Seasons & episodes
S2 · E1Who Needs Elvis? 1960-09-27
Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.
S2 · E2You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog 1960-10-04
Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.
S2 · E3Baby Talk 1960-10-18
Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.
S2 · E4Dobie Goes Beatnik 1960-10-25
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.
S2 · E5The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs 1960-11-01
Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.
S2 · E6The Face That Stopped the Clock 1960-11-15
Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.
S2 · E7Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire 1960-11-22
Maynard finds a purse full of cash.
S2 · E8Around My Room in 80 Days 1960-11-29
Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.
S2 · E9Drag Strip Dobie 1960-12-06
Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.
S2 · E10Jangle Bells 1960-12-20
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.
S2 · E11Parlez-Vous English 1960-12-27
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.
S2 · E12The Day the Teachers Disappeared 1961-01-03 · 30 min
All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.
S2 · E13What's My Lion? 1961-01-10
A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.
S2 · E14The Big Question 1961-01-24
In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?
S2 · E15Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife? 1961-01-31
Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.
S2 · E16The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard 1961-02-07
Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.
S2 · E17Zelda, Get Off My Back 1961-02-14
Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.
S2 · E18I Was a High School Scrooge 1961-02-21 · 30 min
Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.
S2 · E19Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother? 1961-02-28
Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.
S2 · E20The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis 1961-03-07
It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.
S2 · E21Dobie Versus the Machine 1961-03-14
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.
S2 · E22Baby Shoes 1961-03-21
Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.
S2 · E23I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine 1961-03-28
Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.
S2 · E24The Chicken Corporal 1961-04-04
Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.