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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
36 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
Who Needs Elvis?
Tue, Sep 27, 196026 mins
Aiming high to win the affections of Esme Lauterbach (a 6'1"-tall beauty), Dobie allows Zelda to compose his entry in Mr. Pomfritt's music class contest. Dobie performs the song "I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter" from Dwayne Hickman's 1960 Capitol LP.
Episode 2
You Ain't Nuthin' But a Houn' Dog
Tue, Oct 4, 196026 mins
Dobie's essay wins the $25 first prize in the newspaper's contest on the theme "My Dad" for Father/Son week, which has the potential to change Dobie's relationship with his father, each who doesn't really understand the other. The problems with Dobie winning this prize are that Dobie has no idea about the essay submission since Maynard submitted it on his behalf solely so that he could win the prize money to woo the latest girl of his affections, southern belle Mason Dixon, and that the essay is word for a word an essay Dobie wrote about his dog for an English assignment with the word "dad" substituted for the word "dog", meaning that all Dobie's classmates know the truth about the essay. But it does lead to a new friendship between father toward son. Further problems arise for Dobie when Herbert now wants to spend time with Dobie doing all the things Dobie wrote about in the essay, time that Dobie was going to spend with Mason spending that $25.
Episode 3
Baby Talk
Tue, Oct 18, 196026 mins
Maynard discovers in the park one day both an abandoned baby and his paternal instinct. But keeping little, crying Katrina a secret proves to be a herculean task for Maynard, Dobie and Zelda, especially with a suspicious Chatsworth nosing around.
Episode 4
Dobie Goes Beatnik
Tue, Oct 25, 196026 mins
Herbert has been elected Grand Exalted Bull Bison of his lodge, the highest position available and one for which he's been aiming ever since he joined the lodge twelve years ago. His election requires the personal approval of the national Grand Exalted Bull Bison, Edward J. McCluskey, who is coming from Cleveland to check out Herbert and all the Gillises, and who will be staying overnight with them. What Herbert tells him is that his son, the upstanding Dobie, does community service by helping beatnik boys, such as Maynard, find their proper way in life. As soon as McCluskey arrives in town and before he and Dobie know who the other is, the two get into an accidental altercation, which would sully the Gillis name in McCluskey's eyes if he knew he was indeed a Gillis. Not wanting to ruin his chances at this his dream position, Herbert asks Dobie and Maynard to switch places, Maynard masquerading as Dobie and Dobie masquerading as Maynard, for McCluskey's benefit. Is there anything that will jeopardize them being able to pull off this scheme, and as such Herbert's position as Grand Exalted Bull Bison?
Episode 5
The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs
Tue, Nov 1, 196026 mins
Maynard G. Krebs somehow acquires the ability to predict the future. With the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election only one week away, Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. persuades Maynard to appear on his mother's television station, KASH, to tell the world which candidate will win the election. In the end, Dobie convinces Maynard not to appear because it could taint the election. Instead, Maynard writes down his prediction and seals it inside an envelope. In the episode's epilogue, Dobie opens the sealed envelope, presumably the day after the election, to reveal Maynard's prediction. After examining Maynard's election prediction, Dobie glares at him and states, "You picked the WRONG one!" I believe this episode was aired only the one time and was not part of the syndication package.
Episode 6
The Face That Stopped the Clock
Tue, Nov 15, 196026 mins
Dobie working at the grocery store to earn enough money to buy his father a nice birthday gift brings up Maynard's irrational fear of anything associated with work, even the mention of it. Dobie and Herbert feel they need to help Maynard get over this fear. As nothing else seems to have worked, they believe they have to throw Maynard into the deep end by helping him get an actual job. Answering a job ad, Maynard does end up getting a job as a salesman at an Army & Navy surplus. The store's latest problem, the one that they hired Maynard to focus on, is how to get rid of the overabundance of ugly Confucius statue clocks they have on hand. As they are not going to sell themselves, Dobie tries to give Maynard a secret helping hand by getting their friends to go into the store in disguise to buy several of the clocks. Unwittingly, this action not only has an effect on Herbert's birthday, but his Christmas and his pocketbook as well.
