Season 2

Episodes • 1960

Dwayne Hickman
Bob Denver
Frank Faylen
Florida Friebus
Sheila James Kuehl
Who Needs Elvis?

1. Who Needs Elvis?

min

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

Watch Episode
You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

2. You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

min

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

Watch Episode
Baby Talk

3. Baby Talk

min

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Watch Episode
Dobie Goes Beatnik

4. Dobie Goes Beatnik

min

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.

Watch Episode
The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

5. The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

min

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

Watch Episode
The Face That Stopped the Clock

6. The Face That Stopped the Clock

min

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

Watch Episode
Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

7. Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

min

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

Watch Episode
Around My Room in 80 Days

8. Around My Room in 80 Days

min

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

Watch Episode
Drag Strip Dobie

9. Drag Strip Dobie

min

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

Watch Episode
Jangle Bells

10. Jangle Bells

min

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.

Watch Episode
Parlez-Vous English

11. Parlez-Vous English

min

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.

Watch Episode
The Day the Teachers Disappeared

12. The Day the Teachers Disappeared

30 min

All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

Watch Episode
What's My Lion?

13. What's My Lion?

min

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

Watch Episode
The Big Question

14. The Big Question

min

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

Watch Episode
Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

15. Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

min

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

Watch Episode
The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

16. The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

min

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

Watch Episode
Zelda, Get Off My Back

17. Zelda, Get Off My Back

min

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

Watch Episode
I Was a High School Scrooge

18. I Was a High School Scrooge

30 min

Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

Watch Episode
Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

19. Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

min

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

Watch Episode
The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

20. The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

min

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

Watch Episode
Dobie Versus the Machine

21. Dobie Versus the Machine

min

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.

Watch Episode
Baby Shoes

22. Baby Shoes

min

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

Watch Episode
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

23. I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

min

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

Watch Episode
The Chicken Corporal

24. The Chicken Corporal

min

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

Watch Episode
The Solid Gold Dog Tag

25. The Solid Gold Dog Tag

min

Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

Watch Episode
The Battle of Maynard's Beard

26. The Battle of Maynard's Beard

min

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

Watch Episode
Spaceville

27. Spaceville

30 min

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

Watch Episode
Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

28. Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

min

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.

Watch Episode
Dobie Plays Cupid

29. Dobie Plays Cupid

min

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

Watch Episode
Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

30. Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

min

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.

Watch Episode
Be It Ever So Humble

31. Be It Ever So Humble

min

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

Watch Episode
Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

32. Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

min

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

Watch Episode
Everything But the Truth

33. Everything But the Truth

min

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

Watch Episode
Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

34. Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

min

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

Watch Episode
Take Me to Your Leader

35. Take Me to Your Leader

min

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

Watch Episode
This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

36. This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

min

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.

Watch Episode