The BEST episodes directed by Norman Abbott
#1 - Wally's Dinner Date
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 1
When Wally invites his girlfriend to dinner at the White Fox, he doesn't realize it's the most expensive place in town. To make matters worse -- he forgets his wallet.
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#2 - The Party Spoiler
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 14
When Wally throws a party and doesn't invite Beaver, Beaver plans to spoil the party with tricks and jokes from the "Magic Shop."
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#3 - Beaver's Freckles
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 5
After receiving the nickname "Freckles" from Lumpy Rutherford, Beaver comes to hate his freckles so much, he'll do anything to cover them up...or even remove them!
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#4 - The School Picture
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 30
Beaver and Gilbert agree to make funny faces for the class picture, but when Gilbert decides not to go through with it at the very last moment, Beaver is left looking like a fool all by himself.
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#5 - Chuckie's New Shoes
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 11
Beaver's hands are full when he's asked to take little Chuckie to buy new shoes. Before they're even out of the store, Chuckie has disappeared, and Beaver's afraid to return home until he's found him.
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#6 - Mother's Day Composition
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 31
Beaver's class is assigned to write on what their mothers did before they were married. When Beaver finds that his mother's life was fairly uneventful, especially when compared to the other children's accounts, he rewrites her biography by infusing it with a famous Broadway actress's life.
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#7 - Beaver's Old Buddy
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 19
Beaver and his old friend Jackie are excited about their weekend together until they come to the startling realization that they're actually bored of one another.
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#8 - Beaver and Kenneth
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 12
Eager for friends, a lonely boy named Kenneth begins giving Beaver gifts.
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#9 - Beaver's Frogs
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 35
To raise half the money for a brand-new canoe, Beaver collects frogs and sells them off to a man in need of them. But can Beaver go through with the transaction after he learns the fate of the frogs he's just sold?
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#11 - Eddie's Double-Cross
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 8
Eddie couldn't be more thrilled about dating Caroline Shuster. But when Wally overhears Caroline speaking badly of Eddie behind his back, he feels that his best friend should be told the truth about his new girlfriend.
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#12 - Teacher's Daughter
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 15
While he's dating his English teacher's daughter, Julie, Wally's friends give him a hard time about being the teacher's pet. But when Wally and Julie break up, Wally's concerned about failing the class instead.
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#13 - Wally's License
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 3
Wally passes his driving test and takes off in the family car, while the rest of the Cleavers sit home worrying.
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#15 - Kite Day
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 37
Beaver learns the value of patience the hard way after he prematurely takes the beautiful kite he and his father have built for the Father and Son Kite Day out for a test run.
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#16 - The Masquerade Party
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 18
Fred and his pals don ridiculous costumes to win a prize for Lamont on a TV game show.
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#17 - Wally's Track Meet
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 18
Wally's coaxed into a towel fight -- even after Coach Henderson's lecture about horsing around in the locker room.
#18 - Mistaken Identity
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 28
After Richard's caught breaking windows, Beaver's framed for a crime he didn't commit.
#19 - Mother's Helper
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 23
It's love at first sight when Wally meets Margie, the young girl who comes over to help June with the housecleaning. But as Wally's heart begins to swell, his grades and track participation begin to suffer. Can June get Wally back to old form?
#20 - Beaver's Tonsils
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 20
Beaver is told he may need his tonsils removed and is scared at the prospect -- that is, until Ward tells him about all the ice cream and gifts he'll be receiving afterward.
#21 - Wally's Glamour Girl
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 10
After June sets Wally up on a date with Kitty, one her best friend's daughters, Wally is terrified that the lies he's told Kitty about his extravagant lifestyle will be uncovered.
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#22 - Un-Togetherness
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 39
For the first time, Wally doesn't want to join the rest of the family on their annual summer vacation, instead choosing to stay closer to his girlfriend, Lori Anne.
#23 - Beaver's English Test
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 11
Beaver has been having trouble in English and Ward persuades Wally to tutor him. Wally has Beaver look over an old exam that he once took and to Beaver's surprise, the next day, his teacher gives him the exact same test, which he of course he aces. However, Beaver is left with a guilty conscience.
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#25 - Home Sweet Home
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 7
When a Japanese company tries to buy out the neighborhood to build a brewery, Fred holds out for as much as he can get.
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#26 - Miss Landers' Fiancé
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 7
Thinking marriage will mean he'll lose his favorite teacher forever, Beaver is crushed when he discovers that Miss Landers is engaged.