Episode 7
Maynard G. Krebs, Boy Millionaire
Tue, Nov 22, 196026 mins
While in the park with Dobie, Maynard stumbles across a ladies' purse containing $512. Usually the most honest person in the world, Maynard believes the money should be rightfully his. Dobie is able to convince him to turn the purse and its contents over to the police. The police tell him that the purse and money will be his if no one claims it within six months. It ends up being the longest six months in Maynard and the police officers' lives, as Maynard goes into the station every day within that six month period to check if the purse has been claimed. On the eve of Maynard getting the money, he decides to throw a lavish party for his friends who all know about the purse and money. The money for the party had been advanced by Herbert, who expects Maynard to be generous after the fact. The day of the party coincides with the release of Willy and Alfred, two cons who saw Maynard come into the police station every day, who know most of the story behind the purse, and who plan to swindle Maynard out of that $512.
Episode 8
Around My Room in 80 Days
Tue, Nov 29, 196026 mins
Mediocre student Dobie gets an unusual request from Mr. Pomfritt to help another student, Paul Merrick, but not in the traditional tutor type way. Paul was once an A student, but in the last few months has let his grades slip dramatically and is on the verge of dropping out since he has been hanging out with a couple of low life dropouts. Mr. Pomfritt, who believes Dobie has a good heart and thus inspires others, wants him to try to convince Paul to get his act together. Apparently Paul is poor, orphaned and has no real guidance, he who feels that the life of a dropout is his destiny. This view is supported by Paul's life as Dobie and Maynard clandestinely see where and how Paul lives. As the standard approach to get through to Paul doesn't seem to work, Dobie believes that their classmate, the pretty and rich Linda Mayhew, who has basically known and liked Paul all her life, could be the answer. But getting Linda to help may not be as easy as just asking her, as she may not be able to get over the huge chip Paul has on his shoulders, and Paul may not want to get rid of that chip for someone with who he may have no chance of a future, like a rich girl. But Mr. Pomfritt's class assignment to describe one's room may ultimately but unwittingly provide the catalyst for change.
Episode 9
Drag Strip Dobie
Tue, Dec 6, 196026 mins
While Dobie and Maynard crash on their tandem bicycle, they meet Charlotte Lamarr, a girl crazy about speed. Despite Dobie trying to play up how fast they were going when they crashed, their cycling adventure can't compete with Chatsworth's sport car for speed. The only way Dobie can compete with Chatsworth for Charlotte's affections is to get a hot rod of his own. The first step is to get the $25 membership fee to join the Downshifters, a group of hot rod enthusiasts working under the supervision of an adult, Mr. Sullivan. The second step is to learn how to build a hot rod of his own with Maynard's help using whatever spare parts they can scrounge. The problems are the money, which he has to get from this father, and lacking the mechanical ingenuity, which they believe they know in the form of one, Zelda Gilroy. Convincing both Herbert and Zelda are no easy tasks. Even if they get this far, they have to beat Chatsworth in the upcoming sanctioned hot rod design and construction contest and race, which Chatsworth has won the last three years. Through it all, Dobie has to hide the fact from Zelda that he is doing it all for Charlotte.
Episode 10
Jangle Bells
Tue, Dec 20, 196026 mins
Using the analogy of "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life" where the spirits taught Scrooge to change to be more socially acceptable, Mr. Pomfritt, acting as his spirit, convinces Maynard that he can be one of the regular folks instead of his social outcast self by throwing a Christmas Eve party. That party causes a conundrum for Dobie, who, on Zelda's advice, believes he needs to attend Chatsworth's swanky Christmas Eve party if only to be able to move up in the world socially and thus economically. Dobie can't figure out what to do, and no one in his conscious world seems to be able to convince him one way or another. But in his subconscious, Dobie is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future, who both look remarkably like Maynard. The question becomes whether these ghosts can convince Dobie's conscious self that Maynard's friendship is more important than moving up in the world.
Episode 11
Parlez-Vous English?
Tue, Dec 27, 196026 mins
Hungry for culture and sophistication, Mrs. Gillis befriends a French modern artist and encourages Dobie to date his existentialist poet daughter, but Yvette has her eyes set on the elder Mr. Gillis. The episode is highlighted by Danielle De Metz's inspired performance as Yvette.
