The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Originaltitel
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Produktionsland
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Originalsprache
Englisch
FSK
16
Untertitel
Nein
Besetzung
Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Sheila James Kuehl
Episoden-Guide
1. Staffel 1 (39 Episoden)
01
Dobie and Maynard conspire tp rig the raffle at the local movie theatre so that Dobie can win enough money to take Thalia to the prom.
02
Dobie completes with Milton Armitage to see who's wardrobe can most impress Thalia. Milton doesn't know that Dobie is getting his fancy clothes on loan from the local tailer[played by Mel Blanc].
03
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.
04
Dobie's rarely seen older brother Davey[played by Darryl Hickman] convinces him to invent an affair with a married woman to impress a new girl in school,but then everyone starts believing that Dobie really is having an affair with his math teacher,[played by Jean Byron].
05
Maynard gets drafted [In real life Bob Denver had just been drafted so they had to write him out of the series.] This espiode introduces Michael J. Pollard as Maynard's couisin Jerome Krebs. Bob Denver got rejected 4-f and was soon back with the show and Jerome was never seen again.
06
After a throat operation, Dobie can sing better than Milton, thus attracting Thalia.[This is the only other show where Jerome Krebs appears.]
07
Dobie tries to earn $6 to take Thalia to the Junior Prom.
08
Before the big football game, Dobie hatches a scheme for winning by stealing the opposing mascot-a goat.
09
Dobie is up against Milton to be leading man in a school play.
10
Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but has to win her father's approval too.
11
Dobie thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday.
12
Mr. Gillis is driven crazy by all the Christian celebrations, and allmost spends the holidays in jail.
13
Herbert seeks free advice from a child psychiologist.
14
Mr. and Mrs. Gillis take in a young, handsome border from South America.
15
Dobie runs against Milton for junior class president. Thalia is Dobie's campaign manager.
16
Dobie becomes ""Top Fist"" by knocking out the legendary Moose. Milton tries to gaimn the tide[and Thaila's affections] by challenging Dobie
17
Dobie goes on a hunger strike until Thalia agrees to be his. guest star: Marlo Thomas and [briefly] Ryan O'Neal.
18
Dobie falls for trapeze Aphrodite Millican, played by Yvonne 'Batgirl' Craig.
19
halia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby prep school. He doesn't go,but there is a bream sequence where Mr. Gillis imagines Dobie with a rich roommate,played by Steven Franken,indicating that despite its production number and date,this episode must have preceded the introduction of the Chatsworth Osborne,Jr. character. Also features Jean Byron as Dobie's math teacher and little Ronnir Howard as her son.
20
In order to win Thaila from Chatsworth, Dobie reads a book on mental power so he can be the "dominating man" Thalia wants
21
Dobie and Maynard are puzzled when a rumour they spread about Zelda inheriting a fortune seems to become reality. Thie episode offers a rare glimpse of Zelda's family including her three sisters and her harried father.
22
Based on one of Shulman's best stories, Thalia tries to educate Dobie in logical thinking.
23
As a biology class project Maynard gives a chicken an overdose of growth hormones
24
Dobie and a girl friend take a baby-sitting job,but the Gillies suspect Dobie is secretly a father.
25
Dobie,Maynard,and Thalia capture crooked dry-cleaner who had almost conned them before.[In this episode Thalia admits that, ""Even if my father had kidneys of stell, my mother was younger than springtime, my sister was married to a trillonaire and my brother was president of Harvard, i'd still want money!""]
26
Dobie and most of his friends reluctanly partcipate in a talent show
27
Doblie's dad wants him to romance a banker's daughter so he can get a loan.
28
Dobie wants to prove he's grownup, so he moves away from home. He and Maynard share a small apartment.
29
Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.
30
Dobie, Maynard, and Chatsworth must all share the same tuxedo to get in to a black-tie party at the Armitage mansion.
31
Herbert worries about what will happen to the store after he's gone
32
Dobie and Chatsworth complete for the attention of a girl whose father owns a shoe store. Both try to get jobs in the store.
33
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.
34
Maynard falls for a French girl and shaves off his goatee.
