The BEST episodes directed by David Butler
#1 - Beaver on TV
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 22
Beaver is mystified and embarrassed when the television program on which he was a panelist does not appear as scheduled.
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#2 - Beaver the Magician
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 12
A simple magic trick gets the better of Beaver when he and Larry convince Benjie Bellamy that Beaver's been transformed into a rock!
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#3 - Tell It to Ella
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 7
On advice from his friends, Beaver writes to a newspaper advice columnist complaining that his parents are too strict.
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#4 - Beaver, the Hero
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 12
Beaver's ego gets the better of him after he scores the winning touchdown at a football game and becomes the center of attention.
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#5 - Wally and the Fraternity
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 28
Wally expresses an interest in joining a fraternity on campus, and Ward offers to write a letter to Alpha Kappa on behalf of Wally and Eddie. Wally worries when an older State student informs him that Alpha Kappa is one of the worst houses on campus.
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#6 - Ward's Golf Clubs
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 14
When Beaver succumbs to peer pressure from his friends, he ends up permanently breaking his father's mended golf driver.
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#7 - Beaver, the Sheep Dog
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 11
Upset when a classmate tells him he looks like a sheepdog, Beaver tries several different kinds of pomade to tame his unruly hair.
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#8 - Beaver's Good Deed
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 19
After Ward lectures him about showing consideration for others, Beaver befriends a tramp who proceeds to make himself at home in the Cleaver house.
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#9 - The Dick Richardson Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 13
When the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.
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#10 - Beaver's Football Award
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 2
Beaver insists on attending the Father and Sons banquet in regular clothes because he thinks that's how the other boys will be dressed. Ward comes to the rescue when Beaver arrives and finds that he's the only one without a sport coat and tie.
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#11 - The Poor Loser
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 31
Ward gives his spare baseball ticket to Wally after Beaver announces he's already made plans. When Beaver's plans fall through, he asks his father to get an extra ticket, but the game is sold out.
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#12 - Beaver's Autobiography
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 13
Betsy, a new classmate, agrees to write Beaver's autobiography assignment for him -- but little does he know that Betsy also overheard him call her a "gooney creep."
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#13 - Beaver's First Date
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 13
When Beaver asks Betsy Patterson out for his first date, he's left to fend for himself after she ditches him for another boy.
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#14 - Box Office Attraction
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 23
Wally develops a crush on the girl who works at the box office, but she is not as wholesome as she appears, and they realize they have little in common.
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#15 - The Tooth
Leave It to Beaver - Season 2 - Episode 21
Beaver learns he has to go to the dentist and that's when his friends tell him some horror stories about the drill the dentist is going to use. This prompts Beaver to become downright scared of going to the dentist.
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#16 - Beaver Joins a Record Club
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 9
In the mistaken belief that it won't cost him more than 87 cents a week, Beaver signs up for a record club without reading the contract.
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#17 - Farewell to Penny
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 15
Beaver and his rival, Penny Woods, both reluctantly come to the conclusion that the other isn't so bad after all when Beaver's invited to her going-away party.
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#18 - Three Boys and a Burro
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 22
Beaver, Gilbert and Richard have to find a home for their new burro!
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#19 - The All-Night Party
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 36
Wally has to impress his date's father before he's allowed to take her to an all-night party. As they're leaving in the morning, a stray drunk knocks her into a fountain, and her father assumes the damage was done at the party.
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#20 - Beaver and Violet
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 32
While on a joint family picnic with the Rutherfords, Beaver is annoyed by the constant flirtation from the Rutherfords' daughter Violet.
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#21 - The Bill Tawnee Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 22
The Major finds a lone wagon on the trail. Inside is a man he recognises as Bill Tawnee, once Indian Scout to General Sherman during the Civil War and much decorated for bravery. With him is his wife and baby. Bill is suffering from a beating he took at a trading post back on the trail. The Major takes them back to the wagons to resume their journey with them. On the train is another civil war hero, Mr. Barry. That is his version of events at least. It is not long before a few comments from Bill Tawnee show that Barry did not win the civil war single handed and the two men come to blows. Later, Bill Tawnee finds Barry's missing rifle. When Barry accuses Bill of stealing it, Bill decides to leave the train, leaving his wife and child behind. It seems there is no hope of him returning. Then events take a turn for the worse and Bill Tawney comes into his own.
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#22 - Pet Fair
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 16
Beaver finds himself in a bit of a pickle after he tells his class that he owns a talking parrot he saw at the pet shop on the way to school. Without that parrot, which costs $200, he'll be the laughingstock of the class pet fair!
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#23 - Beaver, the Babysitter
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 27
Beaver's reputation is blown after his friends catch him playing house with Patricia, the ten-year-old girl he's babysitting for Wally.
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#24 - Lumpy's Car Trouble
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 26
Ward agrees to let Lumpy to drive his car, but Lumpy gets the car stuck along a dirt road "shortcut."
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#25 - Double Date
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 5
Beaver reluctantly agrees to go on a double date with his brother, but his girl backs out.
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#26 - Summer in Alaska
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 33
Eddie announces he'll be spending his summer aboard a fishing boat in Alaska and encourages Lumpy and Wally to join him. Their parents refuse, and Eddie has second thoughts himself when he finds out he'll spend the summer chopping chum.
