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The Cleavers are the 1950's 'All-American Family' in this 'feel-good' family sitcom. Parents Ward and June, and older brother Wally, try to keep Theodore ('the Beaver') out of trouble. However, Beaver continues to end up in one kind of jam or another. Unlike real life, these situations are always easily resolved to the satisfaction of all involved and the Beaver gets off with a few stern moralistic words of parental advice. Instigator and troublemaker Eddie Haskell is an older kid who always manages to avoid being caught. Written by Tad Dibbern
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Season 1
40 episodes
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Season 2
39 episodes
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Season 3
39 episodes
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Season 4
39 episodes
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Season 5
39 episodes
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Season 6
39 episodes
1It's a Small World
23 Apr 1957
Description ▼Sneaky Frankie Bennett tells Beaver that he can win a new bicycle by entering a popular television show's Franklin Milk bottle cap contest; but Beaver and big brother, Wally, cause quite a commotion at the milk company's office when no one there seems to know anything about a contest after the boys show up to claim their prize pulling a wagon loaded with a thousand bottle caps. Written by shepherd1138
2Beaver Gets 'Spelled'
04 Oct 1957
Description ▼Judy Hensler (Jeri Weil) reads for the new teacher, Miss Canfield (Diane Brewster,) who then asks the class to explain what a picnic is. Whitey (Stanley Fafara) attempts an explanation to a bemused Miss Canfield. Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) explains that he eats "hamburglers" at a picnic. The bell rings and Miss Canfield asks Theodore to take a note home to his mother. Beaver tells Miss Canfield that his name is Beaver, that it is his given name because his brother gave it to him. Miss Canfield suggests that in school, she should call the Beaver "Theodore." Beaver puts the note into his shirt and leaves the classroom. Beaver is immediately confronted by his classmates, who demand to know what Miss Canfield did to him. Beaver explains that she just wanted him to take a note home to his mother. Judy says he must have done something awful and that the note is likely to get Beaver expelled from school. Worried, Beaver goes home. At dinner, a silent Beaver passes on dessert. Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) asks the Beaver what happened in school. Beaver says the new teacher called him "Theodore" and excuses himself from the table. Ward asks Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) what happened in his school. Wally tells Ward that his teacher tells jokes, but not funny ones. Ward excuses Wally from the table. June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) reminds Wally to take a bath. Upstairs, Beaver and Wally are in pajamas. Beaver tells Wally about the note. Wally runs a bath. Beaver asks Wally if he ever got a note sent home by a teacher. Wally says that he did, once, and had to go to summer school as a result. The boys wet their washcloths in the tub water. Beaver worries that he will be expelled. Wally wonders if Miss Canfield has a grudge against the Beaver, and hangs up their washcloths. Beaver asks Wally to open the note, but Wally refuses, on the grounds that it would be dishonest. The boys dampen their bath towels. Wally borrows some of Beaver's turtle dirt and throws it into the tub before draining the water, explaining that it will leave a ring. At school the next day, Miss Canfield asks about the note, which she found under the Beaver's desk. Beaver explains that he dropped it. Miss Canfield asks why he didn't give his mother the note. Beaver explains that he couldn't, on account of the fire, and because his mother had to take his father to the hospital. Miss Canfield asks Beaver to take the note home and bring back a response. Beaver puts the note in his shirt and leaves. Miss Canfield tells Principal Rayburn (Doris Packer) that she has sent a note home with Theodore to ask his mother if he can play Smokey the Bear in the class play. Miss Canfield tells Principal Rayburn that she has not gotten a response because Mr. Cleaver is in the hospital, and Mrs. Cleaver is likely distracted. Principal Rayburn says she will send Mr. Cleaver some flowers. At home, a delighted June hugs Ward and thanks him for the flowers. Ward tells her that he didn't send flowers. Mystified, Ward reads the note and says that Cornelia Rayburn hopes he will be back on his feet soon. June demands to know when Mrs. Rayburn saw Ward off his feet. Upstairs, Wally types a note for Beaver. He assures the Beaver that his answer to Miss Canfield's note will cover anything bad that the Beaver ever did. At school the next day, a perplexed Mrs. Rayburn and Miss Canfield read the note from "Mrs. Cleaver." The note says that both June and Ward Cleaver have whipped Theodore, and that Theodore apologizes. Mrs. Rayburn tells Miss Canfield that she will soon learn about little boys and notes. Mrs. Rayburn calls Mrs. Cleaver in for a talk. The next day, June gets the boys off to school. Beaver, noticing she is dressed up, asks where she is going. June tells him that she is going to his school. She asks Beaver if he has any idea why Mrs. Rayburn would want to see her. Beaver says it is probably because Wally got into trouble. At school, June assures Mrs. Rayburn that the Beaver would be delighted to play Smokey the Bear, and that she will talk to him about the note. Mrs. Rayburn is happy to hear that, and says she hopes Beaver will be back in school soon. Worried, June hopes that nothing has happened to the Beaver. Mrs. Rayburn assures June that "they never go far." Beaver counts his money outside a travel agency while his worried family searches for him in a storm drain. Wally finds the Beaver's lunch box. June laments that Beaver did not eat his tomatoes. They continue to scour the town. Gus the Fireman (Burt Mustin) tells the Cleavers that Beaver hasn't been around. Fats (Ralph Sanford) also tells the Cleavers that he hasn't seen the Beaver. Ward and June asks kids playing in a park if they've seen the Beaver. June describes him. A boy (Stephen Paylow) points to a kid in a tree. It's Beaver, who refuses to come down. A crowd gathers. Beaver accuses Wally of squealing on him. Ward demands that Beaver come down from the tree. Beaver refuses, saying he's afraid Ward will hit him. The shocked crowd eyeballs Ward. Ward uncomfortably tells Beaver that he never gets hit. Beaver reminds him of the ink on the carpet incident. A calm June tells Beaver that he can stay in the tree if he doesn't want to come home, and that they will all go home for supper without him. Beaver worries about the rain, and agrees to go home for his raincoat before coming back to the tree. June tells him it's a fine idea. The next day, Miss Canfield asks Beaver why he thought the note contained something bad. Beaver explains it was because she is a teacher. Miss Canfield asks Beaver if they could possibly learn from each other. Beaver asks if she could not make the boys wear aprons during arts and crafts. Miss Canfield says she could do that. Beaver then asks if she will call him "Beaver" instead of Theodore. Miss Canfield agrees. The next morning, June stops Beaver on the way out the door and asks why he is taking a shrunken head with him to school. Beaver explains that he thinks Miss Canfield might like it. June assures him that she will.
3Captain Jack
11 Oct 1957
Description ▼Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) searches the chair cushions. He and June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) chuckle over their find - a marble, a linty caramel and a sock. Ward asks June where the boys are. June tells him that the boys are upstairs sending away for something, and wonders what it might be. Ward assures June that whatever it is, it is likely childish and harmless. Upstairs, Wally (Tony Dow) and Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) fill out a request form for a live alligator from Florida. Beaver asks Wally if he thinks they will really get a five foot long live alligator for $2.50. Wally assures Beaver that they wouldn't print something like that if it weren't true. Wally tells Beaver that the alligator will likely arrive in a week. A week later, Beaver frantically checks the mail. The Express Mail Office has sent a card saying that their package has arrived. Beaver runs upstairs to tell Wally. At the Express Mail Office, Beaver signs for the alligator. The postal clerk (Irving Bacon) hands the boys a shoe box. It is tied with string and has holes punched in it. Confused, the boys sit on a bench to open the box. Beaver suspects that perhaps the company sent the alligator's food first. Wally disagrees, noting the holes in the box. Beaver hopefully suggests that the food is alive. Opening the box, the boys find a tiny baby alligator. Beaver and Wally agree that they've been "tooken." Later that evening, June puts the finishing touches on supper. She asks Ward to call the boys to the table. Upstairs, the boys look at their baby alligator, which they have put into the bathroom sink. Beaver asks Wally if the alligator looks happy. Wally can't tell. Beaver wonders what to do, and asks Wally if they should talk to Dad. Wally suspects that their father wouldn't want them to have an alligator. They go back to their room, closing the bathroom door. Ward tells the boys that supper is ready. Wally asks if they can have a pet. Ward explains that when the boys can show that they can take care of themselves and their room, then they can discuss getting a pet. Beaver asks Ward what he knows about alligators. Wally explains that Beaver probably needs to know for school. Ward tells Beaver that alligators are amphibious, carnivorous, often mistaken for crocodiles, and usually die in captivity. He tells the boys to hurry along for supper and goes downstairs. Worried, the boys decide they need to find someone who knows about alligators. The boys go to the neighborhood alligator farm, where Captain Jack (Edgar Buchanan) is giving the crowd his spiel. Mesmerized, the boys listen as Captain Jack explains that "the big beggars eat the little beggars." When a big alligator named Wendell snarls at Captain Jack, he warns Wendell that he'll kick his teeth in. Captain Jack finishes his talk by telling the crowd that if someone were to fall into the alligator pit, the alligator wouldnt so much as bite his arm off, as he would saw it off. Beaver asks Wally where the alligator would get a saw. Wally tells Beaver to hush up and listen. Captain Jack tells the crowd that the alligator would "use the sawing motion of his powerful jaw. It takes some time, but the end result is the same." Captain Jack invites the crowd to stroll through the alligator farm to see the 1500 alligators that live there.Wally and the Beaver approach Captain Jack. They ask what alligators eat. Specifically, what baby alligators eat. Captain Jack asks if they have a baby alligator at home. Beaver produces the shoebox, which Captain Jack opens. He advises the boys not to leave their alligator in water too long, as it will crack the alligator's skin. The boys tell him that they tried to ask their dad about alligators. Captain Jack muses that dads don't often know much about alligators - or boys, for that matter. He tells the boys that it is up to them to take care of their alligator; If they don't care about their alligator, then the alligator won't care, and will die. He advises feeding the alligator warm milk through an eye dropper, and adding raw egg at some point. He also tells the boys to add a little brandy to the milk, that brandy will make for a happy alligator. He warns the boys that the alligator's chances are not good, and asks what the alligator's name is. Beaver tells him that they've named the alligator Captain Jack. At breakfast, Minerva (Connie Gilchrist) comes in. June explains to Ward that Minerva will be coming three times a week now, to help with cleaning and laundry. Upstairs, the boys finish bathing Captain Jack. Wally puts beauty cream on the alligator's skin to keep it moist. Beaver gets bitten. Wally feeds milk and brandy to Captain Jack. Beaver smells the milk, makes a face, and asks Wally what brandy is made of. Wally explains that it is made of grapes, which are crushed by feet. Wally puts Captain Jack into his "aquarium," which is the toilet tank. The boys go down to breakfast. A few days later, June counts the eggs. Two are missing. June worries. Ward says that the brandy has gone down two inches as well. June tells him that her beauty cream is missing too. Ward says that eggs, brandy and beauty cream are nothing that the boys would be interested in. They agree to keep an eye on the eggs. Upstairs, Captain Jack continues to grow. Days go by. Upstairs, a crowd of children crowd around an "alligator enclosure." Beaver, dressed like an alligator hunter, gives a speech about cannibalistic alligators. He concludes the tour, collects money from the children and thanks them for coming. After the children leave, Wally counts the money and reminds Beaver that he gets to give the speech next time. Wally notes that Captain Jack has outgrown the toilet tank, and says they will put him in the old laundry tub in the basement, which is no longer used. A worried June and Ward discuss the missing brandy. Half the bottle is gone. June is missing four eggs per week. Another bottle of beauty cream has also gone missing. A singing Minerva tells June that it's overcast outside, so she has to hang the laundry in the basement. She goes to the basement, still singing loudly. Ward questions June about Minerva, suggesting that she is "unnecessarily gay." June insists that it couldn't be Minerva. Ward tells June that raw eggs are a good antidote after a few nips, and perhaps Minerva was feeling romantic after the brandy and took the beauty cream. A loudly screaming Minerva runs up the basement stairs. She says that there is an alligator in the basement, at least five feet long. Ward gives her the sack and escorts her to the bus stop. June protests, but the front doorbell rings, distracting her. Answering the door, June finds a little girl (Penny Carpenter,) who asks for Wally and the Beaver. June tells the girl that the boys aren't home. The girl asks if she's supposed to pay the ten cents to June. June wonders if she has the right house. The girl insists that she's at the right place, and that the ten cents is to see Captain Jack, the alligator that Wally and the Beaver have. June sends her home. A bemused June tells Ward that there is an alligator in the basement. Ward is not amused. June insists that the boys have an alligator in the basement. Ward, seeking to humor June, goes downstairs. June tells him to introduce himself, that the alligator's name is Captain Jack. Ward yelps. Coming back upstairs, he complains that the alligator bit him. June laughs. Ward admits that Captain Jack didn't exactly bite him, but sawed at him. In bed, the boys worry about what Ward and June will do to them. Downstairs, Ward tells June that he's proud of the boys for raising the alligator to such a large size, noting that its nearly impossible to do so. He goes upstairs to tell the boys that alligators are not good pets, and that Captain Jack will have to be turned over to live someplace where he'll be happy. He tells the boys how proud he is of them, but they can't keep Captain Jack. The boys reluctantly agree that Captain Jack deserves to live someplace where he'll be happy. The next day after church, the family leaves Captain Jack at the alligator farm. The human Captain Jack tells the boys that they did a good job raising their alligator, and assures Beaver that he will take their alligator around and personally introduce him to all the other alligators. At home, Ward tells the boys to go upstairs to change out of their good clothes. The boys reluctantly and sadly go upstairs. Ward and June follow. The boys open their bedroom door to find a new puppy waiting for them. Ward and June watch as the boys happily hug their new pet.
4The Black Eye
18 Oct 1957
Description ▼Dinner is late, and Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) is hungry. June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) explains that dinner is delayed because "something" took her hand lotion and makeup. June wonders aloud if the boys had something to do with it. Ward assures June that the boys wouldn't want anything to do with makeup and hand lotion. Upstairs, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) has a black eye, which brother Wally (Tony Dow) attempts to cover with foundation and hand lotion. Beaver explains to Wally that some kid at school belted him. Wally asks which kid did it, but Beaver is evasive. Beaver worries that Dad will yell at him for getting a black eye. Wally advises Beaver to tell Dad that he fell down. Beaver sits down backwards at the dinner table. Ordered to turn around, the Cleavers are surprised to see that Beaver has an odd white-ish ring around his eye. Ward wipes the makeup away and sees Beaver's black eye. Beaver and Wally insist that Beaver fell down, causing the black eye. June worries about a concussion. A smiling Ward tells Beaver that fighting among boys is normal, and says that he himself was in at least one hundred fights at Beaver's age. June is perturbed. Ward asks Beaver how the other kid looks, but Beaver surprises him by confessing that he didn't fight back. A shocked Ward wonders why his son ran away from a fight. Beaver says he's going to be sick. June excuses both boys from the table. The adults eat their soup in silence. Finally, June asks Ward if he had a bad day. Ward explains that he didn't get the Thompson contract, that Fred Rutherford (Richard Deacon) got it instead. June asks Ward why he didn't fight him for the contract. June tells Ward that just because he had a bad day was no reason for him to take it out on the Beaver. A defensive Ward says that he thinks Beaver should have defended himself. Upstairs, Wally discovers that Violet Rutherford (Wendy Winkelman) was the kid who gave Beaver the black eye. Beaver wishes that he was allowed to hit girls. In the garage the next day, Ward teaches Beaver how to fight. Ward puts boxing gloves on Beaver and has him hit a bop bag (punching bag.) The bag pops back up and hits Beaver in the face. Beaver falls down. Beaver tells Dad that he is not having much fun. June comes into the garage to tell Ward that Fred Rutherford came to see him. Seeing Beaver on the ground, June asks Ward if he is done knocking the Beaver down, because it is time for the boys to have lunch. Ward says they will be along in a minute. Ward gives Beaver some boxing tips. he tells Beaver that he doesn't want him picking fights, but not to let kids pick on him. He tells Beaver that if a kid gets aggressive and hits him, he has to hit back. Ward goes into the living room to see Fred Rutherford, who is there to make sure that there are no hard feelings over the Thompson deal. Ward tells Fred that he has no hard feelings. Fred remarks that Wally seems small for a fifteen-year-old. Ward reminds Fred that Wally is thirteen. Fred leaves. In the garage, Beaver boxes with the bop bag. Meanwhile, in the house, Wally tells Ward that Violet Rutherford gave Beaver the black eye. Ward laughs. He calls for Beaver, but June tells him that Beaver went to see Violet. Ward worries that he sent Beaver over to annihilate Violet Rutherford. Ward yells at Wally for not telling him sooner about Violet. Wally reminds Ward that he never asked in the first place. Ward sends Wally to his room. Beaver rings the doorbell at the Rutherford house. Fred Rutherford answers. Beaver asks to see Violet. Violet and Beaver sit on the porch step and talk. They get up and walk on the sidewalk. Beaver asks Violet if she wants to get aggressive. Violet says she doesn't want to fight. She suggests that they go spit off the bridge. Beaver suggests they go see the lady in the jiggle belt instead. Violet and Beaver walk into town and watch the lady in the window demonstrate a fat-reducing machine. Meanwhile, a worried Fred and Ward drive around town, looking for the Beaver and Violet. They stop the car. Fred sees a kid (Philip Greisman) with a tomahawk. Assuming that it is Beaver, Fred grabs the kid. Seeing that it is not the Beaver, Fred asks if he has seen two kids fighting. Fred and Ward leave. The kid with the tomahawk and Judy Hensler (Jeri Weil) decide to go to Metzger's field, believing that there is going to be a fight. Beaver and Violet visit Gus (Burt Mustin) at the fire station. Gus remarks that Beaver brought "the Missus" along. Embarrassed, Beaver tells Gus that he isn't married, and even if he were married, it wouldn't be to a girl. Gus explains to Violet that his firehouse isn't the kind where they go put out fires, it only helps out if another firehouse can't handle a call. June gets a phone call from Ward. Ward is still with Fred, but they can't find Beaver and Violet. He tells June to get Wally. June calls Wally down from his room. June asks Wally where he'd go if he were going to fight with a girl. Wally tells June that he wouldn't ever hit a girl. June relays the message to Ward. Ward tells June to tell Wally to go back to his room. The news of a fight spreads like wildfire among the kids (Lonnie Thomas, Tommy Berwald) in town, who head out to Metzger's Field for the fight. Violet and Beaver have ice cream floats at the soda fountain. The waitress (Julie Bennett) brings the bill for 88 cents. Violet tells the waitress to charge it to Fred Rutherford's account. Ward and Fred ask another kid (Richard Smiley) if he knows anything about a fight. The kid says the fight is over, and that one kid got his ear torn off. An angry Fred lashes out at Ward, saying he knew that Ward resented him about the Thompson deal. Back at the Rutherfords, Violet and Beaver sit on the front steps and chew Blackjack gum. Beaver blacks out his front teeth with his gum. Violet does the same. Fred and Ward drive up. Seeing Violet's blacked-out teeth, Fred laments spending $800 on braces. Ward tells Fred that it's only chewing gum. Fred sends Violet inside and tells Ward not to send the Beaver around anymore. Beaver and Ward go home. Ward tells the boys that they are on their own for dinner, because he's taking June out. Beaver asks why Ward didn't get aggressive with Fred. Ward explains that adults have to control themselves, but that one of the rules is that boys are supposed to fight. Ward leaves to take June to dinner. Beaver asks Wally if rules are easier on grown-ups than on boys. Wally explains that of course rules are easier on grown-ups, because grown-ups are the ones who make up the rules in the first place.
5The Haircut
25 Oct 1957
Description ▼June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) searches for a lost wing. She explains to Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) that the wing is part of an angel costume that she is making for the Beaver (Jerry Mathers,) who will be an angel in the school play. Ward wonders if Beaver's "masculine dignity" is offended by having to portray an angel. June admits that she is concerned about the Beaver, because his teacher called to tell her that Beaver has not eaten lunch in three days. June asks Ward to talk to the Beaver about it. Ward agrees. Upstairs, Beaver ignores June's call to come downstairs. Wally (Tony Dow) asks Beaver if he heard their mother. June calls to Beaver again. Beaver decides that he has no choice but to hear his mother. Wally warns Beaver not to drag him into whatever trouble the Beaver's gotten himself into. Downstairs, Ward questions Beaver about why he didn't eat in the cafeteria. Beaver tells him that he wasn't hungry. A slightly hurt Ward suggests that Beaver could tell him, in secret, "just between us men," why he didn't eat, and that he won't be mad. Beaver confesses that he lost his lunch money three days in a row. Ward yells. Beaver points out that Ward promised to not be mad. Ward angrily says that he's not mad. Beaver asks him to prove it by shaking hands. Ward calms down and shakes Beaver's hand. Beaver tells Ward that he doesn't mean to lose things. Ward says he understands. The next day, June arrives home from grocery shopping. She shows Ward the receipt for $23.86 and asks where the boys are. Ward tells her that Wally is out playing ball, and that he sent the Beaver to get a haircut. June is mildly appalled that Ward gave Beaver $1.75 to get a haircut after he's lost so much money previously. Ward explains that he wanted to give Beaver another chance. June says that it's just another chance for Beaver to lose more money. Ward assures June that it won't happen again, especially after telling Beaver it was his last chance. At the barber shop, Beaver waits his turn for the chair. When the barber (Benny Baker) tells him that it is his turn, Beaver pats his shirt pocket, only to find that the money his father has given him is gone. Beaver tells the barber that he's lost his money, but wants a haircut anyway. The barber tells him he can't do it, because his boss is out of the shop. Beaver searches his pockets and offers the barber a glass doorknob in exchange for a haircut. The barber declines.The barber suggests he call Beaver's parents, explain that the money got lost, and get his parents to okay the haircut. Beaver doesn't think this is a good idea. Back at the house, Wally impatiently models Beaver's angel costume for June, who is putting the finishing touches on the costume. June tells Wally to hold still. Wally worries that one of the guys might see him. June asks Wally if he's in the school play. Wally explains that he's a sign-holder for the Three Wise Men. Wally hurriedly takes off the costume, complaining that the angel costume makes him look like a sissy. June wonders aloud where her scissors went. Upstairs, Wally hears Beaver in the bathroom. The door is locked. Wally asks Beaver what he's doing. Beaver tells him that he isn't doing anything. Wally hears a snipping noise. He demands that Beaver come out of the bathroom. Beaver comes out. His hair is cut away in patches. Wally tells him that it looks like mange and asks why Beaver didn't have Stanley cut his hair. Beaver explains that Stanley wasn't at the barber's and that he lost his money anyway. He asks Wally to fix his hair for him. Unsure, Wally tells Beaver not to be crazy. Beaver tells Wally that he could fix his hair for him because his head is small. Wally agrees to try to make it look better. Beaver says that Wally is a wonderful brother. Wally takes the scissors and starts cutting Beaver's hair. Wally decides he had better stop cutting. A mound of hair is on the floor. Beaver is nearly bald on two sides of his head. Only a patch of hair in back and a strip of hair down the middle of his head remain. Beaver observes himself in the mirror and tries to comb his bald head. Beaver asks when it will grow back. Wally thinks it will take about a week. They think of ways to hide Beaver's head from their parents. At the dinner table, Ward and June discuss the upcoming school play. The boys come to the table wearing stocking caps on their heads. They explain that it is an initiation for a secret club, so secret that they can't tell Ward or June the name of the club. A dubious Ward suggests they eat dinner. Upstairs after dinner, Beaver happily believes that they've fooled their parents. Wally isn't so sure, and suspects that their parents are "getting ready to jump on us." Wally is certain that their parents are downstairs trying to think of what's fair to do, and says that "trying to be fair is what usually messes us up." Downstairs, Ward and June have come to the conclusion that the stocking caps have something to do with the haircut that Beaver was supposed to get. Ward wants to make the boys take their caps off. June points out that they can't violate the boys' privacy like that. Ward suggests that they wait until the boys are asleep to check under their caps. June worries that it's too sneaky. Ward assures June that "it's the only way we can survive as parents." As the boys sleep, June and Ward sneak into their room. Ward lifts the cap and sees Beaver's bald head. Hastily, he puts the cap back on. June insists on seeing under Beaver's cap. Ward lifts the cap again. June opens her mouth to scream. Ward covers June's mouth and pulls her out of the room. Ward carefully leads a dazed June to the couch. June laments over her poor bald baby angel. Ward tells her that Beaver's hair will grow back. Ward doesn't like the thought of Beaver getting away with losing the money and cutting his own hair. Ward tells June that he won't resort to violence the way his own father might have done, but that they will have to lay their cards on the table and give Beaver a chance to tell the truth about what happened. June cries. In the morning, the boys, wearing their stocking caps, read the paper on the couch downstairs. Ward and June ask to have a talk with them. The boys sit up and take notice. Ward asks Beaver if he got a haircut. Beaver assures him that he did. Ward asks if he went to the barbershop. Beaver tells him that he did go to the barbershop. Ward asks if he went to the barbershop and got a haircut. Beaver evasively says he did go to the barbershop and that he got a haircut. An exasperated Ward tells Beaver that there is no secret club and tells the boys to take their hats off. Beaver removes his cap. Ward asks if he gave himself a haircut. June puts Beaver's cap back on. Trying to protect Wally, Beaver says his hair will grow back. Ward tells the boys that if Beaver had told the truth about losing the money and giving himself a haircut, he would have understood, but now they will have to be punished. Beaver immediately stands up and apologizes for losing his haircut money and says that Wally gave him a haircut. Ward says it is too late for an apology, and sends them to their room while he thinks about what to do. The boys go to their room. Ward laments over the boys' behavior. He tells June that he can't understand why they would lie to him, after he's done nothing but try to be their friend. He says it certainly is not his fault that the boys act the way they do. June tells him that of course it's his fault. A shocked Ward can't believe what June is saying. June tells him that they were the ones who put Beaver in a spot, and that they warned him that it was his last chance, so naturally he was afraid to tell them. June explains that when a boy believes he's lost the love and respect of his parents, it is worse than any beating. Ward agrees that their problem is that they love their boys so much that they've scared the pants off them. Upstairs, Beaver thinks they would have gotten away with it if they had had a name for the secret club. Wally wonders why he helped Beaver in the first place. Ward and June come upstairs. Wally covers Beaver's head. Ward hands Wally the comics section of the paper, saying that he thought Wally might want to finish reading the paper. Surprised, Wally cautiously thanks his father. Ward explains that the boys won't be punished. Beaver asks why not. Ward explains that they want the boys to know that they can come to them anytime with any problem, and know that they will understand. Ward tells the boys to hurry up and get dressed, because they are all going out to breakfast, and maybe to a movie afterwards. Confused, Wally admits that he can't figure their parents out. Beaver says he can't figure them out either, but that he likes them anyway. Wally agrees that he likes their parents too. On Wednesday evening, the school play is in full swing. The angels sing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." Beaver wears his angel costume - and his cap.
