The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

10/6/1959

Dobie competes with Milton Armitage to see whose wardrobe can impress Thalia the most.

10/13/1959

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.

10/20/1959

Dobie's older brother Davey convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school.

11/3/1959

Maynard gets drafted.

11/10/1959

After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.

11/17/1959

Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.

11/24/1959

Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot.

12/1/1959

Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.

12/8/1959

Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.

12/15/1959

Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.

12/22/1959

Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and almost spends the holidays in jail.

12/29/1959

Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.

1/5/1960

Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young and handsome border from South America.

1/12/1960

Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.

1/19/1960

Dobie becomes Top Fist by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gain the title and Thaila's affections by challenging Dobie.

1/26/1960

Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his.

2/2/1960

Dobie falls for trapeze artist Aphrodite Millican,.

2/9/1960

Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school.

2/16/1960

In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the dominating man Thalia wants.

2/23/1960

Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumor they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality.

3/1/1960

Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.

3/8/1960

Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones as a biology class project .

3/15/1960

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.

3/29/1960

Dobie, Maynard, and Thalia capture a crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.

4/5/1960

Dobie and most of his friends reluctantly participate in a talent show.

4/12/1960

Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.

4/19/1960

Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves into a small apartment with Maynard.

4/26/1960

Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

5/3/1960

Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.

5/10/1960

Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone.

5/17/1960

Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a shoe store owner's daughter in order to get a job at the store.

5/24/1960

Dobie's newest girlfriend's father happens to be opening a new grocery store. Mr. Gillis tries to spy under the name Fred C. Dobbs.

5/31/1960

Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.

6/7/1960

Dobie falls for an older nurse and feigns a disease so he can be near her.

6/14/1960

Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.

6/21/1960

A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.

6/28/1960

Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.

7/5/1960

Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobie is secretly a father.