Season 4

episodes

E1
1.A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
Sep 26, 1962

Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.

E2
2.What's a Little Murder Between Friends
Oct 3, 1962

Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.

E3
3.Northern Comfort
Oct 10, 1962

Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.

E4
4.The Ugliest American
Oct 17, 1962

On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.

E5
5.A Splinter Off the Old Block
Oct 24, 196230m

Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.

E6
6.What Makes the Varsity Drag?
Oct 31, 1962

Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.

E7
7.Like Hi, Exlosives
Nov 7, 1962

Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.

E8
8.Where is Thy Sting
Nov 14, 1962

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.

E9
9.Flow Gently, Sweet Money
Nov 21, 1962

An older woman teaches Duncan 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.

E10
10.Strictly for the Birds
Nov 28, 1962

Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.

E11
11.The Iceman Goeth
Dec 5, 1962

Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.

E12
12.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gillis
Dec 12, 1962

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.

E13
13.Will the Real Santa Claus Please Come Down the Chimney
Dec 19, 1962

To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.

E14
14.Who Did William Tell?
Jan 2, 1963

Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.

E15
15.Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth
Jan 9, 1963

Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.

E16
16.Vocal Boy Makes Good
Jan 16, 1963

Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.

E17
17.All Right, Dobie, Drop the Gun
Jan 23, 1963

A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.

E18
18.And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
Jan 30, 1963

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.

E19
19.Two for the Whipsaw
Feb 6, 1963

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.

E20
20.The Moon and No Pence
Feb 13, 196330m

Dobie falls for brainy a Russian ballerina and solicits Zelda's aid to improve his grades. When that fails, he ends up dancing outside her window.

E21
21.The Beast with Twenty Fingers
Feb 20, 1963

Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.

E22
22.Thanks for the Memory
Feb 27, 196330m

When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

E23
23.Three Million Coins in the Fountain
Mar 6, 1963

When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.

E24
24.Beethoven, Presley, and Me
Mar 13, 1963

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.

E25
25.The Little Chimp That Couldn't
Mar 20, 1963

A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.

E26
26.There's Always Room for One Less
Mar 27, 1963

Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.

E27
27.The General Cried at Dawn
Apr 3, 196330m

Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.

E28
28.Now I Lay Me Down to Steal
Apr 10, 1963

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.

E29
29.Lassie, Get Lost
Apr 17, 1963

A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.

E30
30.The Rice and Old Shoes Caper
Apr 24, 1963

Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.

E31
31.Requiem for an Underweight Heavyweight
May 1, 1963

Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.

E32
32.I Was a Spy for the F.O.B.
May 8, 1963

On a trip to Washington DC with the Gillises, Maynard gets mistaken for a rocket scientist and sought by foreign spies for his secret fuel formula.

E33
33.There's a Broken Light for Every Broken Heart on Broadway
May 15, 1963

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.

E34
34.Beauty Is Only Kin Deep
May 22, 1963

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.

E35
35.The Call of the, Like, Wild
May 29, 1963

A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.

E36
36.The Devil and Dobie Gillis
Jun 5, 196330m

Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.