The WORST episodes of Leave It to Beaver
Every episode of Leave It to Beaver ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - The Credit Card
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1963
Eddie uses his new credit card to buy a battery for Wally's car when the boys are stranded in another town, but when Wally pays him back, Eddie spends the money on a new vest, not the credit card bill.
#2 - Beaver's Long Night
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1962
Lumpy and Bill become the unfortunate victims of Beaver's and Gilbert's overactive imaginations after they see an intense gangster movie on television during an unsupervised sleepover.
#3 - The Younger Brother
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/14/1962
Beaver realizes he's caught in Wally's shadow when he finds out he's only made the school basketball team because he's the superstar's younger brother.
#4 - Music Lesson
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/7/1958
Wally makes the baseball team and Ward openly shows how proud he is of him, leaving Beaver feeling inferior. Trying to impress his parents, Beaver tries out for the band and begins practicing the clarinet. However, Beaver soon finds himself with more problems when he's let go from the band.
#5 - The Perfume Salesmen
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1957
Wally and Beaver want to win a fancy film projector. In order to get it they have to sell 24 bottles of perfume. However, the appalling aroma of the perfume quickly leads to zero sales and has Ward trying to think up a sales gimmick.
#6 - Wally Buys a Car
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1963
Wally gets his father's permission to buy a car -- but not the smooth number he wants. Ward's selection is a raunchy-looking four-wheeled monstrosity that runs like a watch.
#7 - Long Distance Call
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/16/1962
During a long, boring day, Beaver and the gang decide to make a series of prank phone calls, including one to baseball star Don Drysdale!
#8 - Beaver's Electric Trains
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1962
Beaver becomes reattached to his old set of trains that he's supposed to clean up and give to Jimmy.
#9 - Wally and Alma
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1960
Wally draws Alma Hanson as his date for an upcoming school picnic. When Mrs. Hanson begins to play matchmaker for Wally and Alma, Ward shares his college experience on how to turn down a date.
#10 - 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.
#11 - The Visiting Aunts
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1958
Beaver and Wally are all excited about going to the carnival, however, Aunt Martha throws a wrench in their plans when she makes an unexpected visit with a friend of hers, forcing Wally and Beaver to count the hours away, hoping she will leave soon enough so they can still go to the carnival.
#12 - Wally's Election
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1960
Wally overzealously dives headfirst into his sophomore class elections after a spirited pep talk from Ward. Will his newfound political aspirations win him the election for class president -- or will he alienate himself from his schoolmates and family?
#13 - Train Trip
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/9/1958
After a week long visit with their Aunt Martha, Wally and Beaver prepare to head home to Mayfield on a train. After talking Martha into letting them buy their own tickets, they discover they're short the money after spending it on junk food and find themselves wondering how they are going to get home.
#14 - The Dramatic Club
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1961
Beaver joins the drama club and gets the lead in the play, thrilling him...until he learns he has to kiss a girl!
#15 - Blind Date Committee
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1959
Wally is appointed chairman of the blind date committee for a Saturday night dance and ends up with only one girl on his list and no idea how to go about assigning her an escort.
#16 - The Clothing Drive
Season 6 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/13/1963
Eager to win the Good Citizen Award and have his picture in the paper, Beaver accidentally takes three of his father's good suits for the school clothing drive.
#17 - Beaver, the Model
Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1960
Beaver submits his picture to a modeling agency's ad in a magazine and receives a letter stating that he is a top prospect in the modeling field. But can Ward convince Beaver the ad's just a scam?
#18 - The Spot Removers
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1960
Wally plans to attend a party with Eddie, but that morning he finds that Beaver has hung his jacket, pockets stuffed with minnows, in the closet next to his suit. June has the suit dry-cleaned, but when Beaver and his friend accidentally spill oil on it, Wally may not have anything to wear to the party.
#19 - Dance Contest
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1959
Wally gets an invitation to attend a cotillion with Mary Ellen Rogers. At first he wants to turn down the invitation, but then decides to go anyway, despite the fact that Mary Ellen has signed them up to do the cha-cha in a dance contest.
#20 - Wally's Pug Nose
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1959
When the new girl, Gloria, tells Wally that he has a pug nose, he becomes incredibly self-conscious and purchases a contraption that is suppose to give him a strong Roman nose. When Ward discovers the device, he gives him a pep talk which just makes matters worse.
#21 - A Night in the Woods
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/9/1962
Wally is asked to replace one of the boys' fathers as a guide during Beaver's camping trip with the guys. But when he asks Eddie and Lumpy to join them, he has no idea they've got plans of their own.
#22 - Beaver Finds a Wallet
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1960
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?
#23 - The Bus Ride
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1959
June and Ward allow Wally to escort Beaver on a bus to a friends house in Crystal Falls. However, on one of the stops, Beaver inadvertently gets on the wrong bus that takes him back to Mayfield.
#24 - Beaver's Hero
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1959
Beaver discovers that Ward was in WWII and brags to his classmates that Ward was a war hero. As usual, his classmates don't believe him and Beaver promises to bring in some mementos to prove it. At home, Beaver discovers that Ward was an engineer in the war and didn't actually fight in combat, leaving Beaver to take drastic measures so as not to look like a fool in front of his classmates.
#25 - The Hypnotist
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1960
After watching a movie titled The Mad Hypnotist, Beaver attempts to try it for himself. His search for a sympathetic subject lands him Eddie, who uses this opportunity to play a prank on Beaver.
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