6New Neighbors
01 Nov 1957
Description ▼June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley,) watches as movers unload a truck next door. Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) comes into the house with his paper. June asks if met the new neighbors. Ward says he ran into the neighbor on his way to get the paper, and thinks his name is Dawson, and that he's a broker. Exasperated, June says it's not Dawson, but Donaldson, and that he's in Thermal Products as the sales manager, they've applied to Briarcliff and that they play bridge. Ward asks what the boys are up to. June says that Wally's (Tony Dow) friend Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) is over. Ward remarks that Eddie seems like a nice kid. June says she distrusts thirteen year-old boys that are so polite, and hopes he doesn't pick on the Beaver (Jerry Mathers.) Upstairs, Eddie tussles with the Beaver. Eddie and Wally spy on the new neighbors with Wally's periscope. Eddie tells Wally that the new neighbors are crummy. Wally asks why. Eddie points out that there are no cats, dogs or fishing poles. Beaver spies a boat with no bottom. Wally checks it out, and tells Beaver that it is a rowing machine. Eddie warns Beaver not to mess around with a guy with a rowing machine because he's probably strong and will whack Beaver in the head. Junes calls upstairs for Wally. Eddie suggests sneaking out the back. Wally protests. Downstairs, Eddie compliments Mrs. Cleavers pretty dress. June coolly thanks him. She asks Wally to take some flowers next door. Wally complains. Beaver offers to take the flowers. While June isn't looking Eddie scares Beaver by pretending to get whacked in the head. June tells Beaver to tell Mrs. Donaldson (Phyllis Coats) that they are happy they moved in, and not to drop the flowers. Eddie and Wally spy on Beaver from the bedroom window. They watch through the periscope as Beaver goes next door. Beaver hands Mrs. Donaldson the flowers. He tells Mrs. Donaldson that he's happy she moved in and not to drop the flowers. Mrs. Donaldson asks his name. Beaver introduces himself, telling her that his friends call him Beaver. Mrs. Donaldson suggests that she'd like to be his friend, and asks if it would be all right for her to call him Beaver. Beaver asks if she would let him cut across her lawn. Mrs. Donaldson assures him that something could be worked out. She kisses Beaver on the check. Beaver runs home. A seemingly shocked Eddie can't believe Mrs. Donaldson kissed Beaver. He goads Wally into giving Beaver the business. Wally reluctantly agrees to kid Beaver, but only a little bit. As soon as Beaver comes upstairs, Eddie gives him the business. Wally plays along. Eddie tells Beaver that he'd better watch it, because kissing a married woman will get him into trouble, and that Mr. Donaldson will likely kill him. Eddie demonstrates by making a slicing motion across his neck. Beaver is frightened. Downstairs, Ward fixes a toaster. Beaver asks Ward what he's doing. Ward explains that he's replacing a fuse because June pulls on the cord to unplug the toaster, instead of pulling on the plug itself. Beaver tells Ward that he's very smart. Ward says he's smart enough to stay one jump ahead of their mother. Beaver asks Ward if he's a married man. Ward assures Beaver that he is. Beaver asks if June is a married woman. Ward assures Beaver that she is. Beaver asks Ward if he's ever kissed a married woman that wasn't June. Ward assures Beaver that he's never kissed another married woman. Beaver says he understands, and that it's probably because Ward is scared of getting into trouble. Ward agrees. Ward tells Beaver to go outside to play. Beaver, afraid of Mr. Donaldson, says he'd rather play inside, but Ward insists that Beaver go outside. Beaver goes outside. Ward tells June that Beaver wanted to know if he's ever kissed a married woman. June asks why he hasn't. Ward tells June that she knows why. June smiles. Ward explains that it's because he's scared to. June is not amused. At the Donaldson's, Mr. Donaldson (Charles H. Gray) notices the flowers. The Donaldsons make plans to have their niece Julie (Yolanda White) come over to play with the little boy from next door. Mr. Donaldson asks what the boy's name is. Mrs. Donaldson tells him that it's Beaver. Outside, Mr. Donaldson clips the shrubs with a large hedge clipper. Beaver sees him. Mr. Donaldson, thinking about Julie, tells Beaver that he wants to talk to him. Remembering what Eddie said about angry husbands, Beaver runs away. Mrs. Donaldson asks her husband if he spoke to Beaver. Mr. Donaldson says he tried to, but that the Beaver ran away. Thinking that the Beaver is very shy, Mrs. Donaldson calls June to invite the Beaver over to meet Julie. Beaver watches the Donaldson home through the periscope from the upstairs window. Wally worries that Mr. Donaldson is jealous over the Beaver. Eddie tells Wally that a couple of hundred guys a year are killed in California by jealous husbands. June sends Eddie home, and tells Beaver to take a bath, because he's been invited over to the Donaldsons. Eddie tells June that her dress is pretty. Downstairs, June tells Ward that they aren't telling Beaver in advance about meeting Julie. She wonders why Mrs. Donaldson thinks Beaver is shy. Beaver comes downstairs in his gray suit. He says he doesn't want to go next door, that his head hurts because he fell down at recess earlier in the day. June reminds him that it's Saturday. Out of excuses, Beaver dramatically says goodbye to his father and leaves to go next door. June wonders why Beaver is shy about girls. Ward says he doesn't even know enough about life to be afraid of women. Outside, Eddie and Wally confront the Beaver. Eddie says that Mr. Donaldson left the house and thinks it's a set-up. Wally tells Beaver that they will be outside and will give Beaver "the old signal" every few minutes as long as the coast is clear. Beaver goes inside the Donaldson's house. Eddie worries that Mr. Donaldson might pull a gun. He tells Wally that he has to go home. Alone, Wally watches the Beaver through the Donaldson's window, using his periscope. Beaver and Mrs. Donaldson sit on the couch. Mrs. Donaldson attempts to make small talk. Wally hoots like an owl. At the Cleaver's, Ward thinks he hears an owl, but wonders why it doesn't sound enough like an owl. Mrs. Donaldson offers Beaver a mint. Beaver tells Mrs. Donaldson that he likes Angela Valentine, who has an extra toe. Wally hoots. Ward investigates, and finds Wally spying on the Beaver. Ward, thinking that Wally is bothering the Beaver because Wally wasn't invited to the Donaldsons, sends Wally home. Mr. Donaldson drives up. Mrs. Donaldson excuses herself to open the front door. She greets Julie and her husband. They go into the parlor to see the Beaver, but he has vanished. Julie worries that the Beaver has run away. The Donaldsons all go to the Cleavers, looking for Beaver. They explain that Beaver disappeared. Ward goes upstairs. Upstairs, Wally busily does homework and says he hasn't seen the Beaver. Ward notices Beaver's shoes poking out from under the bed. He drags Beaver out by his ankles. Ward yells and orders Beaver downstairs. Terrified, Beaver grabs hold of the bed post and refuses to go downstairs. Ward insists. Beaver cries. Ward, now clearly worried, asks why he doesn't want to go to the Donaldsons. Wally tells Ward that Beaver has his reasons. Ward decides not to force the Beaver to go. Ward tells the Donaldsons that the Beaver won't be coming over, and uncomfortably explains that the Beaver has developed an aversion of sorts. He explains that Beaver isn't shy about girls, but that the Beaver is afraid of Mr. Donaldson. Insulted, the Donaldsons leave. Alone, June and Ward laugh with embarrassment and hug each other. The next morning at breakfast, Ward and June can't recall Beaver taking such a dislike to anyone before. June is certain that they won't be seeing much of the Donaldsons anymore. Something outside catches her eye. She calls Ward over. They look out the door and see Beaver shaking hands with Mr. Donaldson. Beaver comes home. Ward and June ask Beaver what happened. Beaver explains he's not afraid of Mr. Donaldson anymore, because Mr. Donaldson told him that he could kiss his wife any time.
7Brotherly Love
08 Nov 1957
Description ▼Wally and Beaver are fighting, about which Ward seems unphased as he sees it as typical sibling behavior. June, however, wants them to stop and act more like loving brothers to each other. After she uses a little psychology to show the boys that brotherly love is a precious thing, that psychology which fails, she instead makes the boys sign a friendship pact, vowing that they will stop fighting, be friends and do everything together. Ward believes she nor anyone else can force two people to be friends. Both brothers want to honor the pact in spirit, but find it difficult to do so as they are individually asked by different people to do two different activities at the same time, which out of circumstance cannot accommodate the other brother. So both try to make the other break the pact so that they can go off and do their activity, but both refuse believing the other will squeal to their mother. Will their outward brotherly love last or will they both end up resenting the other for not being able to do what they want? Written by Huggo
8Water Anyone?
15 Nov 1957
Description ▼Beaver is left out when Ward and the other neighborhood dads offer to pay Wally and his friends for doing outdoor chores to help them buy uniforms. But, after Beaver finds out that the main water line will be shut off on a very hot day, he loads up his wagon with full water buckets and makes his own money ... at five cents a cup! Written by shepherd1138
9Beaver's Crush
22 Nov 1957
Description ▼Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) gets a late start to school after pausing to ask Mom, June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley,) when he'll be grown up enough to get married. June suspects that the Beaver may have a crush on a little girl in his second grade class. Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) reminiscences about his own eighth grade crush on a blonde with braces and a page-boy haircut. As it turns out, the Beaver does have a crush - on his teacher, Miss Canfield (Diane Brewster.) After school, Beaver cleans the chalkboard for Miss Canfield. Judy Hensler (Jeri Weil) dares him to put a spring-loaded joke snake into Miss Canfield's desk drawer to prove that he isn't Teacher's Pet. Beaver refuses, but when the other kids taunt him, and call him chicken, he reluctantly puts the snake into Miss Canfield's top desk drawer. Before he is able to retrieve the snake, Miss Canfield returns to the classroom and tells him to run along home. A distracted Beaver and uncommunicative Wally (Tony Dow) gets Ward's dander up during dinner. He tells the boys that he is genuinely interested in hearing about their day, and doesn't understand why the boys won't tell him anything. The boys are excused from dinner, and June worries that something might be wrong with the Beaver. Upstairs, Beaver confesses to Wally that he put a snake into Miss Canfield's desk drawer and is now consumed with regret. Wally agrees to help Beaver. They sneak out of their room and go to the school. Mr. Johnson (William Fawcett,) the school night watchman, is locking up the school where he runs into principal Mrs. Rayburn (Doris Packer.) He tells her that he's brought his dog, Alfred, to work with him that night. He wishes Mrs. Rayburn a good evening. Wally and Beaver sneak into the school. A growling and barking Alfred spots them. Shaken, the two boys head home. June discovers the boys are gone. She runs downstairs to get Ward, telling him that the boys have run away. She and Ward go back upstairs, only to find Wally and the Beaver asleep in their beds. Ward and June quietly leave the room. In the hallway, Ward says he doesn't doubt that the boys snuck out, and tells June about how he used to sneak out of his room at night to hunt for night crawlers when he was a boy. He assures June that he will speak to the boys "at the right time." The Beaver spends the next day trying to keep Miss Canfield from opening her desk drawer. At lunchtime, he sneaks into the classroom to get the snake, but Mrs. Rayburn walks in, looking for a report. She thinks the Beaver looks a little green and takes him to see the nurse. Later in the day, Whitey (Stanley Fafara) asks to borrow a ruler from Miss Canfield, but before she can open her drawer, Beaver pulls Judy's hair. The bell rings and everyone but the Beaver is dismissed for the day. The Beaver stays after school where he must write, "I will not pull Judy Hensler's hair" on the chalkboard one hundred times. When Miss Canfield steps out of the room, Beaver opens her desk drawer to retrieve the snake, but can't find it. Miss Canfield appears, and tells the Beaver that the snake isn't in there anymore. Beaver admits to putting it in her desk and tells Miss Canfield that he did it because the other kids called him Teacher's Pet. He apologizes, and confesses that he likes her, and that he asked his mother when he could marry her. Miss Canfield explains that it isn't right for her to show favoritism to any one student, and explains that she can't marry him, but that he'll likely find a girl his own age someday. Later that night, the Beaver asks Wally if he ever liked an older girl the way he likes Miss Canfield. Wally confesses that he liked Miss Hildebrand at the lake, even though she married a man who smoked a pipe. Beaver asks if he ever got over her. Wally admits that he never has. Beaver tells Wally that he'll never get over Miss Canfield either.
10The Clubhouse
29 Nov 1957
Description ▼It's a miserable rainy morning. June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) tells Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) that there is an inch and a half of water in the basement. A bored Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) and Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) are upstairs. Tooey Brown (Tiger Fafara) and Eddie Haskell(Ken Osmond) show up at the Cleaver house to trade marbles with Wally and the Beaver. Eddie compliments Mrs. Cleaver's hair. Wally is convinced that Tooey has traded him a cracked marble. Beaver suggests that marbles are made out of real marble. The boys get into a fight. June breaks up the fight and tells the boys to be quiet so that Ward can get his work done. Eddie compliments Mrs. Cleaver's hair. Beaver suggests building a clubhouse in the vacant lot next door. The boys ignore him. Eddie then suggests building a clubhouse in the vacant lot next door, a private club for eighth-graders only, with an initiation fee of one dollar. The boys think it is a great idea. Eddie offers to allow the Beaver to join at a special second-grader's rate of three dollars. June returns and tells the boys that she will have sandwiches ready for them soon. Eddie compliments Mrs. Cleaver's hair. Beaver asks Ward for three dollars, but is turned down. Ward tells Beaver that boys can't concentrate on any one thing for longer than about forty minutes, and to run along and play, and that he will soon forget about the three dollars. Wally, Tooey and Eddie get to work on the clubhouse. Beaver asks his mother who the richest person in town is. June explains that Mr. Cartwright made his money in advertising, and that people paid him for advertising their business on his billboards. Beaver walks to town. Ward thinks Beaver plans to marry the daughter of the richest man in town. Beaver sees Pete (James Gleason) walking around with a sandwich-style billboard. He asks Pete if he is in advertising and if it is possible to make three dollars as a walking billboard. Pete tells him it's possible, if he has ambition. Beaver goes home and makes himself a walking billboard and heads back to town. Beaver approaches the Ice Cream Man (Allen Windsor) and asks if he wants to advertise. The Ice Cream Man declines. Beaver buys ice cream. Beaver goes to the auxiliary fire station and wakes up Charlie (Raymond Hatton.) Charlie agrees to buy an ad for the fire station for seventy-five cents. Wally, Tooey and Eddie sit in front of their unfinished clubhouse. Eddie worries that the Beaver might really be trying to earn three dollars to join. The boys see Ward leaving the house. They hurriedly pretend to be hammering on the clubhouse until Ward drives away. The boys stop hammering and sit down again. Beaver approaches a painter (Charles Wagenheim) at the bridge. The painter tells him that he doesn't own the bridge, that the city does. Beaver asks him who owns the city. The painter says that people own the city. Beaver decides that since he is a person, he must own the city too. The painter agrees with him. Beaver paints "Spit Off My Bridge For 10 Cents" on the front of his sign. A man gives him a dime. Ward comes home. June tells him that the boys gave up on the clubhouse, and worries that the Beaver is still out trying to make money. Ward tells her not to be silly. Beaver sits on the park bench counting his money. Pete meets up with him and tells Beaver that he has to go home empty handed. He tells Beaver about his blue-eyed daughter Jasmine, and of his deceased wife, a former dancing girl in Madagascar, whom he stole from the Sultan himself. He fears that Jasmine will cry her brown eyes to sleep that night from hunger. Beaver, feeling sorry for Pete, gives him all the money he earned. June finds Beaver's sign in the garage and shows Ward, who confesses to once charging the boys in his neighborhood to look at his sleeping grandpa. June wonders if Beaver made any money. Ward suspects that if he did, he probably blew it all on candy and ice cream. Upstairs, Wally tells Beaver that everyone knows Pete is a faker and makes up stories to get a handout. Beaver confesses that he knew that the story wasn't true, but gave Pete the money anyway, because nobody had ever told him a story like that before.
11Wally's Girl Trouble
06 Dec 1957
Description ▼It's time for dancing school, and June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) and Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) await with amusement to see what excuse the boys, Wally (Tony Dow) and Beaver (Jerry Mathers) will come up with to avoid going. Much to their surprise, Wally and Beaver seem anxious to go, and even say how much they appreciate dancing school. Once outside, Wally goes over the plan with Beaver: on Wally's signal, the Beaver is to fake a sprained ankle. Wally will be asked to take the Beaver home and the boys will go fishing instead. At dancing school, it is a different story. Wally is smitten by the pretty Penny Jamison (Cindy Carol.) Larry Mondello (Robert Stevens) tells Beaver that his older brother once looked at a girl like that and ended up marrying her. Beaver and Larry reluctantly dance together. When the music stops, Beaver tells Wally that he's sprained his ankle. Wally tells Beaver that their deal is off. Beaver leaves Larry to dance with another boy. At home, Wally tells June that dancing school was great. Ward thinks his talks on responsibility have finally paid off. Beaver finds a friend in his toad, Herbie. Wally puts Groomwell into his hair. Beaver says Penny has a face like a flounder. June tells Wally that Penny is on the phone. Wally talks on the phone to Penny, who asks a favor. Wally heads to the library to get a book that Penny asked for. June reminds him that he promised to spend the day with Beaver. Wally reluctantly takes Beaver to the library. June fears that a girl has come between Wally and the Beaver. Beaver tells the librarian (Barbara Dodd) that Wally needs a copy of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Kids in the library overhear and laugh. Wally tells Beaver that he made him look like a sap and to get lost. Beaver finds solace in Herbie the toad. Beaver waits for Wally to come home so they can go fishing. Ward reminds Beaver that there will be no fishing until Wally mows the lawn. Beaver mows the lawn for Wally. Wally spends all day with Penny while Beaver works up a sweat. Beaver can barely stay awake during dinner. Ward compliments Wally on the lawn. A slightly guilty Wally tries to confess that he never mowed the lawn, but Beaver stops him. Beaver tells Ward that Wally is the best mower in the world. Penny calls to invite Wally to come over and listen to records the next day. Wally declines. Penny gets mad. The next day, Wally takes Beaver fishing. He tells Beaver that he's had a fight with Penny, and that no girl is going to tell him what to do. At home, Beaver asks Ward what he would do if he had a fight with Mom. Ward explains that he and Mom don't fight, but if they did, he would likely check into the Y until she came to her senses. He then tells Beaver he'd apologize even though he was probably right and give her a sentimental gift. Ward tells June that he appreciates her. Beaver goes to the store where the clerk (Louise Lewis) wraps a box for him in gift wrap and a bow. He tells her that it is for a special present for a girl, but that girls make him sick to his stomach. Beaver pokes holes into the box, which contains Herbie the toad. Penny calls Wally and explains that she isn't angry with him. Wally is relieved. Beaver shows up at Penny's with the wrapped box, and tells her it is a gift from Wally. Penny takes the box and goes inside. Beaver hears Penny scream. He takes off running down the street. Wally gets a call from an angry Penny. He can't get a word in edgewise. Finally, he tells her she has a face like a flounder and hangs up. Beaver apologizes to Wally and tells him that he was only trying to help. Wally tells Beaver he's sorry about Herbie, but he probably can't go to Penny's and ask to get Herbie back. Beaver tells him its okay, that he can always get another toad. Wally says he can always get another girl.
12Beaver's Short Pants
13 Dec 1957
Description ▼Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) comes home to find his wife, June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley,) cooking an elaborate dinner, complete with Boston cream pie for dessert. June tells him that Peggy had a baby girl and that she will be leaving for a week to help with the new baby. Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy) will be arriving to help take care of Ward and the boys. Over dinner, they break the news to Wally (Tony Dow) and the Beaver (Jerry Mathers.) The boys remember Aunt Martha as the aunt who gives them umbrellas for Christmas, and who wears a hat with birds on it. Ward and the boys laugh. June is upset and the boys are excused. June tells Ward to not undermine Aunt Martha. Ward assures June that Aunt Martha will have a pleasant stay, and that the boys will meet her at the airport carrying their umbrellas. Aunt Martha arrives. She compliments Ward on the house and says he must be doing well. She hopes the boys are getting good use on their umbrellas and hopes they will attend an Eastern college someday. The boys charge in. June introduces the boys to Aunt Martha. Aunt Martha calls the Beaver "Theodore." Beaver explains that he uses his nickname. Aunt Martha disapproves of Wally's blue jeans. She tells June that she wants to take Theodore shopping. June gives last minute instructions to the boys. Ward tells June she will miss her plane if she doesn't hurry. June tells the boys that if they make Aunt Martha happy, it will make her happy too. The boys agree to make Aunt Martha happy. June leaves for the airport. Aunt Martha tells the Beaver that she will take him shopping after lunch. The Beaver is excited. Instead of getting the jacket with the eagle on the back that he hoped for, Aunt Martha buys the Beaver a proper suit of short pants, suspenders, knee socks, a beanie, and a jacket. Beaver is crushed. At home, Wally tells Beaver that the kids at school will give him the business. Beaver decides to talk to Dad. Ward is in a rush to leave after breakfast. Beaver tries to tell him about the short pants, but Ward tells him he doesn't have time to listen. Wally tells Beaver that he can't make any trouble for Aunt Martha. Beaver wears his new outfit to school. Wally and the Beaver arrive at school early. Beaver hides behind Mr. Bloomgardens' (William Schallert) rolling book cart so the other kids can't see his pants. He makes it into class without his pants being seen. Beaver sits at his desk all day. The kids don't notice his pants. At lunchtime, Beaver hides in the mop closet. At the end of the school day, the kids discover Beaver's short pants and knee socks. Larry Mondello (Robert Stevens) calls Beaver a sissy. Beaver hits him. A fight breaks out. Mr. Bloomgarden breaks up the fight. Judy Hensler (Jeri Weil) says Beaver hit everyone. Mr. Bloomgarden sends the kids home. He asks Beaver if he started the fight. Beaver says his pants started the fight. Mr. Bloomgarden takes pity on Beaver and tells him to go home. Ward puts in a long-distance call to June with the operator. He hangs up the phone to wait for the call to be connected. Wally tells Ward about the trouble the Beaver got into at school. Ward is horrified to learn that the Beaver wore short pants. He promises to take care of the problem. Aunt Martha is cooking eggplant. Ward calls Aunt Martha in to the living room for a talk. The phone rings. Ward accepts the long-distance call from June. Ward tells June that Aunt Martha is cooking eggplant. June reminds Ward that Aunt Martha is the only mother she's ever known. Ward promises not to upset Aunt Martha. Ward hangs up the phone. Ward tells Aunt Martha that he can't remember what he wanted to talk to her about. Aunt Martha goes back to the kitchen to cook eggplant. Wally leaves for an early morning class. Ward is already gone. Aunt Martha kisses Wally goodbye. Aunt Martha gives Beaver his umbrella to take to school. She kisses him on the cheek. Beaver leaves the house wearing his short pants and carrying his umbrella. Ward is hiding in the garage. He calls Beaver over. He helps Beaver change into long pants, a baseball cap and a regular jacket. Ward tells Beaver to duck into the garage after school to change back into his Aunt Martha clothes. Beaver tells Ward that he's almost like one of the fellas. Ward tells him that its the nicest thing anyone has ever said to him. Ward tells Beaver that it looks like rain and says he needs to take Beaver's umbrella to work with him. Beaver gives Ward a hug and kiss. Ward rushes off to work. June comes home. Aunt Martha is ready to leave for the airport. Ward says they all got along fine, like four peas in a pod. Aunt Martha says the boys were fine. Wally takes the luggage to the car. Beaver comes downstairs wearing his short pants. Ward asks him why. Beaver says he doesn't want to hurt Aunt Martha's feelings. Everyone takes Aunt Martha to the airport.
