The BEST episodes of Leave It to Beaver season 4
Every episode of Leave It to Beaver season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Leave It to Beaver season 4!
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 - 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!
#2 - The School Picture
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1961
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.
#3 - Chuckie's New Shoes
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1960
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.
#4 - Beaver's Big Contest
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1960
When Beaver wins third place in a contest, he's angry to discover that his parents plan to add to his college savings with the $3,500 they'll receive from selling the red sports car he's won.
#5 - Beaver and Kenneth
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1960
Eager for friends, a lonely boy named Kenneth begins giving Beaver gifts.
#6 - Beaver's Old Buddy
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/4/1961
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.
#7 - Eddie's Double-Cross
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1960
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.
#8 - Teacher's Daughter
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1961
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.
#9 - Beaver's Doll Buggy
Season 4 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/17/1961
Beaver finds himself in an awkward situation when he has to push Penny Woods' old doll stroller down the street in order to salvage its wheels for his used mini race car.
#10 - Wally's Track Meet
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/28/1961
Wally's coaxed into a towel fight -- even after Coach Henderson's lecture about horsing around in the locker room.
#11 - Beaver's Tonsils
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/11/1961
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.
#12 - Mother's Helper
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1961
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?
#13 - Wally's Glamour Girl
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1960
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.
#14 - Beaver's Report Card
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/1/1961
As a joke, Eddie takes it upon himself to change the math grade on Beaver's report card from a D minus to a B minus.
#15 - Beaver's Rat
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/29/1961
When June refuses to allow the rat Beaver purchased for 50 cents into the house, Beaver decides to sell the rat to Violet Rutherford at an extraordinary profit.
#16 - Beaver's Frogs
Season 4 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/27/1961
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?
#17 - Miss Landers' Fiancé
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1960
Thinking marriage will mean he'll lose his favorite teacher forever, Beaver is crushed when he discovers that Miss Landers is engaged.
#18 - Mistaken Identity
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1961
After Richard's caught breaking windows, Beaver's framed for a crime he didn't commit.
#19 - Wally's Dream Girl
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1961
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.
#20 - In the Soup
Season 4 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1961
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!
#21 - Junior Fire Chief
Season 4 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/20/1961
Beaver's ego gets the best of him after his class elects him Junior Fire Chief. Can Ward talk Beaver out of his power trip?
#22 - Kite Day
Season 4 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/10/1961
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.
#23 - Substitute Father
Season 4 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/24/1961
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.
#24 - Wally, the Lifeguard
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1960
When Beaver discovers that Wally's job is actually selling candy and hotdogs on the weekends at Friends Lake, rather than lifeguarding, he refuses to speak to his brother out of embarrassment.
#25 - Beaver's Poster
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/25/1961
Beaver has to learn the value of his own artistic merits when he enters a contest to paint a poster depicting the colonial era.