Episode 12
The Day the Teachers Disappeared
Tue, Jan 3, 196126 mins
Despite liking teaching and despite his next job not being any better, Mr. Pomfritt has decided to quit as teaching just does not pay enough to support his family. The teachers are meeting with the School Board to discuss a pay raise, but the School Board has not approved a pay raise for as long as anyone can remember. But that meeting ends up being postponed solely because all the teachers, except for Mr. Pomfritt, have come down with the flu, and can't attend the meeting. In addition, Mr. Pomfritt suggests closing down the school until the flu bug passes as none of the teachers can work. The implication is that the teachers are the type of people who are susceptible to catching the flu: overworked and malnourished. Regardless, Winnie suggests that the parents take over the classes until the teachers are well enough to teach again. Having to deal with the likes of Dobie and Maynard and Chatsworth at school may give the parents a different perspective of what the teachers go through on a day-to-day basis.
Episode 13
What's My Lion?
Tue, Jan 10, 196126 mins
Maynard thinks nothing of the lion he sees roaming around the park. It isn't until everyone else sees the lion that Maynard becomes a hero for capturing and thus returning the lion, which had escaped from the zoo. The lion was a sacred gift to the United States from Prince Dumiphon of Imbodia. Maynard becomes the toast of the US and Imbobia diplomatic corps, with the Grand Wazir of Imbodia making the official thank you to Maynard on behalf of the Prince, who is busy on other business while in the US. The disappearance of the lion threatened the oil treaty the Prince is planning to sign with the US. Despite the accolades showered upon him and the Wazir's speech, Maynard later can't stand to see the lion caged and decides to steal and keep the lion until he can speak to the Prince about the situation, in hopes of returning the lion directly to him. Beyond the diplomatic row the lion's disappearance causes, Maynard has problems finding a place to hide the lion. The answer to all Maynard's problems may come unwittingly from the Imp, the guest bongo player at a local coffee house.
Episode 14
The Big Question
Tue, Jan 24, 196126 mins
As one final assignment before the senior class graduation, Mr. Pomfritt asks his English class to write an essay on the theme, "Whither are we drifting". In asking the question, Mr. Pomfritt not only wants to know what his students want to be when they "grow up", but what they see happening in their future, immediate or otherwise. This assignment hits Dobie hard as although he has thought about such a question before, he has never been able to to come up with an answer, which seems to be more important now on this immediate milestone of graduation. He and Maynard discuss the topic to no end, Maynard who uses jokes to hide the fact that he too is scared of not knowing what his future holds. Dobie, in turn, jokes that his and Maynard's future may be another year of high school if they can't complete the assignment. So will Dobie be able to figure out an answer to Mr. Pomfritt's satisfaction?
Episode 15
Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
Tue, Jan 31, 196126 mins
Dobie is studying about marriage since he doesn't see his parents' marriage as being a model to follow. Most evenings, Winnie stays at home doing her chores without complaining, while Herbert is often at the Bison Lodge with his buddies. To Dobie, this behavior means they are incompatible. Dobie's mother agrees that she is being neglected, while Herbert wants to spend even more time at the lodge, he once again in the running to become Grand Exalted Big Bull Bison. After thinking about it, Herbert, deep down, knows that he has not been the best husband, despite he loving Winnie, and Winnie loving him. He isn't sure if he can make it up to her. Dobie, the academic expert, tries to help his father win back his mother's heart.
Episode 16
The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard
Tue, Feb 7, 196126 mins
Dobie has recently realized that Maynard is holding him back from many opportunities in life, but refuses to give up their friendship for those opportunities. Maynard, on the other hand, is oblivious to him being an obstacle to Dobie's upward mobility, that is until he secretly hears Dobie talk to others about those missed opportunities because of him. As such, Maynard encourages Dobie to drop him as a friend. As Dobie won't, Maynard goes on a campaign to drop Dobie as his friend, that campaign which works. As a result, Dobie is able to take advantage of those opportunities, at the unknown expense of Maynard's happiness as he is secretly devastated at losing Dobie as a friend. Is there any way to bring the two back together?
Episode 17
Zelda, Get Off My Back
Tue, Feb 14, 196126 mins
Dobie admits that Zelda is a very kind, friendly and generous person, except to him where her possessive behavior toward him is anything but kind, friendly or generous. Dobie just wants to get her off his back. Dobie believes his prayers have been answered when Chatsworth starts to wine and dine Zelda, since he needs to pick up his grades, with which Zelda could help him, or else he may not be accepted into Yale, where the Osbornes have attended for generations. With this new arrangement, Zelda gets the attention of a man, while Dobie can pursue the girls he really wants, such as delicate southern belle Jessica Zeffelhorse, or conceited Monica Klaus. The question then becomes if either Dobie or Zelda are truly happy in their new arrangement.