13The Perfume Salesmen
27 Dec 1957
Description ▼Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) and Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) receive a box in the mail. They take the box upstairs. June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) wants to know what the boys ordered from the Mason-Acme company. Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) says he wants to show faith in the boys by not asking. Wally and Beaver unpack the box. Wally reads the accompanying letter which says that after selling the enclosed twenty-four bottles of Flower of the Orient perfume, they are to send twenty-four dollars plus tax back to the company. The company will then send the boys a Screenmaster movie projector. Wally and Beaver are excited. Wally and the Beaver smell the perfume. Beaver says it smells like old catcher's mitt. Wally says women are funny, and maybe they want to smell like catcher's mitt. Wally and the Beaver go door-to-door to sell the perfume. A woman buys the perfume. She smells it. She hands the perfume back, takes her money back and slams the door. Another woman smells the perfume, then gets her dog to bark at the boys until they go away. The boys don't sell any perfume. At home, June tells Ward that she is dying to know what the boys got from the Mason-Acme company. The boys come home and go upstairs without saying anything to June or Ward. Wally and the Beaver decide to hide the perfume in the closet and unload it at Christmas time. They forget about the perfume. Several weeks later, June is happy to see the boys cleaning their room, making their beds and putting things away. Ward tells June that the boys are being sued. June is surprised. Ward reads her a special delivery letter from Dunlap and Carter, which says they will sue if the twenty-four dollars plus tax is not sent to the Mason-Acme Company for the Flower of the Orient perfume. Ward tells June that three letters have already been sent to the boys demanding the money. June asks Ward what they should do. Ward says he'll send the perfume back with a letter accusing the company of exploiting child labor. Ward goes upstairs. Ward asks Wally and the Beaver to show him the perfume. The boys say they don't know anything about perfume. Ward tells them another letter came. The boys show Ward the perfume. Wally explains that they wanted the Screenmaster projector. Beaver tells Ward that they were afraid after the first letter arrived, and that they threw the others away. Ward tells the boys that if they wanted the projector badly enough, they wouldn't have given up so quickly and would have tried harder. Ward says that at their age, he could have sold a hundred bottles of perfume. Wally and the Beaver ask Ward to help them sell perfume. Ward says he has a golf date with Mr. Cartwright. The boys look disappointed. Ward tells the boys he will reschedule with Mr. Cartwright, and will help them sell perfume. The boys are happy. Ward tells June that hes going to help the boys sell perfume. June is surprised. Ward sells June a bottle of perfume. He goes out to get the car from the garage. June tries the perfume. Alarmed, June calls Ward back inside. Ward smells the perfume. Ward agrees to stall the boys until after lunch in order to come up with a new angle to sell perfume. June makes chopped egg sandwiches. After lunch, Ward sends the boys out on their own. Ward gives them a list of perspective customers. Wally and the Beaver are skeptical, but agree to try it again on their own. June asks to see the list. She is upset to see that it is the membership list to her Women's Club. Ward tells June that he leaned on her friends. June is mortified. Ward explains that he told the women that he'd buy the perfume back from them if they didn't like it. June tells Ward that he's going about it the wrong way. Ward tells her to think of it as an inducement. June tells Ward that it is more of a bribe. Wally and the Beaver go to the first house on the list. Before they can say anything, Mrs. Wentworth (Ann Dore) buys a bottle. Beaver asks Wally what happened. Wally is confused. They try another house. Beaver and Wally are able to easily sell the perfume. Wally continues to be confused. He tells Beaver they need to figure out what happened. Beaver tells Wally that they should get the Screenmaster projector first, and then figure out what happened. Wally agrees. The boys sell all the perfume. Ward congratulates the boys on their perseverance. The boys go upstairs. June is upset with Ward. She tells Ward that he made it easy for the boys by rigging the sales. Ward disagrees. Wally and Beaver count their money. Ward, June, Wally and Beaver admire their new projector, which Ward says arrived earlier that day. Ward goes to do some work in the den. June tells the boys to take the projector upstairs with them and tries to put it back in the box. It doesn't fit. Wally says that maybe the projector came in pieces and Ward put it together. The boys take the projector upstairs. June confronts Ward about the projector. Ward is evasive. June repeats herself. Ward shows June the projector that came in the box - a cheap plastic projector that shows Happy Hooligan when a crank is turned. Ward tells June that when he was a boy, he sent for an Admiral Byrd flying tri-motor airplane, and received a cardboard and rubber-band airplane instead. June asks if Ward's father bought him a real plane. Ward wishes his father had. June tells Ward that he did the wrong thing by buying the boys a real projector, but that he did it for all the right reasons. Upstairs, Wally tells Beaver that the projector must be a thirty-dollar projector. Wally notices that the projector is not a Screenmaster. He says that Dad must have bought if for them. Beaver says they should go thank Dad, that it would be the polite thing to do. Wally stops him. Wally tells Beaver that it is probably the one time that Dad wouldn't want them to be polite.
14Voodoo Magic
03 Jan 1958
Description ▼Eddie Haskell thinks it's funny when Wally and Beaver are grounded after he tricks them into going to the movie "Voodoo Curse" even though they promised June that they wouldn't ... until Beaver gets even by using a little "voodoo magic" on Eddie! Written by shepherd1138
15Part-Time Genius
10 Jan 1958
Description ▼After having to listen to colleague "Corny" Cornelius brag about his children's academic excellence, Ward is thrilled to return the favor when principal Mrs. Rayburn calls to say that Beaver's score on an intelligence test is the highest in the school; but one of Beaver's classmates has a secret and Ward may have to eat his words. Written by shepherd1138
16Party Invitation
17 Jan 1958
Description ▼Beaver receives an invitation to Linda Dennison's party. He thinks it not out of the ordinary until the other kids, teasing him that he's Linda's boyfriend, believe he's the only boy invited. As Beaver asks all the other boys in their class, it does seem like that is the case. After Wally and the Beaver get punished by their parents for pretending to be Ward on the telephone to Linda telling her that Beaver can't go to the party, Ward and June know Beaver doesn't want to go to the party, but make him go anyway despite his protests, even while he is about to walk in the door of the Dennison house. It isn't until Beaver is actually at the party that Ward and June find out why Beaver didn't want to go, a reason with which they can empathize. Unbeknown to Ward and June, there is someone else at the Dennison house who can also empathize with Beaver's plight. Written by Huggo
17Lumpy Rutherford
24 Jan 1958
Description ▼Wally and Beaver are being terrorized by an older and bigger boy in the neighborhood named Clarence Rutherford, who everyone calls Lumpy. When the boys tell Ward of their problem, Ward offers to help, but the boys refuse, wanting to figure out things on their own or least without the help of an adult. When Ward tells them a story of how he got back at a bully when he was younger, he thinks it no more than an amusing anecdote. But Wally and Beaver take it to heart, they who plan to use the same tactic on Lumpy. Their plan goes slightly awry when instead of Lumpy taking the intended hit, it is Lumpy's father, Fred Rutherford, who is at the end of Wally and Beaver's prank. The problem is that Mr. Rutherford is a friend and business colleague of Ward's. The Rutherfords are coming over to the Cleaver house to play bridge that evening, so Wally and Beaver, not knowing if Mr. Rutherford saw that it was them that pulled the prank, do whatever they can to avoid Mr. Rutherford while he's in their house. Written by Huggo
18The Paper Route
31 Jan 1958
Description ▼Ward refuses to give Wally and Beaver the close to $50 they need to buy a new bike, telling them a story about how people work for their money. Ward doesn't think they're going to do anything about it, but the boys get a paper route to raise the money. Their boss is Mr. Merkel - who they call Old Man Merkel - a taskmaster who will not hesitate to fire them if they goof up. Ward and June want the boys to learn some responsibility and understand that a lot of people are counting on them to deliver the newspaper on time. But Ward and June can't help but assist the boys when it looks like they may not be able to fulfill their job responsibilities. When Ward and June do something on the sly to help the boys, they inadvertently end up causing the boys problems instead of helping them out. Even this experience doesn't stop Ward from further meddling in trying to fix what he sees as his wrong. In the end, what the boys learn is that their parents love them. Written by Huggo
19Child Care
07 Feb 1958
Description ▼While Ward and June attend a wedding on Saturday, Wally and Beaver are planning on hanging out at the fire-hall with their friend, Old Pete, to polish the fire truck. The boys' plans are changed for them when Herb and Janet Wilson, friends who are driving Ward and June to the wedding, bring along their four year old daughter Helen - nicknamed "Puddin" - since their babysitter canceled on them at the last minute, meaning that Wally and Beaver are stuck babysitting Puddin. June is worried since neither Wally or Beaver have babysat before, but the only other option is to bring Puddin to the wedding. Although June checks in periodically with the boys by telephone, the boys get into a bit of trouble when Puddin locks herself in the bathroom, and refuses to unlock the door. Wanting to be responsible, instead of telephoning their parents, they try to figure out how to get her out while she wreaks havoc in the bathroom. Their plan requires the assistance of their five year old neighbor, Bengie Bellamy. Written by Huggo
20The Bank Account
14 Feb 1958
Description ▼A package delivered to the Cleaver house from a high-end sports store seems to confirm Ward's suspicions that Wally and Beaver skipped school to buy expensive baseball mitts with piggy bank money they promised to deposit into their school bank account. Written by shepherd1138
21Lonesome Beaver
28 Feb 1958
Description ▼Beaver has always enjoyed hanging out with Wally and Wally's big kid friends, and in turn Wally has always enjoyed having Beaver around. But Beaver's social life changes when Wally, Eddie and Tooey join the boy scouts, but at age 7¾, Beaver does not yet meet the minimum 11 year-old age requirement to join. When Wally and his scout-mates go on a weekend long camping trip, Beaver has to come up with his own fun, especially as his only real of age friend Larry is sick. As Beaver's not used to hanging out with his classmates, they may not know that he is available to play. And Wally's friends not in the scouts, like Chester, may not want Beaver around unless Wally's there. So what will Beaver do? Written by Huggo
22Cleaning Up Beaver
07 Mar 1958
Description ▼Wally is at the age where he wants to be clean and neat in appearance, whereas Beaver is still at the age where he sees nothing wrong with being covered in dirt. Beaver fights at every turn from having to clean himself up, let alone those few times when he is to take a bath. Ward and June would like to see Beaver emulate his brother's behavior and decide to use a little psychology to get Beaver to clean up, not only himself but his and Wally's bedroom as well. Their actions do lead to Beaver cleaning up at least in his sensibilities, but it also has the unintended effect of Wally and Beaver having a disagreement, with Beaver wanting his own bedroom. Continuing their psychology, Ward and June decide to give Beaver his wish, which they believe he will soon come to realize isn't exactly what he wants. Written by Huggo
23The Perfect Father
14 Mar 1958
Description ▼Busy Ward thinks his boys spend all their time over at the Dennisons' because they can play basketball there with their friends. But when Wally and Beaver still prefer the Dennison driveway, even after Ward puts up his own backboard, it takes a frank conversation with neighbor Chuck Dennison to reveal the secret that will bring the Cleaver boys back home. Written by shepherd1138
24Beaver and Poncho
21 Mar 1958
Description ▼Beaver brings home and bonds with runaway chihuahua, but must give up the little dog when his rightful owner answers an ad in the paper.
25The State Versus Beaver
26 Mar 1958
Description ▼Although June thinks the boys are too young, Ward encourages and eventually gives the boys a helping hand when they show interest in building a small motorized car, the motor from an old lawn mower. Ward does lay down some strict ground rules for the car's use. Egged on by Larry, Beaver quickly breaks many of those rules, the most important in the eyes of the law being taking the car out onto the street. Caught by a policeman, Beaver is given a citation to appear in court for operating a motor vehicle without a license. Beaver is scared about the entire situation, including telling his parents. Believing that Ward will take the car away from them if he finds out what Beaver has done, Beaver convinces Wally to act as his guardian in court. Being in court and seeing what wrongs others have committed, Beaver gets a good lesson in what is considered right and wrong, and how he needs to make amends for the wrongs he has committed. Written by Huggo
26The Broken Window
02 Apr 1958
Description ▼Wally, Beaver and their friends break a window at the Cleaver's house when they play baseball on the street. Ward and June aren't overly upset, but tell the boys to use their common sense in the future and never to play baseball so close to the house again. The next day, while Ward and June are gone for the morning, Wally and Beaver wait for Eddie Haskell to head over to Metzger's Field to play baseball, when Wally obliges Beaver's request to pitch him one. Wally figures it should be all right since Beaver always strikes out. This time Beaver does manage to connect to the ball, which ends up cracking a window of their parent's car. Not wanting to get into trouble especially after what their parents told them not to do, Wally and Beaver decide to get the window repaired before their parents get home, which will require them to raise $16. If they can't get raise that much money so soon, they will instead try to hide the fact of the broken window until they can get it fixed. They learn they won't have much time as their parents want to take the car out the following day for a family outing. Written by Huggo
27Train Trip
09 Apr 1958
Description ▼Wally and Beaver have spent four days visiting Aunt Martha in Riverside. Aunt Martha calls Ward and June from the train station telling them which train she is putting them on. Wanting to appear grown up, the boys plead with Aunt Martha to let them buy their own train tickets and to board the train themselves without her. Aunt Martha obliges their request. But after Aunt Martha leaves the train station, the boys learn the train is delayed by 45 minutes, which gives them plenty of time in the station to spend some of their money, leaving them short when it comes time to buy their train tickets. Not trusting the pay phones to call Aunt Martha or their parents and thus potentially losing what little money they have left, the boys have to find a way to make it back to Mayfield without the help of Aunt Martha or their parents. Written by Huggo
28My Brother's Girl
16 Apr 1958
Description ▼Wally's class is having a dance. Wally is going, but like most of the other boys in the class, he isn't going to ask a girl to go with him. Instead, he plans on hanging out with Eddie Haskell and some of the other boys. On the other hand, the girls in the class lament that none of the boys are asking any of them to go. Mary Ellen Rogers believes she's figured out a way for Wally to take her to the dance. Her plan includes using the Beaver without his knowledge and befriending him with the use of her father's electric train set. As Mary Ellen progresses with her plan, it becomes the battle of the sexes, even in the Cleaver household, with June understanding why Mary Ellen would need to resort to such underhanded measures. In the end, Beaver may be the one who gets hurt. Written by Huggo
29Next Door Indians
23 Apr 1958
Description ▼To impress the older boys, Beaver makes up a story about a real, live Indian fight that occurred across the street from the Cleaver house a hundred years ago and bets Eddie Haskell a dollar fifty that it really happened. But Beaver knows he's in trouble when Eddie and the boys show up with shovels to prove him wrong ... until they find what they think are valuable gems. Written by shepherd1138
30Tenting Tonight
30 Apr 1958
Description ▼Concerned that Wally and Beaver are spending too much time at the movies on the week-ends, Ward plans a camping trip and the excited boys tell all their friends. But when Eddie Haskell's dire prediction that Ward never really intended to go camping seems to come true after unexpected office work forces the busy dad to cancel the trip, the disappointed Cleaver boys pitch a tent and spend a rainy night in their back yard to avoid giving Eddie the satisfaction of thinking he was right. Written by shepherd1138
31Music Lesson
07 May 1958
Description ▼Cut during the first day of tryouts, Beaver tells his parents that he made it into the school band and carries his clarinet to school for weeks, thinking that he has plenty of time to tell them the truth; but time runs out when June finds a concert announcement in Beaver's pocket and the whole family plans to go. Written by shepherd1138
32New Doctor
14 May 1958
Description ▼Wally has a bit of a sore throat and fever, so is to stay home from school against his wishes as it means he'll miss a baseball game. But after the doctor examines him, the doctor says that he'll be well enough tomorrow to go back to school. In the meantime, June gets him a model airplane to play with, and Ward, in addition to picking him up some bicycle tape and some chocolate chip ice cream from the store, offers to move the TV into the boys room so that Wally can watch it from bed. And Wally's class buys him a present of a magic set. Seeing all the neat stuff Wally gets for being sick, Beaver decides he too will pretend to be sick the next day. But Beaver's sick day is totally different than Wally's sick day. In addition, he learns that their regular doctor is away, and the replacement doctor, Dr. Bradley is coming in his place. Beaver is scared that Dr. Bradley is not a "pill doctor" like their regular doctor, but rather a doctor that "makes you roll over". Dr. Bradley is able to make Beaver understand what he is really feeling. Written by Huggo
33Beaver's Old Friend
21 May 1958
Description ▼Memories of companionship and comfort prevent Beaver from letting go of his well-worn teddy bear, Billy, and prompt the little boy to rescue his furry friend from the garbage truck even though Ward and Wally tease that he's "too old" to play with dolls. Written by shepherd1138
34Wally's Job
28 May 1958
Description ▼Wally hedges after making a deal with his dad to paint the trashcans for fifty cents each, convinced by Eddie Haskell to hold out for more money. But when Beaver takes the job at the original price, causing hard feelings between the brothers, Ward looks for a compromise to satisfy everyone and finds, in the end, that boys will be boys and moms are full of surprises. Written by shepherd1138
35Beaver's Bad Day
04 Jun 1958
Description ▼Beaver goes outside to play in his good Sunday suit, which is against the rules. Trouble brews when Larry Mondello talks Beaver into playing in a construction area, then snowballs when Eddie Haskell shows up to cause trouble. The end result has Beaver tearing the pants to his suit. When Beaver comes home and his parents see the torn suit, they ask for an explanation. Beaver tells a wild story about getting into a conflict with a dog and that the dog attacked him; actually, Beaver got his pants caught on a loose nail, and Eddie had encouraged him to make up the lie. Ward is not fooled and lectures his son about telling the truth. The next day, Beaver is wearing another good suit to school when, lo and behold Eddie shows up again! This time, Wally tries to defend Beaver, and in the ensuing chaos, a dog attacks Beaver and chews up his pants. When Wally and Beaver try to explain that a dog really did cause the tear, Wally blows his stack and sends his sons upstairs to punish them. Before Ward can mete out the punishment, June gets a call from Mrs. Mondello, confirming Beaver's story. Ward and June agree they should have believed Beaver and go upstairs to apologize. Written by Brian Rathjen
36Boarding School
11 Jun 1958
Description ▼Initially impressed by Johnny Franklin's military academy uniform and good manners when Wally's former schoolmate comes to visit, June becomes alarmed when, as a result, Wally wants to attend the academy instead of Mayfield High with the rest of his friends. Written by shepherd1138
37Beaver and Henry
18 Jun 1958
Description ▼Ward, Wally and Beaver build a live capture trap for the presumed gopher that is eating the tops of June's garden flowers. They are therefore surprised when the trap garners them a white rabbit instead. The boys are enthralled with the rabbit, which they plan on keeping as a pet. Beaver names it Henry, which June soon discovers is not appropriate since the rabbit is a pregnant female about to give birth. Beaver is initially terrified of the six additional rat looking like creatures in Henry's cage, until his parents explain to him the beauty of what has just happened. Ward tells Wally not to pick up any of the babies as Henry, feeling scared, might shun a baby if it smells like a human. By the time Wally passes the information to Beaver, it is too late as Beaver has already picked up one of them. Not wanting to get in trouble with his father, Beaver goes instead to Gus the fireman for advice on the situation. Written by Huggo
38Beaver Runs Away
25 Jun 1958
Description ▼Beaver starts playing with his father's unplugged drill. When Larry comes over, he tries to goad Beaver into plugging it in to drill real holes. Knowing he isn't supposed to play with his father's tools, Beaver refuses. But Beaver doesn't stop Larry from doing it, with Beaver even holding the piece of wood Larry is going to drill into up against the garage wall. When the resulting drill holes result in holes in the garage wall as well, Beaver knows he's going to get into trouble when his father sees what happened. Indeed, Ward feels that the incident is more Beaver's fault than Larry's fault since Beaver knew directly from Ward previously that he was not to play with his tools. Angry that he is being punished for what he believes is not his fault, Beaver not only tells his father that he is going to run away, but defiantly (at first) walks out of the house in front of his father. But when Ward lets him go, Beaver seems confused but leaves anyway. The battle of wills is now not only between Ward and Beaver, but also between Ward and June who doesn't care about anything except the welfare of her son, even after they find out that Beaver is fine and over at the Mondello's. Wally is the one who provides the voice of reason, or at least the voice of what it feels like to be a child pushed into a corner. Written by Huggo
39Beaver's Guest
02 Jul 1958
Description ▼Despite Ward having had a difficult week at work and wanting some peace and quiet over the weekend, he and June allow Beaver to invite Larry over for a weekend sleepover, which would allow Mr. & Mrs. Mondello to go away for the weekend. Ward and June plan on making it an event for the two boys with an outdoor barbecue for dinner. Larry's visit starts off without incident, but Ward and June find that they have to attend to the short attention spans of the two boys, who at one point are best friends, then worst enemies, then at one point are hungry as wolves, then sick from overeating. By the end of the weekend, Ward and June need a weekend to recuperate, but are more wary of a promise they made Wally: that he too could have a friend over for an upcoming weekend, with Wally's choice of friend being Ward and June's worst nightmare. Written by Huggo
40Cat Out of the Bag
16 Jul 1958
Description ▼Wally and Beaver have a weekend job. The Donaldsons, the Cleaver's neighbors, are going away for the weekend and want Wally and Beaver to water their lawn, pick up the papers and feed their cat, Puff Puff. Ward is concerned the job is too much responsibility for the boys, especially regarding the pampered and prize winning Puff Puff, but allows the boys to do it. During the boys' care, Eddie, wanting to hang out with Wally at the carnival, convinces the pair to be more efficient with their time by one doing the work one day, the other doing the work the next day. As Eddie and Wally head off, Beaver is left to do the work. As Beaver inadvertently leaves the gate open, Puff Puff is able to escape when she's chased by Eddie's loose dog, Wolf. Beaver and Wally, who learns what happened, hope they can find the missing cat before their parents find out both that the cat is missing and that Wally shirked his responsibility to go off with Eddie. Puff Puff may have some say in the matter of Ward and June finding out or not. Written by Huggo
1Beaver's Poem
02 Oct 1958
Description ▼June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) offers to help a frustrated Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) with his homework. Wally politely declines, noting that "it's high-school stuff," too hard for Mom to understand. June tells Wally that she will leave him to his homework, and that she will read her paper in the other room, explaining that Wally's father, Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont,) is downstairs helping the Beaver (Jerry Mathers) write a poem for school. Wally wonders if Dad is yelling at the Beaver. Downstairs, an exasperated Ward yells at the Beaver to concentrate and think of a word that rhymes with "bear." Beaver unhappily complains that he can't think - his stomach hurts and he can't work anymore. Ward calms down. He tells Beaver to go to bed, explaining that they will work on the poem in the morning. As Beaver leaves to go upstairs, Ward asks why he didn't write the poem three weeks ago, when the assignment was given. Beaver explains that he didn't want to take the chance of losing the poem before it was due to be turned in. After Beaver goes to bed, Ward ponders the opening line of the poem, "I would like to be a bear," and comes up with the next line, "Gay and happy, free from care." Ward quickly becomes engrossed in finishing the poem - without the Beaver. At breakfast the next morning, Ward tells June that the Beaver is busy copying his poem for school. June confronts Ward about the poem. Ward admits to having written it for the Beaver. June is upset. Ward explains that Beaver thinks he actually wrote it himself, because he did come up with the first line without help. June disapproves. Wally and June ask Beaver to read the poem. Wally laughs at the line "climbing trees with my mother." Embarrassed, Ward leaves for work. Beaver worries that the poem is corny. After school, Wally loads up on cookies and bananas. He tells June that they all need to go to Beaver's school next week for an assembly, and that the Beaver won a prize for his poem. June worries. June asks Ward to talk to the Beaver. Ward stalls. June insists, saying that the Beaver can't accept an award for a poem he didn't write. Ward stalls some more. Upstairs, Larry Mondello (Rusty Stevens) and the Beaver trade marbles. Larry tells Beaver he has to run home so that his dad doesn't holler at him for being late to supper. Ward comes in to talk to the Beaver. Downstairs, June frosts a cake while Wally watches. June explains to Wally that Ward is telling Beaver that he can't accept a prize for work he didn't do himself. Wally licks the frosting spatula. Beaver is upset. Ward explains to him that he can't accept the prize. Beaver insists that it is his poem, so the prize is his. Ward tells him that he only came up with the first line. Confused, Beaver says he thinks he wrote the poem himself, and that he only went to bed because Ward told him to, and now everyone will think he did something bad. Beaver tells Ward that he's never going back to school and locks himself in the bathroom. Ward leaves. Wally comes in. Wally tells Beaver that Dad is gone and to come out of the bathroom. Beaver comes out. Wally notes that Beaver has been crying and asks if Dad hit him. Beaver says no. Wally asks why Beaver is crying if he didn't get hit or yelled at. Beaver explains that sometimes things get so messed up, there is nothing else to do. On Saturday, June helps the boys make their beds. She tells them that Ward went to school for a special appointment with Mrs. Rayburn (Doris Packer.) Wally says that Dad shouldn't have written the poem for the Beaver in the first place. June agrees, but explains to the boys that sometimes fathers love their kids so much that they help them too much. Ward confesses to Mrs. Rayburn about writing the poem for Beaver. Mrs. Rayburn reads the poem. Ward uncomfortably explains that he tried to write down how the Beaver really felt about animals. Mrs. Rayburn offers to have Beaver write his own poem by Monday morning. Ward apologizes again and thanks Mrs. Rayburn for understanding. Mrs. Rayburn accepts Ward's apology, telling Ward that some parents at school don't care enough to help their children at all. At breakfast Monday morning, June tells Wally that she wants him to look decent for Beaver's school assembly. Ward tells Wally to wear his blue suit. Wally grumbles. Beaver reads his poem, "A Duck," to the family. Wally wonders if Beaver will still get a prize. Beaver assures him that he will, because he was the only kid in third grade who even wrote a poem.
