The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – CBS

Theme song: “The Toy Parade” composed by David Kahn, Melvyn Leonard, and Mort Greene

• 001. Beaver Gets ‘Spelled – 10/4/1957
  • Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver’s (Jerry Mathers), resident of the town of Mayfield, second-grade teacher Miss Canfield (Diane Brewster) sends a note home with Beaver to give to his parents, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley), the subject of which is merely asking if Beaver can participate in the class play as Smokey the Bear. After prompting from his fellow classmates, Beaver naturally fears the worst. At first he simply throws the note under his desk, then when confronted by Miss Canfield, Beaver actually loses the note. Beaver’s brother Wally (Tony Dow) ‘assists’ him by typing a ‘response’ letter from their parents, detailing how they have whipped Beaver and how sorry they are for what Beaver has done. When Miss Canfield receives the response, she shares it with the school principal Mrs. Rayburn (Doris Packer), who then requests a meeting with June. Beaver, fearful of the reprisals of such a meeting, skips school and runs away. 4/16/13

• 002. Captain Jack – 10/11/1957
  • Wally and Beaver send away for live alligator that is advertised in one of their comic books. When they receive it, they are disappointed that it isn’t a large gator to be tamed, but a baby alligator that is just several inches long. They take the baby reptile to the local alligator farm and seek advice from the curator, Captain Jack (Edgar Buchanan). By sneaking milk, Ward’s brandy, and June’s moisturizing cream, the boys are able to not only keep the alligator alive but see it grow to about a foot long. Once the cleaning lady Minerva spots the gator and one of the neighbor kids comes over to see it, the jig is up. Ward and June make the boys donate the gator ,whom they’ve named Captain Jack, to the alligator farm. Having proven that they can care for an animal, the folks buy the boys a dog. 4/16/13
• 003. The Black Eye – 10/18/1957
  • Beaver comes home from school with a black eye, and after attempts to cover it up with June’s make-up fail, he is forced to tell his parents that he was fighting with a kid at school. Unbeknownst to Ward, the ‘kid’ is actually Violet Rutherford (Wendy Winkelman), the daughter of his annoying co-worker Fred Rutherford (Richard Deacon). Ward coaches Beaver on how to handle himself if the kid gets aggressive with him by teaching him a few pointers on boxing. Beaver decides to pay Violet a visit to see if she wants to get ‘gressive’ again. When Ward finds out who Beaver’s attacker had been, he notifies Fred and the two of them set out to find the kids, only to discover that they had been having a fun day together eating ice cream, visiting Gus the Fireman (Bert Mustin), and chewing gum. Despite the fact that the kids were now friendly, the incident leads to further friction between Ward and Fred. 4/18/13
• 004. The Haircut – 10/25/1957
  • Ward chastises the Beaver for losing his lunch money three days in a row. When Beaver loses his money once again on the way to getting a haircut for the school Christmas Play, he decides to try to cut his own hair. When Wally sees what a mess he’s made of his hair, he tries to fix it and renders Beaver nearly bald with a mohawk. The boys hatch a scheme to tell their parents that they have to wear stocking caps for a week for initiation into a secret society. The suspicious parents eventually look under Beaver’s hat when he is sleeping and discover the hideous haircut. Ward confronts them until the boys have no choice but to come clean. As he and June discuss punishment, they decide to forego any reprimands in favor of earning the boys’ trust. The boys are happy, but puzzled. 4/18/13
• 005. New Neighbors – 11/1/1957
  • June sends Beaver over to bring flowers to the new neighbors The Donaldsons. After Mrs. Donaldson (Phyllis Coates) gives Beaver a kiss on the cheek, Wally and his friend Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) jokingly convince Beaver that Mr. Donaldson (Charles H. Gray) will want to beat him up. When Mr. Donaldson invites Beaver over to meet his niece, Beaver runs away in fright. June later accepts the invitation on Beaver’s behalf, and sends him over with a gift for the Donaldson’s niece Judy. He has a nice chat with Mrs. Donaldson until Mr. Donaldson returns with Julie, and Beaver flees. Ward is then charged with the uncomfortable position of explaining to the Donaldsons that Beaver is petrified of Mr. Donaldson. The next day Beaver and Mr. Donaldson makes their peace. 4/23/13 
• 006. Brotherly Love – 11/8/1957
  • June is tired of Wally and Beaver fighting, so she forces them to write a ‘friendship pact’, although Ward is skeptical. When Wally’s friend Chester Anderson (Buddy Hart) invites Wally to a football game and Gus the Fireman invites Beaver to go fishing, each decline since they have been ordered to do things together. Each boy tries to coax the other into breaking the pact, so that they can each do their individual activities – but neither budges. The tension proves to be too much and the boys wind up back in a fight again. June realizes that her pact was unsuccessful. The boys wind up taking out Gus’s new boat and playing together after all.  4/23/13
• 007. Water, Anyone? – 11/15/1957
  • Wally and his friends are doing odd jobs for their parents to earn money for baseball jerseys. Beaver wants to get in on the act as well, so he begins trying to sell water to his brother and friends Chester Anderson and Tooey Brown (Tiger Fafara). At first they only mock him, but when Beaver learns that the water will be shut off in the neighborhood later that day, he loads his wagon full of water. Since it is a hot day and the boys are out working, they can’t resist but buy Beaver’s water. His friends’ neighbors are angry about this and Ward is embarrassed but finds it hard to convince Beaver that he is doing anything different from what ‘businessmen’ do. Wally and his friends lament that they have given Beaver too much money, and can no longer afford the uniforms, so Beaver hands over his money to the gang. He also tells them that the power will be off later that night, so the boys follow Beaver’s business model and invest in candles to sell to the neighbors. 4/25/13
• 008. Beaver’s Crush – 11/22/1957
  • Beaver alludes to having a crush at school, but Ward and June do not realize that his crush is on his teacher Miss Canfield. Wanting to spend more time with her, Beaver volunteers for extra chores after class. When his friends Larry Mondello (Rusty Stevens), Hubert “Whitey” Whitney (Stanley Fafara), and Judy Hensler (Jeri Weil) get wind of this, they tease Beaver and call him a ‘teacher’s pet.’ To prove that he isn’t, Beaver places a spring-snake in her desk drawer. When the other kids leave, he tries to retrieve it but is interrupted. At home that night, Beaver is preoccupied with worrying about this, and talks Wally into joining him in sneaking out at night and trying again, but the janitor’s dog prevents them from getting into the classroom.  Beaver is on pins and needles the next day in class waiting for her to open the drawer. When he finally gets his chance, he opens the desk drawer…and finds it empty. Miss Canfield then shows up and tells Beaver that she already found the snake and wonders why he had done this since they seem to get along so well. Beaver confesses his crush, but then agrees with Miss Canfield that it is best that she not show him any favoritism to avoid being teased by the other kids. 4/27/13
• 009. The Clubhouse – 11/29/1957
  • An extremely rainy day in Mayfield floods the Cleaver basement, but worse yet produces a boring day for the boys indoors. Eddie and Tooey come over to visit Wally, and Eddie steals Beaver’s idea to build a clubhouse then wants to charge him a $3.00 fee to be part of the club. Once the rain stops, the three older boys start erecting the clubhouse in the vacant lot across from the Cleaver’s house, while Beaver sets out to raise money for the club. He runs into a hobo named Pete (James Gleason) who gives Beaver the idea to create a sandwich board and sell advertising on it. His only customer is Charlie the Fireman (Raymond Hatton), but then he gets the idea that since he co-owns the local bridge along with the other taxpayers, he can charge 10 cents for allowing others to spit off of ‘his’ bridge. He makes $1.75 in total, but then gives his money to Pete who tells him a phony sob story. The older boys meanwhile have lost interested in finishing the clubhouse. 4/30/13
• 010. Wally’s Girl Trouble – 12/6/1957
  • Ward and June are surprised that Wally and Beaver have such a good attitude toward going to dancing school, but the boys have an escape plan hatched to pretend that Beaver sprained his ankle. But when Wally starts dancing and talking with a pretty girl named Penny (Cindy Carol), he calls off the scheme. Later Penny calls Wally and asks him to pick up a copy of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm at the library for her, which he does much to his embarrassment, putting off his afternoon of fishing with Beaver. Ward tells Beaver that Wally will not be going fishing unless he returns in time to get the lawn mowed, so Beaver mows it for him. When Ward gives Wally praise for the lawn, Beaver will not let Wally confess that he hadn’t done it. Feeling guilty, Wally puts off Penny and takes Beaver fishing. This causes her to yell at Wally and call Beaver a “grubby little infant.” Beaver tries to smooth things over for his brother by having a live frog gift-wrapped for Penny. Naturally, she calls Wally and chastises him once again, this time causing Wally to give up on Penny. 5/2/13
• 011. Beaver’s Short Pants – 12/13/1957
  • June leaves to go help her sister Peggy with her newborn, and asks her Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy) to come stay and take care of the boys. Martha has different ideas as to what a ‘little gentleman’ should be wearing and takes Beaver to get new clothes that include short trousers and a hat. She expects him to wear them to school the next day, and he doesn’t have time to tell Ward before he rushes off to the office. When he shows up at school, he manages to avoid the other kids until the end of the day, at which time they all laugh at him, which causes a big fight at school. When Ward finds out what happened, he attempts to tell Aunt Martha that the clothes are inappropriate, but gets interrupted by phone call from June, who pleads with Ward not to anything to hurt Aunt Martha’s feelings. The next morning when Beaver heads to school, Ward is waiting in the garage with a change of clothes for Beaver. When June returns and they are leaving to take Aunt Martha home, Beaver puts on the clothes one last time in order to not hurt Aunt Martha’s feelings. William Schallert appears as Mr. Bloomgarden. 5/5/13
• 012. The Perfume Salesmen – 12/27/1957
  • The boys send away to Mason Acme Products to order a batch of Flower of the Orient perfume in order to receive a movie projector. The perfume smells like an ‘old catcher’s mitt’ so the boys don’t have any luck selling it door-to-door. The boys give up and shove the perfume into the closet, but soon Ward intercepts a letter from lawyers demanding payment for the perfume. Ward agrees to help them sell it, but once he realizes how bad it smells, he formulates a different plan: he calls the ladies from June’s Women’s Club and asks them to buy the perfume and he will reimburse them if they don’t want it, much to June’s dismay.  He sends the boys out with a list of ‘prospective clients’ and they sell it all. When the projector arrives, June and the boys realize that Ward had purchased the projector on his own, having received a piece of junk from Acme. The boys choose not to thank him, but instead buy him a souvenir clock with the money they make from showing movies. 5/5/13
• 013. Voodoo Magic – 1/3/1958
  • Wally, Beaver, and Eddie are getting set to go to a double feature that includes the horror film Voodoo Magic at the Globe Theatre, but when June finds out, she insists that Wally take Beaver to see Pinnochio. Eddie convinces them that they should see Voodoo Magic anyway and convinces Wally and the Beaver. Eddie then inadvertently spills the beans when he calls June and tells her that Beaver left his hat at the Globe. After getting in trouble by their folks, Beaver creates a voodoo doll of Eddie, but when he finds out that Eddie is sick, he feels bad and brings him flowers. Eddie, it turns out, is just faking to stay home from school, but when Beaver tells him about the doll, he starts to feel legitimately ill. Eddie’s father  George (Karl Swenson) then furiously approaches Ward and demand that he do something to fix this. Ward sends Beaver with a ‘spell’ to remove the voodoo, and then Eddie ends up feeling well again. When the boys head out for the movies the next weekend, they decide to go where their Mom had asked them to, despite Eddie trying to convince them otherwise again. Ann Doran plays Mrs. Haskell. 5/9/13
