Season 2

1960-09-27

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

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.

1960-10-18

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

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.

1960-11-01

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

1960-11-15

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

1960-11-22

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

1960-11-29

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

1960-12-06

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

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.

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.

1961-01-03 · 30m

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

1961-01-10

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

1961-01-24

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

1961-01-31

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

1961-02-07

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

1961-02-14

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

1961-02-21 · 30m

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

1961-02-28

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

1961-03-07

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

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.

1961-03-21

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

1961-03-28

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

1961-04-04

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

1961-04-11

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

1961-04-18

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

1961-04-25 · 30m

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

1961-05-02

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.

1961-05-09

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

1961-05-16

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

1961-05-23

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

1961-05-30

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

1961-06-06

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

1961-06-13

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

1961-06-20

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

1961-06-27

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.