2Eddie's Girl
09 Oct 1958
Description ▼Eddie tells Wally and Beaver that he has a new girl named Caroline Cunningham. Wally's never heard of her. Even though Eddie takes Wally over to Caroline's house, Wally is suspicious that Eddie doesn't really even know her, especially as Eddie refuses to ring the doorbell while there. But Mrs. Cunningham hears them talking outside and invites them in. When Caroline comes to meet them, it is obvious that Eddie and Caroline have not formally met - although she does recognize him - and that Caroline has no interest whatsoever in Eddie. But Wally still believes she's Eddie's girl. So Wally is surprised when Caroline later calls him. Unable to get over the awkward boy/girl issues of their age, Mrs. Cunningham and June arrange a date between Caroline and Wally to a country club dance the following day without Wally's knowledge. Will Wally go out with Caroline and if so, is it a friendship breaker between him and Eddie if Eddie finds out? Written by Huggo
3Ward's Problem
16 Oct 1958
Description ▼Ward is facing a predicament. He has promised to take Wally fishing this Saturday, a trip which Ward has already postponed three times. But he later learns that Beaver's third grade class, headed by Beaver's new teacher Miss Landers, is having a father-student picnic that same day. Ward doesn't want to disappoint Wally again, but June convinces him that a school event is more important as he and Wally can go fishing anytime. Ward doesn't have the heart to tell Wally right away. So when the next morning arrives with Ward already gone to work, Wally still believes that his father is taking him fishing. Although Ward told Beaver that he would go to the picnic, Ward failed to sign the permission slip, making Beaver believe that Ward will instead spend the day with Wally. So Beaver, trying to save face, tells Miss Landers that he and his father won't be going since his father has an out of town business trip. So when Ward comes home after work, he has to clear up the misunderstanding with both his sons, especially as Ward and June learn directly from Miss Landers what the Beaver told her. Written by Huggo
4Beaver and Chuey
23 Oct 1958
Description ▼Since Beaver has been spending so much time of late over at his new friend Chuey's house, June allows Beaver to invite Chuey over. When Chuey's mother, Carmela Varela, brings Chuey over, June is somewhat surprised to find that not only does she speak only Spanish (being from South America) but that Chuey speaks only Spanish as well. Beaver and Chuey are able to be friends and have fun together despite the language barrier. Believing it a funny trick, Eddie, who has a basic knowledge of Spanish, teaches Beaver a Spanish phrase to tell to Chuey, Eddie telling Beaver that what he is saying that Chuey is a swell guy. In reality, what Beaver says is that Chuey's face looks like a pig. Angered, Chuey runs off. With none in the Varela household speaking fluent English and none in the Cleaver household speaking fluent Spanish, someone is going to have to bone up on their language skills to clear up the misunderstanding. Written by Huggo
5The Lost Watch
30 Oct 1958
Description ▼While the older boys play baseball, Beaver and his friend Larry watch from the sidelines while minding the players' wallets, jackets and watches. But when the belongings are reclaimed after the game, bully Lumpy Rutherford's watch appears to be missing and he gives Beaver two days to find it ... or else! Written by shepherd1138
6Her Idol
06 Nov 1958
Description ▼Beaver is bothered by the fact that Linda Dennison, a girl in his class, is always staring at him. What he is unaware of is that Linda likes him. But Linda ingratiates herself into his good books by thinking somewhat like a boy. Larry and Whitey see Beaver and Linda together, information which they pass along to the rest of their classmates. They start to tease Beaver that he is Linda's boyfriend. The only way they will believe that he's not is for Beaver to call her a nasty name. Beaver doesn't want to hurt Linda's feelings but he also doesn't want anyone to think that he's any girl's boyfriend. Beaver has to decide if the teasing or hurting Linda is worse. Miss Landers may be able to provide an answer. Written by Huggo
7Beaver's Ring
13 Nov 1958
Description ▼A letter from Beaver's godmother, June's Aunt Martha, brings the young man an heirloom ring once belonging to Beaver's namesake, his great-uncle Theodore. But his parents forbid him to wear it to school because losing it would terribly upset his great-aunt and Beaver's troubles begin after his clever plan to show the ring to his school pals without actually "wearing" it there is derailed by creepy Judy Hensler. Written by shepherd1138
8The Shave
20 Nov 1958
Description ▼For June, Wally playing football, even if it's only on the second string, is a sign that he's growing up, much too fast for her liking. So when Wally starts shaving after hearing all the other guys talk about it in the locker room, June is even more concerned, but even more so when Wally's face shows signs of how disastrous the first shave was. Although Ward understands that these rituals are ones where most boys eventually go through, he does believe that Wally shouldn't start shaving and forbids Wally from doing it yet. Believing it will make Wally understand why he shouldn't start shaving, Ward tells him that shaving will make the hairs come in thicker, thus needing to shave more often. Ward's talk has the exact opposite effect he was hoping as Wally believes that shaving everyday will make a real beard and mustache grow sooner. So when Ward catches Wally shaving again, Ward chastises him. What's worse for Wally is that his father's scolding happens in front of Eddie, who in turn tells all the other guys, which makes Wally feel like a little kid. Ward, later hearing from Beaver why Wally is in such a bad mood, tries to make it up to Wally for being so thoughtless in treating Wally like a small boy in front of his friend. Written by Huggo
9The Pipe
27 Nov 1958
Description ▼On his trip to Germany, Mr. Rutherford purchases a Meerschaum pipe. Mr. Rutherford gives it to Ward as a gift, and Ward shows it off to his family. Later, Beaver and Larry Mondello are playing when they go inside the house and look at the pipe. Larry suggests that it would be a good idea to experiment with smoking, and Beaver agrees. They first try smoking coffee beans and later ashes found in the ashtrays around the house. Beaver and Larry don't like the effects of their first smoke and vow not to smoke again. After cleaning out the pipe, they replace it in the cabinet. However, when Ward takes the pipe out, he notices someone had tried (not too well) to clean it and immediately fingers teen-aged Wally as the culprit. He takes Wally aside and asks him why he smoked the pipe. Of course, Wally denies the accusation; downstairs, June and Beaver are talking about why Wally is being lectured on the evils of smoking. After Ward comes down and remarks that Wally is being told to stay in his room (indefinitely, if need be), Beaver confesses that he and Larry smoked the pipe. Ward is upset and, after telling Beaver he will need to be punished (for doing something that could have had serious consequences, besides the health ones), he will need to find a way to apologize to Wally. Beaver suggests he should be the one to say, "I'm sorry." Written by Brian Rathjen
10Wally's New Suit
04 Dec 1958
Description ▼Wally is attending an upcoming dance. He is learning to dance and wants to buy a new suit, which his parents are more than happy to buy for him. Although Wally was originally planning on going to the store with his father who would pick out the suit, Wally changes his mind about letting his father pick the suit when Eddie tells him that he should be old enough to pick out his own clothes. Ward and June reluctantly allow Wally to go to the store alone with Beaver, despite Ward figuring he won't like what Wally chooses even before Wally goes to the store. Ward and June vow not to criticize Wally's choice regardless of what he comes home with. But it's difficult for them, who hate Wally's "loud" suit. Conversely, Eddie, Tooey and Beaver love it. Ultimately, Ward tries everything to talk Wally into buying a more conservative suit. But June thinks she has a more underhanded but effective approach to get Wally to do what they want. Written by Huggo
11School Play
11 Dec 1958
Description ▼Grant Avenue School is holding a performing arts festival, with each grade assigned a specific production. Beaver gets cast as the lead in the third grade production of "Flowers and Feathers". Beaver is to play a canary. Beaver is excited about his part and about the production. After the first rehearsal, Miss Wakeland, the director, doesn't think Beaver has what it takes to be a convincing canary, which he overhears. Although he doesn't tell his son so, Ward is also slightly embarrassed by Beaver's part, wishing his role had a bit more meat on it, or wishing the type of bird was a bit more majestic. June asks Ward to be a little more encouraging to the Beaver about the play and his role. Ward's words of encouragement the night of the play, in addition to Miss Wakeland's comments, have the effect of Beaver getting stage fright. Beaver refuses to go on. As Ward, June and Wally sit in the audience, they're sure that Beaver's stage fright will pass and that he'll be the best canary ever... or will he? Written by Huggo
12The Visiting Aunts
18 Dec 1958
Description ▼With free tickets from Tooey, and Ward offering to drive them to and from, Wally and Beaver have their Saturday all planned out to attend the last day of a carnival in Garden Grove. They are scheduled to leave at noon. A small wrench is thrown into their plans when June tells them that their Aunt Martha and her friend Mrs. Hathaway are coming from Riverside for a visit, after which Wally and Beaver are welcome to go to the carnival. The small wrench grows bigger as June invites Aunt Martha and Mrs. Hathaway to stay for lunch. Wally and Beaver do whatever they can to speed up Aunt Martha's visit, all the while trying to be polite. The politeness doesn't come through. So when Aunt Martha and Mrs. Hathaway leave by mid-afternoon, the battle of the wills really begins between Ward and June on one side, and Wally and Beaver on the other side. Written by Huggo
13Happy Weekend
25 Dec 1958
Description ▼Ward is excited when an opportunity arises to take the family for a weekend outing to Shadow Lake, one of his childhood hangouts. June is less than excited as she has nothing nice to wear. The boys are even less excited as they want to stay in town to watch a movie playing at the cinema. Ward convinces his family that they will have fun, much like he did when he was a child. Once at Shadow Lake, the boys' time is not as they originally envisioned after they go for a hike, much to Ward's exasperation as their outdoor experience is not one that Ward experienced there as a child. Ward and the boys' fishing trip, although initially exciting, also ends up not being as Ward remembers his time as a child to be. Ward feels perhaps he cannot go back and relive his childhood with his boys, but the boys surprise him when Ward decides to head home early. Written by Huggo
14Wally's Present
01 Jan 1959
Description ▼Wally's birthday is approaching and the Beaver has $6.98 to spend on a gift for his brother. Known to his parents, the Beaver plans on buying Wally a camera as a gift. As Wally is approaching that age, he doesn't want a formal party but would rather go to a movie and the soda shop with Eddie on his birthday and "accidentally" run into some girls he likes. This change of plans irks the Beaver, who has always enjoyed Wally's birthday parties. When the Beaver is about to buy Wally's gift, Larry talks the Beaver into buying a $6.50 bow and arrow set for himself instead - Larry reasons that the Beaver shouldn't spend money on Wally since Wally snubbed him by not including him in the birthday festivities. That leaves only less than 50-cents for a gift for Wally. Wally, however, changes his mind and decides to have a small party, which includes the Beaver. Wally also invites the Beaver to accompany him and Eddie to the movie. The Beaver now feels bad not only because of the cheap present he bought for Wally, but also because he and Larry promptly broke the bow and arrow set. The Beaver somehow has to relieve his feeling of guilt but also has some explaining to his parents who don't see a camera when Wally opens the Beaver's present. Written by Huggo
15The Grass Is Always Greener
08 Jan 1959
Description ▼After overhearing a woman try to get out of a parking ticket and after talking to Larry about his own home life, Beaver comes to the conclusion that he should really listen to the chit-chat that happens around his own house. One piece of information that Beaver gleans from this chit-chat by his father is that they will end up in "the poor house" if things keep on the way that they are. This news makes Beaver curious about poor people, what they're like and where they hang out. When Mr. Fletcher, their neighborhood garbage man, looks like what Ward tells him some poor people look like, Beaver wants to get to know Mr. Fletcher better. Having kids Beaver's age, Mr. Fletcher is more than happy to show Beaver his home life, living in a house the other side of town near the dump. Ward is more than willing to let Beaver do this exploration, but June is concerned. When Beaver comes home excited about the great time he had at the Fletchers, Ward and June, coming from two different perspectives, believe that having the two Fletcher boys come for a visit may be the next best step, despite Wally and Beaver's assertions that there's nothing to do in their own neighborhood compared to playing in the dump. Pete and Chris Fletcher's visit shows all the Cleavers and the Fletchers what life on the other side is really like. Written by Huggo
16The Boat Builders
15 Jan 1959
Description ▼Inspired by a movie featuring an Eskimo kayak, Wally and his friends build one of their own and, in spite of Ward's warning, secretly launch the craft on Miller's Pond. But when Beaver is the only one small enough to fit in the boat's small opening and he and the craft capsize, the boys try to keep their parents from finding out by cleverly sneaking a soaking wet Beaver up to his bedroom for a bath. Written by shepherd1138
17Beaver Plays Hooky
22 Jan 1959
Description ▼Distracted by a construction company digging holes, Beaver and buddy Larry Mondello are late for school and decide to skip classes altogether to avoid getting yelled at by the principal. But when the hungry boys head for the nearest supermarket for lunch they find themselves on a live, promotional television program, unaware that Wally and June are watching them from the television in Wally's bedroom. Written by shepherd1138
18The Garage Painters
29 Jan 1959
Description ▼When the television breaks down over a week-end, Ward encourages Wally and Beaver to read Mark Twain's classic book, "Tom Sawyer". But things don't turn out quite as they planned after the boys try to use fictional Tom's technique to paint the Cleaver garage doors. Written by shepherd1138
19Wally's Pug Nose
05 Feb 1959
Description ▼With Ward and June in the room, Wally is secretive about a telephone call he is having with Tooey. It's because they're talking about a new girl in school, Gloria Cusick, to who Wally is attracted. The first conversation that Wally and Gloria have later in the school cafeteria is going well enough in Wally's mind until the very end when Gloria makes an offhanded comment that she never noticed before that Wally has a pug nose, she neither stating that that is a good or bad thing. When Wally later reads up on what a pug nose looks like (like that of a bulldog or monkey), he becomes self-conscious of it. Wally goes to an extreme and "quackish" measure to alter the look of his nose. When Ward finds out about what Wally is doing, he has to decide how to approach Wally by building his self physical image without him not thinking that there is anything wrong with his physical image in the first place. Written by Huggo
20Beaver's Pigeons
12 Feb 1959
Description ▼In a "Pigeon Club" with his two friends Whitey and Larry Mondello, The Beaver names his two carrier pigeons "Miss Landers" and "Miss Canfield" after his two favorite teachers. Since he has never had the chicken pox before, Ward cannot come in contact with his stricken younger son who is banished to his room unable to care for his two pigeons. Though Ward complains of generalized itching, June assures him it is not related to his son's contagious disease. While Wally is in the garage caring for his little brother's new pets, Larry arrives with his own two pigeons "Al" and "Nate" and asks him to birdsit, because his family is staying in a hotel for the weekend. Even though Larry's birds didn't take the jostling bike ride very well, Wally places all the fowl in the same cage. When he notices that the Beaver's pigeons also don't look well, he fears they have caught lice from Larry's birds and treats them with a spray. Unfortunately, a neighbor's cat gets into the garage and kills two of the pigeons. Unsure of whose pigeons they were, the Cleavers have to take Larry's word that they were the Beaver's. Upset that he didn't take better care of the Beaver's pets, Wally apologizes to him as he breaks the news of their demise to his stoic little brother then sits in the hall as the Beaver struggles not to cry. Larry and Whitey decide to help their grieving friend by holding a funeral for the pigeons and burying them outside The Beaver's house while he watches solemnly from his bedroom window. When The Beaver refuses his father's offer to buy him more pigeons for a while, Wally wonders what they're going to do with all that lice spray. Hoping that someday they'll get an eagle with lice, Ward walks away scratching his neck and back while Wally wonders what's wrong with his dad.
21The Tooth
19 Feb 1959
Description ▼While Beaver and his small toothache wait for the results of a dental X-ray, he's convinced that he will soon have a painful experience after mean-spirited Lumpy Rutherford tells him that, to make more money, the dentist will drill a deep hole no matter how tiny the cavity may be. Written by shepherd1138
22Beaver Gets Adopted
26 Feb 1959
Description ▼Beaver believes he's been unfairly reprimanded for accidentally breaking Wally's track trophy, takes his Dad's offhand comment to find new parents literally, and with pal Larry Mondello's encouragement, heads for an adoption agency to see if he can do better. Written by shepherd1138
23The Haunted House
05 Mar 1959
Description ▼Beaver has just had a nightmare about a haunted castle filled with ghosts. He needs reassurance from Wally that haunted houses do not exist. Later, Beaver, through his mother, is offered a job walking a dog for 50-cents a day. Beaver is excited by his new job until he learns that the lady requesting his help is the one who lives in the old Cooper house. That house had sat empty for fifteen years, and Larry convinced Beaver that only a witch could live there. In reality, Miss Cooper has just returned to town to fix the place up before deciding what to do with it. Beaver tries to convince Wally or Larry to help him walk the dog - at least on the first day - but Beaver ends up at Miss Cooper's front door all by himself. Once he gets inside, will it be haunted by the witch of Miss Cooper as he expects? Written by Huggo
24The Bus Ride
12 Mar 1959
Description ▼Beaver receives an invitation from his old friend Billy Peyton - whose family moved to a farm in Crystal Falls - to visit for the weekend. Beaver is excited about the trip and spending time with Billy on the farm. However, June reminds Ward that they have a previous engagement and thus can't drive Beaver the ninety miles to Crystal Falls. Wally offers to take Beaver there on the bus and take the bus back that same day, with Ward picking up Beaver in Crystal Falls at the end of the weekend. Ward feels Wally is ready for the responsibility and allows him to do so, despite June expressing some apprehension. During a short pit stop at Elmhurst along the bus trip, Wally and Beaver head off in two different directions and agree to meet back on the bus. But Beaver, forgetting which bus he was on, asks a newsstand clerk in the bus station which is the Mayfield bus. The clerk points him to the bus heading back to Mayfield. As such, Beaver gets on the wrong bus. So Wally and Beaver each have to decide what to do when they get to their respective different destinations of Crystal Falls and Mayfield, especially as neither is ending up in their ultimate destination. Written by Huggo
25Beaver and Gilbert
19 Mar 1959
Description ▼The Gates family have just moved in across the street, with the Gates' son, Gilbert, in Beaver's class. Beaver, Larry and Whitey's first impression of Gilbert is that he's goofy since he carries a briefcase and isn't averse to playing with the girls. But Beaver's impression of Gilbert changes when he hears all the neat stories of Gilbert's life - such as preparing to run in the 1968 Olympics, having visited the north pole, knowing famous people and his father being a gunshot wounded FBI agent - stories which to any adult are obvious fabrications, but to Beaver are fascinating. Beaver ditches his friends to hang out with Gilbert. When Gilbert ditches Beaver to hang out with two other guys, Beaver doesn't believe his new friend would do that to him. But when Beaver sees it with his own eyes and that those two guys are Larry and Whitey, Beaver has to learn how to deal with the Gilbert Gateses of the world. Perhaps he has to understand why Gilbert is the way he is. Written by Huggo
26Price of Fame
26 Mar 1959
Description ▼Looking for an electric spanking machine and reaching for a four-leaf clover teach Beaver the meaning of being "conspicuous" when he has to be rescued from Principal Rayburn's locked office and extracted from a park fence, both in one eventful week-end. Written by shepherd1138
27A Horse Named Nick
02 Apr 1959
Description ▼Wally and Beaver are excited that they have managed to get jobs with a traveling carnival for the three days that it is set-up in Mayfield. They are getting paid $20 for their work. By the smell of the boys, their parents can tell the job entails working with animals. June doesn't like the idea, but Ward thinks it will be good for the boys, and gives them the advice not to do anything dangerous, especially as animals can be unpredictable. After the fact, Ward does think the work itself has been positive for the boys. What both Ward and June don't think is as positive is that the boys were not paid $20 in cash, but rather in an old horse named Nick, which they have brought home with them. While Ward and June decide what to do with Nick, they all come to learn what sort of constitution Nick has and what little use he would be as a work animal. So even selling Nick may be a problem. But old farm boy Ward comes up with what he thinks will be a good solution for all. Written by Huggo
28Beaver's Hero
09 Apr 1959
Description ▼Trying to impress his friends after classmate Judy Hensler brags that her father flew his own airplane in WWII, Beaver makes up a story about Ward the war-hero and finds himself in a real predicament when substitute teacher, Mr. Willit, asks Beaver to bring his dad to school to talk about his experiences. Written by shepherd1138
29Beaver Says Good-bye
16 Apr 1959
Description ▼Excited about possibly moving to a bigger house in a new neighborhood, Beaver tells his whole third grade class. But when the house sale falls through, embarrassed Beaver doesn't know how to break the news to his friends, especially after they throw him a surprise farewell party...with presents! Written by shepherd1138
30Beaver's Newspaper
23 Apr 1959
Description ▼Beaver rescues Wally's broken typewriter from the trash, gets reliable Gus the Fireman to fix it with his "special oil" and starts a newspaper with his pal Larry. But Wally soon regrets tossing the now smoothly working machine and demands the newsboys return "his" typewriter. Written by shepherd1138
31Beaver's Sweater
30 Apr 1959
Description ▼While window shopping, Larry and Beaver see a unique Eskimo sweater costing $12.98 that Larry says his father is going to buy for him. Larry convinces Beaver to try and get his parents to buy him one as well so that they can look like twins, or failing that to buy it himself with the $25 he has in the bank, money which is supposed to be used for his college education. Initially, Ward is reluctant to let Beaver get the sweater, but June talks Ward into letting Beaver buy the sweater. They somewhat regret it as they think the sweater ugly. Beaver also begins to regret it as beyond Larry not getting one yet, Larry and Beaver see that Judy Hensler has the exact same sweater. Beaver has to figure out how to get rid of the sweater and make up a plausible explanation to his parents why he no longer wears it. Written by Huggo
32Friendship
07 May 1959
Description ▼Beaver and Larry each consider the other their best friend. That changes after they have an argument about nothing important. Ward, using the story of Damon and Pythius, tries to make Beaver understand the nature of true friendship. When Beaver relays the story to Larry in hopes of getting Larry to be his friend again, Larry, wanting to be Pythius in their friendship, takes advantage of Damon, namely Beaver, which gets Beaver into trouble with Miss Landers. Miss Landers is disappointed in Beaver since she considers him not only her student but her friend. When Ward gets wind of what happened, he makes Beaver understand that friendship is a two-way street and that the next step now belongs to Beaver's "Pythius", namely Larry. Written by Huggo
33Dance Contest
14 May 1959
Description ▼Via formal written invitation, Mary Ellen Rogers, who Wally hasn't seen in a while since she went away to school, invites Wally to be her date to a cotillion at the country club. Even though he likes Mary Ellen, he doesn't want to go to a stuffy formal dance. But if he isn't going to go, his parents make him at least telephone Mary Ellen to tell her. But saying no to Mary Ellen ends up being a little more difficult for Wally than he anticipated. He doesn't regret agreeing to go when he sees Mary Ellen for the first time, since she's grown up a lot since he last saw her. But his excitement changes to fear when she tells him she's entered them in the cotillion's cha-cha contest, which he doesn't tell her he doesn't know how to do. As Wally tries to teach himself how to dance using an instructional recording without telling anyone what he's doing, he quickly comes to the conclusion that he has two options: either embarrass himself in the dance contest or figure out a way to get out from going to the cotillion altogether. Written by Huggo
34Wally's Haircomb
21 May 1959
Description ▼Wally is combing his hair in a new faddish style. Eddie and all the others are combing it in the same way. Ward and June thinks Wally looks ridiculous. While June wants Ward to tell him not to comb it that way, Ward, while not liking it, feels that he needs to let Wally do what he wants in this manner, while impressing on him that not all fads are worth following. While he wants Wally to comb his hair the way he used to, Ward will still try to convince him in a sly manner. But picking up on subtlety doesn't seem to work on Wally. Even June tries to take a more direct approach in talking to the school principal, Mr. Haller. In the end, Ward and June have to hope Wally will outgrown this phase. It isn't until Beaver shows them a different perspective that June takes matters into her own hands. Written by Huggo
35The Cookie Fund
28 May 1959
Description ▼Beaver and Larry have been elected co-chairs of their class' cookie drive committee, the funds from which are to be used for a class trip at the end of the year. As co-chairs, Beaver and Larry will alternate their responsibilities each week, one in charge of carrying the cookie box, the other in charge of holding onto the money and the key to the closet where the cookies are stored. Thinking him a nice guy since he helped them out, Beaver and Larry give $3 of the cookie drive money to eighth grader Roger Delacy, who tells them a story of coming from a poor family that doesn't have enough money to feed themselves, but that his father will come into a financial windfall from which he can pay back the $3. When Beaver and Larry see Roger the next day, Roger feigns ignorance about the $3 or telling the previous story about his family. As Beaver and Larry try and figure out how to replace the $3, especially as Mr. Preston, the cookie man, has only given them a day to make their account balance, Beaver learns a further lesson on trust from his father. Written by Huggo
36Forgotten Party
04 Jun 1959
Description ▼Beaver forgets he's been invited to old friend David Manning's birthday party, is embarrassed to give David what he considers to be a "baby" toy that June bought for him at the last minute, and must think fast to come up with a more appropriate gift. Written by shepherd1138
37Beaver the Athlete
11 Jun 1959