• 014. Part Time Genius – 1/10/1958
  • Ward’s co-worker Wills “Corny” Cornelius (Charles Davis), while boasting about his boys’ intelligence, informs Ward that there will be a big test at school the next day. Ward gets irritated that his boys aren’t taking the test seriously an tries to get them to study for it, but Wally tells him that it is an intelligence test and that they aren’t supposed to study. After the test it taken, the school calls Ward and let him know that Beaver had the highest grade in the entire school. They are advise that they find a Beaver a special advanced school, and so they begin shopping for one. They don’t care for what they find, so they are somewhat relieved to find that Beaver really isn’t a genius when Beaver’s schoolmate Charles (Bobby Mittelstaedt) confesses that he had swapped his name with Beaver’s on the test. He had been tired of being picked on at his old school for being smart and thought that everyone would continue to like Beaver even if he scored high on the IQ test. 5/9/13
• 015. Party Invitation – 1/17/1958
  • Beaver’s friends start to tease him when he is the only boy to receive an invitation to his classmate Linda Dennison’s (Patty Turner) birthday party. When Beaver realizes he truly is the only boy invited, he tries to get out of going to the party by having Wally call and pretend that he’s Ward and that Beaver is sick. Ward catches them and since he doesn’t want to be embarrassed, he forces Beaver to go to the party. When Ward and June hear from Wally why Beaver didn’t want to go to the party, they feel bad for forcing him – but it turns out that Beaver had a good time at the party, hiding away in the den with Linda’s dad (Lyle Talbot), looking through his gun collection. 5/12/13
• 016. Lumpy Rutherford – 1/24/1958
  • Neighborhood bully Clarence “Lumpy” Rutherford (Frank Bank) is picking on Wally and Beaver. When they tell Ward about their issue, Ward tells them the story of how he took revenge on a bully by placing barrel hoops outside his house, causing him to fall down. When Wally and Beaver try this, it is actually Ward’s friend and co-worker -and Lumpy’s father – who trips and falls over the hoops. That evening the Rutherfords come over to play cards with the Cleavers. Even though Fred doesn’t recognize them, as soon as he mentions that he tripped over barrel hoops, Ward and June realize that it was their boys who did it. Ward confronts the boys, and then has to tell Fred and wife Geraldine (Helan Parrish) what had happened. 5/12/13
• 017. The Paper Route – 1/31/1958
  • In order to save up for a new bicycle, Wally and Beaver get a job delivering the newspaper. Their new boss “Old Man” Merkel (Jack Kelk) is strict and uncompromising. The boys take the job seriously but their parents can’t resist assisting them when the workload appears to heavy. June hires a cab to help take Beaver around when Wally is stuck at school with a make-up test; Ward takes Wally out in the car to finish the job when it is raining. One day Ward and June notice a stack of papers in the garage, which are actually old papers that the boys can turn in for credit. Assuming that they boys have shirked their responsibilities, they deliver the papers themselves. Old Man Merkel gets complaints when customers get the wrong paper and fire Wally and Beaver. When Ward finds out what happened, he goes down and confronts Merkel, threatening to remove his company’s advertising if the boys don’t get their jobs back. When Wally and Beaver find out that they have their job back, they are disappointed because they are ready to start a new job at the supermarket. Ward and June get ready to deliver the papers again. The boys eventually make enough money to buy the bike and give their father the first ride. 5/13/13
• 018. Child Care – 2/7/1958
  • Ward and June are headed to wedding with their friends Herb and Janet Wilson (Ray Montgomery, Shirley Mitchell). When the Wilsons show up unexpectedly with their daughter Puddin (Gabrielle des Enfants), Wally and Beaver are asked to put their plans to spend the day with Pete the Fireman (Will Wright) on hold and watch the little girl. The boys take the job seriously, but are puzzled when the girl asks to “see Mary Jane.” This turns out to mean that she wants to use the bathroom. When she does, she locks herself inside and begins to wreck havoc by breaking bottles and overflowing the water. Neither boy can fit through the bathroom window, so they send in neighbor kid Bengie Bellamy (Joey Scott). When he tries to open the door, the doorknob breaks off, so the boys call their friend Pete and have a firetruck sent over. No one suspects that anything has happened, but Ward eventually pieces it together – but decides not to ask the boys about it since they handled the situation on their own. 5/13/13
• 019. The Bank Account – 2/14/1958
  • Ward gives the boys a new piggy bank and a gentle nudge to save their money and deposit it into their bank. The boys have other plans to buy new baseball gloves, but ultimately decide to deposit the money. Before they leave for school they find their father’s old hunting jacket and instead to buy him a new one as a surprise. The jacket ends up costing even more than they’ve saved, so they withdraw additional funds. This enrages Ward, not only because the boys have left school grounds to shop, but because they have so frivolously blown $50. He is ready to lecture them when their package arrives, but when he opens it he is gleefully surprised with what his boys have bought for him. 6/14/13
• 020. Lonesome Beaver – 2/28/1958
  • Wally and his friends join a scout troop, but Beaver is too young to join. Wally feels bad about going away on a camping excursion and leaving Beaver behind, but heads out with his friends, leaving Beaver alone for the weekend. Beaver’s parents don’t have time for him, nor does Gus the Fireman, and Larry cancels their plans when he gets sick –  so Beaver mopes around the neighborhood on his own. Wally ends up coming home early because he catches cold from the rain and cold for the trip. Beaver is ecstatic and says he’d rather spend the day keeping Wally company in bed then out doing other things with his friends. John Hart is Scoutmaster Norton. 6/14/13
• 021. Cleaning Up Beaver – 3/7/1958
  • Wally and Eddie are getting more interested in girls, and thusly have started to present themselves with a very neat appearance. Beaver and Larry conversely are looking like total slobs. Ward decides that he might get Beaver to take more interest in his own appearance if he compliments Wally. It works, but Beaver’s effort is leaving a disaster in the bathroom. This leads to a blow-up between him and Wally and Beaver moves into the guest room – and June gets angry at Ward for provoking the fight. Beaver gets scared being in the room alone and Wally invites him to stay back in the room. The boys decide to meet in the middle with Beaver being a little more neat, and Wally being a little less neat. 7/3/13 
• 022. The Perfect Father – 3/14/1958
  • Ward is getting tired of Wally and Beaver being away at their friend Willie Dennison’s (Richard Smiley) house all of the time and raving about how great his father is. Since the fact that Willie’s dad has installed a basketball hoop with a backboard seems to be a big drawing card for the neighborhood kids, Ward puts in one of his own. When Eddie points out that it isn’t regulation height, the boys move back to Willie’s house again. June enacts revenge on Eddie by putting mayonnaise on his sandwich, knowing that he is allergic. Ward then adjusts the hoop and buys the boys a new ball which brings the kids back – until he interferes and starts shooting baskets while they are playing. They all leave again – much to Ward’s chagrin. Ward runs into Mr. Dennison at his men’s club and finds out that his secret is that he leaves his son alone most of the time and doesn’t interfere. 7/3/13
• 023. Beaver and Poncho – 3/21/1958
  • Beaver finds a stray chihuahua in the rain and brings it home. Beaver names the dog Poncho and wants to keep it, but Ward insists that they first put an ad in the newspaper in order to find the rightful owner. The owner Mrs. Bennett (Maudie Prickett) does eventually call, but Beaver is having a hard time letting go of the dog, so he takes Poncho to school with him. Miss Canfield discovers the dog in Beaver’s jacket and he is sent to Mrs. Rayburn, who calls home. Ward and June then have to face Mrs. Bennett, who is distraught to find that her dog is not at the Cleaver house when she arrives. 7/14/13
• 024. The State Versus Beaver – 3/26/1958
  • The boys are attempting to make a home-made race car using parts they find around the house. Ward joins in and gets the car running, with the understanding that the boys will not take the car out unless Ward is present. Larry comes over to eat apples, and talks Beaver into driving him around the block. Beaver gets pulled over by a motorcycle cop and gets a ticket with a date to appear in court. Wally goes along with him as his ‘guardian’, and the kindly Judge (Frank Wilcox) lets them off with a warning. Beaver decides to tell Ward about the incident, and Wally adds that the main reason that Beaver kept it a secret is that he felt sorry for his Dad for having such a dumb kid. 12/17/13
• 025. The Broken Window – 4/2/1958
  • The boys are playing baseball in the street and one of Eddie’s hits takes out a Cleaver window. Ward warns the boys not to play ball near the house, but the next day Wally pitches Beaver a ball that he hits into the garage and cracks a window. The boys try to raise money to have it repaired but fall short, eventually taking Eddie’s advice and rolling it down so it isn’t visible. The next morning the family leaves on a drive to Crystal Falls, and Beaver panics when he is asked to roll up the window, confessing his crime. It turns out that Ward has thought that he himself had broken the window and had already had it repaired. Ward and June are comforted that Wally and Beaver indicate that even if they hadn’t spilled the beans, they would have told their parents what they did…eventually. Ralph Sanford appears as Fats Flannaghan. 12/18/13
• 026. Train Trip – 4/9/1958
  • Beaver and Wally are coming back home from visiting their Aunt Martha. They talk her into leaving them at the train station to get on the train themselves. When the train is delayed, they spend some of their money on food and candy and don’t have enough to buy tickets to Mayfield, so they get a ticket to Bellport, a town along the way. When the conductor (Joe Crehan) requests their tickets, they make up a story about their Aunt Martha being in a poor house and their father being in the hospital after having fallen out of a train. They decide to pay the conductor back with their own money and not tell their parents. However, when George Haskell stops by, he tells Ward about the boys’ tall tales, having been a passenger on the train. The boys are dumbfounded when Ward drops some hints that he knows what happened. 1/6/14
• 027. My Brother’s Girl – 4/16/1958
  • Wally and his friends are acting uninterested in girl, and Wally refuses to entertain the notion of bringing one to the school dance, despite lots of offers that are filtering through June. Mary Ellen Rogers (Pamela Baird) however has other plans and begins spending time with Beaver in an effort to get Wally to come over. Enticed by her father’s electric trains, Wally does in fact make the visit along with Beaver, who ends up completely ignored. In the end, Beaver gets his feelings hurt, but Wally does take Mary Ellen to the dance. 8/13/13
• 028. Next Door Indians – 4/23/1958
  • Inspired by Ward’s book on the Indian Wars, Beaver tells a tall tale to Eddie and ‘big guys’ in order to keep up with Eddie’s tales and fit in. His claim that Indians fought on the vacant lot next door to the Cleaver house is met with skepticism, and a bet for $1.50 of Wally’s money. Beaver and Wally try to plant false relics on the lot, but Eddie catches on. The good news though as the boys dig up some rocks that appear to be garnets, which may be worth thousands of dollars. The boys daydream how they’ll spend the money, and Beaver, who is bursting wanting to tell the secret, visits Gus and is told that the garnets are actually worthless. Ward gives Beaver advice on trying to be a ‘big guy’ too soon, and Wally indicates that although everyone was disappointed, no one really believed they’d be getting rich anyway. 1/6/14 
• 029. Tenting Tonight – 4/30/1958