Episode 18
I Was a High School Scrooge
Tue, Feb 21, 196126 mins
Central High's yearbook editor Zelda assigns Dobie and Maynard to write a "where are they now" feature on the school's former star football player and 1911 graduate Walter "show 'em no mercy" Appleby, whom the boys discover has seemingly fallen on hard times.
Episode 19
Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?
Tue, Feb 28, 196126 mins
Mrs. Gillis writes the winning entry in a contest and Dobie eagerly anticipates the prize: a date with glamorous movie starlet Merilee Maribou. Seeing the date as a stepping stone to success, Dobie performs "Don't Shoot The Man on the Moon" from Dwayne Hickman's 1960 Capitol LP, "Dobie."
Episode 20
The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis
Tue, Mar 7, 196126 mins
Herbert doesn't seem to think that Dobie's upcoming graduation from high school is a big deal. And he doesn't like the idea that the school's yearbook committee wants to publish the parents' old high school graduation photos alongside their graduating son/daughter. The reason for both, which he confesses to Winnie, is that he never graduated, personal and world circumstances preventing that from ever happening. Winnie convinces him to attend night school so that he can finally graduate. When he learns that his night school History teacher, Mr. Milfloss, teaches regular high school, Herbert decides to use a pseudonym in class just in case Mr. Milfloss knows Dobie, who he doesn't want to know about either him going to night school or never having graduated. He figures he can let administration know his real name when all is said and done. Indeed, Mr. Milfloss is Dobie's History teacher, who is teaching his night school class the same curriculum as his regular high school class, meaning that Dobie is going through the exact same material at exactly the same time as Herbert. In the guise of helping Dobie with his homework, Herbert is really copying Dobie's essays, turning them in as his own. The problem then becomes that Mr. Milfloss receives two identical homework assignments, he who needs to find out who the plagiarist is, which means that either Herbert and/or Dobie may not graduate.
Episode 21
Dobie Versus the Machine
Tue, Mar 14, 196126 mins
Although they have long dreamed of the day, Dobie, and by association Maynard since he does whatever his good buddy does, have no idea what to do with their lives following their high school graduation. Dobie looks for advice from older and seemingly wiser people, who have already experienced what he is going through. Herbert has some advice, Maynard's beatnik friend Riff has some advice, but it is Mr. Pomfritt's advice they take at least for the next step: to have a psychometric test done to see what their aptitude, actual skills and their desires are. The psychometricians they visit carry out the necessary tests, which are coded and the answers placed into a computer which in turn spits out the name of their perfect jobs. Out of that process leads Dobie and Maynard into the next phase of their lives, but not in the way Dobie had initially envisioned when he went into the process.
Episode 22
Baby Shoes
Tue, Mar 21, 196126 mins
Dobie receives a friendly letter from his Uncle Sam: "Greetings. Your enlistment in the United States Army has been processed." As the Gillises prepare to send their boy into the service, Dobie's baby shoes spark a flashback to the 1940s when Mr. and Mrs. Gillis were eagerly expecting their baby.
Episode 23
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, Sailor or Marine
Tue, Mar 28, 196126 mins
Dobie and Maynard are in the marshaling area to be taken to the army induction center. However, Maynard goes AWOL before even getting to the center for an innocent enough reason. Not wanting Maynard eventually to get court martialed for this desertion, Dobie is able to rope Chatsworth, who is standing nearby with Herbert and Zelda seeing the boys off, into being a substitute Maynard in the eyes of gruff Sergeant Floyd W. Ronk. On the bus and at the center, Dobie has to keep Chatsworth continuing with the ruse. Herbert and Zelda have to retrieve Maynard and get him to the center. And they all have to switch Maynard and Chatsworth without Sgt. Ronk either noticing the switch or that the new, real Maynard looks and behaves nothing like the Maynard he first set his eyes on in the marshaling area.
Episode 24
The Chicken Corporal
Tue, Apr 4, 196126 mins
Dobie is doing well in the army - being near the top of his class - although there is one thing he does not like about the experience, namely lack of girls. The one girl he does encounter he does like and want to date, Betsy, the waitress at the mess hall. She, in turn, turns down Dobie's Saturday night date invitation flatly, that is unless Dobie can find someone as Susie's date in a double date situation, Susie being Betsy's unattractive but friendly roommate. The only person Dobie can think of that he could manipulate into being that fourth is Maynard. To Dobie's surprise, Maynard actually does want to date Susie. The problem ends up being Maynard being able to get a personal leave for Saturday night, as Maynard is currently bottom of the class and flunking. If he doesn't raise his standards by Saturday, Maynard will not get permission for a leave. Dobie comes up with a few plans, using his own high standing among the company, to raise Maynard's standing artificially, those schemes which have an unintended result.