Description ▼Ward and June are proud of the Beaver's latest report card with its plethora of A's and B's, but Ward just can't get over the D he got in Physical Education. Ward is even more dismayed when he learns from Wally that Coach Grover is a fair and honest man. When Beaver admits that he may have got the D since he couldn't do his somersaults during tumbling drills, Ward tries to teach him. But once Beaver's learned that skill from Ward, Coach Grover has moved onto another activity: baseball. During this activity, Beaver shows why he really got the D: he turns into the class clown whenever he can't do the activity. In class, he shows little athletic prowess. In further talking to his family about his antics during phys ed class, Beaver shows that he has little competitive spirit. When Beaver finally does show some competitive spirit regarding the annual boys versus girl baseball game, Beaver learns that clowning around is ultimately only funny if you can prove that you can do the real thing in its place. Written by Huggo
38Found Money
18 Jun 1959
Description ▼Beaver isn't worried that he doesn't have any money to spend at the carnival after his best friend Larry Mondello promises to pay the way. But conniving Larry has spent all of his allowance too and, sneaking money from his mother's sewing basket, throws it out the window and arranges to have Beaver "find" it. Written by shepherd1138
39Most Interesting Character
25 Jun 1959
Description ▼The Cleavers are still in the process of trying to sell their house, while looking for another one to buy. The offers they receive seem to be more interesting than worthwhile, while the boys are tired about having to keep their room tidy for prospective buyers. Meanwhile, Miss Landers has assigned a 100-word composition assignment on the topic "The Most Interesting Character I Have Ever Known", the class having the weekend to complete the assignment. Judy Hensler mentions that she is going to write about her father, but the story of him being a big game hunter in Africa seems to be more fantasy than reality. As Beaver contemplates who he will write about, Ward isn't immediately on his list as he sees Ward as not being like Judy's "big game hunter" father. Beaver does decide to write about Ward, but after trying to get ideas about what to write, even from Ward himself, Beaver finds it difficult to make the composition interesting from his young perspective, or even from Wally's teen-aged perspective. As such, Wally helps Beaver write a composition more along the lines of what Judy is writing. The most useful piece of advice ultimately comes from June, who tells Beaver to write what he feels about his father and why he makes him feel that way instead of what he does. Written by Huggo
1Blind Date Committee
03 Oct 1959
Description ▼There is a dance upcoming at Wally's school and Wally has been appointed to be the Blind Date Committee, which is supposed to find dates for all the girls who want to go to the dance but can't find their own dates. Wally is a bit apprehensive about this job as he isn't sure how to proceed. After taking advice from his parents, he is even more unsure about it as the task seems harder than he could have imagined. It seems especially difficult to find a date for Jill Bartlett, a girl he doesn't even know and has never seen, but who he learns has a reputation for being a "gopher" as he calls it, or what his parents refer to as a wallflower. Not being able to find a date for her and unable to get out of doing the job from the dance chair Duke Hathaway, Wally decides to be her date himself. Wally wants to do whatever he can to make sure that Jill has a good time at the dance, but sends Beaver to do some reconnaissance work first just so that he has some idea of what Jill looks like beforehand. Written by Huggo
2Beaver Takes a Bath
10 Oct 1959
Description ▼Ward and June are going on an overnight business trip. When the sitter they hired cancels at the last minute, Wally, feeling responsible enough, volunteers to be the sitter for the night, getting paid at the same rate as the previous sitter of course. His parents agree. One of the many tasks June leaves for the boys is for Beaver to take a bath. When Wally first tells Beaver to take a bath then to come down for dinner, Beaver forgets that he left the water running in the bathtub, which eventually overflows. The flood causes water to flow onto the main floor, which leaves a large water stain on the kitchen ceiling. After Ward and June come home, the plaster on the ceiling where the water damage occurs falls off. Wally and Beaver have to decide whether to confess, especially after Ward and June praise them on doing such a good job while they were away. Written by Huggo
3School Bus
17 Oct 1959
Description ▼Grant Avenue School is extending their school bus service to all students in the school, meaning that Beaver can now get a ride to school on the bus. Despite Beaver having read the school bus policy manual, he quickly gets suspended from riding on the bus for one week for "conduct not up to the standards of a fourth grader". Ward and June learn that that unbecoming conduct is hitting Charles Fredericks, another boy in his class, over the head, but only after Charles hit him first. Charles was not suspended since Mr. Crawford, the bus driver, didn't see Charles do anything. Ward does whatever he can to get Beaver back on the bus, and teaches Beaver a lesson in diplomacy. Beaver tries to pass that lesson on to Judy Hensler along with a more tangible item Beaver passes along to her. Written by Huggo
4Beaver's Prize
24 Oct 1959
Description ▼Ward grounds Beaver for a Saturday for going into his desk drawer when he knows he isn't supposed to. Beaver is not to leave the Cleaver property that day. While Ward and June visit friends for the day, and while Wally goes off with Eddie, Beaver receives a visit from Larry who wants Beaver to go to the movies with him. The sound of the attractions is just too much for Beaver to resist, and the two go off together even though Beaver knows what he's doing is wrong and is scared that he will get caught. Beaver's situation gets worse when he wins a door prize of a bicycle at the movie theater. Wally comes home to find Beaver nowhere in sight, but decides to cover for his little brother. But will Beaver ultimately confess to his parents or make amends as he can't hide the bicycle forever and as his parents bought him some ice cream for taking his punishment so well? Written by Huggo
5Baby Picture
31 Oct 1959
Description ▼Beaver asks June for one of his baby pictures to enter in his school project and is horrified when Wally shows him that the pose she chose is one with no clothes ... and the photo will be going on the bulletin board for the whole class to see! Written by shepherd1138
6Beaver Takes a Walk
07 Nov 1959
Description ▼After June finds it among Ward's old possessions, Ward gives the boys an old pedometer that his father gave to him. Beaver is excited about using it, especially after Ward tells him that he will be amazed at how far he can walk each day. In what is obviously an exaggeration at least in Ward's mind, he tells the boys that he used to walk 20 miles a day to and from school. When Beaver shows his classmates the pedometer, he ends up betting Whitey his prized outfielder's mitt that he can walk 20 miles by the same time tomorrow since his father did it, and his father wouldn't lie to him. By the end of the afternoon, Beaver comes to the painful conclusion that he will walk nowhere close to 20 miles. A sulking Beaver, who doesn't want to talk about what is bothering him to his parents, is mad at the world not only for losing his mitt, but because he didn't measure up to his father. When Ward finds out, can he right things in Beaver's mind? Written by Huggo
7Borrowed Boat
14 Nov 1959
Description ▼Wally has painstakingly made arrangements to allow Beaver to ride the team bus to his football game, then eat lunch with the team. However, Beaver makes some last-minute plans to go with Larry on an outing to Friends Lake. Wally is very upset and vows never to do any favors for Beaver again. At the lake, Beaver and Larry run into a pair of teen-agers, who say they are searching for some lost oars for their boat; however, the teens are hoodlums who had burglarized the boat shed and duped the two young boys into taking the boat. The hoods run off, and when the police arrive on the scene, Beaver and Larry are caught red-handed. Unable to explain the situation or identify the real culprits, the boys are taken into custody and are told their parents will be called. Wally is the only one who is home when Beaver makes his one phone call, and at first Wally is reluctant to help bail his brother out; however, Beaver tearfully apologizes for the earlier situation, and Wally - feeling obligated to help his brother - goes to the precinct to help bail his brother out. Good thing, too: Beaver lets slip a few important clues about the juveniles' identities, and Wally is able to give names (he knew them as troublemakers at school). When they arrive home, they keep quiet about the situation, but as always, Ward finds out; he is in the room when Wally accepts a phone call from the police department, telling him that the suspects in the boathouse burglary have been arrested. Ward demands an explanation and Wally resists, but Beaver explains the whole thing. June is surprised when Ward goes easy on his sons, but Ward - remembering earlier that Wally and Beaver were on the verge of not speaking to each other - said that this situation helped Wally realize that he needed to set aside his grudge and help Beaver when he was in trouble. Written by Brian Rathjen
8Beaver's Tree
21 Nov 1959
Description ▼Miss Landers gets the class to memorize the poem "The Heart of the Tree" by H.C. Brunner . It is obvious to her by the way they recite the poem that the children do not understand the meaning and the beauty of the poem. After Miss Landers reads the poem aloud, Beaver, now understanding its meaning, remembers back to a tree that Ward once gave him for his birthday, a tree that is growing in the yard at their old house. Beaver wants to get his tree back, as he sees it as being his. With Larry's help, he goes and digs up the tree without telling his parents or Mr. Benner, who now owns their old house. What will Ward, June and Mr. Benner do once they find out what Beaver has done? Written by Huggo
9Teacher Comes to Dinner
28 Nov 1959
Description ▼Beaver regales to his parents the joys of being in Miss Landers class, she who is new to the school, to Mayfield and to the teaching profession. Wanting to show their appreciation for inspiring Beaver, Ward and June want to do something nice for her. June does what Ward's parents did when he was a boy: invite her over for dinner. Beaver knows nothing about the invitation until Miss Landers thanks him after school the day of the dinner. As much as he likes Miss Landers, he feels uncomfortable about having her over for dinner. He tells Larry the situation only on the promise by Larry that he won't tell anyone else. But Larry being Larry is unable to keep the secret. So Larry, Whitey and Gilbert decide to go over to the Cleavers and hide out in a tree so that they can spy on Miss Landers and Beaver together. By the end of the dinner, Beaver realizes why he likes Miss Landers so much. Written by Huggo
10Beaver's Fortune
05 Dec 1959
Description ▼After spending a morning at the five and dime, Beaver and Larry each spend their last penny to weigh themselves at a weight & fortune machine. Both Beaver and Larry believe Beaver hit the jackpot when Beaver's fortune says that this is his lucky day. When they later run into Sonny Cartwright, a boy a whole year older in the fifth grade and with who Larry had a shoving altercation previously at school, Larry starts a verbal altercation, but ends up getting Sonny to challenge Beaver to a fight instead, the fight scheduled for later that day. Larry's reasoning is that Beaver's luck will protect him. Beaver believes as such until Wally tells him that there is no such thing as luck. Asking his father a general question about luck with Ward providing an answer somewhat similar to Wally's, Beaver now believes luck will not protect him in the fight with Sonny. What will a now scared Beaver do, especially as Larry tells their friends about the fight? Written by Huggo
11Beaver Makes a Loan
12 Dec 1959
Description ▼Beaver is forced to break his promise to bring home the change from the dollar his dad gave him to buy a 25 cent notebook after his unreliable pal, Larry Mondello, takes the money to buy a notebook for each of them and pays off an old debt with the rest. Written by shepherd1138
12Beaver the Magician
19 Dec 1959
Description ▼Just before Beaver is to go for a weekend visit with Aunt Martha, he and Larry spend the afternoon at Uncle Artie's magic store. With magic on their minds, they decide to play a trick on unsuspecting five year old Bengie Bellamy: Larry pretends to turn Beaver into a rock, with Beaver really hiding in a box. But before Larry can "change" the rock back to Beaver, Larry has to head home, with neither Beaver or Larry thinking anything of Bengie still believing Beaver is that rock. Mrs. Bellamy is at her wits end trying to convince a scared Bengie that the rock he is caring for is not Beaver. Bengie needs to see Beaver in real life to be convinced, which can't be done now since Beaver is at Aunt Martha's. Even Wally, thinking more like a kid than the adults, does what he thinks will convince Bengie, but to no avail. Will they have to wait until Beaver's return for Bengie to be convinced? Written by Huggo
13June's Birthday
26 Dec 1959
Description ▼Not wanting to hurt Beaver's feelings when he gives her a tacky blouse for her birthday, loving mother June promises Beaver that she will wear the blouse to a mother's club tea. But June wears another outfit instead, unaware that Beaver's grammar school class will also be at the tea to sing a special song. Written by shepherd1138
14Tire Trouble
02 Jan 1960
Description ▼Beaver and Wally come up with an idea to raise chinchillas since Beaver reads one can make $10,000 a year doing so. Although they soon abandon the idea, the mess in the garage associated with them building a chinchilla cage remains. Ward is incensed since he can't get his car in the garage. He orders the boys to clean up the mess in the garage by tomorrow. For good reason according to June, the clean-up doesn't come to pass as Ward ordered. Even more angry and inadvertently calling the boys stupid, Ward orders the boys to clean it up the next day - Saturday - before they do anything else. As Ward gets a ride into the office to work this Saturday, Ward leaves his car behind outside the garage. Beaver, finding a piece of lumber stuck to the car's front tire, pulls it out nail and all deflating the tire. Not wanting to be called stupid again, Beaver and Wally follow Eddie's advice of taking the tire to the garage and having it patched before Ward comes home. Not without incident, they manage to do so. If Ward finds out what happened, will he call the boys stupid again? Written by Huggo
15Larry Hides Out
09 Jan 1960
Description ▼Caught reading his sister's diary and embarrassed when his mother scolds him in front of his best friend, Beaver, Larry Mondello decides to run away to Mexico; but Larry only makes it as far as the Cleaver house where he hides out in Beaver's bathtub. Written by shepherd1138
16Pet Fair
16 Jan 1960
Description ▼Beaver isn't looking forward to school today since all the kids in his class are announcing what pets they will bring tomorrow for the pet fair. Beaver knows that he will be one of the few who doesn't own a pet, and his parents refuse to buy him one since he has not taken care of any of the other pets he has had in his life. So when one by one the other kids tell what pets they are bringing, Beaver pipes up that he will be bringing a singing and talking parrot, as he knows there is one just like that at the pet store. Beaver doesn't expect that the parrot costs $200, money which he doesn't have. Even Ward changing his mind and buying Beaver a pet hamster doesn't cheer him up. And Ward and June, not knowing what Beaver has told the class, don't understand why he isn't happy about the hamster. Beaver hopes for a miracle for a parrot to appear by tomorrow. June, Ward and Miss Landers end up being more understanding about the issue than Beaver expects. Written by Huggo
17Wally's Test
23 Jan 1960
Description ▼It's Saturday and Wally plans on going over to Mary Ellen Rogers' house with the guys just to hang out. Instead, Ward and June make Wally stay at home since he has a big History midterm exam on Monday for which they want him to study, especially as History is his worst subject. Unknown to Wally, Eddie and Lumpy, who still plan on going to Mary Ellen's, aren't going to study at all as Eddie has a plan to cheat: he will write the important dates on a paper towel hidden in the towel dispenser in the boys washroom. Eddie will excuse himself during the exam to go wash his hands, and get the answers off the paper towel. At the beginning of the exam, Wally spills ink on his hands, excuses himself to go to the washroom to wash his hands and sees a piece of paper towel there with writing on it to which he pays no attention. So when Eddie later excuses himself to go to the washroom, Eddie can't find the paper towel with the dates on it. The result is that Wally gets a good mark on the exam, while Eddie and Lumpy's grades are near the bottom. Eddie is certain that Wally stole their answer sheet, and plans on slyly letting Mr. Gannon, the History teacher, know. Mr. Gannon does receive Eddie's anonymous note, he who investigates which brings a confused Wally into his class earlier than usual on his request. Will Eddie and Wally's friendship be able to survive this betrayal? Written by Huggo
18Beaver's Library Book
30 Jan 1960
Description ▼Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) and Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) arrive home to find June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) cooking old-fashioned pot roast for dinner. Ward is slightly disturbed to discover that it is from a frozen food package. June tells Ward that the Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is in the den, picking out a book to read for school. Ward tells Beaver that his choice, "Conquest of Mexico" by William Prescott isn't appropriate for fourth-graders. He suggests Treasure Island and gives the Beaver his library card so that he can check the book out the next day. Ward warns Beaver to be careful to not lose the library card. Wally asks to borrow the dictionary, so that he can look up the word "archipelago." Beaver and Larry Mondello (Robert Stevens) go to the library after school. Beaver finds Treasure Island. Larry thinks it looks like a scary book. Larry tells Beaver that he is reading Call of the Wild, which is not scary. Beaver wonders how a dog could write a book. The librarian (Claudia Bryar) tells Beaver the book is due in one week, and the fine is five cents per day overdue. Beaver tells her that he will read fast. Ward and June wonder why the boys are so quiet. June tells Ward that the boys are doing homework upstairs. June remarks that the Beaver read Treasure Island in four days. Ward says when he was a boy, he read three or four books a week. June compares Ward to Abraham Lincoln. Beaver reads his book report to Wally. Wally says the book report is crummy. Beaver confesses that he lost the library book. Wally tells Beaver to not mess with the city, because the city has to maintain law and order and the only way to do that is by kicking other people around. Beaver tells Wally not to worry. Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) finds a letter from the library hidden among the Beaver's things. Eddie tells Wally. Wally tells the Beaver to take care of the problem. Beaver tells Wally not to worry. While Wally is out of the room, Eddie tells Beaver that he's in a mess, and that a library cop will come to throw him in jail. Beaver tells Eddie that he used Ward's library card. Eddie warns Beaver that Ward will go to jail. Wally returns. Eddie, covering his tracks, tells Wally that the Beaver is getting to be a good looking kid. Eddie and Wally leave. Larry consoles Beaver. The next day, Beaver comes home from school. He finds June sitting in the kitchen, waiting on a chicken in the oven. Beaver says he will never let a chicken boss him around. Beaver asks if anyone came looking for Dad. June tells him no. Beaver asks June what she would do if Dad didn't come home. June says she would keep supper warm. Beaver asks June what she would do if Dad didn't come home for a couple of weeks. June says it would be upsetting. Beaver goes to Larry's. Wally and Eddie come home. Eddie slams the door. June admonishes Wally for slamming the door. Beaver and Larry go to the library. Beaver asks to speak to Mr. Hayden. The librarian suggests that Beaver speak to Mr. Davenport (Theodore Newton) because the Haydens of the Hayden Memorial Library are deceased. Beaver goes into Mr. Davenport's office and explains to Mr. Davenport that he lost the library book, and that he should be the one to go to jail. Mr. Davenport asks why he thinks he has to go to jail. Beaver tells him that a guy told him that he would have to go. Mr. Davenport says that guys say a lot of things that aren't true. Mr. Davenport tells the Beaver that his conscience is bothering him, and that he should tell his father that he lost the book. Beaver agrees. Beaver rehearses his lost book speech with Wally. Wally says it isn't spontaneous. Beaver tries to change into pajamas. Wally tells him to forget the pajamas. Beaver goes to the den to talk to Ward. Beaver tells Ward that he lost the library book and that he can take the money out of his "generous allowance." Ward tells Beaver he already knows about the book because Mr. Davenport called him. Ward explains that he can't go through life lying about problems in hopes that they will go away. Beaver agrees that lying is more trouble than not telling the truth in the first place. A few days later, Wally practices posing in front of the mirror for upcoming basketball team photos. Beaver tells Wally that he found Treasure Island in Larry Mondello's locker, and that he returned it to the library. Wally asks how Beaver paid the fine. Beaver tells Wally that he used the two silver dollars given to him by Uncle Billy.
19Wally's Election
06 Feb 1960
Description ▼Wally's sophomore class is holding its elections this Friday. Each of the four home room classes is submitting a slate of candidates, two for each of the positions. After Tooey nominates a proud Lumpy for president, Eddie, on a lark, nominates a reluctant Wally. Ward and June don't mind too much that Wally seems disinterested in the job, but things change specifically for Ward when Fred Rutherford gloats that Wally has no chance of winning against his Lumpy. Ward talks Wally into treating the election like any politician who wants to win would. Although doing such is outside of Wally's comfort zone, Wally ends up relishing the glad-handing and the thought of potentially being president. How will his classmates react to the new Wally, who is acting like a career politician, versus the old Wally, a casual, fun guy? Written by Huggo
20Beaver and Andy
13 Feb 1960
Description ▼Andy, an old handyman with a drinking problem, shows up at the Cleavers looking for work, but June is wary of Andy's past troubles with alcohol.
21Beaver's Dance
20 Feb 1960
Description ▼Beaver, who has been going to dancing school, has been invited by written invitation to attend a series of six weekly formal cotillions organized by the dance teacher, Mrs. Prescott. The boys are required to wear blue suits and white gloves, the girls organdy dresses. Beaver doesn't want to go and doesn't believe that Larry too has been invited, but his parents make him go regardless. The first cotillion is as bad as Beaver and Larry expect, and as such they make a pact not to go to another one ever. But when the second cotillion rolls around, both sets of parents make their sons go. Beaver and Larry decide to hang out somewhere else for the duration of the cotillion, with both planning to tell their parents that they did go. Their choice of an alternate hang out is behind a barn, where they meet a young cowgirl. Their interaction with her may be the downfall in keeping their secret, unless June goes through with her thought of calling Mrs. Prescott to see how the cotillion is going. Written by Huggo
22Larry's Club
27 Feb 1960
Description ▼June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) is on the phone with an anxious Larry Mondello (Rusty Stevens.) June tells Larry that Beaver (Jerry Mathers) isn't home. Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) says he hasn't seen the Beaver all morning. Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) tells June and Ward that the Beaver's towel is dry and his dirty socks are under the bed, indicating that he left in a hurry. The family surmises that perhaps the Beaver went off to watch a young friend eat snails. Beaver is at the junkyard. Harold (Neil Seflinger) initiates Beaver into the secret Bloody Five club. Beaver pays Harold a twenty-five cent initiation fee. Whitey (Stanley Fafara) tells Beaver that he can only talk to other Bloody Five members. Beaver asks when Larry can join the club. The other boys tell Beaver that Larry isn't neat enough to be a Bloody Five. A fuming Larry sits at home, shredding a shirt into rags. Mrs. Mondello (Madge Blake) admonishes Larry. Larry tells his mom that Beaver joined Harold's club, but that he isn't allowed to join. An indignant Mrs. Mondello says she will call Harold's mom and insist that Larry be allowed to join. Larry stops her. Mrs. Mondello tells Larry that all the other boys will be sorry someday. Larry wonders what he will do in the meantime. Wally tells Beaver that joining the Bloody Five without Larry is a dirty trick to play on a friend. Beaver feels guilty. Beaver thinks Larry won't figure it out if he doesn't say anything about joining. Wally tells Beaver that he's goofy. Larry comes over. Wally thinks Larry came over to sock Beaver. Beaver goes downstairs to see Larry. Larry is wearing a paper bag over his head and an armband on his arm. Beaver asks why. Larry says he can't tell him, and that he only came by to tell the Beaver that he can't hang out. Larry tells Beaver that he joined a secret club and has a meeting at the graveyard at midnight. Beaver asks who is in the club. Larry tells him that it is mostly guys from the fifth grade. Larry tells Beaver that he has to go because there is a meeting in his basement that he has to get to. Beaver asks the name of the club. Larry tells him that the club name is the Fiends. Larry puts the paper bag back on his head and leaves. Beaver tells Wally about Larry's new club. Wally says it's too bad that Beaver already swore an oath to be a Bloody Five. Beaver wonders if he could get unsworn. Sometime later, Ward comes home. He tells June that he dropped Wally off at Marty's. June asks if Marty is a girl or a boy. Ward tells June that Wally combed his hair, so Marty must be a girl. Beaver resigns from the Bloody Five. Whitey is surprised. Harold tells Beaver to hurry up and beat it. Beaver says he'll beat it, but won't hurry up about it. Beaver leaves. Wally comes home. He tells Ward and June that Marty wasn't home, and that Marty is a boy but has a sister. The phone rings. Wally answers. Wally talks briefly, then hangs up. Wally tells Ward and June that it was Marty. Wally goes back to Marty's. Larry isn't sure if Beaver can join the Fiends. Beaver begs Larry to let him join, or else vows never speak to him again. Larry agrees to take Beaver to the meeting down in the basement, but only if Beaver agrees to be blindfolded. Beaver agrees. Larry takes the blindfolded Beaver to the basement. Larry calls the meeting to order. Beaver stands up and turns around so the guys can take a look at him. Larry calls for a vote. Larry says that Beaver is a member of the Fiends. Larry tries to lead Beaver out of the basement. Beaver complains that he didn't get to meet the guys and takes off his blindfold. He sees that the basement is empty, that there was no meeting going on. Beaver calls Larry a rat. The boys argue. Mrs. Mondello calls down to the basement and tells the boys to stop making noise. Larry calls Beaver a rat. Beaver calls Larry a crumb. June and Mrs. Mondello are on the phone. June tells Mrs. Mondello that the Beaver thinks the world of Larry. Larry tells his mother that the Beaver is on his way home. Mrs. Mondello hangs up the phone. Larry tells his mother that he hopes an alligator eats the Beaver. Beaver comes home. He tells June that Larry is a big dumb stupid kid and will hate him forever. Ward calls Wally downstairs to ask him what's wrong with the Beaver. Wally explains everything and says he didn't have anything to do with it. Wally goes to the movies with Marty, hoping that Marty's sister will go along. Ward goes upstairs to see Beaver. He asks Beaver if he took a bath. Beaver explains that he wasn't dirty, so he just washed his feet in the sink. Ward tells him a story. The story is about a group of French villagers who all got along until one day, some of the villagers built a castle. They wouldn't let anyone in the castle, so all the other villagers built their own castles and no one talked to each other anymore. The day came when invaders captured all the castles. Beaver asks Ward if the castles were like clubs. Ward tells Beaver that it isn't a good thing to join a club to hurt other people, like Beaver hurt Larry. Beaver thanks Ward for telling him a story, even though he learned something from it. Wally comes in late and wakes up Beaver. Beaver tells Wally about the castle story. Wally tells Beaver that clubs aren't allowed in high school, because they aren't educated enough to be snobs. Beaver tells Wally that he left water in the sink in case Wally wants to wash his feet.
