Episode 1
A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to a Funny Thing
1962-09-26
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
TV season
1962-09-26
Episode 1
1962-09-26
Maynard saves a suicidal jumper but falls from the ledge himself and is taken to a psycho ward.
Episode 2
1962-10-03
Dobie names Thaila as his beneficiary on a life insurance policy, then becomes paranoid that she and Maynard are trying to kill him.
Episode 3
1962-10-10
Mrs. Gillis's cousin Virgil visits and gets the Gillises to supply him with all he needs for a singing engagement.
Episode 4
1962-10-17
On a class trip to an African jungle, Dobie is captured by a tribe of cannibals.
Episode 5
1962-10-24 • 30 min
Dobie's teenage cousin Duncan moves in with the Gillises and tells Dobie's girlfriend that Dobie needs help for a drinking problem.
Episode 6
1962-10-31
Dobie joins the football squad to impress a girl, but only succeeds in making her big bruiser boyfriend jealous.
Episode 7
1962-11-07
Duncan and Maynard don't realize they loaded up the Gillis Grocery delivery truck with a case of nitroglycerin.
Episode 8
1962-11-14
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.
Episode 9
1962-11-21
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.
Episode 10
1962-11-28
Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.
Episode 11
1962-12-05
Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.
Episode 12
1962-12-12
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.
Episode 13
1962-12-19
To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.
Episode 14
1963-01-02
Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.
Episode 15
1963-01-09
Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.
Episode 16
1963-01-16
Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.
Episode 17
1963-01-23
A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.
Episode 18
1963-01-30
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.
Episode 19
1963-02-06
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.
Episode 20
1963-02-13 • 30 min
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.
Episode 21
1963-02-20
Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.
Episode 22
1963-02-27 • 30 min
When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory
Episode 23
1963-03-06
When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.
Episode 24
1963-03-13
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.
Episode 25
1963-03-20
A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.
Episode 26
1963-03-27
Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.
Episode 27
1963-04-03 • 30 min
Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.
Episode 28
1963-04-10
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.
Episode 29
1963-04-17
A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.
Episode 30
1963-04-24
Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.
Episode 31
1963-05-01
Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.
Episode 32
1963-05-08
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.
Episode 33
1963-05-15
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.
Episode 34
1963-05-22
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.
Episode 35
1963-05-29
A chemical concoction makes Maynard irresistible to women.
Episode 36
1963-06-05 • 30 min
Desperate for date money, Dobie figuratively sells his soul to Chatsworth and agrees to fix the outcome of a $5,000 charity raffle.