Episode 25
The Solid Gold Dog Tag
Tue, Apr 11, 196126 mins
On leave, Dobie heads back to Central City to find that his uniform is a girl magnet, stronger than the magnet that is Chatsworth's money and breeding. Feeling like he has been coddled all his life, another major turn-off to girls, Chatsworth decides to become a man by fleeing the nest called Osborne Manor and enlisting in the army in the same platoon along with Dobie and Maynard. In part because Chatsworth's behavior affects their own standing within their platoon, Dobie and Maynard do whatever they can to make Chatsworth fit in with the other men by being a regular guy, and not the snobbish, pompous being that Chatsworth has been all his life and which he has had generations of such tradition inbred into him. Chatsworth's climb is made even steeper with the interference of Mrs. Osborne, who doesn't believe Chatsworth can survive without her.
Episode 26
The Battle of Maynard's Beard
Tue, Apr 18, 196126 mins
The recruiting officer back home stated that Maynard could keep his beard in the army as long as it didn't interfere with his duties, which doesn't sit well with one of Maynard's sergeants, Wyncoup. When the beard does interfere with his duties, Maynard is ordered to shave. Maynard would rather desert than shave off his trademark beard. In dealing with Maynard's plight, Dobie believes he can kill two birds with one stone. Dobie is attracted to their soldier's rights teacher, Lt. Portia Potter, with who he is not allowed to fraternize since she is an officer and he an enlisted man. However, in the lieutenant relaying a story upon a question from Maynard about his beard, Dobie believes he can defend Maynard in a court martial, and win or lose - if the latter which would probably result in a light sentence to Maynard - Dobie would be sent to Officer's Candidate School for his initiative, and thus be able to date Lt. Potter. As such, Dobie does whatever he can to keep Maynard incarcerated, rather than let Maynard accept the negotiated settlements offered by the highers-up. As Dobie places Maynard's life in his own hands, the case ends up becoming more to Dobie than just wanting to be with Portia, despite he realizing that Maynard could be in real trouble, especially as an officer from the Judge Advocate General's office is coming for the court martial. Dobie gets some unexpected help in dealing with the matter.
Episode 27
Spaceville
Tue, Apr 25, 196126 mins
Dobie, Maynard and Corporal Kilroy (a chimpanzee) are selected to participate in Operation Moonshot, which experiment requires them to spend 30 days in a simulated space capsule. Will Maynard and Kilroy's antics bring them from the frying pan to the launching pad?
Episode 28
Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow
Tue, May 2, 196126 mins
Beautiful party girl Hazel Grimes thinks Dobie is a bit of a bore, that is until she finds out who he is. That's because she is the daughter of Helen "Bubbles" Grimes née Corrigan, the two who have just moved back to Central City where Bubbles lived twenty years ago. Hazel is a chip off the old block as Bubbles was a good time party girl who Herbert had his eyes on - and perhaps more - in high school, and visa versa. Winnie doesn't like what Hazel represents, more in terms of her own marriage to Herbert than how it will affect Dobie. Winnie arrived into Herbert's life after Bubbles left town, and based on stories she's heard, she believes that Herbert and Bubbles would have gotten married if Bubbles didn't leave town twenty years ago. The truth behind Herbert and Bubble's relationship and the strength or weakness of the Gillis' marriage is brought to the surface when Bubbles does end up searching for "Herbie", her high school party boy.
Episode 29
Dobie Plays Cupid
Tue, May 9, 196126 mins
Dobie and Maynard are home on a furlough. At a party at the newly opened serviceman's recreation center, Dobie notices that Maynard's awkwardness around girls is almost debilitating. At the party, Dobie tries to get Maynard to speak to a pretty girl named Angela Crittenden, who is turned off by Maynard's unusual appearance. Maynard, in turn, can't even converse with her. So Dobie and Dobie's parents, in an effort to increase Maynard's confidence, pay off Angela and Jenny respectively to pretend to be attracted to Maynard because of his beard and nervous twitch. It seems to do the trick. But the real test is whether Maynard will use that new found confidence in a real life situation, such as another party at the serviceman's recreation center.
