Episode 1
Who Needs Elvis?
1960-09-27
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
TV season
1960-09-27
Episode 1
1960-09-27
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
Episode 2
1960-10-04
Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
Episode 3
1960-10-18
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
Episode 4
1960-10-25
Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.
Episode 5
1960-11-01
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
Episode 6
1960-11-15
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
Episode 7
1960-11-22
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
Episode 8
1960-11-29
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
Episode 9
1960-12-06
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
Episode 10
1960-12-20
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.
Episode 11
1960-12-27
Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.
Episode 12
1961-01-03 • 30 min
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
Episode 13
1961-01-10
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
Episode 14
1961-01-24
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
Episode 15
1961-01-31
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
Episode 16
1961-02-07
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
Episode 17
1961-02-14
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
Episode 18
1961-02-21 • 30 min
Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
Episode 19
1961-02-28
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
Episode 20
1961-03-07
It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
Episode 21
1961-03-14
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.
Episode 22
1961-03-21
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
Episode 23
1961-03-28
Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
Episode 24
1961-04-04
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.
Episode 25
1961-04-11
Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.
Episode 26
1961-04-18
The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.
Episode 27
1961-04-25 • 30 min
Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.
Episode 28
1961-05-02
Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.
Episode 29
1961-05-09
Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.
Episode 30
1961-05-16
Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.
Episode 31
1961-05-23
Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.
Episode 32
1961-05-30
Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.
Episode 33
1961-06-06
Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.
Episode 34
1961-06-13
Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.
Episode 35
1961-06-20
Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.
Episode 36
1961-06-27
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.