23School Sweater
05 Mar 1960
Description ▼After Wally arrives home after a school basketball game, June notices that he is no longer wearing his expensive school letterman sweater that he had on when he left the house. Wally is evasive about what happened to the sweater, saying that he didn't lose it and will "try" to bring it home. The truth is that he lent it to a girl he doesn't know that well named Frances Hobbs, who looked cold at the basketball game and who asked if she could borrow it. He is nervous asking for it back just because he doesn't really know her. Ward and June, overhearing a conversation that includes Frances who they don't know, learn what has happened to Wally's sweater and Frances' take on why she has it, which is a bit different than Wally's. Will Wally, Ward and June ever be on the same page about the sweater, and will Wally ever get it back from Frances? Written by Huggo
24The Hypnotist
12 Mar 1960
Description ▼Both Wally and Beaver are heading to the movies for the afternoon. Beaver and Larry end up seeing "The Mad Hypnotist". After seeing the movie, Beaver tries to see if he can hypnotize someone - anyone. With his mother, father and brother all too busy, Beaver turns to the only person who gives him the time of day: Eddie. Despite Wally threatening him not to bother his brother, Eddie decides to have fun with the Beaver by pretending to be under his spell and be his slave. With Eddie following him around in a zombie-like state, Beaver isn't sure if he really did hypnotize Eddie, but he is still scared of Eddie's behavior nonetheless. When Beaver starts having nightmares while screaming out Eddie's name, Wally knows what his friend has done. Wally and Beaver decide to exact their own form of revenge on Eddie. Written by Huggo
25Wally and Alma
19 Mar 1960
Description ▼June and Ward are concerned that Wally is going steady with a girl when they find the name and telephone number of Alma Hanson in his jacket pocket. They feel he is too young to go steady. Their concern turns to relief and joy when Wally explains that the boys had to draw names of girls to take to a school picnic, and Wally drew Alma's name, who he thinks is OK as a date for a school picnic. After meeting Wally, Mrs. Hanson seems to want to promote a romance between Wally and Alma as she is arranging a series of outings for the two. Not only is Wally concerned, but so is Ward, who believes Wally should be able to make his own dates. Wally, who likes Alma as a friend, doesn't want to hurt Alma's feelings by declining any of Mrs. Hanson's offers. Ward thinks he has a solution to Wally's problem, but Ward's plan goes a little beyond its intended effect, especially between Ward and June and Mrs. Hanson. Written by Huggo
26Beaver's Bike
26 Mar 1960
Description ▼Beaver has just gotten an expensive new bicycle with gears. This bike is his first new one ever. Instead of taking the bus to school, Beaver wants to ride his bike to school, especially as his friends Larry and Whitey ride their bikes to school and he wants to ride with them. Ward and June aren't sure if they really want him riding his bike to school, but they allow him to do it anyway. After school, Larry and Beaver stop off at the candy store where they meet an older kid who asks Beaver if he can test ride his bicycle. Trusting Beaver, believing that the kid is a friend of Larry's (when in reality Larry has no idea who he is), agrees. But it soon becomes obvious that the kid is not coming back. Beaver dreads going home to tell his parents what happened. When Beaver finally makes it home, he does receive a lecture from his father. But when they call the police to investigate, Ward becomes a little more humble and learns his own lesson in humility. Written by Huggo
27Wally's Orchid
02 Apr 1960
Description ▼It's still early in his dating life, and Wally wants to go to the upcoming sophomore dance only if the most popular girl in his class, Myra, goes with him, but he isn't sure if she'll agree to go with him. She does accept his nervously asked invitation. His excitement is tempered by the fact that she implies that she would like an expensive orchid corsage since she has to uphold the look expected as chair of the dance committee. He finds out an orchid costs $7.50 which is about three times the amount he has and much more expensive than something like a gardenia corsage. He isn't sure if Myra will still want to go with him unless he can get her the orchid, and thus he isn't sure if he still wants to go to the dance. Although June tries her hardest to convince Ward to pay for this one small luxury to keep face in Wally's young dating life, Ward refuses, stating that it is an extravagance that no young girl should expect of a young boy. With Mrs. Rayburn's help, Beaver thinks he knows how to solve Wally's problem. Barring that, June decides to bring out the big guns to convince Ward. Written by Huggo
28Ward's Baseball
09 Apr 1960
Description ▼Ward finds an old memento of his from when he was a teenager: an autographed baseball signed by many of the biggest major league players of the day. Although the boys don't seem too interested in it since they don't know many or any of the names on the ball, Ward loves it so much he has a pedestal made for it so that he can display it in his den, and he plans on passing it down to the boys when they are old enough to appreciate it. Although Beaver knows it's wrong, Larry convinces him to play catch with the ball. The ball ends up in the street and gets run over by a truck and smashed. Beaver and Larry try and hide the fact of what they've done by replacing Ward's memento with an old baseball of Larry's and signing some names on it. After Ward finds out about the ruined baseball, he grounds Beaver for a week. As much as the grounding hurts Beaver, it affects others in the family as well. Ward gets a new perspective on the incident from Wally, who remembers back to a time when he was in Beaver's shoes. Written by Huggo
29Beaver's Monkey
16 Apr 1960
Description ▼June definitely will not let Beaver keep the mouse he brings home hoping to keep as a pet. Ward tells him that a mouse is not an appropriate pet, but that they would let him keep any animal that is a sensible pet. So Beaver is excited when he sees on the supermarket bulletin board that someone is giving away a pet monkey, which used to be a circus animal. June is equally as concerned about having a monkey in the house as she was a mouse, but not wanting to go back on his word, Ward convinces her that they should let Beaver keep the monkey, named Stanley. After an incident with Stanley in the house, Ward and June, as much as they come to like the little guy (who Beaver thinks having is as good as a little brother), believe that Stanley is much too big to keep, news which they are not looking forward to telling the Beaver. But wanting what's best for his new pet, Beaver, unknown to his parents, has his own thoughts about what to do with Stanley. Written by Huggo
30Beaver Finds a Wallet
23 Apr 1960
Description ▼June and Ward are concerned about Beaver, who was supposed to go to the market with Larry to pick up some groceries, but who apparently never made it there. The two of them have been gone for over two hours. When Beaver returns home, he tells them that he was at the police station since he found a wallet with $89, and thought he would turn it into the police since he and Larry didn't know what else to do. Despite Beaver not having picked up the groceries, Ward and June are proud of the responsibility that Beaver showed with regard to the found wallet. Beaver will get to keep the wallet and its contents if no one claims it within ten days. Beaver already has it in his head how he is going to spend the money, when Ward tells him that they should also place an ad in the paper. As the ten days progress, Beaver gets more and more anxious about the wallet. When an incident happens regarding the wallet, Ward decides to take matters into his own hands to retain Beaver's faith in humankind. Written by Huggo
31Mother's Day Composition
30 Apr 1960
Description ▼While Miss Landers is off on an extended sick leave, Mrs. Rayburn is teaching Beaver's class. She assigns what she considers a different type of homework: to write a composition on a subject from suggestions by the students. After discarding many suggestions, Mrs. Rayburn chooses a modified version of Larry's suggestion. As it is nearing Mother's Day, each student is to write a 50 word composition not of their mother now, but what she did before she got married. Most students seem to know about their mother's pre-married life, but Beaver doesn't. Beaver does ask June, who tells stories of working as a sales clerk (a job from which she got fired), volunteering for the USO in Mayfield and winning a blue bathing cap in a swim meet, which seems to satisfy Beaver for his composition needs. After some of the other students read their compositions which tell stories of their mothers in roles of authority or in what Beaver considers exciting positions, Beaver secretly crumples up his composition, telling Mrs. Rayburn that he couldn't finish it. She gives him a one day extension. Beaver can't help himself but write some lies - he writes about a woman he sees being interviewed on a television talk show, she being a Broadway actress. What Beaver doesn't realize is actually how scandalous the story is for a suburban housewife like his mother. What will June think if she hears about what Beaver told about her life? Written by Huggo
32Beaver and Violet
07 May 1960
Description ▼Fred and Gwen Rutherford have invited the entire Cleaver family to join them on a picnic at Friends Lake. Beaver is happy enough to go until he learns that his classmate, Violet Rutherford, the Rutherford's daughter, is also going to be there. The day ends up being a nightmare for Beaver first when Fred makes Violet sit on Beaver's lap on the car ride to the lake, second when Beaver thinks that Richard and Whitey saw Violet sitting on his lap, and third and worse when Fred makes Violet put her arms around Beaver and kiss him on the cheek right as he snaps a photograph of the two of them. Ward later finds that Fred has had the photograph published in their office weekly newsletter. Ward and June are afraid the Beaver will have a fit when he sees that the photograph has been published, and they decide to hide that fact from him. But Beaver finds the newsletter anyway. Whitey, the only person Beaver shows the photograph to, believes that Violet is in love with Beaver, which is the only explanation for her kissing him. So Beaver does whatever he can to avoid ever seeing Violet again, which seems to be increasingly difficult as a presumably lovestruck Violet wants to speak to Beaver about something. Written by Huggo
33The Spot Removers
14 May 1960
Description ▼Wally and his friends have decided to make their upcoming party a formal affair, with the guys all wearing suits. Even blazers and slacks is considered too casual. June has just mended Wally's good suit which is now hanging in his closet. But Beaver, who has gone fishing with his new friend Richard, has just come home smelling of fish, and hangs his dirty, smelly jacket on top of Wally's clean suit. Wally is angry enough, but Beaver is apologetic for irritating his brother, which he hates to do. But Wally doesn't stay mad as he knows kids can do dumb things, and the suit can be dry cleaned in time for the party. However, when Wally's suit comes back from the dry cleaners and June gives it to Beaver to hang up, Richard, who is at the Cleaver house visiting, spills some leather conditioning oil on the suit. Not wanting to get into more trouble, Beaver and Richard try to fix the problem by cleaning it off themselves with the best cleaner they know of: bleach. When the bleach has the unanticipated effect of turning the jacket white, Beaver further decides the best course of action is to paint the stain with watercolor paint. Beaver knows that he's in trouble, but feels worse for doing something unintentionally bad to Wally than he does for the scolding he figures he will get from his parents. But Beaver gets an unexpected ally in the matter. Written by Huggo
34Beaver, the Model
21 May 1960
Description ▼Beaver reads an ad in one of his magazines of a New York modeling agency requesting people to send in their photo to become a model, who can make up to $100 a day. Beaver thinks his brother is good looking enough to send in his photo, but Wally refuses. So Beaver sends in a photo of himself instead. Beaver receives a letter from the agency, the letter which his father, who can see it is a scam, tells him to ignore and to ignore any future correspondence from them. Eddie, however, convinces Beaver to send in the application anyway for his photo to appear in the agency's book of its models. The next piece of correspondence Beaver receives, as per the terms of the signed agreement, tells him that he is required to send the agency the $30 registration fee. This time, Beaver thinks the best thing to do is take his father's advice and ignore the letter. But when he receives further letters from the agency stating that the company will take legal action if it doesn't receive the $30, which to Beaver means either losing $30 or going to jail, Beaver doesn't go to his father for help as he doesn't want his father to tell him he told him so. Instead, Beaver goes to someone who he thinks can help him better with this legal situation. Written by Huggo
35Wally, the Businessman
28 May 1960
Description ▼The summer is approaching, and Wally wants to get a job, which requires Ward to provide legal permission. Ward allows Wally to do it, and even allows Wally to get his own job, instead of his initial suggestion of looking for a job for Wally. Wally's choice of a job is to get an Igloo ice cream cart, despite the initial financial outlay (a $25 damage deposit for the bicycle, and $2 for dry ice), which Ward is more than happy to loan. Wally finds that the job is a little more problematic than he first anticipated, primarily because a proud Beaver follows him everywhere, and many people - especially customers of the previous salesman and Wally's friends - want the ice cream on credit, which Wally in some instances has to provide since they've already opened and started eating the ice cream. Wally starts to get worried about collecting the money as it approaches the date his boss wants to pick-up the money. He's $3.75 short, which he personally doesn't have. Written by Huggo
36Beaver and Ivanhoe
04 Jun 1960
Description ▼Over breakfast, Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) asks his father Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) for permission to buy Eddie Haskell's (Ken Osmond,) father's rowing machine. Ward wonders if this is such a good idea. Wally confesses that Eddie's father doesn't know that Eddie is selling the rowing machine. June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) asks Wally what he would do with a rowing machine. Wally considers attending a college that has a crew team. Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) leaves for school, excited that his teacher, Miss Landers (Sue Randall) is coming back to school after being out sick for two weeks. In class, Judy Hensler (Jeri Weil) reads a poem to welcome back Miss Landers, expressing the class' relief that Miss Landers did not die from her illness. Miss Landers thanks Judy and the class. Miss Landers tells the class that it would be a good idea to read another book. Whitey (Stanley Fafara) asks if the book has to be a fat book, or if it could be a thin book. Miss Landers tells Whitey that she has made a list of suggested titles. Whitey helps Miss Landers hand out the list. At home, June and Ward go over the book list. June remarks that "Hoppy the Kangaroo" sounds like a cute book. Ward laments the lack of boy books and asks June if she ever read "Call of the Wild" when she was a girl. June confesses that the only books she read were of the "Dorothy Vernon of Hutton Hall" type. Ward gives Beaver a copy of "Ivanhoe" to read, and tells him it is about knights who avenge wrongs and protect the weak. Wally remarks that in between times, the knights ate like pigs. Ward tells Beaver that he will enjoy the book. Beaver stays up late reading Ivanhoe. June asks Ward to speak to Beaver about staying up past bedtime. June tells Ward that Whitey and Beaver were dueling with garbage can lids and sticks, and that Whitey's mother wanted to know why Whitey had gotten so dirty. Beaver thanks Ward for the book. Ward tells the Beaver that defending women was a code of Knighthood, and that it is a manly thing to do. Beaver tells Ward that he never really cared what happened to girls before. Beaver leaves to catch the bus for school. On the way to the bus stop, Beaver sees a dog. He talks to the dog. Beaver sees a boy (Neil Seflinger) and girl (Karen Sue Trent) fighting. The boy pushes the girl. She falls down. Beaver confronts the boy and asks why he doesn't have any respect for women. The boys fight. The bus arrives and the bus driver, Mr. Crawford, (James Parnell,) breaks up the fight. The girl blames Beaver for starting the fight, and says she and her brother were just standing there doing nothing. The girl calls Beaver a bully. Mr. Crawford asks Beaver what got into him. Beaver wishes he read "Hoppy the Kangaroo." June is upset. She tells Ward that Beaver got into a fight. Ward asks if Beaver won. June tells him that Miss Landers called and said Beaver started hitting a new boy on his first day on the bus. June said that, when asked, Beaver said it was about defending womanhood. Ward worries that he may have given Beaver a bum steer. Ward speaks to Beaver. Beaver explains he was trying to be an Ivanhoe. Ward understands that Beaver's heart was in the right place and tells him that he will speak to Miss Landers. At school, Miss Landers tries to explain to the class why Beaver hit the other boy. Judy Hensler tells Miss Landers that Beaver is a bully. Miss Landers tells the class that the other boy was hitting his sister and provoked the fight. She tells the class that the Beaver was chivalrous. Wally tells his father that the rowing machine deal is off. Eddie's father told Eddie that he'd kill him if he sold one more thing from the attic. Beaver writes an Oath of Knighthood. He tells Wally that he will charge ten cents each to kids who want to take the oath. Wally corrects Beaver's spelling. Whitey takes the Oath of Knighthood. Judy Hensler says he's goofy. Whitey says that Clyde Appleby (Stephen Wootton) steps on other kids' marbles and wants to take care of him. Beaver is reluctant. Judy calls him a chicken-knight. Beaver says after school, he'll show Judy who's a chicken-knight. The kids find Clyde Appleby. Whitey says since he just joined up, Beaver should show him how it works. Beaver tells Clyde to stop stepping on kids' marbles. Clyde asks for a marble. Beaver gives him one. Clyde steps on it. The boys start fighting. Clyde pummels Beaver. Ward comes home. Wally tells him that Beaver got into another fight. Upstairs, June is cleaning up Beaver's face. Ward apologizes to Beaver, telling him that he feels to blame. Beaver says its okay. Ward tells Beaver that the virtues of Ivanhoe are still good, but not the violence, and that discretion is the better part of valor. Wally explains that it means not to fight with big guys.
37Wally's Play
11 Jun 1960
Description ▼Wally has been honored as only one of ten sophomores who have been invited to join the Crusaders, a school sponsored boys only club for letter-men. The Crusaders are a popular and well rounded group, who, among other things, puts on performances, with the annual Crusaders Follies upcoming. When Wally finds out his part in the follies, he is reluctant to talk about it. Ward and June want to respect his privacy, but both are dying to know which part he got. When Beaver finds Wally's costume, he and his parents know why Wally didn't want to talk about it: he is playing the role of the dance hall girl. Despite his parents believing Wally should show some school and club spirit by performing the role with gusto, Wally would rather quit the club than wear a dress. But with a little advice from Ward, Wally may be able to remain a member of the club, still perform in the follies but not have to wear a dress. Written by Huggo
38The Last Day of School
18 Jun 1960
Description ▼Over breakfast on the last day of school before summer vacation, Beaver and Wally sneak a peek at the gift June bought for Beaver to give to his teacher. The embarrassed boys find a lacy slip and, not knowing that the department store made a mistake and that his gift was supposed to be handkerchiefs, Beaver must decide whether to give Miss Landers the slip or nothing at all. Written by shepherd1138
39Beaver's Team
25 Jun 1960
Description ▼Beaver has formed a football team - the Lightning Eleven (even though there are only six on the team) - of which he is captain. His team's only competition is Rick Rickover's team, the Grant Avenue Tigers (so named since Rick has his father's Princeton Tigers shirt). It becomes a family affair as Ward is willing to buy much of Beaver's equipment, and Beaver accepts Wally's offer to coach (even if it does mean that Eddie will be hanging around). Wally even comes up with what he believes is the team's secret weapon, a secret sneak play they have given the code word "the old 98". Beyond Beaver actually being able to carry off the play, it is only effective if the Tigers don't know about it, which may become an issue as one person tells another who tells another... Written by Huggo
1Beaver Won't Eat
01 Oct 1960
Description ▼Beaver in general does not like to eat green vegetables. At this evening's dinner, he doesn't want to eat the Brussels sprouts on his plate. He does whatever he can to get out from eating them - even hiding them in his shirt pocket. But June, finding where he's hidden them, insists that he eat them. In private, June and Ward disagree on whether they should make him eat the sprouts, June insisting that he does. So she ultimately provides Beaver an ultimatum: eat the Brussels sprouts, or else he is not allowed to go to dinner out and the major league football game the rest of the family is going to tomorrow evening. Beaver still refuses to eat them. June doesn't like the thought of leaving Beaver out of their family outing, but she also doesn't want to back down from what she said she was going to do. Ward, June and Beaver come to a compromise, but that compromise comes a little sooner and in a more embarrassingly public manner than they were all expecting. Written by Huggo
2Beaver's House Guest
08 Oct 1960
Description ▼Beaver has just returned from his stint away at summer camp, Camp König. There he met a new friend named Chopper Cooper who he wants to invite for a weekend visit. His parents allow him to invite Chopper. Ward and June are surprised when Chopper is escorted by his "Uncle" Dave, Chopper's mother's boyfriend who Chopper believes will be his new stepfather. Chopper also talks openly and candidly about his father's several remarriages and Chopper now having step-siblings. Even though they like Chopper, Ward and June are concerned that Chopper's views may be too worldly for Beaver, who has never had friends with divorced parents. Indeed, Beaver, after hearing all the neat presents Chopper gets from his various parents, wants his own parents to divorce, not really understanding what that means. But Beaver has a different view when he sees the effect of divorce a little more closely, especially as it affects the child in the family. Written by Huggo
3Beaver Becomes a Hero
15 Oct 1960
Description ▼Beaver's slightly exaggerated story about rescuing an abandoned canoe while fishing with Wally takes on a life of its own while passing through the school grapevine and Beaver finds that not being completely truthful can have disastrous results. Written by shepherd1138
4Wally, the Lifeguard
22 Oct 1960
Description ▼Beaver proudly takes his friends Whitey and Gilbert on a picnic at the lake to see Wally in his first day as a lifeguard, not knowing that a new law forbidding anyone under age 18 from filling the position has forced Wally to work as a snack vendor instead. When he sees Wally in a floppy hat peddling hot dogs instead of sitting importantly on a stand in a lifeguard uniform, an embarrassed Beaver wants to go home before anyone else finds out. Written by shepherd1138
5Beaver's Freckles
29 Oct 1960
Description ▼Lumpy Rutherford embarrasses Beaver, calling him 'Freckles' in front of his friends and Beaver tries various ways to get rid of the offending spots. While Ward and June try to convince their son that what's important is not what he looks like but what kind of person he is, in the end, Beaver finds his own support from an unlikely place. Written by shepherd1138
6Beaver's Big Contest
05 Nov 1960
Description ▼Beaver sells raffle tickets to benefit the new hospital and hopes that one of his own will win him a Hawaiian vacation or a sports car. When obnoxious Eddie Haskell teases that Beaver's parents would never allow him to keep a top prize and would most likely use it themselves, Beaver refuses to believe. But when one of Beaver's tickets is a winner will Eddie's dire prediction come true? Written by shepherd1138
7Miss Landers' Fiance
12 Nov 1960
Description ▼When Beaver takes to his bed after finding out that his teacher Miss Landers is engaged to be married, it takes his parents' understanding, Wally's advice and a special promise from Miss Landers to get him through the heartache of losing his first crush. Written by shepherd1138
8Eddie's Double-Cross
19 Nov 1960
Description ▼Eddie is telling everyone that he and pretty Caroline Shuster are going steady. When Wally and Eddie meet up with Caroline and Caroline's friend, Alma Hanson, it does seem like Eddie is telling the truth as Caroline confirms a date with him. She also has a pet name for Eddie: "Peachy". But later, Wally overhears Caroline talking to some other girls that she is only going out with Eddie because her boyfriend, Freddy Prior, is currently grounded and she wants a date for Saturday. In reality, Caroline considers Eddie a conceited creep, and she is leading him on for her own amusement. Wally has to figure out if he should keep quiet or tell Eddie the truth with the possible consequence of Eddie shooting the messenger. Written by Huggo
9Beaver's I.Q.
26 Nov 1960
Description ▼Ward is concerned that Beaver's attitude toward his schoolwork will jeopardize his future and when the school principal announces that Beaver's class will be given an intelligence test Beaver worries that the results of the test will not only prove his father right but show that he's too 'dumb' to succeed. Written by shepherd1138
10Wally's Glamour Girl
03 Dec 1960
Description ▼To impress pretty, out-of town girl Bernadette, Wally writes letters to her exaggerating his family's wealth and importance; but he must later eat his words when Ward and June tell Wally that he will be taking Bernadette to the country club dance. Written by shepherd1138
11Chuckie's New Shoes
10 Dec 1960
Description ▼Ward and June leave Wally in charge at home and all is well until neighbor Mrs. Murdock drops by and asks Wally to take her son, Chuckie, to buy new shoes. But Wally goes ice skating with Eddie Haskell instead and turns little Chuckie over to Beaver. When Beaver loses Chuckie in the shoe store, Wally soon learns an important lesson in responsibility. Written by shepherd1138
12Beaver and Kenneth
17 Dec 1960
Description ▼June attends a meeting at Beaver's school where teacher Miss Landers confides that several items have recently disappeared from student lockers; and when June finds the same items under Beaver's bed she worries that Beaver may be the thief. Ward questions Beaver and finds out that Beaver was given the items by another boy, Kenneth, but Kenneth denies everything and Beaver must find out why. Written by shepherd1138
13Beaver's Accordion
24 Dec 1960
Description ▼While emptying the trash, Beaver finds a circular that Ward discarded offering a free trial for an expensive new accordion. With a push from troublemaker Eddie, Beaver secretly sends in the order form, believing that he can play with the instrument and return it within the 5-day free trial period. But, as usual, things don't always go as planned. Written by shepherd1138
14Uncle Billy
31 Dec 1960
Description ▼Ward's paternal Uncle Billy is in town for a visit. June is worried that Uncle Billy's fanciful tales, which make him seem irresponsible to an adult, will leave a lasting impression on the boys, yet both Ward and June don't want the boys to disrespect an elder, especially one within their family. After telling his wild tales to the boys, Uncle Billy promises Wally a rifle he used to kill grizzly bears in Alaska with, and he promises Beaver a new fishing rod and reel so that they can go fishing much like he says he used to take Ward sailfish fishing in Mexico. When Wally learns that Uncle Billy's stories are exaggerations and that Uncle Billy probably will not come through with the gifts, Wally isn't surprised or upset. Beaver, on the other hand, doesn't want to believe that Uncle Billy is anything but a great guy. But Beaver ultimately sees Uncle Billy for who he really is. Ward plans on having a stern talk with Uncle Billy about leading Beaver on, until Beaver provides Ward with a clearer understanding of Uncle Billy that Ward had never even considered. Written by Huggo
15Teacher's Daughter
07 Jan 1961
Description ▼While Ward, June and Beaver spy a young boy and girl holding hands walking through the park, Ward and June think back to their teen-aged days and young love. They come to the realization that the boy they see is Wally. When they later question him about the incident, a slightly embarrassed Wally admits that it was him and the girl of his affections is Julie Foster, the daughter of one of the teachers at the high school. The following week at the start of the next semester, Wally learns that he has been transferred into Mr. Foster's English class. Eddie and Lumpy can't help but give Wally the business about being nice to Julie since he knew he was going to be in Mr. Foster's class. Wally can't help but think that dating Julie will net him a better grade in English. But what's worse in Wally's mind is what may happen with Mr. Foster and English class if he and Julie break up, which is what Wally is contemplating. Written by Huggo
16Ward's Millions
14 Jan 1961
Description ▼From Beaver's perspective, it seems like his father spends a lot of money paying bills. Ward makes a statement that all adults worry about money unless they're millionaires, which he will never become working at his job. So when Beaver heads down to the bookstore to buy a book for himself, he instead buys his father a book he sees in the store window, that book titled "How I Became a Millionaire in 12 Months". Beaver believes this book will solve all Ward's money worries. After Ward makes a fuss about the book and mentions that he will both read it cover to cover and put it in a place of honor in his library, Beaver is certain that their family will become rich. So a disappointed Beaver doesn't understand why he finds the book in the kitchen's cookie drawer (where June hastily put it when she needed to answer the phone). Written by Huggo
17Beaver's Secret Life
21 Jan 1961
Description ▼When Beaver decides to be a writer, Ward gives him a diary, encouraging him to write down his thoughts and daily activities and assuring Beaver that no one would read it without permission. But when Beaver is late coming home one night his worried parents break the lock on his diary, hoping to find a clue to where he might be and, instead, getting quite a surprise. Written by shepherd1138
18Wally's Track Meet
28 Jan 1961
Description ▼After being warned against roughhousing by the track coach, Eddie and Lumpy start a towel fight in the school locker room and the coach walks in just as Wally throws a towel. But when the other boys deny any wrongdoing, Wally takes the punishment alone and must tell his parents that he is suspended from the upcoming track meet that the whole family planned to attend. Written by shepherd1138
19Beaver's Old Buddy
04 Feb 1961
