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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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!
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Most Interesting Character
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/25/1959
Miss Landers assigns Beaver's class to write a short essay about the most interesting character they know. While Judy writes about her dad, Beaver debates over whom he should write about. Beaver finally decides to write about Ward, but Beaver isn't sure if Ward is interesting enough.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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?
#17 - 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!
#18 - 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?
#19 - Lonesome Beaver
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1958
Wally goes away on a trip with the Boy Scout troop that he belongs to, leaving a lonesome Beaver behind. Finding his friends to be busy, Beaver takes up other means to make the time go by.
#20 - Beaver's Crush
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1957
Beaver has a crush on his teacher, Miss Canfield. When Judy, Whitey and Larry tease him for being a 'teacher's pet,' Beaver tries to prove them wrong and places a spring snake in her desk. However, Beaver has second thoughts and becomes determined to remove the snake before she finds it.
#21 - 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.
#22 - A Horse Named Nick
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1959
Beaver and Wally get jobs at the circus cleaning the animals and a promise to each be payed $10.00 at the end of the week. However, when the end of the week comes and there is no payment in sight, Beaver and Wally instead become the proud owners of a horse named Nicholas, and they hide him in the garage.
#23 - Beaver's Typewriter
Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/21/1962
Beaver succeeds in convincing his parents to buy him a new typewriter to help him with his homework. But once he gets it, Beaver gets little use out of it himself because he ends up paying Eddie $1 for each paper he types for him.
#24 - 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?
#25 - Wally Goes Steady
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1961
Ward is thrown off guard after Bill Boothby suggests Wally and his daughter may be getting married soon. Is Wally ready for that kind of commitment?