The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Ruptured Duck
Oct 10, 1961
Dobie and Maynard get their honorable discharges from the army and decides to go to college.
Dobie, Dobie, Who's Got Dobie?
Oct 17, 1961
Zelda competes with a beautifull college girl for Dobie's affections.
Move Over, Perry Mason
Oct 24, 1961
Maynard sues after getting his hand struck in the store's gumball machine.
The Fast White Mouse
Oct 31, 1961 · 30 min
Dobie and Zelda worry they are genetically inferior and thus doomed to failure like the loser rat in their biology class experiments.
The Gigolo
Nov 7, 1961
Maynard becomes the most sought-after date because no girl's boyfriend would be jealous of him.
Dig, Dig, Dig
Nov 14, 1961
Dobie wants to study Egyptology, but Mr. Gillis thinks Dobie only has a crush on the teacher.
Eat, Drink and be Merry...For Tomorrow, Ker-Boom!
Nov 21, 1961
Maynard predicts the end of the world.
The Richest Squirrel in Town
Nov 28, 1961
A larcenous rodent is stealing from Mr. Pomfritt's desk, but Maynard and Dobie get blamed.
The Second Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Dec 5, 1961 · 30 min
Dobie finds he has to share his new date, a tender-hearted girl, with another boy on each date he takes her on.
This Town Ain't Big Enough for Me and Robert Browning
Dec 12, 1961 · 30 min
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.
Have Reindeer, Will Travel
Dec 19, 1961
Maynard gives the class's Christmas funds to a poor Mexican family.
Crazylegs Gillis
Dec 26, 1961
Dobie and his girlfriend have to babysit for a college football player's kids and he ends up having to fill in for him during the game.
I Do Not Choose to Run
Jan 9, 1962
Herbert is running for mayor and Dobie falls in love with his opponent's daughter.
Happiness Can't Buy Money
Jan 16, 1962
Chatsworth wants Mr. Gillis to teach him to be more responsible.
For Whom the Wedding Bells Tolls
Jan 30, 1962 · 30 min
Doibie and Maynard stow away on a boat headed for South America. Dobie wants to get away from Zelda, but she follows them.
Girls Will Be Boys
Feb 13, 1962
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.
Marriage Counselor
Feb 20, 1962
When Dobie's psychology class teaches him about the many benefits of marriage, he decides it's time to marry Zelda.
The Big Blunder and Egg Man
Feb 27, 1962
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.
Birth of a Salesman
Mar 6, 1962
When Dobie wants to join an exclusive fraternity, Mr. Gillis bribes members to accept him.
Like, Oh Brother
Mar 13, 1962
Dobie and Maynard help Dr. Burkhart establish a center for disadvantaged kids. Maynard wins over the little delinquents by talking to them at their own level.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Mar 20, 1962
Dobie tries to convince Maynard that he is not going to fall for any more money-mad girls, but then a successful college dropout shows up on campus and asks Dobie and Mr. Pomfritt
Names My Mother Called Me
Mar 27, 1962
When his latest girlfriend tells him to change his silly name, Dobie learns that he is named after a Noble Prize winner.
An American Strategy
Apr 3, 1962
Dobie gets a job at Lumpkin Lumber thanks to his girlfriend Gloria. When the boss's brash daughter takes a shine to him, Dobie sees a chance to climb the corporate ladder to succes
The Truth Session
Apr 10, 1962
Maynard decides to always speak the truth, upsetting all his friends in the process.
I Remember Muu Muu
Apr 17, 1962
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
Sweet Success of Smell
Apr 24, 1962
When their biology professor discovers that Maynard can track missing objects by their smell, Maynard becomes a Private Nose.
When Other Friendships Have Been Forgot
May 1, 1962
Maynard moves away and Dobie misses him greatly.
I Was a Boy Soronity Girl
May 8, 1962 · 30 min
Dobie and Maynard take jobs as waiters at a soronity house party.
It Takes A Heap o'Livin' to Make a Cave a Home
May 15, 1962
Maynard discovers a prehistoric throwback living in a cave and decides to move in with him
Back-to-Nature Boy
May 22, 1962
Chatsworth's cousin Edwina is tired of society life. She wants Maynard to show her how to live the simple life.
How to Cheat an Honest Man
May 29, 1962
When Dobie tries to impress a girl who expects complete honesty, he as well as his dad and Maynard get arrested for trying to reverse a fixed parking ticket.
Bachelor Father and Son
Jun 5, 1962
Winnie goes to visit her sister in Cleveland, leaving Herbert and Dobie to enjoy the bliss of bachelorhood for a week on their own.
Like Low Noon
Jun 12, 1962
Dobie's old nemesis Butch Baumgartner, now the army's heavyweight boxing champ, is coming home and the word is that he is coming to knock Dobie's brains out.
The Frat's in the Fire
Jun 26, 1962
Dobie gets a job at a lumber company and dates the boss's daughter, although he already has a girlfriend.