35
Dobie falls for an older nurse, and feigns a disease so he can be near her.The disease he feigns turns out to be highly contagious
36
Dobie's new date's father turns out to be a cop with whom he had a disagreement about picking flowers in the park.
37
A discouraged Dobie finally gives up on finding his dream girl and agrees to marry Zelda.
38
Dobie finds a girl who doesn't care about money, until her younger sister starts going on finance dates with a richer boy.
39
Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-mined father
2. Staffel 2 (36 Episoden)
01
Dwayne Hickman had recorded an album of weak teenage pop songs during the off-season
02
Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay "My Dog" in a newpaper Father's Day contest,but changes it to "My Dad". Dobie unexpectedly wins the newpapers contest-and becomes closer to his father as a result.
03
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
04
Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos! But Herbert needa a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.
05
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow hiw to prodict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon pressidential election
06
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
07
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
08
A rare glimpse of Maynard's home life. Most of this episode has to do with Dobie and Maynard helping a classmate not to drop out of school.
09
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race. This may be the episode where Dobie drives a Sunbeam Alpine or that episode might be "It Takes Two".
10
Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard, and feels guilty enough to have a Scrooge-like dream.
11
This episode is based on one of the stories from "I Was A Teenagers Dwarf", Max Shulman's second Dobie book. Dobie meets a pretty fatalistiically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf, and Dobie hates her bleak attitude "like poison" but she keeps coming around and Dobie can't understand why.
12
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
13
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
14
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject "Whither Are We Drifting?"
15
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
16
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
17
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
18
Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actualy a big exective.
19
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
20
It's Dobie's graduation, and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
21
Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.
22
The first of a dismal series of episode featuring Dobie and Maynard in the military. A very bad idea that was finally ababdoned near the end of this second season.
23
Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him. After they switch back, Maynard finds that thanks to Chatsworth, he has become eligible for Officer Candidate School.
24
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers, along with the opportunity for a double date.
25
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
26
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
27
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
28
Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend [played by Yonne Craig] is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.
29
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
30
Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costune, leads a girl to believe he is an army offical. The problem she is the daughter of a real army officer.
31
Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged. Features a nice turn by Jennifer West as Zelda's pre-teen sister Jenny.
32
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
33
Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
34
Dobie and Maynard, though still in the military, organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
35
Dobie, Maynard,and Zelda discuss alien possession, and thus believe that the store's next patron, a beautifull blonde, is secretly an alien.
36
Offended by what he sees a laxity in today's army, ex-sergeant Herbert Gillis puts his son's squad through some rugged training exercises before they graduate.
3. Staffel 3 (36 Episoden)
01
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
02
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
03
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine. Was the machine defective or is Maynard an "accident prune"?
04
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
05
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him. Maynard lets this go to his head and Dobie tries to snap him back to his old, simple self
06
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher, played by Jean Byron, making her first appearance as Dr. Burkhart.
07
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
08
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
09
Dobie finds he has to share hie new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.[Based loosely on one of Max Shulman's original short story from the first book.]
10
Dobie decides to follow the advice in one of Browning's poems.[A man's reach should exceed his grasp.] This not only costs him his new girl, but almost Zelda as well.
11
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
12
Dobie and girlfriend [played by Michelle Lee] have to babysit for a college football player's kids and ends up having to fill in for him during the game.
13
Dobie runs against Chatsworth for student council. Campaign manager Zelda wants to have Dobie sing like Chatsworth and his hired folk-singers, but Dobie wants to run on the issuse alone.
14
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
15
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responisble.
16
Mr. Gillis decides to sell the store.
17
Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
18
Maynard goes out with a female version of himself. Dobie thinks she should act more feminine. When she realizes it's fun to be feminine, Maynard gets scared away.
19
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda. But at Maynard's suggestion, she decides that Dobie must first show her a sign of passionate love, such as a serenade.
20
To impress a girl, Dobie invests more than he should in his economics class project. He buys stock in an egg company and ends up with a room full of eggs. Cheryl Holdridge gueast stars as Daphne Winsett. [Dwayne Hickman began dating Holdridge after this episode.]
