The BEST episodes of Leave It to Beaver season 3

Every episode of Leave It to Beaver season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Leave It to Beaver season 3!

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.

Last Updated: 11/24/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Beaver the Magician
star
9.27
15 votes

#1 - 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!

Directors: David Butler
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Beaver's Prize
star
8.77
26 votes

#2 - 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?

Directors: Norman Tokar
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School Sweater
star
8.53
17 votes

#3 - School Sweater

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1960

Wally has a difficult time getting his letterman's sweater back from a flirtatious young girl at school after he loans it to her at a basketball game.

Directors: Norman Tokar
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Mother's Day Composition
star
8.42
12 votes

#4 - Mother's Day Composition

Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1960

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.

Directors: Norman Abbott
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Teacher Comes to Dinner
star
8.31
16 votes

#5 - Teacher Comes to Dinner

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1959

Wanting to do something nice for Beaver's favorite teacher, June and Ward invite Miss Landers to dinner. But will this nice gesture earn Beaver the role of "teacher's pet"?

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Beaver and Violet
star
8.21
14 votes

#6 - Beaver and Violet

Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/7/1960

While on a joint family picnic with the Rutherfords, Beaver is annoyed by the constant flirtation from the Rutherfords' daughter Violet.

Directors: David Butler
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Beaver's Fortune
star
8.20
20 votes

#7 - Beaver's Fortune

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1959

Beaver and Larry go looking for luck around every corner after a fortune-telling machine delivers them a very positive prediction!

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Pet Fair
star
8.20
10 votes

#8 - Pet Fair

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1960

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!

Directors: David Butler
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Larry Hides Out
star
8.20
15 votes

#9 - Larry Hides Out

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1960

Larry informs Beaver of his plans to run away to Mexico after he's confined to his room as punishment for showing Beaver his sister's diary.

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Beaver's Tree
star
8.11
18 votes

#10 - Beaver's Tree

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1959

Moved by Miss Landers' poetry reading, Beaver takes it upon himself to go back to his old home to reclaim and care for a tree once given to him for his birthday.

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June's Birthday
star
8.07
15 votes

#11 - June's Birthday

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1959

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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Wally's Test
star
8.06
17 votes

#12 - Wally's Test

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1960

Wally unwittingly foils Eddie and Lumpy's attempt to cheat on a test. Will this be the end of Wally's relationships with his two oldest pals?

Directors: Norman Tokar
Beaver Makes a Loan
star
8.05
20 votes

#13 - Beaver Makes a Loan

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1959

Beaver becomes a bitter debt collector after a simple 25-cent loan to Larry keeps him from being able to see a movie, severely driving a wedge between the two best friends.

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Beaver's Bike
star
8.00
16 votes

#14 - Beaver's Bike

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1960

Beaver is granted permission to take his brand-new bike to school, but on the first day he takes it, it's "borrowed" by a boy who doesn't return it.

Directors: Hugh Beaumont
Last Day of School
star
8.00
13 votes

#15 - Last Day of School

Season 3 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/18/1960

A mix-up between gifts leads Beaver to believe June is playing a mean trick on him by getting a nylon slip as his end-of-school-year present to Miss Landers.

Beaver Takes a Walk
star
7.96
23 votes

#16 - Beaver Takes a Walk

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1959

Beaver's obsession with his father's old pedometer -- and honor -- intensifies when he makes a bet with Whitey that he can walk as much as 20 miles in a single day!

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Borrowed Boat
star
7.95
22 votes

#17 - Borrowed Boat

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1959

Beaver and Larry find themselves in trouble with the law after a rowboat they're loaned at the lake turns out to be stolen!

Directors: Norman Tokar
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Beaver and Andy
star
7.90
10 votes

#18 - Beaver and Andy

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1960

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.

Directors: David Butler
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Tire Trouble
star
7.88
17 votes

#19 - Tire Trouble

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1960

Beaver's going into the chinchilla business! But to do so, he needs a cage to house them, so he recruits Wally to help him build it -- and, in the process, they learn the value of cleaning up after themselves.

Wally's Orchid
star
7.77
13 votes

#20 - Wally's Orchid

Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1960

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.

Directors: Norman Abbott
Beaver's Library Book
star
7.76
17 votes

#21 - Beaver's Library Book

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1960

When Beaver loses the copy of Treasure Island he checked out with Ward's library card, the overdue fees continue to accumulate. Will the library come after Beaver? Or, worse yet, the library cops?

Directors: Norman Tokar
Beaver's Team
star
7.73
11 votes

#22 - Beaver's Team

Season 3 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/25/1960

Wally takes over coaching Beaver's football team, "The Lightning Eleven."

Beaver Takes a Bath
star
7.70
23 votes

#23 - Beaver Takes a Bath

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1959

With the sitter unable to come to the Cleavers' house while Ward and June are away overnight, Wally steps up to watch over Beaver, with disastrous results.

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School Bus
star
7.67
27 votes

#24 - School Bus

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1959

Beaver is suspended from riding the bus to school after he breaks the new rules. But can a letter he and Wally have written to the bus driver really get him reinstated?

Directors: Norman Tokar
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Wally, the Businessman
star
7.67
15 votes

#25 - Wally, the Businessman

Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/28/1960

Wally gets a job selling "Igloo Bars" after school, but when he imprudently gives credit to a number of customers, he finds himself coming up a bit short.

Directors: Norman Tokar