Episode 30
Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble
Tue, May 16, 196126 mins
Dobie and Maynard land the lead roles playing officers in Lt. Merriwether's play. Following a rehearsal and still dressed as his character Major Gates, Dobie meets and woos with war stories a beautiful young lady who's father happens to be the base's gruff new colonel. Will it be Herbie "Snow Job" Gillis to the rescue or 20 years in the brig for impersonating an officer?
Episode 31
Be It Ever So Humble
Tue, May 23, 196126 mins
After watching a sentimental war movie, Maynard is stricken with acute homesickness and secures a pass home. Dobie fears his buddy has gone AWOL and returns home to bring him back, securing his own pass home by claiming that his father is deathly ill.
Episode 32
Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes
Tue, May 30, 196126 mins
Dobie is on first sight attracted to Private Marcia Turner, Lt. Merriwether's secretary. She, despite her beauty, sees herself first and last as a soldier, she coming from generations of family members in the military. She believes her gender has prevented her from progressing further in a military career by this stage in her life. She also believes a uniform does not make a soldier, but rather a tradition and thus a mentality of military service does. To impress her, Dobie tells her that his father was a decorated military man in WWII. At the time he tells her, he is unaware that the following weekend is Father and Son Day at Camp Grace, where she expects to meet the bedecked war hero, Herbert T. Gillis, especially as Lt. Merriwether has demanded a 100 percent turnout. Dobie is able to convince Lt. Merriwether and Marcia that his father went MIA during WWII. Dobie just has to keep patriotic Herbert remaining MIA for Father and Son Day while playing up his war heroics.
Episode 33
Everything But the Truth
Tue, Jun 6, 196126 mins
Zelda tells the snooty Rochelle that she and Dobie are secretly engaged, weaving a web of deception that threatens to ensnare her at the big society party. This time the spotlight shines on Sheila James in what appears to be a set up for a spin-off.
Episode 34
Goodbye, Mr. Pomfritt, Hello, Mr. Chips
Tue, Jun 13, 196126 mins
Dobie and Maynard's visit back to Central High coincides with the announcement by their old English teacher, Mr. Pomfritt, that he plans on leaving the teaching profession at the end of the week due to it not providing a comfortable enough living for him and his family. This news shakes Dobie and Maynard, who remember him helping them through more than a few messes while they were students. To convince Mr. Pomfritt to stay in the teaching profession, Dobie thinks that bringing successful alumni back to the school for a testimonial party will show him how invaluable he is. An error in mailing the invitations ends up making the testimonial not quite Dobie was hoping, but important news may have a way of spreading.
Episode 35
Take Me to Your Leader
Tue, Jun 20, 196126 mins
On a dark and stormy night, Dobie and Maynard are on guard duty, where every little proverbial bump in the night makes them jumpy, which gets them into an issue with their sergeant. They tell the sergeant a story of why. On a similarly dark and stormy night, Dobie, Maynard and Zelda were minding the store to give Dobie's parents a night off to go to the movies. Being a dark and stormy night, no one was out shopping, leaving the three alone in the store to discuss Maynard's favorite movie "The Monster that Devoured Cleveland" which in turn led to a discussion about aliens. Unlike the movie, Zelda figured that if aliens ever were to invade Earth, they would look exactly like humans to blend in. These aliens would be able to do so by taking over human bodies. A series of incidents made Dobie and Maynard believe that aliens had indeed invaded Earth, most specifically invaded Gillis' store and their town in the form of humans, some they knew, some who were total strangers. As such, Dobie and Maynard did whatever they could to detain these aliens for their own protection.
Episode 36
This Ain't the Way We Used to Do It
Tue, Jun 27, 196126 mins
Dobie and Maynard are one week away from graduating from basic training, their young, upbeat commanding officer, Lieutenant Spunky Meriwether, who will give everyone in the company a leave if they perform well in their finals. He also wants them to invite their respective families to attend the final examination maneuvers to show in practical terms what they have learned to their loved ones. Herbert, in particular, is eager to see how the army has turned Dobie into a strong, tough, confident man, much like being a sergeant during WWII did for Herbert himself. But Herbert is dismayed to see that Dobie's basic training has been more like a country club than boot camp. Herbert believes that he still has time to train Dobie's company into the tough, confident group he was expecting. But Herbert's actions may end up kiboshing the pass Meriwether was going to give to the group.