  • After a comedy of errors when Ward attempts to pick up Beaver, Wally, and some of Wally’s friends at the movies, he becomes disgusted with the amount of time they are spending inside a dark theater on a beautiful Saturday. In fact he suggests a camping trip the next weekend at Friends Lake. The boys are thrilled, but when Fred stops by the night before to tell him that he is needed at work on Saturday, he has to break the news that they can’t go. Wally and Beaver substitute their trip for a night camping  in a tent in the backyard. When it begins to rain, they don’t want to disappoint Ward by coming inside, although Ward would prefer that they come in. The problem is solved when Ward leaves the door unlocked so that they can sneak in, and it can go unmentioned by anyone. 1/24/14
• 030. Music Lesson – 5/7/1958
  • Beaver doesn’t make the little league baseball team, and because Ward seems so pleased that Wally has made it as first string pitcher, Beaver seeks out joining the band on clarinet. After a few initial practices, he tries out playing the first seven notes of America, but Mr. Willet (Wendell Holmes) cuts him. Beaver is afraid of disappointing his father, so he pretends to still be in the band. Although his folks seem puzzled when he is still playing the seven notes of America after a few weeks, they still seem excited to hear him in play in his first band concert. Beaver is ready to keep up the facade until the bitter end, but Wally finally intervenes and tells his parents that Beaver had been cut weeks ago. Ward tells Beaver that something came up and that they can’t attend the performance. Beaver later thanks him for pretending they thought he was still in the band. 1/25/14
• 031. New Doctor – 5/14/1958
  • Wally reluctantly stays home from school and has to miss his baseball game when he comes down with a sore throat. After a day, the doctor declares him well and he returns to school, but Beaver is a little jealous because Wally gets a model plane from his Mom, ice cream from his Dad, and a magic set from his classmates delivered by Eddie and Tooey. The next day Beaver pretends to be sick so that he can get similar treatment, but the plans backfire when the kids get a half-day at school, and Beaver’s friends Judy and Whitey only deliver his homework. Beaver’s new doctor Dr. Bradley (Stuart Wade) visits him, he warns Beaver about the dangers of ‘crying wolf.’ Beaver admits to his parents that he really wasn’t sick, but Ward lets him enjoy the ice cream that he brought home for him. 2/15/14
• 032. Beaver’s Old Friend – 5/21/1958
  • While cleaning out the garage with Ward and Wally, Beaver stumbles on his old Teddy Bear Billy and can’t bear the thought of throwing him out. When he tries to rescue the stuffed animal his friends Whitey, Chucky (David Halper), and another kid (Dennis Holmes), make fun of him and whisk him off to search for bottles. When Beaver returns, the garbageman (Jess Kirkpatrick) has picked up the trash, but Beaver chases him down and the man retrieves him from the back of the truck. Beaver enlists Wally’s help and two manage to clean Billy somewhat although Ward and June are suspicious about the turpentine smell in the boys’ room. June finds Billy and understands, and even has Billy cleaned for Beaver. In the end, Beaver decides to pass Billy on to the neighborhood kid Bengie. Beaver was more interested in preserving the good memories and passing them on, rather than continuing to play with the toy. 2/16/14
• 033. Wally’s Job – 5/28/1958
  • Ward gives Wally the job of painting their two garbage cans for one dollar. Wally is excited to start the job, but Ward forgets the paint. The next day Wally is less enthusiastic and after some advice from Eddie, hints that he wants more money. Beaver offers to do the job for free, but Ward tells him that if he completes the job, he’ll get the dollar. This causes a rift between Wally and Beaver, and Ward then insists that they paint one can each. The boys reconcile but their work is interrupted when Eddie fetches them to go watch a fire at the lumber yard. A frustrated Ward is ready to complete the job, but then he goes to see the fire as well. June ends up finishing the painting, the rewarding herself by purchasing a new hat that Ward had told her to wait on. 3/29/14
• 034. Beaver’s Bad Day – 6/4/1958
  • While Wally is off caddying for Ward, Beaver and Larry go to hunt for metal ‘coins’ the site of a house under construction. Beaver has not only been forbidden to play there, but he also accidentally wears the good suit that June had him trying on. Eddie shows up and causes Beaver to rip his pants on a nail on a makeshift see-saw, but insists that Beaver not tell on him, also bad-mouthing Wally in the process. Beaver makes up a story about being attacked by dog, and is punished for both playing at the construction site and lying. June tells Beaver that even if he gets away with a lie, God knows, then forces Ward to rectify a lie that he told Fred about being busy that night. After church that weekend, Wally confronts Eddie at the construction site, and Eddie’s dog ends up ripping Beaver’s pants. Ward and June are sure that Beaver is making the dog story up again and Beaver is again punished. June then finds out from Larry’s mom that the story was true, and she and Ward are forced to eat crow. 3/29/14
• 035. Boarding School – 6/11/1958
  • When Wally’s old friend Johnny Franklin (Barry Curtis) comes to visit from a military academy, he convinces Wally how cool it is to attend such a school. Wally decides he wants to go there for high school and gingerly asks his parents to consider it. They are both reluctant, but agree to look into it. However Eddie convinces Wally that his parents orchestrated the whole thing by having Johnny over, and suddenly he loses interest. 7/8/14
• 036. Beaver and Henry – 6/18/1958
  • While attempting to trap a gopher that is eating June’s flowers, the boys end up catching a rabbit that Beaver names Henry. June realizes that the rabbit is actually female…and pregnant. Beaver initially thinks that the babies are rats attacking Henry when they are born. Ward warns Wally not to touch the babies because the rabbit will not feed them, but Beaver touches them before Wally can pass on the warning. Gus advises Beaver to cover the babies with talcum powder and put vanilla extract on the mother’s nose to disguise the human scent that the babies are carrying. Ward questions Beaver about how he though to do this, and is surprised that Beaver turned to Gus instead of him for help. Beaver explains that parents are better at telling kids what not to do, rather than what to do. The boys give the babies away to their friends. 7/8/14
• 037. Beaver Runs Away – 6/25/1958
  • With Larry’s urging, Beaver assists in using Ward’s power drill on a piece of scrap wood, but ends up boring two holes in the garage wall. Beaver flees with Larry to give his Dad a chance to get used to the holes, but when he gets home, Ward berates him to the point that Beaver is ready to run away from home. Ward lets him go, not wanting to give in to Beaver’s threats, but June is beside herself with worry. It turns out that Beaver went to Larry’s for dinner, telling Mrs. Mondello (Madge Blake) that his parents are visiting his aunt. Wally tells Ward that he should have gone after Beaver so that he could come home without looking like a creep. When Beaver gets home, he apologizes for running away, and Ward acknowledges that he should have gone after him. 9/2/14
• 038. Beaver’s Guest – 7/2/1958
  • Beaver convinces his father to let him have Larry Mondello over for the night over the weekend. Larry arrives and the two excitedly begin playing with their Indian figures and army men. While Ward is grilling out hamburgers, Beaver notifies him that Larry has been standing on the front porch for the past half hour. It seems that Beaver punched him in the stomach after Larry destroyed Beaver’s fort, and Larry now wants to go stay with his grandmother. Ward gets Larry a taxi, but by the time the driver (Frank Sully) arrives, the two are friends again. Larry eats a hearty meal and during the night Beaver wakes up Ward to tell him that Larry has a stomach-ache. Ward finds candy bar wrappers under Larry’s pillow so just advises him to go back to sleep. Beaver wakes up Ward a short time later to tell him that Larry feels better and wants more candy. The next morning, Ward is exhausted and anxious for Mrs. Mondello to pick up Larry. That evening at dinner, as exhausted as he is, Ward agrees that Wally can have Eddie over the next weekend. 9/2/14
• 039. Cat Out of the Bag – 7/16/1958
  • Wally and Beaver take on the job of watching the Donaldson’s house and cat Puff Puff while they are out of town, but Ward gets a little bit worried when Mr. Donaldson (now played by Ray Kellogg) makes it clear that the cat is quite valuable and beloved. While the boys are working at the Donaldson’s, Eddie visits and talks Wally into going to the carnival with him, leaving Beaver to finish the work. Eddie’s dog Wolf chases Puff Puff away, and the boys cannot find the cat, even when they sneak out at night. While in bed, they hear the cat meowing and discover it in a tree. Beaver climbs up to get and gets stuck in the tree himself…and Ward has to come to the rescue. Ward is disappointed in the boys, but he and June finds some solace in the fact that the boys refused to be paid by Mr. Donaldson. 10/3/14

SEASON 2 – ABC

• 040. Beaver’s Poem – 10/2/1958
  • Ward has to cancel plans to take June to the movies when Beaver asks for help on a poem assignment that he has been holding onto for three weeks. Since it is due the next day, Ward has no choice but to help Beaver write it. Beaver comes up with the idea to write it about a bear, but then gets too tired to help, so Ward finishes it off. But when Beaver wins an award for the poem and is asked to read it at an assembly, Ward has to talk to Mrs. Rayburn and tell her that he actually wrote the poem. Their idea is to have Beaver write another poem before the assembly. He writes a poem about a duck. 11/1/14
• 041. Eddie’s Girl – 10/9/1958
  • Eddie brags about his girl Caroline Cunningham (Karen Green), but when he and Wally go to visit her, she barely knows who he is. Instead she is interested in Wally and asks her mother (Aline Towne) to help set up a date for her and Wally to go to the dance. June accepts the invitation without asking Wally. Eddie storms over to Wally’s house in a rage because ‘his girl’ is going to the dance with someone else, not knowing that it is Wally. When Beaver lets Wally know that June has accepted the invitation, Wally goes ballistic and refuses to go. Eddie comes over feigning a sore throat asks Wally to take Caroline on his behalf, and Wally enthusiastically accepts. While Wally is off at the dance, Eddie comes over and tells Beaver that he actually knew that she had asked Wally, admits that Caroline was never his girl, and says that he only pretended to be sick so that Wally could go with her. 11/2/14
• 042. Ward’s Problem – 10/16/1958
  • Beaver’s new teacher Miss Alice Landers (Sue Randall) announces a father-son picnic, which Beaver is excited to attend. Ward has already made plans with Wally to take him and Eddie on a fishing trip on the Saturday of the picnic. When the boys compare notes, they realize that Ward has promised both of them he’d spend Saturday with them. Wally convinces Beaver that Ward is going to go with him and not Beaver, so Beaver tells Miss Landers and his classmates that his father will be on a business trip to Washington. Ward lets down Wally, but Beaver doesn’t want to appear to be a liar to the kids in school, so he tells Ward that the picnic is cancelled on account of an epidemic. When Miss Landers calls the house, Ward finds out about Beaver’s lies, but feels it was partially his fault for not telling Beaver he was going to take him. Ward and Beaver win a trophy in the three-legged race. 12/9/14
• 043. Beaver and Chuey – 10/23/1958
  • Beaver has a new friend named Chuey Varela (Alan Roberts Costello) from South America who speaks very little English, but enough that he and Beaver have become great friends. Beaver has Chuey over to his house and Ward and June spend an awkward time trying to communicate with Chuey’s mother Carmela (Maria Andre). Wally has Eddie over at the same time and although Wally thinks it is funny, he discourages Eddie from using his beginner’s Spanish to convince Beaver to say something in Spanish to Chuey, which translates as “you have the face of a pig.” Eddie does it anyway, and when Beaver says the Spanish phrase to Chuey, he leaves the Cleaver house in tears. Chuey’s father Enrico (Abel Franco) joins his wife in visiting Ward and June to try and find out what happened. Still not knowing what the phrase means, Beaver repeats it to the Varelas, and they too storm out. Wally tells Ward what Eddie did, and Ward consults his first-year Spanish textbook to compose a letter to the Verelas with an explanation. The Varelas send flowers to June, and Chuey returns to play. Wally vows to sock Eddie. 12/9/14