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#27 - No Time for Babysitters
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 2
Beaver's bragged to all his friends that his parents think he's too old for a babysitter. When they go out for an evening, Beaver has to figure out a way to hide Judy, the babysitter beaver's parents changed their minds about.
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#28 - June's Birthday
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 13
Beaver's feelings are hurt when the "exquisite" birthday present he buys for his mother's birthday is hidden, rather than displayed proudly at the Mothers Club tea.
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#29 - The Bernal Sierra Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 24
There is trouble in store when the Major accepts Bernal Sierra onto the train fresh from the wars in Mexico. He is on a mission to find a cache of stolen gold and it isn't long before he has some suspects on the train well within his sights.
#30 - Beaver's Cat Problem
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 5
Beaver finds himswelf with a problem after he feeds Mrs. Prentiss's lost cat, Bootsie, and soon realizes that Bootsie will continue to return to the Cleaver's home for more.
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#31 - Brother Versus Brother
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 31
Beaver has a crush on Mary. Unfortunately, she's developed her own crush...on Wally!
#32 - Uncle Billy's Visit
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 26
Ward's Uncle Billy arrives to stay for the weekend. He gives the boys some pocket money, which Beaver uses to see a movie. Beaver's caught trying to let his friend in through the side door, and is upset when "fun" Uncle Billy sides with the theater manager.
#33 - The Yard Birds
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 32
When Beaver and Wally's horseplay causes them to miss their deadline in getting the garage and yard in order, they decide to take matters -- and the trash -- into their own hands!
#34 - Beaver and Andy
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 20
Ward has hired a nice old man named Andy to paint the house. Unfortunately, Andy has a drinking problem that Ward and June are trying to keep from the boys.
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#35 - Substitute Father
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 39
Wally takes on the fatherly duties of the household while Ward is away, including going in to speak to Beaver's teacher after he gets into trouble.
#36 - Beaver's Fear
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 21
When Beaver goes to the amusement park with Wally and his friends, his fear of the roller coasters just may be the boys' savior.
#37 - Wally's Practical Joke
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 35
Lumpy puts cherry bombs in Eddie and Wally's cars, and Eddie wants to pay him back. The joke doesn't come off as planned, and Wally and Eddie spend the day fixing the damage to Lumpy's car.
#38 - The Honorable Don Charlie Story
Wagon Train - Season 1 - Episode 19
Major Adams is intrusted with getting socialite Julie Wharton safely to San Francisco. His plans nearly come to naught, however, when ageing Lothario the Honourable Don Charlie (at least that is one of the names he uses) tries to sweet talk her into staying with him. Hot on his heels, though, is his girlfriend and a soldier. The girlfriend wants to win him; the soldier wants to win back the money he and his colleagues believe Don Charlie cheated them out of.
#39 - Beaver's Team
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 39
Wally takes over coaching Beaver's football team, "The Lightning Eleven."
#40 - Wally's Car
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 3
When Wally buys his first car for a mere $25, he brings it home only to have it become a roadblock preventing Ward from getting his car out of the garage.
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#41 - Wally's Big Date
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 8
Wally regrets agreeing to switch blind dates with Eddie once he realizes that his date is taller than he is.
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#42 - Wally's Play
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 37
Wally is voted into "The Crusaders," the high school letterman's club, and must perform a role in the annual "Crusaders' Follies." However, Wally's not too thrilled about the role he's been tapped to portray.
#43 - Weekend Invitation
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 10
Against their better judgment, June and Ward reluctantly give Wally permission to attend a guys' weekend in a cottage at the lake. What they don't know is that the stay will be unsupervised.
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#44 - Beaver and Ivanhoe
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 36
Beaver learns that chivalry has its price when he reads the book Ivanhoe and becomes invested in becoming a courageous knight who protects women and the weak.
#45 - Sweatshirt Monsters
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 35
Beaver and the gang make a pact to all wear the monster sweatshirts they've just purchased to school -- but Beaver's the only one who follows through.
#46 - The Don Alvarado Story
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 38
A dying Spanish nobleman asks Flint to impersonate Don Alvarado to claim the inheritance for the rest of his family. This brings Flint into contact with the men who murdered the nobleman.
#47 - Larry's Club
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 22
Beaver is invited to join Harold's secret club, "The Bloody Five," while Larry is excluded, prompting Larry to start his own rival club! Will Beaver choose to stick with his new friends, or remain loyal to his best friend?
#48 - Beaver Finds a Wallet
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 30
Beaver is elated when the appreciative owner of a wallet he's found declares she'll send him the best present she can find as thanks. But when days go by without the present's arrival, will Beaver's faith in human nature remain intact?
#49 - Beaver's Typewriter
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 29
Beaver succeeds in convincing his parents to buy him a new typewriter to help him with his homework. But once he gets it, Beaver gets little use out of it himself because he ends up paying Eddie $1 for each paper he types for him.
#50 - The Maud Frazer Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 3
Maud Frazer takes command of her wagon train after all the men are killed. Flint tries to dissuade Maud from going through hostile Indian country where there is gold.. She proceeds anyway but is forced to change plans.