The BEST episodes written by Joseph Hoffman
#1 - Beaver's Autobiography
Leave It to Beaver - Season 6 - Episode 13
Betsy, a new classmate, agrees to write Beaver's autobiography assignment for him -- but little does he know that Betsy also overheard him call her a "gooney creep."
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#2 - A Matter for Experts
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 9
Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.
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#3 - Beaver, the Babysitter
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 27
Beaver's reputation is blown after his friends catch him playing house with Patricia, the ten-year-old girl he's babysitting for Wally.
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#4 - Dark Challenge
The Virginian - Season 3 - Episode 2
Carl Hendricks (Victor Jory), with his son Arnie (Chris Robinson) and daughter Jenny (Katharine Ross), buys a local ranch. Trampas is embarrassed when he tries to get Jenny to dance at a local gathering without realizing she has a club foot. He apologizes, they become friends, and he begins setting up Jenny with his shy blacksmith friend Wally (Larry Pennell). Carl is subsequently murdered and Trampas is a suspect although he had no motive. It is left up to Deputy Emmett Ryker to solve the crime.
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#5 - Beaver's Laundry
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 25
A trip to the laundromat goes horribly awry when Beaver agrees to help Richard with his family's laundry.
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#6 - Beaver's Frogs
Leave It to Beaver - Season 4 - Episode 35
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?
#7 - His and Hers
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 24
Bill and the family meet their potential counterparts when he meets a woman named Margaret and her kids. The kids think that it's real cool to have kids that are like them at first, but they find out that they are too much alike and do not get along with them.
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#8 - The Mrs. Beasley Story
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 28
Buffy is disheartened because Mrs. Beasley needs arm surgery
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Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 14
Bill's new girlfriend gives him a genuine primitive Colombian artifact, in which Buffy and Jody take to school and to have it broken! They try to put the pieces back together again and uses clay to make an exact copy of the statue. Their handiwork is displayed at the gallery and people are trying to buy it. The kids confess their doings to Bill's girlfriend.
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#10 - Beaver's Ice Skates
Leave It to Beaver - Season 5 - Episode 9
Beaver sets off to buy his own pair of brand-new ice skates. But when the store doesn't have a pair in his size, he's talked into buying a pair that's three sizes too big, and the store owner won't give him a refund.
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#12 - Charley The Pigeon
My Three Sons - Season 6 - Episode 15
When Steve travels to Washington on business, he leaves $50 with Robbie, to pay for golf club repairs but Uncle Charley limbers up his billiard cue to get revenge after two girl pool sharks take Robbie's $50 when they coyly ask him to show them how to play the game.
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My Three Sons - Season 2 - Episode 31
Robbie's only real competition for winning a school scholarship in a model airplane contest is a young boy named Roly Bates, a studious lad who has his heart set on first prize as its his only chance to get a college education.
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Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 28
Bill takes the twins to the rodeo where he meets his old friend Gabe, whom he invites to stay with them. The twins are mesmerized at the thought of meeting a real live cowboy, and Gabe takes them under his wing. Of course, Bill thinks that they like Gabe more than they like him. But the twins tell him that Bill will always come first in their lives.
#15 - Image of an Outlaw
The Virginian - Season 7 - Episode 6
Shiloh hand Rafe Judson is mistaken for an outlaw as the two men look identical. When Rafe loses an option on a ranch due to a lack of funds, he decides to take advantage of the situation to rob a stagecoach without taking the blame.
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My Three Sons - Season 6 - Episode 20
Robbie takes on a heavy work load of waiting on tables in his girlfriend's sorority house and working as a chemistry laboratory worker, so that he can rent a room away from home. Worst of all, his romance with his current girlfriend languishes because he is too tired to take her on a date.
#17 - The Teenagers
My Three Sons - Season 5 - Episode 24
Chip dates an older woman and Robbie finds his ideas misinterpreted when the Douglas boys face the troubles of growing up. Meanwhile, Robbie tries to come up with a novel idea for the school float, and proceeds to demonstrate that teenage is just a time in life, but his speech, activities and clothes prove that it something much more, a lesson Chip also begins to learn.
#18 - Charley and The Dancing Lesson
My Three Sons - Season 6 - Episode 9
A seductive dance instructor named Helen signs Uncle Charley up for a lifetime membership in a dance club. Dreaming of a professional dancer's career, he purchases a top hat and tails for his appearance at the school's annual ball.
#19 - Melinda
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 24
To help out his Dad, Steve, Chip pretends to like the aggressive as she is pretty, daughter of a new executive woman that his dad is dating. Chip has the romantic notion that his close relationship with the daughter might help the social plans of his father.
#20 - Charley O' The Seven Seas
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 25
Uncle Charley's romantic tales of adventure captivates Ernie's teacher. The pretty, middle-aged lady is fascinated by the old boy's partially-true tales of his exciting life on the high seas. Soon the ex-seacook is aghast to learn she has given up her teaching job and he is further torn when she explains her savings will buy them both a one-way ticket to Pango-Pango and asks him to marry her before they leave.
#21 - Deadeye Dick
The Virginian - Season 5 - Episode 9
Lucy Hammond (June Vincent) and her teenage daughter Marjorie (Alice Rawlings) arrive by train in Medicine Bow. Marjorie is enthralled by her first trip west which she imagines to be like the dime novels featuring her hero Deadeye Dick. At Medicine Bow they are met by Lucy's widowed sister Livvy Underhill (Patricia Donahue). While Marjorie is waiting in the buggy for her mother and aunt, a tumbleweed spooks the horse but is calmed down by the Virginian who happens to be nearby and she tells the Virginian that was how the heroine of her novels met Deadeye Dick. Marjorie and Lucy arrive at the Underhill ranch and while out riding Marjorie spies the Virginian rounding up cattle and meets him by pretending her horse is a runaway so he will rescue her. She even pretends to see a snake to see how fast the Virginian is on the draw. The two meet neighbouring farmer Tom Foley (William Schallert) and his teenage son Bob (David Macklin) and the Virginian gets Bob to escort Marjorie home. Bob disc
#22 - Forget Me Not
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 3
Steve Douglas receives a perfumed letter from an old girlfriend announcing she will stop by and see him. She terrifies Steve by acting as though she plans to accept a proposal of marriage he hasn't made. Steve does his best to convince her that his old college chum is the man for her.
#23 - The Awkward Age
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 10
Robbie is immediately infatuated when he hires a pretty chemistry instructor as a tutor, and their friendship seems to be blossoming. But when he finds out that his father has been dating her, the shock affects his ability to concentrate on his studies.
#24 - Falling Star
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 12
Steve Douglas meets a celebrated popular vocalist of 20 years ago whose career seems over. Although her famous voice is still there, the public demands music in the current style. Steve helps her update her style when he arranges for her to sing with Robbie's combo, the Greefs.
#25 - You Saw a What?
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 15
Ernie's excited reports of seeing a flying saucer are received with skepticism, but the next day he not only sees the weird vehicle again, but he snaps some pictures and is later told by the Air Force to keep quiet about it.
#26 - The Strange Quest of Claire Bingham
The Virginian - Season 5 - Episode 29
A nurse comes to Medicine Bow so see if an outlaw Ryker captured might be her brother as they were both orphaned at an early age. When he escapes and is shot, he uses her feelings to get help as Ryker who is attracted to her purses him.