• 044. The Lost Watch – 10/30/1958
  • While the older boys play baseball, Beaver holds their personal items, but when the game is over and the kids retrieve their stuff, Lumpy claims that his watch is missing. He threatens Beaver to deliver the watch but Beaver simply doesn’t have it. Lumpy stalks Beaver via phone and on his walk to school, convincing Beaver that he’ll go to jail if he doesn’t come up with $15 to replace the watch. When Beaver approaches Ward with the analogy of a bank not returning money, Ward agrees that he’d have to call the police. A scared Beaver tries to cash in a savings bond that he got for his birthday from Aunt Martha, but the teller (Jonathan Hole) refuses and phones Ward. When Beaver tells them the whole story, he takes it up with Fred Rutherford, who has actually already found the watch and was waiting for Lumpy to tell him it was missing. Lumpy is forced to personally apologize to the Cleavers. 1/21/15
• 045. Her Idol – 11/6/1958
  • On his way to dig holes in Larry’s backyard, Beaver runs into classmate Linda Dennison up in a tree observing eggs in a bird’s nest and joins her on a branch. Larry and Whitey catch Beaver with Linda and proceed to tease him, and pass the info on to their schoolmates, who all join in with teasing Beaver. Judy suggests that Beaver call Linda a name if he’s not really sweet on her. Beaver consults Ward about nasty names that won’t hurt someone’s feelings, but the next day he settles on “big smelly ape’ – which naturally hurts Linda’s feelings. In anger, Beaver then punches Larry in the stomach and tussles with Whitey until Miss Landers sends them to Mrs. Rayburn. She sends home a letter with Beaver, who then has to explain the situation to his father. The next day in school Miss Landers lectures the students about being kind to one another, even the boys and the girls. Later Beaver sees Linda in the tree again…and this time she is with Larry. Beaver has a hard time explaining to Wally why this makes him feel ‘bad.’ 1/21/15
• 046. Beaver’s Ring – 11/13/1958
  • Aunt Martha sends Beaver a family heirloom gold ring that used to belong to her brother Theodore, and despite strict instruction that he is not to wear it to school, he takes it anyway. When Judy dares him to try it on, he does… and then can’t get it off. Even school Nurse Thompson (Ann Loos) can’t get it off. Eventually the nurse has to call June to come to the school and the doctor is forced to cut off the ring – although Beaver thinks his finger will be cut off. Ward is livid and makes Beaver write Aunt Martha an apology note, but when Beaver says the worst part about it is that Aunt Martha will be disappointed in him, Ward tears up the letter and they look into having the ring repaired. 3/11/15
• 047. The Shave – 11/20/1958
  • Wally’s friends brag about shaving and Wally feels left out because he has never done it. He immediately goes home and uses Ward’s razor, cutting himself in the process. Ward forgives Wally for using the razor but asks him not to do it again. Wally continues using it, hoping that it will cause him to grow a beard. While he is showing Eddie, Ward catches him using it, and what’s worse, he has used up the blades. He berates Wally in front of Eddie, who then tells the other boys and they proceed to tease Wally. Ward can’t understand why Wally develops such a bad attitude, until Beaver tells him what happened as a result of yelling at him in front of Eddie. To make up for it, Ward arranges for Andy the barber (Howard McNear) to give Wally a shave in front of the other boys. Ward later explains that being a man is more about inward attitude, and Wally assures him he will no longer shave…since he has nothing to shave.  Charles Cirillo is the other barber. 10/3/14
• 048. The Pipe – 11/27/1958
  • The Rutherfords send Ward a Meerschaum pipe from Germany, which Ward finds ridiculous and Larry finds tempting. He coaxes Beaver into smoking it with him and they use coffee grounds. But since Beaver isn’t allowed to have coffee, Larry empties the ashtrays at his parents’ party and they smoke tobacco, which ends up making them sick. Ward figures out from the stains in the pipe that it has been smoked, but assumes that it was Wally. He tries to nudge Wally into admitting it to him by telling him the story of Pandora’s Box. Eventually he has no choice to confront Wally about it, but Wally flatly denies it. Once Beaver finds out that Ward has accused Wally, he admits that he and Larry actually smoked it. Ward punishes Beaver and is forced to apologize to Wally, who is a good sport about it since he figured he had a bawling-out coming for an earlier offense. 3/11/15
• 049. Wally’s New Suit – 12/4/1958
  • Wally wants to get a new suit for the dance, but decides he is old enough to pick it out on his own much to Ward’s dismay. Wally takes Beaver with him and gets a flashy striped suit that his parents can’t stand. Ward tries to reason with Wally about wearing the right kind of clothes, but Wally thinks he is being picked on. June uses a different tactic by asking only that Wally get the sleeves of the suit taken in. She arranges with the salesman (John Hoyt) to talk about how the masculine fellows at Mayfield High are choosing a darker solid colored suit so that Wally ultimately makes his own decision to get a more sensible suit. It turns out that neither Eddie nor Tooey come through with getting the flashy suits and Wally ultimately thanks his father for the good advice. 5/31/15
• 050. School Play – 12/11/1958
  • Beaver gets cast in the lead role of his third grade play Flowers and Feathers playing a yellow canary, to the slight embarrassment of Ward. Miss Wakeland (Dorothy Adams), the drama teacher from the high school assists with rehearsal, but has doubts about Beaver’s performance and tells him to practice extra hard. Ward and Wally attempt to give him a pep talk but end up only frightening him further. During the play, Beaver does well as the bird but when his parents go to congratulate him, it turns out to be Whitey under the costume. Since Beaver was nervous, Miss Landers allowed him to play a mushroom. His parents assure him they are still proud of him. 5/31/15
• 051. The Visiting Aunts – 12/18/1958
  • Tooey offers up free tickets to the carnival in town if Wally’s father will drive him, Chester, and Lumpy on Saturday to the event. Ward agrees, but then realizes that June has said that her Aunt Martha and Martha’s friend Claudia Hathaway (Irene Tedrow) could stop by and see the boys on their way to Indian Caverns. Wally and Beaver reluctantly go along with the plan, thinking that they will still be able to leave for the carnival around noon. When June invites them to stay for lunch, the boys do all they can to try to hurry things along. June is on pins and needles that they won’t embarrass her. A couple of hours pass and Wally’s friends have already gone to the carnival, but Wally declines going, preferring to sulk instead and ‘punish’ his parents. Ward has a talk with them about how much the visit meant to June, prompting the boys to apologize to their mother and make up. Then they all head to the carnival for the evening. 7/17/15
• 052. Happy Weekend – 12/25/1958
  • Ward is excited when he gets the opportunity to use a cabin at Shadow Lake, where he used to go as a boy. Wally and Beaver are not as excited as he would have expected, preferring to stay home and read comic books and see the film release of Jungle Fever at the movies. The weekend is full of mild disappointments when the boys’ hiking leads them to a neighboring city where they go to a soda shop and buy comic book, the lake they fish in is discovered to stocked with fish, and their exploration with binoculars leads them to watch Jungle Fever at a neighboring drive-in. However just as they are getting ready to leave early, Ward is vindicated when the boys protest leaving in favor of trying to build a raft and sailing to an island in the lake. He lets them go have their fun without him so he can spend some time with June. 7/18/15
• 053. Wally’s Birthday – 1/1/1959
  • Wally’s birthday is coming up, but Beaver feels snubbed when Wally doesn’t invite him along to the drug store and movies with Eddie Haskell. Larry talks Beaver into using the six dollars that he has saved to buy Wally a camera to buy himself a bow and arrow set, which Larry promptly breaks. Wally ends up inviting Beaver to go along on his birthday outing with Eddie – which is more about running into Mary Ellen Rogers – so Beaver feels especially guilty when Wally opens his gifts. He gets a watch from his parents and a microscope from Eddie, but Beaver’s gift ends up being a cheap ‘hunk of junk’ paddle ball. Beaver explains what had happened, but before he can explain that the bow and arrow were broken, he gets sent to the toy store to exchange it for the camera. After spending some time circling the block, and explains the whole story. His parents and Wally forgive him. Arthur Space is Mr. Judson at the department store. 9/19/15
• 054. The Grass Is Always Greener – 1/8/1959
  • Larry advises Beaver that it is fun to eavesdrop, so Beaver listens to Ward tell June that they are going to end up in the ‘poorhouse’ while paying bills. Beaver gets curious about poor people and asks Ward about them, then assumes that their trash man Henry Fletcher (Jess Kirkpatrick) is poor. Henry invites Beaver over to play at his house near the junkyard with his two sons. June is a little put off by the fact that Ward let Beaver go, and when Beaver asks to go back, Ward suggests that Henry’s boys Pete (Billy Chapin) and Chris (Don Lyon) come over and play at their house. Beaver and Wally are convinced that there is nothing to do at home, but soon find that Pete and Chris are fascinated by the tree in the Cleavers’ front yard, Wally and Beaver’s tool box, and by eating lunch at the kitchen table. By the time Pete and Chris leave, Wally and Beaver have a new attitude about how great their parents are, leaving Ward and June with a warm feeling. Eddie Marr is a traffic policeman giving a ticket to a woman (Helen Jay). 9/24/15
• 055. The Boat Builders – 1/15/1959
  • Wally, Tooey, and Chester are working on an Eskimo kayak in the Cleaver garage using barrel hoops, wood, a bucket, and June’s tablecloths. Despite warnings from Ward and concern from June not to do anything foolish, when they finish the boat they take it to Miller’s pond to try it out. Since the older boys won’t fit in it, Beaver gets to take a short-lived spin which results in the boat sinking and Beaver getting soaked. Wally and Beaver sneak in the house by distracting their parents with a mysterious phone call and the whirring garbage disposal, but they ultimately get caught when they attempt to dry Beaver’s leather boots on the pipes in the basement and the aroma tips off Ward and June. The boys are grounded for the weekend and lose their TV and movie privileges for two weeks, and are advised that if they’d just told the truth to being with, their punishment would not be nearly as bad. 12/17/15
• 056. Beaver Plays Hooky – 1/22/1959
  • After being warned by June not to be late to school again, Beaver and Larry head off for classes only to be distracted by a construction worker (John Hart) drilling into the ground. Then their lunchboxes and school books are run over by a truck. By the time they get to school, they realize they have completely missed second bell. In order to not get ‘killed’ right away, they decide to put off the inevitable by staying home altogether. Meanwhile Wally has come home sick and is watching TV in bed. Hungry by this point, Beaver and Larry head to the C&J Supermarket for the free samples, only to find themselves broadcast on TV on the show hosted by Marshal Moran (Richard Lane) promoting Chocolate Rocket candy bars. June calls Ward to retrieve the Beaver, whose punishment – on top of eating nothing but chocolate all day – is to apologize to Miss Landers. She make Beaver feel guilty about throwing away a day of his life and showing his disrespect of the school and his education. Beaver is nonetheless thankful that she didn’t ‘kill’ him. 12/17/15
• 057. The Garage Painters – 1/29/1959
