S2 E1 • Who Needs Elvis?

Aiming high to win the affections of Esme Lauterbach (a 6'2"-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.

Première diffusion : 20 septembre 1960

S2 E2 • You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay "My Dog" in a newpaper Father's Day contest,but changes it to "My Dad". Dobie unexpectedly wins the newpapers contest-and becomes closer to his father as a result.

Première diffusion : 4 octobre 1960

S2 E3 • Baby Talk

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1960

S2 E4 • Dobie Goes Beatnik

Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos! But Herbert needa a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.

Première diffusion : 25 octobre 1960

S2 E5 • The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow hiw to prodict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon pressidential election

Première diffusion : 1 novembre 1960

S2 E6 • The Face That Stopped the Clock

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store, where he is assigned the impossible task of selling the overstock on grotesque Confucius statues with clocks in their bellies.

Première diffusion : 15 novembre 1960

S2 E7 • Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

Maynard finds a purse containing $512 and eagerly awaits the day six months later when he can claim the money, but two con men see in Maynard an easy mark to make them some easy money.

Première diffusion : 22 novembre 1960

S2 E8 • Around My Room in 80 Days

A rare glimpse of Maynard's home life. Most of this episode has to do with Dobie and Maynard helping a classmate not to drop out of school.

Première diffusion : 29 novembre 1960

S2 E9 • Drag Strip Dobie

Dobie has eyes for the cute new girl in school, Charlotte Lamarr, and gets a hot rod to impress her. He has competition from the rich and snooty Chatsworth Osborne Jr., so Zelda gives him a hand in thwarting Chatsworth's plans.

Première diffusion : 6 décembre 1960

S2 E10 • Jangle Bells

Maynard throws a Christmas party for his friends, but status seeker Zelda persuades Dobie it would be better to attend Chatsworth's posh party. Troubled, Dobie is haunted by ghosts in this spoof of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

Première diffusion : 20 décembre 1960

S2 E11 • Parlez-Vous English

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.

Première diffusion : 27 décembre 1960

S2 E12 • The Day The Teachers Disappeared

Parents pinch-hit for the teachers when a flu epidemic fells the faculty. Dobie livens up Mrs. Kenney's music class by singing "Don't Send a Rabbit" from Dwayne Hickman's 1960 Capitol LP "Dobie."

Première diffusion : 3 janvier 1961

S2 E13 • What's My Lion?

Maynard befriends a real cool cat: the lion belonging to His Imperial Radiance Prince Dumiphon of Ambodia.

Première diffusion : 10 janvier 1961

S2 E14 • The Big Question

Mr. Pomfritt assigns an essay addressing a big question: "Whither are we drifting?" Dobie and Maynard mull the question and their uncertain futures in an atypical episode that is more thoughtful than humorous.

Première diffusion : 24 janvier 1961

S2 E15 • Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

After too many late nights with the boys at the Bison Lodge, Mr. Gillis seeks to bring the romance back to his neglected marriage, heeding the sound advice of Dobie and his trusty marriage manual.

Première diffusion : 31 janvier 1961

S2 E16 • The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

Maynard realizes his close friendship with Dobie is affecting Dobie's social and educational advancement, so Maynard decides he must end their friendship for Dobie's own good.

Première diffusion : 7 février 1961

S2 E17 • Zelda, Get Off My Back

Dobie encourages Zelda to go and be wined and dined while tutoring the Yale-aspiring Chatsworth (thus freeing Dobie to date other girls). Will it be "out of sight, out of mind" or will Zelda's absence make his heart grow fonder?

Première diffusion : 14 février 1961

S2 E18 • I Was a High School Scrooge

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.

Première diffusion : 28 février 1961

S2 E19 • Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

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."

Première diffusion : 28 février 1961

S2 E20 • The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

Dobie's upcoming graduation brings to light the embarrassing fact that Herbert T. Gillis never graduated high school, but thanks to evening classes for adults Dobie's Dad is determined to finally finish what he started long ago.

Première diffusion : 7 mars 1961

S2 E21 • Dobie Versus the Machine

Adrift after graduation, Dobie and Maynard seek the counsel of their elders and of professionals on what next to do with their lives. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.

Première diffusion : 14 mars 1961

S2 E22 • Baby Shoes

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.

Première diffusion : 21 mars 1961

S2 E23 • I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Solider, Salior, or Marine

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him. After they switch back, Maynard finds that thanks to Chatsworth, he has become eligible for Officer Candidate School.

Première diffusion : 28 mars 1961

S2 E24 • The Chicken Corporal

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers, along with the opportunity for a double date.

Première diffusion : 4 avril 1961

S2 E25 • The Solid Gold Dog Tag

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

Première diffusion : 11 avril 1961

S2 E26 • The Battle of Maynard's Beard

After getting his beard caught in his rifle's bolt release, Maynard is ordered to shave off the offending fuzz. When the protest cat protests the order, Dobie defends his friend before a military tribunal.

Première diffusion : 18 avril 1961

S2 E27 • Spaceville

Dobie, Maynard and Corporal Kilroy (a chimpanzee) are selected to participate in Operation Moonshot, which 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?

Première diffusion : 25 avril 1961

S2 E28 • Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

Mr. Gillis' high school squeeze Bubbles moves back to town with her beautiful daughter Hazel, stirring up fond memories and green-eyed monsters.

Première diffusion : 2 mai 1961

S2 E29 • Dobie Plays Cupid

Home from the Army on furlough, Dobie attempts to boost Maynard's confidence with girls by convincing him that his twitchy eyebrows give him irresistible sex appeal.

Première diffusion : 9 mai 1961

S2 E30 • Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads a girl to believe he is an army official. The problem: she is the daughter of a real army officer.

Première diffusion : 16 mai 1961

S2 E31 • Be it Ever So Humble

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.

Première diffusion : 23 mai 1961

S2 E32 • Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

Not to be upstaged by a beautiful Army brat with an impressive pedigree, Dobie claims his father is a missing in action WWII hero and sets to spinning yarns of his extraordinary exploits.

Première diffusion : 30 mai 1961

S2 E33 • Everything But the Truth

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.

Première diffusion : 6 juin 1961

S2 E34 • Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

Mr. Pomfritt is discouraged and decides to leave the teaching profession, inspiring Dobie and Maynard to host a testimonial dinner to encourage and hearten him in his calling.

Première diffusion : 13 juin 1961

S2 E35 • Take Me to Your Leader

On a dark and stormy night inside the grocery store, Dobie, Maynard,and Zelda discuss alien possession, and thus believe that the store's next patron, a beautiful blonde, is secretly an alien.

Première diffusion : 20 juin 1961

S2 E36 • This Ain't The Way We Used To Do It

When Maynard suffers a head injury, a feisty WWII veteran comes out of retirement to help the platoon complete Operation Xerxes.

Première diffusion : 27 juin 1961