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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Season 1 Episode 22: Love Is a Fallacy

Thalia attempts to teach Dobie the art of thinking, Maynard thumps out a jazz beat to "cogito ergo sum" on his school desk and new girl Whitney threatens to shake up the status quo.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Caper at the Bijou

1. Caper at the Bijou

Aired: Sep 29, 1959

Dobie is desperate for money so he can take Thalia to the dance, so he and Ma...

Episode 2 The Best Dressed Man

2. The Best Dressed Man

Aired: Oct 6, 1959

Dobie launches a runway offensive versus wealthy, better-dressed hunk Milton ...

Episode 3 Love Is a Science

3. Love Is a Science

Aired: Oct 13, 1959

Dobie forsakes poetry and sets to studying science so he can become a wealthy...

Episode 4 The Right Triangle

4. The Right Triangle

Aired: Oct 20, 1959

Brother Davey, home from college, gives Dobie some bad relationship advice.

Episode 8 The Old Goat

8. The Old Goat

Aired: Nov 23, 1959

With the big football game coming up and Central High doomed to lose, Dobie, ...

Episode 10 It Takes Two

10. It Takes Two

Aired: Dec 7, 1959

Dobie falls for Poppy Herming but his father must also win her approval

Episode 12 Deck the Halls

12. Deck the Halls

Aired: Dec 21, 1959

Herbert T. Gillis finds himself in jail on Christmas Eve after being stripped...

Episode 13 Couchville, USA

13. Couchville, USA

Aired: Dec 28, 1959

All Dobie wants is six dollars so he can take Thalia to the junior prom, but ...

Episode 14 The Gaucho

14. The Gaucho

Aired: Jan 4, 1960

Carlos, the suave son of an Argentinian general, boards with the Gillis famil...

Episode 16 The Fist Fighter

16. The Fist Fighter

Aired: Jan 18, 1960

Thalia will give her love only to an athlete, so Dobie schemes to set himself...

Episode 17 The Hunger Strike

17. The Hunger Strike

Aired: Jan 25, 1960

Inspired by a poem and the prospect of winning Thalia's heart, Dobie embarks ...

Episode 18 The Flying Millicans

18. The Flying Millicans

Aired: Feb 1, 1960

Dobie falls in love with the beautiful and brainy Aphrodite, whose robust fam...

Episode 19 Room at the Bottom

19. Room at the Bottom

Aired: Feb 8, 1960

Thalia wants Dobie to go to Willoughby Hall, an exclusive eastern school, and...

Episode 22 Love Is a Fallacy

22. Love Is a Fallacy

Aired: Feb 29, 1960

Thalia attempts to teach Dobie the art of thinking, Maynard thumps out a jazz...

Episode 24 Dobie's Navy Blues

24. Dobie's Navy Blues

Aired: Mar 14, 1960

Dobie lies about joining the navy to impress a girl's sea-minded father.

Episode 26 That's Show Biz

26. That's Show Biz

Aired: Apr 4, 1960

Mr and Mrs. Gillis are persuaded to help with the Central High Student-Parent...

Episode 29 The Big Sandwich

29. The Big Sandwich

Aired: Apr 26, 1960

Thalia hatches a scheme for Dobie to sell sandwiches at the school picnic.

Episode 30 Soup and Fish

30. Soup and Fish

Aired: May 3, 1960

Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. agrees to assist the under-dressed Dobie and Maynard ...

Episode 31 Where There's a Will

31. Where There's a Will

Aired: May 10, 1960

Mr. Gillis dreads signing his will and suffers a nightmare of what his wife a...

Episode 38 A Taste for Lobster

38. A Taste for Lobster

Aired: Jun 28, 1960

Dobie meets Gwyneth, a simple girl who despises money, until her kid sister b...

Episode 39 Rock-A-Bye Dobie

39. Rock-A-Bye Dobie

Aired: Jul 5, 1960

Dobie and a girlfriend take a baby-sitting job, but the Gillises suspect Dobi...

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Info about The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Seasons: 4

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Comedy, Family

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