  • With the TV on the fritz, the boys need to find alternative entertainment on a rainy weekend. Ward suggests that they read a book and steers them toward The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The boys become enthralled with the book, as June starts to realize that Tom may not be the best role model. The next day when Ward gets called away from painting the garage doors, the boys take over the duties… then find that they are bored with it. Taking a cue from Tom Sawyer, they try to get someone else to finish the job but neither Lumpy nor Larry take the bait. Eventually Beaver convinces Bengie to take over the duties, but when he ends up pouring paint all over himself, Bengie’s mother (Sara Anderson) freaks out on June and the boys. Ward has to tell the boys that although the book is great, many of the things he did won’t fly in the current, more complicated world. 2/19/16
• 058. Wally’s Pug Nose – 2/5/1959
  • Wally and his friends eat in the cafeteria just so they can get a look at the new girl in school Gloria Cusick (Cheryl Holdridge). Wally clearly has a crush on her, but when Gloria mentions Wally’s pug nose, he becomes self-conscious and sends away for a mail-order contraption to wear at night to push down his nose. When Ward finds out about it, he has a talk with Wally to try to convince him that he doesn’t need it, relating his own story about how he used to wear adhesive tape so his ears won’t stick out. He thinks the talk does the trick, but Wally then adds adhesive tape to wear at night as well. Cheryl later asks Wally to the Freshman dance, which surprises Wally considering the remark she made. It turns out that she thinks that pug noses are cute. When June shows Ward that Wally has thrown away the nose device, he assumes that it was his advice that inspired him until Wally tells him how Gloria really felt about his nose. Ralph Brooks is the mailman. 2/19/16
• 059. Beaver’s Pigeons – 2/12/1959
  • Beaver, Larry, and Whitey form a ‘Pigeon Club’ and Beaver talks Ward into bringing him home two pigeons which he names Miss Landers and Miss Canfield. However when Ward arrives with the pigeons, he finds out that Beaver has been sent home with chicken pox. Since neither Wally nor Ward have had them, they are forced to stay away from Beaver, although Ward swears he is itching more than normal. Wally helps take care of the birds but when he allows Larry’s pigeons Nate and Al to stay with them when Larry goes out of town, Beaver’s pigeons contract lice and get sick. Ward is able to get medicine from the pet store to treat them, but then the pigeons are attacked by a cat and Beaver’s two pigeons are killed. Larry and Whitey hold a funeral for the birds, while Beaver watches from the window. Beaver’s health starts to improve, but he declines Ward buying him new pigeons. Ward continues to itch. 10/30/16
• 060. The Tooth – 2/19/1959
  • Beaver has a toothache, so misses school to get a dental x-ray. Beaver doesn’t seem to have a problem with getting his tooth filled until Lumpy scares him with tales of how the dentist will not only drill a hole in his tooth, but dig it bigger than he needs in order to get more money. Beaver tries various ploys in order to skip returning to the dentist. June pass the job of taking him off to Ward, who gradually gets more and more irritated by Beaver’s irrational fear. Ward is further embarrassed when they run into Fred and his daughter Violet (Veronica Cartwright) at the dentist office and Beaver makes a commotion about getting into the dentist’s chair. Eventually Dr. Frederick Harrison (Frank Wilcox) gets Beaver to trust him by offering his entire box of toys if Beaver experiences any pain. Beaver comes out of the chair unscathed, but Ward feels like he failed a little bit by not being understanding to Beaver’s fear. Alice Backes is the nurse. 5/16/16
• 061. Beaver Gets Adopted – 2/26/1959
  • Beaver and Wally both participate in a field day competition at the park… but only Wally comes home with a trophy. Beaver is a little resentful and tries to downplay the trophy, and later when he and Larry are looking at it, Beaver accidentally breaks it. When Beaver is disciplined by his parents, he laments having parents her are so mean, and Ward lightheartedly advises him that he is free to find other parents if he wants. Beaver takes the comment to heart and visits an adoption agency. Mrs. Brady (Lurene Tuttle) tells Beaver has found him some parents who want a little boy, then calls Ward and June to come to the agency. As Beaver waits, he starts to get cold feet about getting new parents. He is clearly relived when his actual parent show up to take him home. Beaver later apologizes to Wally for breaking the trophy, and confesses that he just wanted to be given rich parents, which would have caused his father to regret giving him up. 5/16/16
• 062. The Haunted House – 3/5/1959
  • Beaver is having nightmares which prompt him to get into a conversation with Wally about the old Cooper house, which he believes to be haunted. Later as Larry and he are staring at it, Miss Cooper (Lillian Bronson) comes outside and calls to them and they run home. In a separate incident, Miss Cooper also speaks to June and offers to pay her son fifty cents a day to walk her dog. Beaver gladly accepts, but when he finds out that it is Miss Cooper, he tries to get out of it. Beaver first tries to get Wally to go with him, and then Larry, but Larry runs away as soon as they start talking about Hansel and Gretel. Beaver makes it inside the house but then he flees as well. Ward and June are puzzled by Beaver’s behavior when he gets home, and when Miss Cooper stops by, they are surprised to learn that Beaver never walked the dog. Wally tips Ward off about Beaver’s fear, so Ward has to embarrassingly admit to Miss Cooper that Beaver thinks that her house is haunted and that she is a witch. Beaver ends up bringing a dog named Angela home, and when prodded for the owner, Beaver admits that it belongs to Miss Cooper, whom he now realizes is a nice lady. 8/17/16
• 063. The Bus Ride – 3/12/1959
  • Beaver gets invited to go visit his old friend Billy Payton, who now lives 90 miles away on a farm in Crystal Falls. Ward is willing to take him until he realizes that he and June have committed to attending a cookout. Wally offers to accompany him on the bus, and Ward agrees although June is concerned. During a stop in Elmhurst, Beaver and Wally have a sundae in a drug store, and after Beaver buys a comic book, he accidentally boards the bus back to Mayfield. When he arrives he takes a taxi home and is phoned by Wally who is now in Crystal Falls. Billy’s father agrees to drive Wally home and pick up Beaver. By the time Ward and June get home, everything appears okay and they are quite proud of Wally. He then admits what really happened, much to Ward’s disappointment. Ward does however decide to not tell June what occurred for a long while. Yvonne White, Douglas Evans, and Eddie Marr are bus passengers. Bill Idelson is the newsstand worker. Frank Sully is the cab driver. 8/17/16
• 064. Beaver and Gilbert – 3/19/1959
  • Beaver, Larry, and Whitey all make fun of the new kid in class, Gilbert Gates (Stephen Talbot) who just moved across the street from Beaver. Later Beaver makes friends with Gilbert, and Beaver becomes fascinated with Gibert’s many tall tales. They make plans to go to the movies together, but at the last minute Gilbert stands Beaver up and goes to the movies with Larry and Whitey. Ward suggests that Beaver act like nothing happened and go over and join the three boys who are playing football. Gilbert is rude to Beaver and the three end up ganging up on Beaver. Ward then suggests that Beaver do something about it on his own rather than come home crying to them. Beaver takes this to heart and picks a fight with Beaver, which is eventually broken up by Ward and Gilbert’s father John (Carleton G. Young). Ward and John talk after sending the boys home, and Ward finds out that John is a traveling musician and Gilbert is having a hard time making new friends every time they move, and thus makes up lies and acts aggressive. Ward admits to Beaver that he was wrong to send him out to fight and suggests that he trying being nice to Gilbert, who hopefully then will feel like he doesn’t need to lie to get attention. 11/5/16
• 065. Price of Fame – 3/26/1959
  • Beaver and Larry stay late at school to clean the blackboards, and after Larry tells Beaver that Mrs. Rayburn has a spanking machine in her office, Beaver sneaks inside and is locked in by the janitor. Beaver activates the fire alarm and is rescued by the fire department who give him a ride home. Ward gives him a lecture about the’conspicuous’ nature of his mistake. Later Beaver is looking for four-leaf clovers in the park and gets his head stuck in an iron fence. Beaver is not only embarrassed when his classmates Judy and Cindy happen by, but he is afraid to ask for help from his parents. When Wally finds him and can’t get him dislodged, he is forced to tell the parents, who get a city worker (Bill Erwin) to assist in removing one of the fence rods. Ward apologizes for making Beaver afraid to come to them when he is in trouble. 2/12/17
• 066. A Horse Named Nick – 4/2/1959
  • Ward and June reluctantly allow the boys to take a job at a local carnival that is passing through town. Although they were promised that they would paid $10 each, the carnival tricks them into accepting their horse Nicolas. The boys’ parents insist they can’t keep the horse, but allow him to stay in the garage for the night. When the kids find him laying down, they panic and call Gus the Fireman to take a look at him. Gus advises them that some horses learn it is easier to lay down than stand up. When Ward starts to get phone calls from the neighbors and a threat from a Board of Health officer (Bill Baldwin), they double down on their efforts to sell him. The boys nearly sell him for $25 to a man (Michael Ross) from a rendering plant, but when they realize he will be turned to glue, they renege on the sale. Ward arranges for Nick to be sent to the Paytons’ farm in Crystal Falls where the boys can visit him whenever they want. June gets it out of him that it will actually cost him $10 a months in boarding. 2/14/17
• 067. Beaver’s Hero – 4/9/1959
  • Mr. Willet is Beaver’s substitute teacher and he is discussing World War 2, when Beaver brings up to the class that his father was in the war. When Judy brags about her father’s involvement in the war, and discounts Beaver’s father, Beaver tells Judy and their friends that Ward was a hero in the war and has a trunk full of weapons and relics in the garage. When Beaver goes home and opens the trunk in the garage, he merely finds Ward’s old surveying equipment during his time in the Seabees. When Mr. Willet phones and asks Beaver to bring in some of the memorabilia, Beaver panics and has Wally write a fake note from Ward to June with heroic musings from Wake Island. Ward finds the fake letter, and realizes what is going on. Having sympathy for Beaver, he phones Mr. Willet and explains to him the truth. While Judy waits for Beaver to be called out, Mr. Willet changes the topic from WW2 to the Louisiana Purchase. Ward has a talk with Beaver about the fact that not everyone was a hero in the war, but everyone worked hard according to their talents. NOTE: From this episode on, Gibert’s last name becomes Bates. 6/2/17
• 068. Beaver Says Good-bye – 4/16/1959
  • Ward and June are looking to move to a bigger house, and one of the houses in the nearby city of Madison looks promising. Wally is distraught at the thought of leaving his friends, but Beaver goes along to see it and is excited at the prospect. Ward puts an offer in to the owner Mr. Church (Rodney Bell), and Beaver tells his friends at school that he is going to be moving. Later Ward announces that the owners went with another offer, so Beaver is faced with telling his friends that he won’t be moving after all. When he arrives at school though, he finds that they are throwing him a farewell party and all of the kids have given him presents. Beaver clams up and sneaks the gifts into his house. When Larry comes over and chats with Mr. Cleaver, he finds out that Beaver isn’t going to be moving after all. When Beaver returns to school, he is a pariah for having taken their gifts, but Ward has intervened and talked to the school principal about the situation. Miss Landers tells the class about the misunderstanding, and the kids – even Judy reluctantly – agree to let Beaver keep his gifts. Ward tries to explain to Beaver why the kids were sad when he was going to leave… but mad when they find out that he was going to stay. 6/8/17
• 069. Beaver’s Newspaper – 4/23/1959
  • Wanting the boys to spend time together, June assigns them to clean the garage on Saturday morning. Neither boy is happy about it, but Beaver finds Wally’s old discarded typewriter and takes it to Gus, who helps get it operational again. Beaver and Larry decide to start a newspaper Maple Drive News but suddenly Wally wants the typewriter back. Ward corrects Wally, and June pleads with Wally to be nice and spend time with his brother while he is still at home before college. When Larry gets sick, Wally even agrees to help Beaver type his first edition of the paper, culled from news he’s gathered from around Mayfield. June is thrilled to see them getting along, but then when Wally has to go to his baseball game, Beaver is left without a typist. June fills in for Wally and types up the second edition, but realizes she was wrong to force them to spend time together. Ward shares the same sentiment with Beaver, and also talks him into giving up the paper, and exiting gracefully by declaring it his ‘Final Edition’. 1/18/18
