The BEST episodes of Leave It to Beaver
Every episode of Leave It to Beaver ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Leave It to Beaver!
Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naive boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show has attained an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-twentieth century. One of the first primetime sitcom series filmed from a child's point-of-view, the show was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, two radio and early television writers, who found inspiration for the show's characters, plots, and dialogue in the lives, experiences, and conversations of their own children. Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late fifties and early sixties (Lassie and My Three Sons, for example), Leave It to Beaver is a glimpse at middle-class, American boyhood. A typical episode features Beaver getting into some sort of trouble and facing his parents for reprimand and correction.
#1 - Wally's Car Accident
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1962
Wally borrows Ward's new car while Ward and June are away for the weekend and breaks a headlight. He hurries to get the damage fixed before his parents return but resolves to tell his father the whole story.
#2 - Beaver and Chuey
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1958
Beaver makes a new friend in Chuey Varella but he only speaks Spanish. So Beaver asks Eddie, who has taken Spanish, for some help but Eddie plays a joke on Beaver by feeding him a sentence in Spanish which ultimately insults Chuey.
#3 - Price of Fame
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1959
While staying after school cleaning the chalkboards, Larry convinces Beaver that Mrs. Rayburn keeps a spanking machine in the closest in her office. Later, a curious Beaver sneaks a peek but soon finds himself locked in the principal's office. Beaver's fame doesn't go over well with his family but Beaver has another problem on his hands: he's just gotten his head stuck in an iron fence at the park.
#4 - The Lost Watch
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1958
While watching Wally and his friends play baseball, Beaver is put in charge of looking after everyone's coats and watches. However, after the game is over Lumpy comes to claim his watch, but Beaver has no watch to give him.
#5 - Beaver on TV
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1963
Beaver is mystified and embarrassed when the television program on which he was a panelist does not appear as scheduled.
#6 - Beaver the Magician
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1959
A simple magic trick gets the better of Beaver when he and Larry convince Benjie Bellamy that Beaver's been transformed into a rock!
#7 - Wally's Dinner Date
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1962
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.
#8 - Tenting Tonight
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/30/1958
After a weekend spent at the movies goes awry for Ward, he decides the boys should spend their weekends outside and plans a camping trip. However, when Ward's called into work, Wally and Beaver decide to camp out in the backyard.
#9 - Tell It to Ella
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1962
On advice from his friends, Beaver writes to a newspaper advice columnist complaining that his parents are too strict.
#10 - The Broken Window
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/2/1958
While playing baseball in the street with Wally, Chester and Tooey, Eddie hits a baseball through the Cleaver's window resulting in Ward forbidding the boys to play baseball so close to the house. However, later, Beaver talks Wally into pitching one, but this results in a broken car window.
#11 - The Pipe
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1958
Ward receives an antique pipe as a gift from Fred Rutherford and a curious Larry and Beaver decide to try it out. First they use coffee but then they try tobacco. When Ward discovers someone has used the pipe, he jumps to the conclusion that Wally is the culprit.
#12 - Eddie's Girl
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1958
A school dance has Eddie swooning over his so-called ""girl,"" Caroline. However, it's obvious Eddie has made up their relationship when Wally and him visit her and she instantly becomes smitten with Wally.
#13 - Beaver, the Hero
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1962
Beaver's ego gets the better of him after he scores the winning touchdown at a football game and becomes the center of attention.
#14 - Lumpy's Scholarship
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1963
Lumpy is awarded an athletic scholarship to the state university, but it is revoked due to low grades in an academic subject. Ward intercedes on his behalf.
#15 - Happy Weekend
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1958
Ward takes June and the boys away on a trip to a cabin in hopes of experiencing the "great outdoors." However, he quickly discovers getting away from today's modern conveniences will be more difficult than he anticipated.
#16 - Beaver's Freckles
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1960
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!
#17 - The Book Report
Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1963
Gilbert convinces Beaver to do his book report on The Three Musketeers by watching the movie, and eventually Beaver gives in without realizing that the movie has very little to do with the plot of the book.
#18 - Don Juan Beaver
Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1963
Beaver is invited to his graduation dance by a girl named Peggy McIntosh. After he accepts her invitation, he meets Melinda Neilson, a prettier girl who also invites him to the dance. In choosing between them, Beaver ends up dancing alone in his room.
#19 - My Brother's Girl
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/16/1958
An eighth grade dance has Wally being pressured into attending with a girl, instead of going stag with Eddie. However, Mary Ellen Rogers becomes determined to have Wally take her and goes through Beaver to get to him.
#20 - The Party Spoiler
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1962
When Wally throws a party and doesn't invite Beaver, Beaver plans to spoil the party with tricks and jokes from the "Magic Shop."
#21 - Wally and the Fraternity
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1963
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.
#22 - Beaver's Poem
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1958
Beaver comes to Ward for help on the night before a poetry assignment is due. This prompts Ward to totally take over the project and writes the whole poem himself. Things get complicated when Beaver wins an award for the poem and Ward is faced with explaining the truth to Beaver's principal.
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#23 - Beaver's Prize
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1959
Unable to resist the allure of a double bill at the Mayfield Theater, Beaver sneaks away from his house while serving out his most recent punishment. Will a new English racing bicycle won in a drawing give away Beaver's true whereabouts?
#24 - Ward's Golf Clubs
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1962
When Beaver succumbs to peer pressure from his friends, he ends up permanently breaking his father's mended golf driver.
#25 - Beaver, the Sheep Dog
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1962
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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