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#27 - Wally's Dream Girl
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 29
Wally's convinced he's met his dream girl, a beautiful young lady named Ginny Townsend. But when June invites Ginny on a family picnic, Wally realizes she may not be the one for him after all.
#28 - In the Soup
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 32
To prove there's no soup inside a giant cup on a billboard, Beaver climbs up and accidentally falls in. Unfortunately for Beaver, he's too short to climb back out of the cup!
#29 - Wally's Weekend Job
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 6
Jealous of Wally's new job at the soda fountain, Eddie and Lumpy decide to play a prank on Wally by ordering a delivery of six quarts of ice cream to Mary Ellen Roger's slumber party.
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#30 - Beaver's Poster
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 22
Beaver has to learn the value of his own artistic merits when he enters a contest to paint a poster depicting the colonial era.
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#31 - The Late Edition
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 4
Hoping to make enough money to go halfsies on a new surfboard, Beaver rushes to get a paper route, but someone beats him to it. When Beaver finds out the new paperboy is actually a papergirl, he rethinks his scheme to get her fired.
#32 - Beaver Goes in Business
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 36
Beaver and Gilbert decide to go into the lawn-mowing business together. But when no one seems to want their services, Beaver and Gilbert take matters into their own hands, and tell their "customers" afterward.
#33 - Eddie Spends the Night
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 26
During a sleepover at the Cleavers' house, Eddie is caught cheating at chess and angrily storms out. Can June and Ward convince Eddie to return to the house in order to salvage an old friendship?
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#34 - The Stakeout
Sanford and Son - Season 6 - Episode 5
The new tenant at the Sanford Arms is a wanted fence disguised in drag.
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#35 - The Big Fish Count
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 21
When the pet store where Eddie works holds a contest to guess the correct number of fish inside an aquarium, Eddie leaks the correct answer to Lumpy for his crush, Kathy.
#36 - Community Chest
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 33
Beaver's in trouble when he accidentally loses the Community Chest money his mother agreed to let him collect.
#37 - Wally's Orchid
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 27
Wally is talked into buying an orchid for Myra, his pretty and sophisticated date for the spring dance. Unfortunately, Ward refuses to lend Wally the money, having already been talked into handing over $3 for the tickets.
#38 - Uncle Billy
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 14
Beaver and Wally are excited to have their Uncle Billy in town for a visit, but become disillusioned when he stands them up time and time again.
#39 - Beaver Won't Eat
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 1
Beaver is determined and steadfast in his decision to never eat a brussels sprout, no matter what his parents say or do.
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#41 - Rock-a-Bye Munster
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 4
Herman and Grandpa overhear Lily and Marilyn talking and somehow get the idea that Lily is pregnant. What's really happening is Dr. Dudley's son, Elmer, is coming to stay with the Munsters while Dr. Dudley and his wife are on vacation.
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#42 - Operation Herman
The Munsters - Season 2 - Episode 7
When Herman visits the hospital to see Eddie, who is having his tonsils out, he is mistaken for an accident victim and is immediately given a dose of laughing gas. Grandpa rescues him and brings him home, where Lily assumes that Herman has been drinking.
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#43 - Golden Boy
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 19
Fred takes on the mismanagement of a dim-witted prizefighter.
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#44 - Hot Rod Herman
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 36
Eddie, under the impression that his father is the greatest driver in the world, volunteers Herman in a drag-strip competition. After souping up the Munster Coach and dressing up like Marlon Brando in his Wild One days, Herman loses his car in a drag race. In a rematch, Grandpa races in the Dragula, a motorized coffin on wheels.
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#45 - The Surprise Party
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 1
Fred returns from his extended trip to St. Louis but feels unwanted because Grady took better care of the house and Lamont.
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#46 - There'll Be Some Changes Made
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 5
After a fed-up Lamont moves out, Fred lets his son hold a strange gathering at the house in the hopes of getting him back.
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#47 - A Walk on the Mild Side
The Munsters - Season 1 - Episode 3
Herman is suffering from insomnia. The only thing that will make him sleep is a late-night walk in the park. A "Monster" type creature has been spotted in the park at night and Lily would prefer if Herman would stay home. What she doesn't know is that the monster is Herman!
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#48 - Strange Bedfellows
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 17
After calling into a local radio show, Lamont is drafted to run for state assembly.
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#49 - Beaver's Monkey
Leave It to Beaver - Season 3 - Episode 29
Beaver's not allowed to have a wild mouse as a pet, but what will Ward say when he brings home a new pet monkey?
#50 - Going Out of Business
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 6
With business bad and the tax bill due, Lamont takes a job at a local haberdashery.
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