• 070. Beaver’s Sweater – 4/30/1959
  • While window browsing, Beaver and Larry spot a genuine Alcan sweater from Alaska, and since Larry claims his father is buying one for him, Beaver tries to talk his parents into letting him use his own $13 from his college fun to buy one. Ward doesn’t think it is sensible, but June remembers wanting an Opal run when she was a kid, and talks Ward into allowing him to buy it. Even after she sees it and realizes how tacky it is, she still allows Beaver to buy it after trying to dissuade him. Beaver wears it proudly to school the next day, even though Larry didn’t actually get his. Then he sees Judy wearing it, and Larry convinces him that he bought a girl’s sweater. He begins hiding it in a tree every day on the way to school, but one day at the movies, he hides it behind a candy machine and forgets to retrieve it. Ward is furious that Beaver was so careless, but Wally explains the reason Beaver is embarrassed by it. After Ward and June talk it over, they decide to handle him kindly and retrieve the sweater and simply donate it to someone else. Beaver is surprised that they let him do the ‘wrong thing’ knowing the sweater was ridiculous, but they explain that sometimes they love their kids so much, they let them do the wrong thing if it makes them happy. 1/19/18
• 071. Friendship – 5/7/1959
  • Beaver finally gets an invite to go over to Larry’s house for dinner, but after dinner Beaver and Larry get into a big fight over whether they should play checkers or watch TV. Beaver calls home to have Ward come get him. June thinks they should get involved so Ward tells Beaver and Wally the story of Damon and Pythias, and their loyal friendship to each other. The next day at school Beaver tells Larry the story and they agree to not only be friends, but be willing to die for each other. Larry takes advantage right away and asks Beaver to give him his homework since he didn’t do it. Beaver obliges, and refuses to tell Miss Landers why he didn’t turn in his homework. Eventually she has no choice but to send a note home to Ward. Beaver finally explains that he was only following the story, so Ward suggests that Beaver continue with his end of the bargain and lose his recesses for a week, and see what Larry does. The next day in school, Larry finally feels guilty and admits what he did to Miss Landers. She promises to talk to Larry about what he did, but for now she is proud that he came forward and reinstates Beaver’s recess.
• 072. Dance Contest – 5/14/1959
  • Mary Ellen Roger formally invites Wally to the school dance cotillion. He doesn’t want to go, and Ward tells him that its his decision but that he needs to call Mary Ellen to decline. Wally tries, but can’t seem to tell her. All of Wally’s friends are envious of his date, and she shows up to show off her new dress while Wally has his friends there. She also informs him that she has entered them into the Cha Cha contest. Wally makes great efforts to teach himself the dance via record, to the utter amusement of Beaver who spies on him dancing with a canoe oar. Wally later catches Beaver and Larry playing with his record and doing the Cha Cha around the bedroom, and in his anger, breaks the record. At dinner Wally announces that he isn’t going to the dance, and when his parents are befuddled as to why, Beaver informs them that he can’t dance the Cha Cha. Ward quickly arranges for Wally to get a professional lesson. Ward and June wait up for Wally after the dance, and he tells them that he he got Honorable Mention for dancing, just like all of the other non-winners. Wally thanks Ward for helping him with the lessons, and Ward cautions him not to tell others he can do something when he really can’t. Wally asks Beaver to keep the lessons quiet, and Beaver says that he’s planning to save it for when Wally does something really mean to him. 9/19/18
• 073. Wally’s Haircomb – 5/21/1959
  • Wally has a new outlandish haircut called the ‘Jellyroll’ and June is embarrassed by the way it looks and pleads with Ward to get him to get it fixed. Ward doesn’t feel it is good to stifle Wally, but casually mentions he might not be able to try out for the swim team with that hair, but this only causes Wally to dump the swim team. June pays a visit to the school principal Mr. Haller (Howard Wendell) to see if he can stop the boys from wearing their hair this way, but he too feels that the boys should just grow out of it. Ward remains firm in not interfering even when Fred calls him to blame Wally for Lumpy now wearing his hair this way. The final blow comes when Beaver comes down for school sporting a similar haircut. June marches upstairs and forces both Beaver and Wally to comb out their hair, telling Wally that he looks ridiculous and is embarrassing her and his father. Wally feels terrible that they would be embarrassed by him, remembering the time when Beaver embarrassed him by wearing a ladies hat, and even asks Ward to tell him the next time he does something dumb. Meanwhile Beaver attempts to memorize a stanza of the poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, but keeps tripping up on the pronunciation of the town Middlesex. 6/16/19
• 074. The Cookie Fund – 5/28/1959
  • Beaver and Larry are given the task of being chairmen of selling cookies during lunch hour, then keeping track of the money which will be put toward a class trip. The boys are diligent with their duty, but when they befriend an older classmate named Roger Delacy (Danny Richard Jr.) who gives them a sob story that his family, including two baby sisters, is starving. They lend him $3.00 from the fund with a promise that Roger will pay them back the next day when his father receives a $1000 check. When Beaver tells this to Wally, he is skeptical and causes Beaver to worry about not getting the funds back. Sure enough the next day, Roger pretends he has no idea what they are talking about. Mr. Preston (Roger Eldredge), whose company supplies the cookies to the school, is disappointed that the boys are $3 short, but tells they that ultimately it will just short their class fund, and gives them a day to come up with the money on their own. Ward is understanding when Beaver asks him for half the money, and when the boys tell Miss Landers what happened, she not only promises to talk to Mrs. Rayburn about Roger, but also insists that they remain the chairmen of the cookie fund. Meanwhile Wally tries to get permission from Ward to go on a trip to Mexico with his science teacher and some of the students, but by the time Ward agrees, the teacher has backed out of the offer when some of the kids mess around in class. 6/26/19
• 075. Forgotten Party – 6/4/1959
  • Beaver and Larry are hanging out on a Wednesday after Beaver purchases some film for his new camera, and he and Larry make tentative plans to get together over the weekend. After pretending to photograph June, Beaver takes a phone call from an old classmate named David Manning (John Collier), who claims to be Beaver’s best friend and invites him to his birthday party on Saturday. Beaver writes down the time – 11:30 – of the party on a piece of paper and then promptly forgets about it. When Saturday rolls around, Beaver is roaming the streets with Larry as planned, when David’s mother Alice (Mary Lawrence) phones and asks if Beaver is coming and insists that without Beaver, the party will be ruined. Ward and Wally scramble to locate Beaver, while June goes out to buy a gift. Once Wally find him, he has to bathe him as Beaver has fallen on a recently tarred road. June returns with an inflatable sea horse as a gift, which Beaver refuses to give David, as he feels it is a ‘baby toy’. Ward forces him to take the gift, but before they leave, they are interrupted by their realtor Mr. Johnson (Bill Baldwin), so Wally takes Beaver to the party. Later, June finds the sea horse under Beaver’s bed, and they assume that Beaver gave nothing. However when Mrs. Manning calls to thank them for the fabulous present, Beaver admits that he gave away his new camera, not wanting to let David down in front of all of his new friends. 2/25/20
• 076. Beaver the Athlete – 6/11/1959
  • Beaver brings home a great report card, except for the D that he received in physical education. June doesn’t want Ward to mention the bad grade and to concentrate on all of the good ones, but Ward can’t help himself and questions Beaver about his grade. Beaver says that he can’t manage the tumbling that they are working on, so Ward takes him outside and teaches him to somersault. Beaver is anxious to return to school the next day and show Coach Grover (Robert Carson) his new skill, but the class has moved onto baseball. When it comes to Beaver’s turn to hit the ball, he is every bit as awkward at that as he was for tumbling, so he acts goofy and makes faces to make the other kids laugh. Ward is disturbed when Beaver tells him what he did, and tries to convince him to embrace the competitive spirit. When Beaver returns to school and continues with his antics, the other kids start to get annoyed, and even more so when Judy hits a home run. That night Beaver doesn’t come home, so Ward and Wally go looking for him and find him practicing his hitting at the school. Ward feels guilty for putting so much pressure on him, but Beaver says that it was because of Judy’s hit that he started to feel competitive. Beaver ends up getting three singles and takes his team to victory in the boys vs. girls game. Beaver worries that the guys will expect the same level of play from him all of the time. 2/25/20
• 077. Found Money – 6/18/1959
  • Wally and Tooey have plans to attend the carnival at Metzger’s Field over the weekend, but Beaver has spent all of his allowance on buying a rat from his friend Charles Fredericks and Ward refuses to front him any more money. Larry calls and invites Beaver to go as his guest, but then he finds out that his mother won’t be giving him any allowance because he charged all of his snacks the drug store. Larry gets his mother to say it’s okay if he goes if he finds the money to get in. He takes this to heart and throws the mad money from his mother’s jewelry bos out the window. When Beaver arrives, he talks Beaver into ‘finding’ the money, and claims it must have fallen out of an airplane pilot’s pockets. They go the carnival and spend the day eating and playing games. Beaver even wins a Kodiak bear bank from a ring toss vendor (Eddie Marr). Soon they become bored with having fun, so they give Walley and Tooey some of the excess money. Meanwhile Mrs. Mondello realizes her money is gone and calls June to ask if the boys are there. By the time Beaver gets home, his parents think he might have been part of stealing it, especially when he tells them the pilot story. Larry sings the same tune to his mother, so she brings Larry over to see what he will say in front of a man since his own father is out of town. He tells the same story, but when Ward tells him that Beaver is going to be punished, he admits what he did and tells them that Beaver really did believe the pilot story. Larry is punished by having to pull weeds, while Ward apologizes to Beaver for misjudging him. Wally and Beaver discuss how grateful they are that they have a father who can admit when he is wrong. 6/7/20
• 078. Most Interesting Character – 6/25/1959
  • As the school year winds down, June is keeping the house clean for potential buyers, Wally as a Freshman is assisting with the Senior graduation proceedings, and Beaver is assigned a composition called The Most Interesting Character I’ve Known so that the class can put all of the punctuation and grammar into use. Beaver doesn’t know who to choose, but laughs at the fact that Judy is writing about her father. Ward is clearly a little upset that Beaver didn’t choose him, so Wally nudges Beaver to do so. Beaver attempts to observe Ward doing things interesting, but all Ward does on his Saturday off is clean the house screens and take the care for a repair. The stories from his Navy SeaBees days seem very tame as well. Beaver has Wally help him spice it up, but he includes untruths indicating that Ward was born in the Amazon, kidnapped by a crocodile, and works for the F.B.I. Beaver knows he can’t use this so looks to June for help, and she recommends that he write more about he feels about his father. He lets Ward read it before he turns it in, and it is filled with heartfelt sentiment of of how special his father is to him, even if he doesn’t do anything particularly interesting. Both Beaver and Ward feel great about the composition, and he ultimately earns a B. Ward and June announce to the boys that they’ve officially sold the house and have put in an offer for a house they looked at on Lakewood Avenue. Beaver confides in Wally that he’ll miss the old house and hopes he can visit it. 6/7/20