Description ▼Jackie, a friend from Beaver's old neighborhood, comes for a week-end visit and the excited boys look forward to the fun of playing the same games they used to play years before. But Beaver and Jackie soon find that their interests changed as they each grew older and the week-end doesn't turn out quite like they planned. Written by shepherd1138
20Beaver's Tonsils
11 Feb 1961
Description ▼Beaver loses his fear of a possible operation to remove his swollen tonsils when Ward reminisces about his own boyhood tonsillectomy. In fact, Beaver is so impressed by Ward's story of ice cream, pretty nurses and gifts that he can't wait to have the operation himself...even if he doesn't need it! Written by shepherd1138
21The Big Fish Count
18 Feb 1961
Description ▼When the local pet store has a tropical fish counting contest with a collie pup as the grand prize, Beaver and his friend Gilbert agree to enter together and share the puppy if they win. But slick Eddie Haskell starts working at the pet store and claims to know the winning number...will Beaver want to win badly enough to cheat? Written by shepherd1138
22Beaver's Poster
25 Feb 1961
Description ▼After finding Ward's old drawing tablet, Beaver volunteers to make a poster for a class project on Colonial America, hoping that his talented dad will do it for him. But Ward only offers his son advice and encouragement and, even though his friends make fun of his art, in the end, Beaver is glad that he painted the poster by himself. Written by shepherd1138
23Mother's Helper
04 Mar 1961
Description ▼When the Cleaver's former housekeeper, Mrs. Manners, is unavailable she sends her teenage daughter Margie to help June part-time after school. Ward is amused when smitten Wally skips track practice to spend time 'helping' pretty Margie but June worries when Wally neglects his homework. Written by shepherd1138
24The Dramatic Club
11 Mar 1961
Description ▼When Ward and June want Beaver to get more involved in school activities, Beaver decides on trying out for the dramatic club, which will be performing a play of Miss Landers' choosing. He figures playing a tree in the kindergarten play was a good grounding for whatever the fifth grade production. Not only does Beaver make it into the club, but he is chosen to play the lead in "The Little Dutch Boy". Miss Landers chose Beaver for the lead in part because she felt he was the most mature of the boys to handle what could be considered the most controversial scene, controversial at least for a fifth grader. Beaver works hard on learning his lines until he gets to that controversial scene: when the Little Dutch Boy kisses the Little Dutch Girl named Gretchen. Beaver is adamant that he won't do it, not wanting to kiss any girl for fear of being laughed at, especially by the other boys. Speaking to Ward, Wally and Victoria Bennett (who is playing Gretchen) gives Beaver three different perspectives on the situation. Written by Huggo
25Wally and Dudley
18 Mar 1961
Description ▼Ruth McMillan, who was June's bridesmaid, has just moved into the neighborhood with her family. Her son, Dudley, is Wally's age and will be attending the same school, so June would like Wally to show Dudley around. Wally reluctantly agrees, his reluctance because he has never met Dudley and doesn't know what kind of guy he is. Despite Dudley being a nice guy, he and Wally end up having nothing in common, Wally who considers Dudley "different". Dudley wears a suit, tie, overcoat and hat as his regular attire, plays flute in the band, is overly polite even to his peers, and is scared of girls. Eddie and Lumpy can't help but slyly give Dudley the business. In fact, Eddie invites Dudley to Christine Staples' upcoming party just because he knows the other kids will make fun of him. Although Wally doesn't condone Eddie's prank, Wally feels Dudley brings many of these problems onto himself. But based on advice from Ward, Wally ends up being Dudley's "Henry Higgins". Can Wally or someone or something else bring out Dudley's inner social butterfly by the time of Christine's party? Written by Huggo
26Eddie Spends the Night
25 Mar 1961
Description ▼On Eddie's request, Wally asks his parents if Eddie can spend the night. After getting over their surprise (or shock of actually having Eddie for an extended period), they agree. Things start off well enough, but quickly after dinner, Wally and Eddie get into an argument, and Eddie storms off. Soon after, Ward receives a telephone call from Eddie's father, Frank Haskell, which makes Ward understand why Eddie was so eager to spend the night there in the first place. So Ward and a reluctant Wally go after Eddie to try and get him to come back. Ultimately, Beaver is the one who gets to see another side of Eddie Haskell. Written by Huggo
27Beaver's Report Card
01 Apr 1961
Description ▼Wally and Ward help Beaver with his homework since he is doing poorly in math. When his report card is hand delivered to the house, Eddie and Lumpy get it first and change the math grade from D- to B+. Ward and June are thrilled, but Beaver knows something is wrong-he just can't figure out what. Written by Ronny Bailey
28Mistaken Identity
08 Apr 1961
Description ▼Although Gilbert is able to run away, Richard is caught by a policeman, Officer Medford, when he is caught breaking a window in the old abandoned McMahon house. Richard tells the policeman that his name is Theodore Cleaver, and gives him the Beaver's address. News of Beaver being in trouble with the police gets back to Ward, which places Ward in a difficult position as being an appointed member of the mayor's committee for the new youth center. But when Officer Medford sees that Beaver is not the boy he caught throwing rocks at the window, the collective have to figure out who it was. Beaver is pretty certain that it was Richard, and he has to decide whether to "squeal" on Richard to his father and Officer Medford, or deal with Richard in his own way. Written by Huggo
29Wally's Dream Girl
15 Apr 1961
Description ▼Wally is wearing a jacket and tie and some aftershave just to go to school. It's because he wants to impress the beautiful Ginny Townsend, a girl in his school who just moved to Mayfield and who according to Wally doesn't even know he's alive. He is so enamored with Ginny that he is walking around in a half comatose state thinking about her. Ward and June know that he has a crush on someone, but don't know who. When Beaver lets it slip to his mother that the girl in question is Ginny Townsend, June decides to take Wally's love life into her own hands by inviting Ginny along on a family picnic they were taking anyway to Friends Lake. Ward thinks what June has done is a mistake since Wally probably has an idealized view of Ginny, and going on a family picnic with her doesn't fit into that view. What will Wally think? Regardless, Wally gets a new perspective of Ginny on this unofficial "date". Written by Huggo
30The School Picture
22 Apr 1961
Description ▼While Ward and Wally work together to try to fix a military surplus walkie-talkie, sneaky Gilbert Bates double-crosses Beaver after the two agree to make goofy faces in the fifth grade class picture, leaving Beaver to "face" the consequences alone. Written by shepherd1138
31Beaver's Rat
29 Apr 1961
Description ▼June is distressed when a series of trades with school friends nets Beaver a pet rat and when Ward tells Beaver to get rid of the rodent, Beaver sells the rat to Violet Rutherford. But, in spite of Violet's protests, Fred Rutherford demands that Beaver refund Violet's money and take the rat back, unaware that another member of the Rutherford family has also developed an affection for the furry little guy. Written by shepherd1138
32In the Soup
06 May 1961
Description ▼Wally's worries that little brother Beaver will disrupt the first teen party held at the Cleaver's house are realized when, on the way to the Whitney's house for a sleepover, Beaver takes a dare from Whitey to find out if there really is soup in a steaming billboard bowl. Written by shepherd1138
33Community Chest
13 May 1961
Description ▼Beaver and his friend Gilbert volunteer to collect Community Chest donations from the neighborhood so that June can attend a school open house with Wally. All goes well until the boys stop for ice cream and Beaver puts the money he collected into his back pocket...the one with the hole in it! Written by shepherd1138
34Junior Fire Chief
20 May 1961
Description ▼Miss Landers' class is conducting another civic project, this time on fire prevention, and as such the class must elect a junior fire chief. Perpetual follower but never leader Beaver isn't planning on running until his parents talk him into it, telling him that it is good for him to want to be leader sometimes. Despite Wally thinking Beaver too nice a guy to be elected, the class does vote him junior fire chief. When the class learns that only the class with the best project will be able to go the the fire hall for a field trip, Beaver, goaded on by the other kids in his class about the importance of the job, hands out citation after citation, not only to his family, but to others around the neighborhood. In the process, he is also yelling and screaming at everyone to gain their respect. Although they admire his conscientiousness, Ward and June want Beaver to learn that he is taking things a little too far. This lesson, however, is one he will have to learn on his own. Written by Huggo
35Beaver's Frogs
20 May 1961
Description ▼Beaver makes a deal with his father to pay half the $25 cost of buying a used canoe. Ward believes that by the time Beaver can raise his half, he will have forgotten all about the canoe. As getting a traditional job is harder than Beaver expects, he is happy to learn from his friend Richard that he can make money by selling frogs for twenty-five cents apiece. With Wally's help, Beaver manages to catch enough frogs to cover his half of the canoe. In the process, Beaver, who is becoming attached to the frogs, much like pets, doesn't even consider what will be happening to them after he sells them. He eventually learns from Richard that the frogs will be killed and sold to schools for dissection. Beaver has to decide what is more important: the canoe or the lives of his frogs. Written by Huggo
36Beaver Goes in Business
03 Jun 1961
Description ▼At first, mowing lawns seems like an easy way for Beaver and his friend Gilbert to earn extra money for summer, but no one seems to want their services and bad advice from Wally's friend Eddie results in an angry neighbor. When discouraged Gilbert opts to deliver newspapers instead, even after a nice lady offers to pay the boys $5.00, a determined Beaver decides to try once more; but what will he do when her check bounces? Written by shepherd1138
37Kite Day
10 Jun 1961
Description ▼It's father-son kite day at Metzger's Field this upcoming Saturday, with a lot of prizes to be handed out. Beaver is hoping that his father will be as excited about it as he is. Luckily, Ward is, he who professes to be the best kite builder of his day in Shaker Heights. Despite resorting to using a kite kit instead of building it from scratch like they did when Ward was a child, Beaver and Ward are happy with their accomplishment as they did it together. They are however unable to test the kite until Saturday as they have to let the glue dry. But Gilbert talks Beaver into testing it with him anyway. In doing so, Beaver breaks the kite when it crashes down to the ground after the test flight. Beaver hides the broken kite from his parents and hopes for the miracle in the form of rain to cancel kite day, or barring that, finding a native Indian who knows how to do a rain dance. Written by Huggo
38Beaver's Doll Buggy
17 Jun 1961
Description ▼When Beaver buys a wrecked 'coaster car' from Eddie Haskell, Wally pitches in to help his little brother fix it up and school chum Penny Woods promises him the wheels from her old doll buggy. But Beaver forgets his tools when he goes to Penny's house to remove the wheels and panics when he runs into his best friends, Gilbert and Richard, while trying to sneak the buggy home. Written by shepherd1138
39Substitute Father
24 Jun 1961
Description ▼Wally takes his responsibility seriously when he is left in charge of the Cleaver household while Ward is in St. Louis on a business trip but isn't sure he can fill his father's shoes when Miss Landers sends Beaver home from school with a note for saying a bad word. Written by shepherd1138
1Wally Goes Steady
30 Sep 1961
Description ▼When Wally and his girlfriend, Evelyn, frequently double date with Evelyn's older sister, Judy, and her husband, Tom, Ward and June worry that spending so much time with the happy couple will make Wally forgo college for marriage ... especially after Ward's chance encounter with the girls' father reveals that Wally and Evelyn may be secretly going steady. Written by shepherd1138
2No Time for Babysitters
07 Oct 1961
Description ▼June and Ward are planning on going to a friend's anniversary party on Friday night, and are hoping Wally will stay home with the Beaver. Wally however has a date that night. Beaver, now being twelve, is at that stage where Ward and June aren't quite sure if he is ready to stay home by himself and thus are contemplating hiring a sitter. Beaver believes after the conversation he has with them that they've made up their mind not to hire a sitter, so Beaver is excited to act the big kid in front of Gilbert and Richard in telling them that he would rather stay home by himself than go out with them to the movies on Friday night. So Beaver is upset when his parents do decide to hire a sitter. She is Judy Walker, a teenager around Wally's age. Beaver has to figure out how to pretend that Judy isn't his sitter, especially when Gilbert and Richard decide to come over. Through it all, Beaver finds that some sitters, like Judy, aren't all that bad. Written by Huggo
3Wally's Car
14 Oct 1961
Description ▼Without telling his parents beforehand, Wally buys a non-operating jalopy for $25, hoping that he can fix it up and get it running by the time he learns to drive. But Ward and June - more so the latter - don't feel he should have a car, especially such a broken down one, at his young age. So he agrees to get rid of it, but asks for a couple of days to be able to sell it so that he can get his money back. In those two days with no prospective buyers in sight, the car causes some problems in blocking their functioning car from getting up and down their single drive driveway, and for the Cleavers now being seen as the bad neighbors with the junk in their front yard. Ultimately, Ward and Wally take different paths in figuring out how to get rid of the car without taking a financial beating. Written by Huggo
4Beaver's Birthday
21 Oct 1961
Description ▼At breakfast, Ward and June convince Beaver to bank his birthday money instead of buying the model race car he really wants; but when Uncle Billy's ten dollar cash gift arrives in the mail later in the day, sneaky friend Gilbert urges Beaver to keep the money a secret and use it to buy the car. Written by shepherd1138
5Beaver's Cat Problem
04 Nov 1961
Description ▼Beaver is hiding a cat in his room, the cat which was sitting outside on their porch when he got home. When June speaks to a neighborhood woman named Mrs. Prentiss on the phone, Mrs. Prentiss who is missing her cat Bootsie, Ward puts two and two together and figures that Beaver's strange behavior means he has the cat. Mrs. Prentiss is glad to come and pick up Bootsie, but after she leaves, Beaver learns that he shouldn't have fed Bootsie as Bootsie now knows their house is a place where he can get food. Indeed Bootsie comes back in the middle of the night looking for food, and Beaver, the next day, takes Bootsie back to Mrs. Prentiss. But that doesn't stop Bootsie from coming back yet again. The Cleavers figure they have to come up with an ingenious way to keep Bootsie away, but their plan has its own unintended consequence. Written by Huggo
6Wally's Weekend Job
11 Nov 1961
Description ▼Wally wants to get a weekend job so that he can have some pocket money without always having to ask his father for it. Wally manages to get a job as a soda jerk at Mayfield Drugstore. Wally, already a popular guy, becomes even more popular with the girls who think he looks even cuter wearing his uniform. Eddie and Lumpy, on the other hand, neither like the fact that Wally is attracting all the girls, or that, in even having a job, he is looking more responsible to their own parents. Eddie devises a plan to make Wally look bad, using the fact that Mary Ellen Rogers is having a slumber party that evening. Wally exacts his own form of revenge. Written by Huggo
7Beaver Takes a Drive
18 Nov 1961
Description ▼When Ward and June are away, Beaver and Gilbert play in the car and it ends up rolling down the driveway into the middle of the street. A cop comes by just as Wally is moving it back into the driveway and gives him a ticket for driving without a license and has to go to traffic court. Written by Ronny Bailey
8Wally's Big Date
25 Nov 1961
Description ▼Wally isn't looking forward to a school dance this upcoming Saturday. The boys from Mayfield High are supposed to draw names of girls from Riverside High to take to the dance, and the boys from Riverside draw names of girls from Mayfield. Wally ends up drawing Marjorie Muller's name. Eddie comes by with a proposition for Wally: they switch dates as Eddie professes to know Marjorie and would like to take her. With yearbook in hand, Eddie shows Wally photos of both Marjorie and Eddie's drawn date, Gail Preston. Wally admits Gail is a knockout, so he agrees to the switch. When Wally meets Gail a few days before the dance, he understands why Eddie was so anxious to switch: Gail is a good four inches taller than he is. Not wanting to get ribbed by the other guys, Wally contemplates not going to the dance and if he does go, thinks of ways to make himself look taller. By the time the dance rolls around and Gail shows up, Wally forgets all about the issue thanks to Gail. But Beaver may end up ruining everything. Written by Huggo
9Beaver's Ice Skates
02 Dec 1961
Description ▼Beaver asks his father for $6 to make up the amount he is short for a $10 season's pass to the ice skating rink. Ward is happy that Beaver is interested in skating and gives him the $6, but he is almost certain that Beaver will want more money to get other peripheral items. Beaver vows that he won't ask for any more money for this endeavor. But as Ward expects, Beaver asks two days later if he can buy a new pair of skates advertised on sale at a new sporting goods store. As Beaver will be using his own money, Ward and June say yes. Although against their better judgment, they also let Beaver go to the store on his own to get the skates. At the store, the salesman, knowing that Beaver wears a size 6 but with nothing left in stock but sizes 9 and up, tries to pawn off a 9 as a 6 to Beaver, who, even after trying them on and feeling that they are big, buys them. Once at the rink, Beaver, even wearing three pairs of wool socks like the salesman told him, can't even walk in the skates, let alone skate in them. Beaver doesn't want to get an "I told you so" from his father, so he has to figure out what to do about the skates and about the skating. Meanwhile, the local newspaper may give Ward and June some indication that something is wrong in Beaver's skating life. Written by Huggo
10Weekend Invitation
09 Dec 1961
Description ▼Wally has been invited along with a bunch of other guys on a weekend trip to his new friend Scott's family cabin by the lake. Ward and June are reluctant to let Wally go until they speak to Scott's parents and make sure that they're OK with the trip. However, Ward feels pushed into a corner when Scott needs an immediate answer, and Scott's parents aren't available to speak to. Learning that all the other parents have already given permission and not to look the unreasonable parent, Ward allows Wally to go. Both he and June somewhat regret it when Wally tells them that Scott's parents aren't driving but that Scott is taking all the guys in his own car. Soon, Wally learns directly from Scott that his parents aren't even going to be there, as they're off on their own trip to Chicago. Wally, feeling uncomfortable about misrepresenting the trip to his parents, has to decide whether to tell his parents that the trip is going to be unchaperoned and whether to go at all. But Wally's decision may be a moot point if his parents find out the truth about the trip from other sources beforehand. Written by Huggo
11Beaver's English Test
16 Dec 1961
Description ▼Ward and June receive a note from Beaver's new English teacher Mr. Blair that Beaver is doing poorly in his class and is on the verge of failing. Gilbert's parents receive a similar note. Part of the problem is Beaver's lackluster study habits especially in those subjects he doesn't know well. Unable to help Beaver with his homework as he would like, Ward instead asks Wally to help Beaver with the issues he is having with grammar. Wally goes through the process of trying to explain adverbs and adjectives to both Beaver and Gilbert. Unable to get through to either, Wally instead provides them with one of his old English exams to review. When Mr. Blair gives Beaver's class a pop exam the following day, Gilbert is happy to see that it is the exact same exam Wally gave to them to review the previous night, the exam answers which they've both coincidentally memorized. Beaver, however, feels a little uneasy about the possibility of getting a good mark on the exam when he really doesn't know an adverb from an adjective. Beaver has to decide whether to tell his parents and/or Mr. Blair about what he considers possible cheating. And if Gilbert finds out what Beaver is thinking about doing, Gilbert may apply his own pressure on Beaver for self-preservation purposes. Written by Huggo
12Wally's Chauffeur
23 Dec 1961
Description ▼Wally and his friends are going to a "grown up" country club dance on Saturday. Wally and his date, Evelyn Boothby, are planning on getting a ride to the dance with Lumpy. Ward forbids Wally to go with Lumpy as he and Evelyn will be one of four couples in what would be Lumpy's overcrowded car. Wally, feeling he's too old to have his "daddy" drive him to the event or worse have Evelyn drive, doesn't think he can get another ride so soon before the dance. When he tells Evelyn the issue of not being able to go with Lumpy, Evelyn tells Wally that she'll try and find another ride for them. Unknown to Wally, what Evelyn is planning to do is ask her father if she can borrow his car and drive herself. Mr. Boothby agrees. When Evelyn arrives to pick up Wally, he's mortified, but his parents make him go to the dance. Wally's friends can't help but give Wally the business about having a girl be his chauffeur. Everyone's view of the situation changes after the dance. Written by Huggo
13Beaver's First Date
30 Dec 1961
Description ▼After two years of using every excuse to try and avoid going to dancing class, Beaver comes home from dancing class stating it was one of the best times he's ever had. Wally gets it out of him that it's because of a new girl in the class named Betsy Patterson. Beaver isn't sure why he likes her, but it is his first ever case of puppy love for a girl his own age. Mrs. Thompson, the dancing school teacher, is holding a party in a week's time to which all the boys in the class are supposed to invite a girl from the class. Beaver manages to get up enough nerve to ask Betsy, who accepts. In addition, Wally, a former dancing school student, is asked to chaperon. Wally's presence may make a nervous Beaver feel more comfortable since he can follow Wally's lead in how to act properly to a girl. Will this dance make Beaver forget all about being a kid or will it be his full fledged entrance into puberty? Written by Huggo
14Ward's Golf Clubs
06 Jan 1962
Description ▼With a shoebox filled with stray golf balls he found over by the driving range, Gilbert convinces Beaver - against Beaver's own better judgment - to get Ward's golf clubs with which to hit the balls. On Beaver's first swing, the head of the driver breaks off. What Gilbert and Beaver don't know is that Ward actually broke the club himself earlier in the day. Not knowing this fact, Wally convinces Beaver to be up front with their father about breaking the driver. Beaver changes his mind after Ward chastises Wally about borrowing something of his without asking. Rather than endure the wrath of his father, Beaver decides to replace the broken driver, he figuring he's got one whole week until Ward goes out for his next game and figuring he can pay on installment since he doesn't have the entire amount. If Beaver can purchase the driver and sneak it into Ward's golf bag without either his mother or father finding out, what will Ward think when he sees an unbroken driver in his bag? Written by Huggo
15Farewell to Penny
13 Jan 1962
Description ▼Beaver is glad to learn that mean Penny Woods' family is moving out of town; but when they realize that their good-byes will be for good, battling schoolmates Beaver and Penny discover that their feelings for each other may be more complicated than they think. Written by shepherd1138
16Beaver, the Bunny
20 Jan 1962
Description ▼Despite volunteering to be in the school pageant, Beaver is angry and embarrassed to be playing a cute bunny rabbit. All the pageant participants have to get dressed at home before going to the school for the pageant. Ward learns late the day of the pageant that he has to work late, meaning that he can't drive Beaver to school for the pageant. Wally manages to get Lumpy to drive both him and Beaver. But when Lumpy's car gets a flat tire on the way, an embarrassed Beaver, dressed in his bunny costume, is forced to walk the rest of the way to school on his own. Beaver tries to avoid letting anyone see him on his walk. But when Beaver doesn't show up at school much to the exasperation of the harried pageant director Miss Lawrence, Wally has to find out what's happened to him. Written by Huggo
17Beaver's Electric Trains
27 Jan 1962
Description ▼After agreeing to let June give his old electric train set to neighbor boy Johnny Battson, Beaver decides to pretend the trains are broken and keep them for himself; but Beaver's sneaky plan doesn't account for big brother Wally falling under the spell of little Johnny's pretty, teen-aged sister! Written by shepherd1138
18Beaver's Long Night
03 Feb 1962
Description ▼Despite promising Beaver that they would no longer get babysitters for him, Ward and June are still uneasy to leave him at home alone for the evening, especially as they know that Wally also won't be there. They believe the answer to their worries are to allow Gilbert to spend the night with Beaver. That night, after watching a scary movie on television, Beaver and Gilbert notice a suspicious vehicle which they've never seen that's parked in front of the house with two masked men in it. Pretending to be an adult - "Mr. Cleaver" - so that they will be taken more seriously, they decide to call the police, who come by and haul off the car's occupants. What Beaver and Gilbert are unaware of is that it's Lumpy's car, he, who with Bill Scott, was waiting to pick up Wally, who wasn't home yet, to head off to a masquerade party. What will Ward do when he receives the inevitable tirade from a concerned Fred Rutherford over his son's wrongful incarceration? Written by Huggo
19Beaver's Jacket
10 Feb 1962
Description ▼Ward finds out first hand why his youngest son's middle name is trouble just by giving his permission for the Beaver to buy an expensive leather jacket just like the one he admired on his friend Richard. |
20Nobody Loves Me
17 Feb 1962
Description ▼After seeing a book in the store window called "The Awkward Age", Beaver and Richard discuss when that actually takes place. Richard describes the classic signs of puberty, he ending with the statement that nobody, including their parents, likes kids at the awkward age. Without saying anything, Beaver believes he is at that awkward age: ugly, clumsy, bothersome, generally repulsive and thus unloved. It doesn't help by the recent behavior of his family, including Wally who wants to move into the guest room. Even comments by Miss Landers and Gus the fireman, who have not seen Beaver in a while, reinforce Beaver's negative perception of himself. When Ward and June learn from Wally what Beaver is feeling, they have to try to prove to Beaver in a not obvious way that they still love him. Written by Huggo
21Beaver's Fear
24 Feb 1962
Description ▼Beaver is reluctant to go to the amusement park with Wally and the older boys after Richard and Whitey tell him how scary the roller coaster ride is. |
22Three Boys and a Burro
03 Mar 1962
Description ▼Beaver convinces his parents to let him go in with friends Richard and Gilbert to buy a cute, little burro; but Beaver's promise that "Pepe" will never have to stay in the Cleaver's yard may be impossible to keep. |
23Eddie Quits School
10 Mar 1962
Description ▼All the guys are jealous when Eddie Haskell's dad allows him to drop out of high school, especially when he brags about the money he's making in his new job; but best friend Wally isn't sure that Eddie is as happy as he seems to be with his newfound independence. Written by shepherd1138
24Wally Stays at Lumpy's
17 Mar 1962
Description ▼When Wally asks Ward's permission to stay overnight at the Rutherfords and Beaver asks June's permission for his friend Gilbert to stay overnight at the Cleavers, the distracted parents deny the boys'requests but unwittingly give them an escape clause and are surprised when Wally and Beaver do exactly the opposite of what they were told. Written by shepherd1138
25Beaver's Laundry
24 Mar 1962
Description ▼With the Rickover's washing machine broken, Beaver offers to help Richard, who is running out of clean clothes, take the family's clothes down to the laundromat. Mrs. Rickover has given Richard $3 to get the clothes cleaned. On the way to the laundromat, Richard realizes that he's lost the $3. Not being able to find the money and not wanting to get yelled at by his mother, Richard asks Beaver if he thinks Beaver's mother will do their laundry instead. Beaver believes so. But when they arrive at Beaver's house, no one, including June, is in sight. So Richard suggests they do the laundry themselves using the Cleaver's washing machine. Neither really knowing how to wash clothes, they proceed anyway with less than positive results. Wally and Eddie, who return in the middle of the disaster, help Beaver and Richard, with Wally and Eddie each have their own motives for helping. They collectively try both to fix the mess in the Cleaver's laundry room and still get Richard's clothes clean so that he won't get yelled at by his parents, all without Ward, June or Mr. and Mrs. Rickover learning what really happened. Written by Huggo
26Lumpy's Car Trouble
31 Mar 1962
Description ▼Since Wally doesn't have his drivers license, busy Ward reluctantly gives Lumpy Rutherford permission to drive the Cleaver family car to an out-of-town track meet. But, in spite of Wally's promises to stay on the main road, troublemakers Lumpy and Eddie Haskell convince Wally to let them take a "shortcut" on the way home from the meet and the boys break down on a dirt road in the middle of the woods. The boys take the car to a shop to have it repaired so that the damage won't be noticed, but unbeknownst to them one of Ward's co-workers had spotted the boys pushing his car along the highway. Ward confronts Wally and Beaver to find out exactly what happened, then tells them the car is off limits "for awhile." Ward also refuses to reveal his informant to his sons, defending his action so as to ensure the boys are always on their best behavior and may be caught at any time. Written by shepherd1138; Brian Rathjen
27Beaver the Babysitter
07 Apr 1962