21
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
22
Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart[Jean Byron] establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the little delinquents by talking to them on their own level.
23
Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then successful college dropout Thalia Menninger shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt to come work for her as salesmen.
24
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
25
In order to get good enough grades to follow his latest heartthrob to Harvard, Dobie must cheat on an exam to pass his poetry class.
26
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
27
Because Dwayne Hickman was sick, Dobie is only in the monologue. Maynard writes an article for the school newspaper about a primitive dance demonstration in his anthropology class, but takes his cue from tabloid writing and makes it sound like an orgy.
28
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose. Kristen Nelson, Ricky's wife, guest stars.
29
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
30
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
31
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
32
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
33
When Dobie tries to impress a girl who expects complete honesty; he, his dad, and Maynard get arrested for trying to reverse a "fixed" parking ticket.
34
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
35
Bully Butch Baumgartner, Dobie's old nemesis and now the army's heavyweight boxing champ, is coming home on the noon bus. The word is that he is coming back to knock Dobie's brains out. But he is so impressed by Dobie's courage in actually standing up to him that he ends up befriending Dobie.
36
Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss' daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.
4. Staffel 4 (36 Episoden)
01
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward. Dobie is hardly in this episode at all as Hickman was sick.
02
Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
03
Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits, and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
04
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals-who, it turns out, have made Maynard their chief.
05
Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises, and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
06
Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
07
Dobie's cousin Dunky and Maynard don't realize they're accidentally loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
08
Dobie pretends to be terminaly ill to gain a girl's sympathy. However, due to a mixup, Dobie is led to believe he's really in poor health.
09
An older woman [played by Yvonne Craig] teaches Dunky how to be rotten to succeed in the world so he'll be able to provide for her younger sister. But meanwhile the younger sister is falling for nice, honest Dobie.
10
Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
11
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
12
To avoid failing an upcoming test that will cause him to flunk out of school, Maynard drinks a potion that is supposed to turn him into a genius, but ends up transforming him into a monster.
13
To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve - but gets stuck.
14
Cousin Dunky gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
15
Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers, but gets competition from his visiting southern cousin, Virgil.
16
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
17
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillies in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
18
Dobie is the new DJ on the college radio station. A mobster tries to give him payola to make his country-singer girlfriend a star. But meanwhile Zelda has singing aspirations of her own with an album called "How To Drive Men Wild", produced by Maynard. Zelda's not half-bad as a singer. We also get a rare glimpse of Maynard playing guitar and singing.
19
Chatsworth pays Dobie to take his place at a fancy dinner with old friends of the family, whose daughter he remembers as being particularly ugly.
20
Dobie falls for brainy Russian ballerina and solicits Zelda's aid to improve his grades. When that fails, he ends up dancing outside her window.
21
Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention. This weak premise was typical of the show's decline for lack of enough Shulman scripts.
22
When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory. Meanwhile, Maynard is attracted to her elephant.
23
When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Dunky to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
24
The song-analyzing qualities of a computer are transfered to Maynard, and cousin Virgil uses his ability to predict hit songs to become a singing star.
25
A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
26
Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while. But what are the motives for the Gillis's generosity?
27
Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
28
Staying overnight at the Osbourne mansion with Dobie and his new girlfriend, Maynard is suspected of stealing jewelry from their safe when he is found sleepwalking.
29
A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
30
Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him. Maynard agrees to marry Zelda but her plan is to induce Dobie to come to Maynard's rescue and take his place.
31
Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr.Gillis becomes his prizefighting manager.
32
Maynard and the Gillises go to Washington D.C. and Maynard gets mistaken for a rocket scientist and sought by foreign spies for his secret fuel formula.
33
Maynard guides a fellow student to become a singing sensation, then ponders if he should step aside when a big-time agent wants to take her on. (The plot was farfetched, but it did have a touching story.)
34
Dobie falls in love with a girl at school, but family tradition prevents her from marrying until a match can be found for her older sister.
35
A chemical concoction makes Maynard, like, irresistible to women.
36
Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth (in a dream sequence) and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5000 charity raffle.
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