SEASON 3

• 079. Blind Date Committee – 10/3/1959
  • There’s a school dance coming up for Wally, and he is assigned to be on the blind date committee by big wheel senior Duke Hathaway (Tommy Ivo). There is only one girl, Jill Bartlett (Beverly Washburn), who needs a date, and it becomes a more difficult task than Wally expected. Both Chester and Tooey think she is too plain and boring, and it would be a stigma for them to be seen with her. Wally tiries to back out of his responsibility, but Duke convinces him that he needs to be a guy who can be counted on. Unable to find anyone, Wally calls Jill and asks her to go with him. He then sends Beaver and Larry over to her house to report back to him what she looks like. The manage to get her to the door, then break out laughing and run off. By the time he gets home, Beaver can’t remember what she looks like. Eddie drops by to make fun of Wally for having to take such a ‘gopher’ to the dance. Ward tells Wally that he’s doing something nice, but it is best not to spoil it by having a bad attitude, and advises him that he was once in a similar predicament and paid his friends to dance with her. Wally follows Ward’s suggestion and does the same thing. After the dance, Wally takes Jill to the soda shop and confesses that he doesn’t see anything wrong with her. Jill tells him that she knows Wally was paying his friends but thinks he’s the nicest boy in school. She says she has no hopes of being as popular as other girls so she stays quiet. They end up having a nice chat, and Wally heads home and reports to Beaver that he liked her but didn’t love her. 9/22/20
• 080. Beaver Takes a Bath – 10/10/1959
  • Ward has an overnight business meeting out of town in Freeport, and June is expected to go along and meet the other wives. They plan to have Mrs. Evans come and look after the boys while they are gone, but she cancels at the last minute. Although June is skeptical, Ward and Wally both think that Wally can handle the job of looking after Beaver and the house so she goes along with it. Wally takes his job seriously and fries up hamburgers for dinner and sends Beaver up to take his bath before eating. However after Beaver starts the water, Wally calls him to tell him that the burgers are ready, causing Beaver to come downstairs and leave the bath water running. After dinner while cleaning up, Wally begins to get hit by water coming through the kitchen ceiling, and they quickly realize what is happening. They clean up the bathroom floor, then realize that the kitchen ceiling is wet and stained. Wally does his best to dry it with a hair dryer. Amidst all of this, Larry and his mother stop by to check on the boys, but only Larry realizes that something is quite amiss… but he vows to keep it a secret. When Ward and June return, both Wally and Beaver keep the situation quiet and both parents express thair gratitude for Wally doing such a great job. However while eating dinner, a large chunk of plaster falls in the kitchen. Ward is puzzled but attributes it to just being a new house. The boys have gotten away with it, and Ward again expresses his appreciation as the boys go to bed, even paying Wally the wages he would have given to Mrs. Evans. At this point, both Wally and Beaver feel guilty and call Ward back to tell him the truth. The next morning, Ward tells June he is somewhat grateful of the incident, because it proved what good boys they have. 9/22/20
• 081. School Bus – 10/17/1959
  • Mrs. Landers announces to the class that starting the next day, all students will be riding the school bus. Ward and June likewise receive a note from the school with a copy of the bus rules, which Beaver reviews studiously. Beaver has a bit of trouble getting to the bus on time, but for the most part, things go fine for the first week. However Ward and June get a note from the bus driver Mr. Crawford (James Parnell) that Beaver’s behavior has gotten him suspended from the bus for a week. Ward eventually gets it out of Beaver that he hit Charles Fredericks on the head in retaliation for Charles hitting him on the head. Although Ward doesn’t think it is fair that only Beaver was punished, he asks Beaver to write an apology note to Mr. Crawford, mostly because he doesn’t want to have to drive Beaver to school every day. With Wally’s help, Beaver crafts the note, and it earns him his spot back on the bus. Later Judy comes to visit Beaver and tells him that she too has been suspended and wants to know how he got back on. Although hesitant to help her at first, he eventually gives her a copy of the note. Wally warns him that she doesn’t deserve it, but Beaver says he will always know he did something nice for her when she is mean to him. Sure enough, he later tries to say goodbye to her when he gets off the bus and she sticks her tongue out and calls him a big dummy. 1/7/21
• 082. Beaver’s Prize – 10/24/1959
  • When Ward finds that Beaver gets into his desk drawer and has spilled ink all over his important business papers, he ground Beaver from leaving the house on Saturday. When the day rolls around, Ward and June go off to see their friends the Suttons, and Wally leaves to go play football with Eddie. Beaver intends to stay home, but Larry stops by and talks him into sneaking off to the movies for the afternoon. While there, the theater manager (Peter Leeds) holds a drawing for a new bike and Beaver winds up winning. Although he tries to decline the prize, he is sent home with the bike and has Larry take it to his house to store. Larry’s mother becomes suspicious when Larry tells her that a mysterious rich stranger in a limo gave it to him, and she has Larry’s father get the truth out of him. She calls Ward and tells him what had happened. Ward decides to see how it plays out, suspecting that Beaver will go to the movies on Sunday and pretend that he won the bike that day instead. When Beaver gets home, he confesses everything on his own. He also tells his parents that as he was taking it home, he decided to leave it at a church like he had seen done with babies in the movies, hoping they would find the bike a home for a needy child. Ward and June are proud of him that he confessed, and only prohibit him from seeing movies for two weeks. 1/8/21
• 083. Baby Picture – 10/31/1959
  • As Wally studies the Phoenicians, Beaver tells his parents that his class will be working on an unique project. The next day in school, the class submits their ideas, and the winning idea comes from Angela Valentine, who thinks they should have a beauty contest based on their baby pictures. Beaver doesn’t ask for his photo until just before he leaves for school, but June finds one and mails it. It isn’t until Wally sees what she has sent in that the problem becomes apparent: he is naked in the photo. Wally tells Beaver about it, and Beaver is mortified, and wants to tell June how he feels. Wally warns him that he might hurt her feelings and make her cry. Beaver asks Ward if his parents ever did anything bad to him, and what he did about it, and Ward responds that he realized whatever they did, they did for his own good, so he would just act like a man and take it. Ward later finds out what June had done, after seeing the photos out on his desk. He too realize the embarrassment it might cause. Beaver then goes to Miss Landers before she opens the envelope and tells her his dilemma, knowing that the other kids will make fun of him. She gives Beaver the picture back without opening the envelope. Ward talks with Beaver and understands now what he had tries to tell him, and also understands how it might upset June. He helps Beaver by cutting the photo down to just being Beaver’s head. Angela Valentine ends up winning the contest, but Beaver couldn’t care less. June is shocked to learn that Beaver didn’t win… without ever knowing what was actually submitted. Ward explains to Beaver that there was nothing wrong with the photo, but only in the minds of the other kids. Meanwhile, Wally finds a bird cage in the trash, cleans it, and paints it, hoping to get a parrot one day since his parents won’t let him grow a mustache. 5/3/21 
• 084. Beaver Takes a Walk – 11/7/1959
  • While cleaning out some old junk, June finds Ward’s old pedometer, and Ward is anxious to pass it on. He offers it to Wally, but he’s not interested, so Beaver claims it. Ward talks of how much fun he had it, and that it seems he walked twenty miles a day when he was a kid. Beaver repeats these claims to his friends, and Whitey bets him that it can’t be done. Beaver doesn’t like him second-guessing his father’s world, so he bets his fielder’s glove that he can walk twenty miles in one day as well. Beaver tries walking as much as he can, but he barely make it three miles before he has to return home after school to his panicking mother. Beaver resigns himself to the fact that he’s lost, so he hands his glove over to Whitey. That day after school, Beaver sulks in his room but his parents don’t know why. Ward can’t figure out what is wrong… and is unable to cheer him up. Finally Wally tells Ward why Beaver is mad at him for exaggerating how much he walked as a kid. Ward finally gets Beaver to talk to him, and explains that he was just excited about Beaver sharing in something he enjoyed so much, and that’s why he exaggerated. Beaver finally understands and forgives him. Feeling a bit guilty, Ward buys Beaver a new glove… but he clams up when the boys ask him about his baseball career as a youth. Beaver tells him that they don’t want him to stop telling stories, even if he must exaggerate a little bit. 5/3/21
• 085. Borrowed Boat – 11/14/1959
  • Wally gets permission from his coach to allow Beaver to ride on the bus with his football team, and then sit with the team during the game. Beaver disappoints Wally by telling him that he already has plans to go to Friend’s Lake for a picnic. This leads to a fight between Wally and Beaver, and they end up disowning each other, much to Ward and June’s disappointment. While Beaver and Larry are at the lake, they encounter two boys, Red Bennett (Tommy Cole) and Fred Thornton (Tom Masters) from the Mayfield Cobras gang, who row up in a boat and tell Beaver and Larry that they are welcome to borrow it. The two boys go out rowing not knowing that they were riding in a park rental boat. The see two policemen on the shore and one officer (Martin Smith) waves them in and take them to the police station. Since the Sergeant (Frank Gerstle) can’t get hold of either boy’s parents, they spend the afternoon at the station. Larry finally gets hold of his mother, and she comes to get Larry. Beaver finally gets hold of Wally after the game, but their parents have gone out shopping. Wally agrees to go down to the station, and based on Beaver’s description of the older boys, Wally is able to identify them. Later that night, Wally gets a call from the Sergeant telling him that they other boys admitted to taking the boat, and that Beaver and Larry are in the clear. Ward and June demand to know what the call was all about, but Wally refuses to tell them. Beaver enters the conversation and admits to the whole story. Ward lets it drop pretty quickly, since he was glad that Beaver went to Wally for help based on how the day had started. It turns out that Larry didn’t escape being hit by his father, and when they found out Larry wasn’t guilty, his father advises him that the beating can serve as a lesson for the next time. 8/28/21
• 086. Beaver’s Tree – 11/21/1959
  • Beaver’s class is assigned the memorization of the poem The Heart of the Tree, and although most of the kids get the words correct, Miss Landers tells them they aren’t expressing the feeling. She herself gives a more heartfelt reading, and Beaver takes the words to heart. He starts to miss a tree that he was given on his sixth birthday that he planted and cared for at his old house. That night he wakes up in the middle of the night and asks Wally if he can go get the tree since it is his. Wally tells him that he’d better discuss it with their father. The next morning, Beaver asks June whether something given to him is always his, and she says that it is. Beaver and Larry then go over the dig up the tree and haul it back to his Beaver’s house in his wagon. Wally agrees to help replant it as soon as their parents leave for a trip to the Rutherford’s. However, before Ward and June can get out the door, the current home owner Mr. Benner calls Ward and says that the neighbors spotted his boys taking the tree. They think the notion is ridiculous until they look out the window and see Wally and Beaver with the tree. Ward has them wait in their room until they return from the Rutherford’s. When they get home, Beaver explains his position and how June had verified that the tree belongs to him always. Ward finally understands, and tells Beaver to go ahead and plant the tree, and he will work it out with Mr. Benner. The next day in school, the kids re-read the poem, and this time Beaver has real feeling in his rendering. 8/28/2001