Description ▼Wally is excited by his double date with Eddie this evening. What he's forgotten about is that he also promised to babysit five-year old Chuckie Murdock this evening. Exhausting all his friends, none of whom can babysit in his place, Wally makes an unlikely suggestion as a replacement: Beaver. Wally convinces both Beaver and their parents that Beaver is capable of doing the job. But Beaver is thrown a bit of a curve ball when he gets to the Murdock house and finds that he isn't sitting with five-year old Chuckie Murdock, but rather the Murdock's ten-year old daughter Pat Murdock. Beaver was all prepared to deal with a little boy, not not a slightly older girl. Regardless of how the evening goes, Beaver just hopes that precocious Pat, who goes to Grant Avenue School as well, doesn't spread the word that he played "girl" games. What actually ends up happening is even worse in Beaver's estimation. Written by Huggo
28The Younger Brother
14 Apr 1962
Description ▼When Ward urges Beaver to follow in Wally's footsteps and become the next Cleaver basketball star, Beaver tries out for the City Park basketball team. But Beaver finds he lacks his older brother's talent for the sport and, afraid to disappoint his dad, doesn't tell anyone when he is cut on the first day of practice. Written by shepherd1138
29Beaver's Typewriter
21 Apr 1962
Description ▼After seeing an advertisement for one on sale, Beaver tries to convince his parents to buy him a typewriter, despite he not knowing how to type. He uses the argument that typing will help in his schoolwork and by association improve his grades. After making Beaver promise to stick with it unlike many other "toys" both he and Wally have so easily discarded that are collecting dust, Ward agrees. Learning how to type is much more difficult than Beaver expected and he resorts to writing his class composition in longhand, which he knows will anger his father. When Eddie comes by their house, Beaver is amazed to see that Eddie not only knows how to type, but type well. They make a deal: Eddie will type out Beaver's composition for $1. The typewritten composition has an unintended affect: Mr. Bailey, Beaver's English teacher, is so impressed by the improvement in Beaver's work, especially in the neatness through the typewritten assignment, that he sends a note home for Beaver's parents on that fact. Beaver has to decide what to do about the next assignment for Mr. Bailey, which he knows he will be unable to type on his own, and which Mr. Bailey, Ward and June will expect now to be typewritten. Written by Huggo
30The Merchant Marine
28 Apr 1962
Description ▼Angry with his dad for taking his car keys away, Lumpy Rutherford decides to secretly join the Merchant Marine Corp and has the enlistment information sent to the Cleaver's address instead of his own. Trying to be a good friend, Wally hides the Corp literature in his room; but, when June finds it while cleaning, she's sure that a break-up with his girlfriend and a recent reprimand from Ward have made Wally unhappy enough to leave home. Written by shepherd1138
31Brother vs. Brother
05 May 1962
Description ▼Beaver feels betrayed when the first girl he ever wanted to bring home after school falls for big brother Wally as soon as they get there. |
32The Yard Birds
12 May 1962
Description ▼Wally and Beaver reluctantly give up their Saturday morning to clean the yard, miss the garbage man's pick-up deadline and go from the frying pan into the fire when they trust Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford to take the trash to the dump in Lumpy's car. Written by shepherd1138
33Tennis, Anyone
19 May 1962
Description ▼Wally is supposed to meet Eddie at the tennis court, Wally who is just starting to get into the game again after not playing in years. While Wally waits for Eddie, he is approached by pretty twenty-something Carole Martin, who not only is interested in volleying with him while he waits for Eddie, but seems interested in him, period. What Wally doesn't know is that Carole just had an argument with her tennis instructor boyfriend, Don Kirk, who was watching from afar. Carole only asked Wally to play to make Don jealous. Although Wally makes a future tennis date with Carole, he wants to keep it a secret from his friends and family. Carole, on the other hand, gets more and more friendly with Wally whenever Don is around. When Don finally decides to approach Wally, Wally learns a lesson in the games that men and women play in relationship oneupsmanship. Written by Huggo
34One of the Boys
26 May 1962
Description ▼Eddie believes that the best thing ever in their high school lives has just happened to himself and Wally: they've just been asked the join the Barons, a popular "club" at high school. Wally doesn't know the boys in the club too well, so is a bit hesitant about joining until he gets an official invitation directly from them and meets them. He finds out that they are all about fast sports cars, expensive clothes and attracting fast girls. But Ward's adult perception of them is that they are overly privileged, spoiled and not academically inclined, which in combination doesn't amount to much. Despite June's protests, Ward convinces her that Wally is old enough to make up his own mind about joining, even if they aren't the type of boys that Wally usually associates with, or conversely associate with him. Ward doesn't tell Wally how he feels about the club. Conversely, Wally doesn't tell Ward how he feels about the club, or the reason he was asked to join. This silence between father and son may backfire on both for doing what each really wants. Written by Huggo
35Sweatshirt Monsters
02 Jun 1962
Description ▼Beaver and his friends buy fad "monster" sweatshirts and agree to wear them to school on the same day but Beaver is the only one who manages to sneak out of his house in the gruesome attire and suffers the consequences of violating the school's dress code...and his parents trust. Written by shepherd1138
36A Night in the Woods
09 Jun 1962
Description ▼When their week-end dating plans are ruined by Wally's promise to take Beaver and his buddies camping, Lumpy and Eddie connive to free up their pal by trying to scare the young campers into coming home early. |
37Long Distance Call
16 Jun 1962
Description ▼While Ward and June are out for the day, Beaver is convinced by his visiting friends, Gilbert and Alan, to split the cost of a long distance phone call to Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, Don Drysdale. But the prank costs much more than they expect when the boys are left on hold while the famous baseball player finishes his shower. Written by shepherd1138
38Stocks and Bonds
23 Jun 1962
Description ▼Ward tries teaching the boys about the stock market by matching their $50 and letting them invest in the market. When they want to invest in a risky stock that Eddie found, he talks them into buying into the local power company. The boys are disappointed to see their stock doing nothing while the risky one goes through the roof. Written by Ronny Bailey
39Un-Togetherness
30 Jun 1962
Description ▼The summer break is soon approaching, and Ward has made arrangements for the family to go back up to Crescent Lake for a two week vacation like they have for the previous ten summers. He's even managed to get the same cabin they had last year that they liked so much. June loves these vacations since she feels the family bonds closer together. While Beaver is excited by the news, Wally seems a bit sullen. Wally eventually tells the family that he doesn't think he can go this year, he making up a story that Mr. Gibson, his boss at the drugstore, probably won't give him the time off. Beaver suspects that Wally doesn't really want to go because he wants to moon over Lori-Ann, the new girl working at the library. Beaver's right as Wally and Lori-Ann have started dating. Ward and June know they can't force Wally to go, despite the fact that they will really miss not having him there. Wally even counters the argument of staying by himself by managing an invitation to stay with the Haskells for the two weeks. But something unaccounted for may throw a wrench into Wally's grand plans. Written by Huggo
1Wally's Dinner Date
27 Sep 1962
Description ▼Wally gets more than a little help from his dad and an understanding maitre'd when girlfriend Julie Foster picks a new, and very expensive, restaurant for their first dinner date. |
2Beaver's Football Award
04 Oct 1962
Description ▼Beaver stubbornly refuses to put on a suit for his school's father and son football awards banquet after he and the other team members secretly agree to wear casual clothes to the formal event. |
3Wally's License
11 Oct 1962
Description ▼It's Wally's seventeenth birthday, and he's hoping that his parents will keep to their promise made a few years back that they'll sign his driver's license application. Wally's concerns about them possibly not signing are founded as June believes Wally is still too young. But never having gone back on a promise made to either of their sons, they agree to sign, especially after they hear that Wally will be going through the driving program offered through the school, it being the only class taught by Mr. Barnsdall. Beyond the general nerves associated with learning how to drive, Wally faces a few extra pressures. One is the overly cautious advice June is always providing. And two is Shirley Fletcher, a girl who is taking the practical part of the lessons with Wally. Driving seems to come naturally to Shirley. As Shirley does everything in the driving lesson first, she can't help but continually comment to Wally on how easy everything is. As the exam day arrives, Shirley's results add an extra layer of pressure. Regardless of Wally passing or failing, June just hopes that the thought of Wally being behind the wheel will become easier for her over time. Written by Huggo
4The Late Edition
18 Oct 1962
Description ▼Inspired to become a reporter by a visiting foreign news correspondent, Beaver runs to the local newspaper after school to apply for the open delivery boy position. But the job goes to a boy who pretends to be sick to get out of school early and Beaver, unwilling to "rat" on the dishonest kid, hopes that the new carrier will make so many mistakes that the paper will fire him. Written by shepherd1138
5Double Date
25 Oct 1962
Description ▼Wally worries that his immature little brother will spoil an evening with Carolyn Stewart after Beaver agrees to double-date with them, unaware that Beaver's date, Carolyn's shy little sister, Susan, may be the one to throw a wrench in the quartet's plans. Written by shepherd1138
6Eddie, the Businessman
01 Nov 1962
Description ▼Eddie's plans to butter up the loading dock foreman at Mayfield Dairy blind him to suspicious activity involving missing ice cream, jeopardizing the new week-end job Ward wangled for him and Wally. |
7Tell It to Ella
08 Nov 1962
Description ▼When he is punished for staying out too late on a school night, Beaver writes a letter to popular advice columnist "Ella" hoping that a sympathetic response from her will convince his parents that he is being treated unfairly. |
8Bachelor at Large
15 Nov 1962
Description ▼After a fight with his parents, Eddie moves out of the house and into a room of his own. Ward and June, while concerned for Eddie for being by himself at such a young age, are more concerned about Wally, who may want to emulate his best friend's move. Indeed, both Wally and Beaver are excited that Eddie can do whatever he wants, especially as Eddie tells stories of always being waited on by and having parties with the young female tenants of the rooming house. So it is with trepidation that Ward and June allow Wally to join Lumpy in going to Eddie's for dinner followed by a sleepover. Without telling him the reason, Ward and June renege on allowing Wally to go when the Haskells ask them not to allow Wally to go, they who feel that Eddie is at a state where is almost ready to come home and that Wally and Lumpy's presence would give Eddie some more confidence to be on his own. But when Wally, with Beaver in tow, goes to Eddie's place to tell him that neither he or Lumpy can make it for dinner and the sleepover, Wally, seeing how Eddie is really living, decides that he needs to help Mrs. Evans, Eddie's caring landlady, get Eddie back to where he belongs. Written by Huggo
9Beaver Joins a Record Club
22 Nov 1962
Description ▼To teach his youngest son the importance of a budget, Ward lets Beaver join a record club; but the real lesson in financial responsibility comes after Wally's warnings to return the weekly selection refusal cards are ignored and Beaver winds up with more music...and a bigger bill... than his allowance allows. Written by shepherd1138
10Wally's Car Accident
29 Nov 1962
Description ▼An anxious Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) waits and watches for Dad, Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) to arrive home from work so that he can ask to borrow the new car. Ward arrives home, carrying his briefcase and walking with his head down. Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) tells Wally that it's a bad sign - that Dad is worried about stuff and will not be in a good mood. Beaver wonders if he's left his bike in the driveway again. The boys race downstairs. Ward admonishes Wally for leaving the lawn mower in the middle of the garage and tells him to move it so that he can park the car. Beaver tells Wally that sometimes he's as dumb as he is. Wally asks Beaver to help him get Dad back in a good mood. During dinner, Ward tells a long joke about automation. Beaver laughs at the joke a little too much. Ward tells the boys that he and Mom, June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) will be going away for the weekend with the Haneys. June tells them that the Haneys will pick them up on Friday and they will be back on Sunday, and that the Haneys will do all the driving. Wally says it sounds like a great weekend. Beaver asks if Wally can borrow the new car. A concerned June reminds Wally that Ward has only had the new car for a week. Ward asks what Wally needs the car for. Wally explains that he's taking Shirley to the school dance at the country club, and offers to wax the car after using it. Ward agrees that Wally can use the car, because he was always careful with the old one, and that he trusts Wally will be just as careful with the new one. On Friday, June readies herself to leave for the weekend. Beaver and Wally come downstairs to say goodbye. June tells Beaver to tuck in his shirt and put on his shoes. Beaver tucks his shirt, but says he's doesn't need to look like Tony Curtis to stay home and watch tv. As Beaver goes back upstairs, a horrified June notices a hole in Beaver's sock. Beaver says he noticed it earlier that day, but figured his shoe would cover it up. Ward calls Wally into the den. He tells Wally not to pile a bunch of kids in the car, to use it for the dance and to come straight home. Wally asks if that's it. Ward says he's too old to lecture. The Haneys drive up, honking their car horn to announce their arrival. Ward picks up his golf clubs. Beaver comes downstairs to say goodbye. An exasperated June realizes that Beaver is barefoot. She kisses the boys goodbye and tells them to be good. Shirley (Beverly Lunsford) and Wally leave the dance. An apologetic Wally explains that he has to take her straight home from the dance because he's got his father's new car, and that he's not trying to be cheap or anything by not taking her for a burger and a malt. Shirley says it's fine, that she couldn't eat another thing after all the punch and good food they just had at the dance. Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) interrupts to ask Wally for help giving Lumpy Rutherford's (Frank Bank) car a shove. Wally refuses, reminding Eddie that he's driving his dad's new car. Eddie gets mad. Wally agrees to help, only if they are careful.The boys cover the bumper of the new car with a horse blanket. Lumpy puts the car in gear. Wally pushes Lumpy's car. There is a crash and the headlight of the new car breaks. The boys survey the damage. Lumpy apologizes to Wally for having bought a seventy-five cent battery in the first place. A dejected Wally arrives home. He sits on his bed, shoulders slumped. Beaver turns on the light and asks what's wrong. Wally tells Beaver about the broken headlight. Beaver tells him that a guy he knew had to leave for Mexico so his dad wouldn't kill him. Beaver asks Wally where he's going to leave for. Wally tells Beaver that he isn't going anywhere, that he's going to tell Dad what happened. In the morning, Beaver and Wally check the damage. It looks even worse in the daylight. Eddie and Lumpy arrive with a plan. Eddie convinces Wally to take the car to Al's Garage, just to get an estimate on the damage. Wally reluctantly agrees to go. Beaver stays home to wash the breakfast dishes. As Beaver washes the dishes, the phone rings. June tells Beaver that they are getting ready to leave to come home. Ward wants to talk to Wally. Beaver tells Ward that Wally can't come to the phone. Ward asks if Wally got home from the dance all right. Beaver tells Ward that Wally got home ok. Wally gets an estimate from Al, (Will J. White) the mechanic. It will cost $18 in parts and labor. Eddie tells Wally to fix the car. Wally thinks he should ask his dad first. Eddie convinces Wally to fix the car right away, since it will have to be fixed anyway. Wally reluctantly agrees with Eddie's logic. The boys pool their money. Al tells Wally the car will be ready on Monday. Eddie tells Al that they need the car right away, because they are in the Peace Corp. Wally confesses that they need the car right away because he broke his father's car, and that Ward will be home soon. Al agrees to fix the car by 3pm. Eddie chides Wally for throwing the truth around. Wally and Beaver finish waxing the car. Beaver remarks that Ward will never know about the headlight. Wally tells Beaver that he's going to come clean about the headlight. Ward and June arrive home. Ward admires the wax job on the car. June tells the boys how happy they are that they can trust the boys to be responsible while they are away. Before Wally can tell Ward about the headlight, the phone rings. Ward goes inside to answer the phone. Lumpy Rutherford mistakenly believes that Wally has answered the phone. He asks "Wally" if he's going to tell his dad about the busted headlight. Ward tells Lumpy that Wally won't have to tell him, because Lumpy just did. Lumpy hangs up. An upset Ward comes back outside. He tells the boys he's going to put the car in the garage. Beaver tells Wally that Dad knows. Wally asks how he could possibly know. Ward tells Wally that he wants to speak to him in the den. Wally agrees that Dad knows. Upstairs, Beaver asks Wally what Dad said to him. Wally explains that it wasn't so much what he said as what he didn't say, and that blaming the other guy isn't much of an excuse at his age. Wally tells Beaver that there wasn't much to talk about, since they both knew that Wally did something wrong. Beaver remarks that he's still at an age where a lot of yelling goes along with getting bawled out.
11Beaver, the Sheep Dog
06 Dec 1962
Description ▼Beaver takes it personally when schoolmate Shirley makes fun of his hair; but when his efforts to tame his unruly locks don't go as planned, Beaver decides instead to follow troublemaker Eddie Haskell's advice to give Shirley a taste of her own medicine. Written by shepherd1138
12Beaver, the Hero
13 Dec 1962
Description ▼The perpetual bench-warmer Beaver is allowed to play in the last few minutes of the football game, and he catches the winning touchdown. Initially, Beaver thinks nothing of it as he realizes he is not the greatest football player and much of it was luck. When many of his classmates start fawning over him, after the local newspaper prints his photo and writes about the game and after the local malt shop names a new sundae after him, Beaver starts to enjoy the adoration. Beaver also begins to get a swelled head about his new-found football prowess, even critiquing professional football players. Ward and Wally both think that they should speak to Beaver to bring him back down to earth. It isn't until the coach makes a decision about the next game that Beaver understands how much a jerk he's become. Written by Huggo
13Beaver's Autobiography
20 Dec 1962
Description ▼Beaver encourages pretty classmate Betsy Carter's crush on him to get her to help him write his autobiography for a school assignment; but when Betsy finds out that Beaver has been calling her names behind her back, her assistance turns to sabotage. Written by shepherd1138
14The Party Spoiler
27 Dec 1962
Description ▼Feeling ignored after Wally doesn't invite him to a party, Beaver is convinced by his sneaky pal, Gilbert Bates, to get even by sabotaging his big brother's evening. |
15The Mustache
03 Jan 1963
Description ▼When Wally's girlfriend, Julie, stands him up to go out with an older boy who sports a moustache, Wally thinks that growing his own moustache will make him look more mature and help him win her back. |
16Wally Buys a Car
10 Jan 1963
Description ▼Ward's offer to help Wally pay for the high cost of automobile insurance hinges on several conditions, including the concerned dad having final say on the excited, but naive, teen's choice of used car. |
17The Parking Attendants
17 Jan 1963
Description ▼Ward and June are concerned when Wally is hired to park cars at a wedding reception, especially when they learn that he'll be asking unpredictable duo Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford to help. |
18More Blessed to Give
24 Jan 1963
Description ▼Beaver wins a 14K gold locket at the carnival ring toss and gives it to his friend Donna, after putting a picture of each of them inside; but Donna's angry dad won't let her keep the expensive gift and mails it back to Beaver without a note of explanation. Confusion reigns when June finds the locket hidden in Beaver's dresser drawer and thinks Donna gave the gift to Beaver. Written by shepherd1138
19Beaver's Good Deed
31 Jan 1963
Description ▼After Ward reprimands him for being rude and inconsiderate, Beaver tries to do a good deed for Jeff, a hungry hobo with a hard luck story, who knocks on the Cleaver's kitchen door while Ward and June are out. Jeff convinces Beaver to make him a sandwich and let him take a bath but Beaver finds himself in hot water when his wily guest sneaks out of the house in one of Ward's good suits leaving a pile of dirty clothes for June to find when she comes home. Written by shepherd1138
20The Credit Card
07 Feb 1963
Description ▼Showing off his new credit card, Eddie Haskell foots the bill for a new battery when Wally's car breaks down on the way home from a school function. Wally pays Eddie the cash to cover the charge but Eddie spends the money instead of giving it to his father and both boys are in trouble when George Haskell calls Ward to complain about the unpaid credit card bill. Written by shepherd1138
21Beaver, the Caddy
14 Feb 1963
Description ▼Caddy Beaver tries to set things right when golfer Mr. Langley cheats on his scorecard to win a $500.00 bet. |
22Beaver on TV
21 Feb 1963
Description ▼Beaver's classmates and family plan to watch him "live" when he is chosen to appear as a panelist on the popular TV show "The Teenage Forum". But when everyone, including Beaver, misses an announcement that his episode will be taped for airing the following week, no one believes Beaver was really on the show...not even Beaver himself! Written by shepherd1138
23Box Office Attraction
28 Feb 1963
Description ▼Wally is smitten by a pretty young lady named Marlene, who works the ticket counter at the movie theater. With some help from Eddie, Wally summons the courage to ask Marlene out. But on date night, Wally sees another side to the woman that makes him realize she's no "box office attraction." Written by Brian Rathjen
24Lumpy's Scholarship
07 Mar 1963
Description ▼When Wally is notified that the State College scholarship he applied for went to Lumpy Rutherford instead, he graciously throws a party to celebrate with his friend and secretly helps out after Lumpy gets disappointing news. |
25The Silent Treatment
14 Mar 1963
Description ▼Sulking because June made him do an errand for her instead of letting him help Wally and Eddie install a radio in Eddie's car, Beaver only speaks to her when necessary and starts playing up to his dad. |
26Uncle Billy's Visit
21 Mar 1963
Description ▼June isn't sure it's a good idea when eccentric Uncle Billy comes to stay with the boys while she and Ward spend the week-end at the lake with friends. But when Beaver is caught trying to sneak his friend Gilbert through the back door of the movie theater, he's glad that it's his good-natured uncle who gets the call from the theater manager and not his parents. Written by shepherd1138
27Beaver's Prep School
28 Mar 1963
Description ▼As grammar school graduation approaches, Beaver is torn between accepting Aunt Martha's offer to send him to a prestigious prep school in faraway New England or going on to Mayfield high school with the rest of his friends. |
28Wally and the Fraternity
04 Apr 1963
Description ▼Ward is happy to write a letter of recommendation to his old fraternity, Alpha Kappa, when Wally decides to attend his dad's alma mater, State College; but Wally finds himself in a real dilemma when he's told that Alpha Kappa has a bad reputation and even Eddie Haskell doesn't want to join it. Written by shepherd1138
29Eddie's Sweater
11 Apr 1963
Description ▼Best friend Eddie gets jealous and girlfriend Julie thinks the worst when Wally innocently agrees to be the model for a sweater that Eddie's girlfriend, Cindy, is secretly knitting for Eddie's birthday. |
30The Book Report
18 Apr 1963
Description ▼Daunted by the length of "The Three Musketeers" that he chose to read for a school book report, Beaver writes his report from a movie version of the story instead, not realizing until too late that the movie he watched was a musical farce. |
31The Poor Loser
25 Apr 1963
Description ▼Ward's dilemma over which son to take to a major league baseball game after he's only given two tickets seems solved when Beaver decides to go with Gilbert to the movies...until Gilbert's parents take him with them on a trip and Beaver tells his dad that he can go to the game after all. Written by shepherd1138
32Don Juan Beaver
02 May 1963
Description ▼Bad advice from Eddie Haskell lands Beaver in trouble after he asks Peggy to go to the graduation dance and then decides he'd rather go with Melinda. |
33Summer in Alaska
09 May 1963
Description ▼When Eddie Haskell's uncle gets his nephew a summer job on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska, Eddie makes it sound so exciting that Wally and Lumpy want to go too...until Eddie's interview with the boat's captain bursts everyone's bubble. Written by shepherd1138
34Beaver's Graduation
16 May 1963
Description ▼Gilbert has to go to Principal Rayburn's office so Beaver goes with him. Mrs. Rayburn isn't there, but the boys notice the stack of diplomas on her desk. While looking through the diplomas of the upcoming grammer school graduation, Beaver notices his diploma isn't there. Resigned to the fact that he won't be graduating, Beaver goes home and confides in Wally. Wally tells Beaver it must be because of all the goofing off he's been doing, and the best thing he can do is to study hard the last few days of school and maybe Mrs. Rayburn will change her mind. While studying, Eddie Haskell comes over to visit Wally, and learns of Beaver's predicament. He tells Beaver he should tell his mother, and that then maybe his father will go easier on him. Beaver decides to take Eddie's advice and goes downstairs. While asking his mother some probing questions, Mrs. Cleaver asks Beaver directly if he isn't going to be graduating; when Beaver answers 'yes', she immediately calls for his father before Beaver can tell her any more of the sequence of events. Beaver then tells both his parents about finding the diplomas, and more specifically, not finding his, and his father tells Beaver that he will need to go talk to Mrs. Rayburn the next day, and that he wants to talk to Mrs. Rayburn as well. Beaver waits all day, but is finally forced to face Mrs. Rayburn. He explains to her about coming to her office, and finding the diplomas, except for his. Mrs. Rayburn laughs, telling Beaver that his diploma was pulled out of from the others because he is going to be on stage with 12 other students, and he will be given his diploma separately. Beaver graduates grammer school after all.
35Wally's Practical Joke
23 May 1963
Description ▼After Lumpy Rutherford puts exploding smoke bombs in Wally's and Eddie's cars, Eddie coaxes Wally into retaliating against Lumpy with their own practical joke. But real damage is done to Lumpy's car when the joke goes wrong and Wally doesn't know that evidence left at the scene will lead the Rutherfords straight to the Cleavers. Written by shepherd1138
36The All-Night Party
30 May 1963
Description ▼Wally is graduating high school, and there is a chaperoned all night party being held for the seniors. Wally asks Kathy Gregory to go with him, but Kathy's father won't hear of it. He hasn't met Wally, but he is sure he is one of those troublesome irresponsible teenage boys. Kathy convinces Wally to come to the house and meet her father so he will see that Wally is really a nice, wholesome boy. After spending time with Wally, Mr. Gregory takes a liking to him and changes his mind about letting Kathy go to the dance party. Wally, Eddie, and Clarence (Lumpy) and their dates dance all night. All goes well at the party until it is over and it's time to leave when a drunken man, possibly a kids parent, is stumbling around and bumps into Kathy, accidently pushing her into a fountain. Kathy is completely soaked. Wally takes Kathy home, where her father is waiting for her to return. As Wally tries to explain what happened, all Mr. Gregory hears is "drunk" and "pushed Kathy" and assumes that there was drinking at the party and that Wally has been irresponsible; he sends Kathy upstairs and throws Wally out of his house. Later, Eddie and Clarence (Lumpy) come over to Wally's house, where Wally is explaining what happened to his parents. They tell Wally that Kathy has been grounded for a month because of what happened. Wally immediately goes over to the Gregory's house to try again to explain the events. As Wally talks, Mr. Gregory begins to believe Wally, and even understand that Kathy was afraid of him, realizing he may be an overprotective father. Wally leaves with the misunderstanding resolved. In the final scene, Wally is hanging his high school diploma up in his room, and telling Beaver what high school will be like for him, and how it will be different than grammer school was.
37Beaver Sees America
06 Jun 1963
Description ▼Beaver is excitedly planning a 6-week summer bus trip to see famous sites in America until he sees Gilbert Bates making a move on girlfriend Mary Margaret Matthews. |
38The Clothing Drive
13 Jun 1963
Description ▼June sends Ward to the principal's office to explain to Mrs. Rayburn how three of his good suits got mixed in with the old clothing donation that won Beaver the grammar school's "Good Citizen" award...and tell her that he wants them back! |
39Family Scrapbook
20 Jun 1963
Description ▼While cleaning the house, June finds some family memorabilia which no one has seen in years. Among those items is a scrapbook of photographs. Ward and June think it would be a fun idea for the entire family to sit around and look through the scrapbook together. In looking at the photographs, they collectively reminisce about the incidents behind the photos: Beaver's first note from school; Beaver once believing that a married neighbor lady was in love with him; Wally's first shave; Beaver running away from home for being what he considered unfairly punished for Larry drilling a hole in their garage wall; one of Eddie's many overly polite greetings when he entered their house; their dealings with Andy the alcoholic; Beaver and Larry getting caught reading Larry's sister's diary; Beaver's nervous night when Miss Landers came to the house for dinner; and Wally's disastrous run for class president. As June and Ward remark about how Wally and Beaver are now becoming young men, Wally and Beaver show that they will always have a kid somewhere inside of them. Written by Huggo
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