history
The season originally aired Tuesdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST) on CBS from October 10, 1961 to June 26, 1962.[1]
Nielsen ratings
The season ranked twenty-first with a 22.9 rating.
DVD release
The Region 1 DVD of the entire series was released on July 2, 2013.
Cast
Main
- Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis
- Frank Faylen as Herbert T. Gillis (29 episodes)
- Florida Friebus as Winifred "Winnie" Gillis (21 episodes)
- Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs
Recurring
- Sheila James as Zelda Gilroy (10 episodes)
- Steve Franken as Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. (7 episodes)
- William Schallert as Professor Leander Pomfritt (10 episodes)
- Doris Packer as Mrs. Chatsworth Osbourne, Sr. (4 episodes)
- Jean Byron as Dr. Imogene Burkhart (4 episodes)
- Tuesday Weld as Thalia Menninger (1 special guest appearance)
Episodes
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate |
Production number |
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76 | 1 | "The Ruptured Duck" | Rod Amateau | Max Shulman | October 10, 1961 | 5401 |
Dobie and Maynard receive their discharges and enroll with Zelda in S. Peter Pryor Junior College. Guest: John Fiedler | ||||||
77 | 2 | "Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got the Dobie?" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Les Pine Story: Rod Amateau | October 17, 1961 | 5404 |
A beautiful girl decides that if Zelda wants Dobie, there must be more to him than meets the eye. | ||||||
78 | 3 | "Move Over, Perry Mason" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Dean Riesner Story: Rod Amateau | October 24, 1961 | 5402 |
After getting his hand caught in a gum machine, Maynard sues Herbert's insurance company. Guest: Douglas Dumbrille. | ||||||
79 | 4 | "The Fast, White Mouse" | Rod Amateau | Max Shulman | October 31, 1961 | 5405 |
Dobie attempts to use an experiment in heredity to convince Zelda that Chatsworth is a more suitable mate. | ||||||
80 | 5 | "The Gigolo" | Rod Amateau | Joel Kane | November 7, 1961 | 5406 |
To remain true to her absent fiancee, a pretty co-ed bribes Maynard into being her regular escort. Guest: Bill Bixby. | ||||||
81 | 6 | "Dig, Dig, Dig" | Rod Amateau | Max Shulman | November 14, 1961 | 5407 |
Herbert suspects that Dobie's real interest in egyptology is his attractive professor, Dr. Imogene Burkhart. Based on Max Shulman's short story "You Think You've Got Troubles?" Note: First appearance of Jean Byron as Dr. Imogene Burkhart. | ||||||
82 | 7 | "Eat, Drink and Be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!" | Guy Scarpitta | Lawrence Williams, Maggie Williams & Joel Kane | November 21, 1961 | 5408 |
Maynard refuses to participate in Dr. Burkhart's time capsule project, as he is convinced there is no hope for the future. | ||||||
83 | 8 | "The Richest Squirrel in Town" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Dean Riesner Story: Max Shulman | November 28, 1961 | 5410 |
Professor Pomfritt has $41.37 stolen from his desk, and does not believe the accused Maynard's alibi that a campus squirrel took it. | ||||||
84 | 9 | "The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World" | Guy Scarpitta | Max Shulman | December 5, 1961 | 5409 |
Dobie competes with Chatsworth for the sympathy of a tender-hearted beauty who always dates two boys at once. Based loosely on one of Max Shulman's short stories. Guest: John Fiedler | ||||||
85 | 10 | "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning" | Rod Amateau | Max Shulman | December 12, 1961 | 5411 |
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. | ||||||
86 | 11 | "Have Reindeer, Will Travel" | Rod Amateau | Arnold Horwitt | December 19, 1961 | 5413 |
Soft-hearted Maynard gives the class Christmas party fund to a poor Mexican boy. | ||||||
87 | 12 | "Crazylegs Gillis" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Terry Ryan & Joel Kane Story: Max Shulman | December 26, 1961 | 5414 |
Dobie, Maynard and Herbert help out a campus football star who has a wife and five sons. | ||||||
88 | 13 | "The Blue-Tail Fly" | Rod Amateau | Arnold Horwitt | January 2, 1962 | 5412 |
Zelda and Maynard help Dobie run for student council, but his issue-oriented campaign can't compete against Chatsworth's showbiz glitter. | ||||||
89 | 14 | "I Do Not Choose to Run" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Les Pine & Joel Kane Story: Rod Amateau | January 9, 1962 | 5415 |
Herbert runs for city planning commissioner. | ||||||
90 | 15 | "Happiness Can't Buy Money" | Guy Scarpitta | Teleplay: Dean Riesner Story: Max Shulman | January 16, 1962 | 5417 |
Chatsworth hopes that Herbert can make a man out of him. | ||||||
91 | 16 | "The Magnificent Failure" | Rod Amateau | Bud Nye | January 23, 1962 | 5416 |
