Seasons & episodes

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.

Dobie and Maynard train a mynah bird to help them with their history exam.

Maynard and Duncan accidentally lock Mr. Gillis in the meat freezer, and think they've killed him.

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.

To cure Maynard of his childish belief in Santa Claus, Mr. Gillis climbs down the chimney on Christmas Eve and gets stuck.

Duncan gets a role in a visiting production of William Tell and falls for a young opera star, unaware she has a jealous boyfriend.

Dobie falls for a kitchenware heiress and wants to impress her by selling one of the man's Quickie-Cookers.

Performing at Pryor College, the Lettermen hire Dobie as an emergency replacement singer.

A fugitive criminal and his girlfriend hold up the Gillises in the store. Maynard arrives and complicates the situation.

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.

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.

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.

Maynard and Herbert get struck in one of those finger toys just as Mr. Gillis is about to leave for a grocer's convention.

When a foreign student likes Dobie because he is simple-minded, Zelda decides to teach him how to improve his memory

When Chatsworth's family goes broke, he gets Maynard and Duncan to help him raise money claiming it is charity for a needy family.

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.

A test chimpanzee is doomed unless Maynard can show that he is more talented than he seems.

Thrown out by his mother, Chatsworth moves in with the Gillises for a while.

Maynard doubles for a Latin American general while on vacation.

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.

A teenage celebrity's dog is lost and Dobie tries to find it.

Zelda is tired of being rejected by Dobie, while Maynard realizes that no other woman would put up with him.

Maynard temporarily gains super-strength. Mr. Gillis becomes his prize fighting manager.

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.