When Herbert decides to sell his grocery store, he discovers that it isn't worth a fraction of what he had expected. | ||||||
92 | 17 | "For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls" | Stanley Z. Cherry | Arnold Horwitt | January 30, 1962 | 5418 |
Dobie and Maynard stow away on a cargo ship, unaware that Zelda is a passenger. Guest: Betty Rollin. | ||||||
93 | 18 | "Girls Will Be Boys" | Rod Amateau | Joel Kane | February 13, 1962 | 5414 |
Maynard meets a kooky tomboy named Edwina. Guest: Lynn Loring. | ||||||
94 | 19 | "The Marriage Counselor" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Les Pine Story: Rod Amateau | February 20, 1962 | 5421 |
A lesson in Professor Pomfritt's class on marriage convinces Dobie to agree to marry Zelda. | ||||||
95 | 20 | "The Big Blunder and Egg Man" | Rod Amateau | Bud Nye & Max Shulman | February 27, 1962 | 5430 |
Dobie invests in the commodities market to impress a female economics classmate, but inadvertently ends up owning 15,000 dozen eggs. Guests: Cheryl Holdridge, Raymond Bailey | ||||||
96 | 21 | "Birth of a Salesman" | Rod Amateau | Arnold Horwitt | March 6, 1962 | 5426 |
Thalia Menninger, now a traveling saleswoman, tries to recruit Dobie and Professor Pomfritt for her company. Guest: Tuesday Weld. | ||||||
97 | 22 | "Like, Oh, Brother!" | Guy Scarpitta | Arnold Horwitt & Joel Kane | March 13, 1962 | 5422 |
Dobie and Maynard volunteer at a neighborhood settlement house taking care of kids. | ||||||
98 | 23 | "Dobie Gillis: Wanted Dead or Alive" | Rod Amateau | Max Shulman | March 20, 1962 | 5424 |
While babysitting for Professor Pomfritt, Dobie and Maynard find a copy of their final exam in poetry. A remake of "Room at the Bottom" from Season 1. | ||||||
99 | 24 | "Names My Mother Called Me" | Rod Amateau | Lawrence Williams, Maggie Williams & Max Shulman | March 27, 1962 | 5423 |
Dobie is invited to meet the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who inspired his unusual first name. | ||||||
100 | 25 | "An American Strategy" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Dean Riesner Story: Max Shulman | April 3, 1962 | 5428 |
Dobie must choose between a poor but loving girl and the daughter of his new employer, a lumberyard owner. | ||||||
101 | 26 | "The Truth Session" | Rod Amateau | Teleplay: Henry Sharp & Max Shulman Story: Rod Amateau | April 10, 1962 | 5433 |
Maynard's excessive honesty antagonizes everyone he knows. Note: Dwayne Hickman was sick during production and only appears during the monologues. | ||||||
102 | 27 | "I Remember Muu Muu" | David Davis | Joel Kane | April 17, 1962 | 5435 |
Maynard writes a provocative-sounding article for the school paper about Dr. Burkhart's recreations of native dances. Note: Dwayne Hickman was sick during production and only appears during the monologues and a few brief scenes. | ||||||
103 | 28 | "Sweet Success of Smell" | Stanley Z. Cherry | Joel Kane | April 24, 1962 | 5429 |
To take advantage of Maynard's uncanny sense of smell, Dobie and Maynard become private eyes. Guest: Yvonne Craig. | ||||||
104 | 29 | "When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot" | Rod Amateau | Joel Kane | May 1, 1962 | 5434 |
Maynard comes to live with the Gillises when his parents move away. | ||||||
105 | 30 | "I Was a Boy Sorority Girl" | Ralph Murphy | Arnold Horwitt | May 8, 1962 | 5427 |
Working as waiters at a sorority open house, Dobie and Maynard must don dresses to avoid being recognized by Dobie's ultra-snobbish new girlfriend. | ||||||
106 | 31 | "It Takes a Heap o' Livin' to Make a Cave a Home" | Rod Amateau | Arnold Horwitt | May 15, 1962 | 5421 |
Maynard discovers a Stone Age man living in a local cave. Guest: Mike Mazurki. | ||||||
107 | 32 | "Back-To-Nature Boy" | Guy Scarpitta | Joel Kane | May 22, 1962 | 5437 |
Maynard reunites with his tomboy friend Edwina, who turns out to be Chatsworth's cousin and has grown into a wealthy society debutante. Guest: Lynn Loring. | ||||||
108 | 33 | "How to Cheat an Honest Man" | Guy Scarpitta | Teleplay: Les Pine & Joel Kane Story: Rod Amateau | May 29, 1962 | 5425 |
Dobie falls for a girl who is a stickler for honesty, but ends up in jail along with Herbert and Maynard as a result of complications from "fixing" a traffic ticket. | ||||||
109 | 34 | "Bachelor Father...and Son" | Stanley Z. Cherry | Joel Kane | June 5, 1962 | 5438 |
Winifred visits her sister, leaving Dobie and Herbert to fend for themselves. | ||||||
110 | 35 | "Like Low Noon" | Rod Amateau | Dean Riesner | June 12, 1962 | 5420 |
Butch Baumgartner, a former rival, is returning to town to get even with Dobie. | ||||||
111 | 36 | "The Frat's in the Fire" | Stanley Z. Cherry | Joel Kane | June 26, 1962 | 5403 |
Herbert bribes the snobbish Silver Spoons Club into inviting Dobie to join their group. |