• 087. Teacher Comes to Dinner – 11/28/1959
  • One morning before school, Beaver is praising his teacher Miss Landers, so June decides to invite her over for dinner at the house that night. That day after school, Miss Landers keeps Beaver after class to thank him for inviting her over. It is a complete surprise to Beaver, but he doesn’t want to tell the other kids who are all curious why he was kept after school. Beaver confides in Larry with the promise that he won’t tell anyone else, but after Beaver leaves, Larry immediately tells Whitey. They then tell Gilbert, and they make their plans to spy on the dinner. Ward gets the barbecue ready that night, while Beaver runs around the house making sure everything is perfect. He makes Wally take a bath, dresses up in his suit, and also coaches Ward on what to say and what not to say. Wally asks if he can just eat in his room. When Miss Landers arrives, there is plenty of awkward conversation from everyone to go around. They all eat outside at the patio picnic table, which provides a great view for Beaver’s friends to spy on them from a tree branch. Wally and Beaver both notice them, but it isn’t until dinner ends that Miss Landers tells Beaver that she saw them also. She decides to take Beaver over to them and ask what they are doing. She explains it is sometimes awkward for boys to teacher outside of school, but advises them that she’s just a person too. Ward comes over wondering what is going on, and invites them to join them for dessert. June and Ward speculate as to where the boys came from. Wally and Beaver discuss how great of a teacher Miss Landers is the way she was able to punish the other boys just by being nice. 2/27/22
• 088. Beaver’s Fortune – 12/5/1959
  • Beaver casually mentions a bully from the fifth grade named Sonny Courtwright (Callen John Thomas Jr.), but thus far hasn’t been bothered by him personally. However, Sonny and Larry nearly get into a fight with each other in school as they push Whitey back and forth between them. Over the weekend, Beaver and Larry go browsing downtown at the Five and Dime. They spend their last few pennies on a weight and fortune machine, and Beaver gets one that tells him it is his lucky day. Beaver and Larry run across Sonny on his way to his music lesson, and Larry decides to challenge him. However, Larry then makes the excuse that he was sick the week before, and instead tells him that Beaver could fight him. Sonny tells Beaver to meet him after his music lesson at 3:00pm. Larry does a good job of convincing Beaver that he can take him easily because of his lucky fortune. However, Beaver goes home and gets differing stories of how much luck plays into becoming a good fighter. In any case, Beaver decides to go through with the fight. Wally planned to go with Beaver to ensure he didn’t get hurt, but he loses track of time and doesn’t head there until 3:10. June is in a panic and wants her or Ward to go get Beaver, but Ward settles on having Wally use his own judgement. When they all come home, Beaver is unscathed because Sonny never showed up. The next day at school, Larry tries to convince Beaver that he should start something with Sonny. Beaver declines and he and Sonny just say hello to each other. Larry decides to pick on Sonny and winds up getting punched in the stomach. Meanwhile, Ward tries to find the kids bonds that he left in a book when they moved, and Wally tries to help Tooey buy an outboard motor… even though he has no boat. 2/28/22
• 089. Beaver Makes a Loan – 12/12/1959
  • Beaver asks his parents last-minute to send 25 cents to school with him so he can by a new ream of paper as assigned by the teacher. June doesn’t have it, so Beaver goes to Ward as he’s rushing off for work. Ward only has a one-dollar bill, so he gives it to Beaver with explicit instructions to bring him the change that night. When he runs into Larry at school, he talks Beaver into loaning him 25 cents out of the extra money so that he can get his ream of paper, promising to pay beaver back. Larry goes to get the money, and since he already owes 50 cents, he uses the entire dollar with no money to give back to Beaver. When Ward gets home that night and Beaver doesn’t have his money, Ward tells him that he’s not giving Beaver his Saturday movie money since he already has 75 cents of his money. Beaver tells Larry that he needs to get the money before the movie The Iron Fiend screens, or otherwise he will miss it, so Larry promises to deliver it Saturday morning. Larry gets the money from his mother, and head to Beaver’s house, but he is waylaid by Gilbert and Whitey who talk him into going to the movie with them. Suddenly Larry thinks Beaver is pushing him around, and decides to go off with them, and leave the Beaver waiting. All day long, Beaver makes up excuses for Larry and winds up missing the movie. Ward feels bad, and sends Beaver to drugstore for a newspaper and gives him extra for a soda. He sees Larry and the guys at the drugstore, and overhears Larry laughing about how he spent the entire 75 cents. When he spots Beaver listening to him in the mirror, his face drops, and Beaver lays into him what a rat he is. Larry comes over the next day and presents Beaver with his money, plus some of his most treasured items, telling Beaver that is planning to run away since his best friend thinks he is a rat. Larry asks Beaver for his forgiveness, and Beaver grants it to him even though he had vowed to never speak to him again. This comes as no shock to June and Ward when Beaver asks to go over and play at Larry’s house. 7/2/22
• 090. Beaver the Magician – 12/19/1959
  • Beaver and Larry browse Uncle Artie’s (Eddie Marr) magic store looking for something fun to buy, and they wind up with a small contraption that can make a penny disappear. Beaver takes it home and shows it off to his family one by one, but it doesn’t seem to impress any of them. However, Beaver’s young neighbor Bengie Bellamy is considerably more fascinated, so Beaver and Larry then get the idea to tells Bengie that they can make Beaver disappear. Larry lifts a blanket in front of Beaver and then Beaver climbs into a storage box attached to the garage. Larry then reveals a rock remaining on the ground and tells Bengie that the rock is Beaver. Larry gets called home before he is able to make Beaver reappear. Beaver finds this amusing, and then he takes off with Ward who takes him out of town to spend the weekend with his Aunt Martha. In the Bellamy household, Bengie’s mother (Ann Doran) begins having trouble with an upset Bengie who is now sleeping with the rock that he thinks is Beaver. She is unable to convince him that it isn’t, so they go to see Beaver himself. Unfortunately, since Beaver is gone, Bengie won’t buy their story. Even attempting to call Beaver at Aunt Martha’s and have him speak to Bengie won’t convince him, because he thinks he is talking to Beaver in heaven. Wally then steps in and brings Larry over so that they can show Bengie how the trick was done. Using Larry as an example, Wally makes him disappear and the reappear. Bengie then asks for him to make Beaver come back as well. Since all else had failed, Ward drives up to get Beaver from a disgruntled Aunt Martha. Beaver gets home and goes over to see Bengie and apologize for tricking him, telling him that he’s not really a rock. 7/2/22
• 091. June’s Birthday – 12/26/1959
  • June’s birthday is coming up, but she asks Ward not to make fuss about it. However, he knows better and tells the boy that he wants them to make a little fuss, then gives them five dollars to buy her a gift. The boys argue about what to buy so they each agree to take half and buy their own gifts. Wally buys a sensible wallet with her initials, while Beaver and Larry enlist the help of Mrs. Mondello for ideas. She is too busy waiting for Mr. Mondello to call from out of town but tells them that she would probably like a blouse if it was her birthday. The boys go to the shop and find a table of blouses marked down to $1.98. They see a saleslady (Claire Carlton) and purchase an extremely tacky blouse with landmarks from Paris printed all over it. When June opens her gifts, she tells Beaver that she loves the blouse, but Wally spills it to Beaver that it is terrible and that their mother is just being polite. When Beaver asks her to wear it to a school mother’s club tea, she tries to get out of it, but then agrees to wear it when Beaver accuses her of not liking it after all. On the day of the tea, Ward convinces her to wear something else and them put the blouse back on before Beaver gets home from school. However, she does not realize that Beaver’s class at school is working on Old McDonald to sing at the ladies’ gathering. When Beaver sees her there not wearing the Paris blouse, he is crestfallen. He comes home from school late and then gives her the silent treatment. She has a talk with him about being polite, and at times untruthful, in order to not hurt the feelings of someone she loves, and Beaver finally understands. Jean Vander Pyl is a member of the mothers club. 10/24/22
• 092. Tire Trouble – 1/2/1960
  • As Wally tries to do his homework, Beaver tries to sell him on answering an ad in a comic book about raising chinchillas. Although they only plan to write a way to get info about it, they start to build chinchilla cages in the garage. That evening when Ward gets home from work, he is irritated to find that the garage is full of his tools and the unfinished cages. He tells them that they need to have more respect and to have their messes cleaned up when they get home. June says they can’t clean it up right now because supper is ready. The next day when Ward gets home from work, the cages are still there. This time he is really angry and tells that that it was a stupid thing to do to leave them there. June sticks up for them and tells Ward that Wally had a basketball game and that Beaver’s class had to stay after school and help look for Angela Valentine’s teeth plate. Ward tells them that he is going to work the next day on Saturday, but that he expects for everything to be cleaned up when they get home. The work on cleaning everything up, but then they notice that their father has ran over a small board with a nail in it when he was backing the car out of the garage that morning before getting a ride with Fred to the office. Eddie Haskell happens along and laughs about the car, first suggesting that they put the spare tire on to replace the damaged tire, and then to take the tire off and take it to the mechanic to have it filled up. They manage to remove the wheel, and manage to roll it to the mechanic, only losing control of it once, as well as being spotted by Fred and Ward wheeling it by their office. Fred thinks the boys look like Ward’s, but Ward assures him that they are at home cleaning the garage. Eventually, the get the job done on the wheel as well as the garage, but just before Ward gets home, Eddie calls and asks for Wally. While June is getting him, Ward comes in and picks up the phone, only to hear Eddie spill the beans about the flat. Ward tries to get to the bottom of the situation with Wally, who tells him the truth about the flat. Wally tells Ward he was afraid he’d call them stupid again, so they didn’t want to take that chance. Ward apologizes and says that he would have likely told them it was no big deal and that they’ll deal with it by taking the car in to have the tire fixed. Wally agrees he might have done that, but then again, he might not have… and they didn’t want to take the chance. 10/25/22
• 093. Larry Hides Out – 1/9/1960
  • As Ward works on repairing the kitchen window, Beaver spends the afternoon at Larry’s house. He brings Beaver into Larry’s sister’s room and they go through her diary. When Larry’s mother catches them in the act, she yells at Larry, sends him to his room, and tells him that he’ll really get it when his father returns from Cincinnati. Larry is embarrassed that he was yelled at in front of his friend, so he decides to run away to Mexico. When Mrs. Mondello realizes that Larry has left with his suitcase, she calls Ward to tell him to let her know if he sees him. Meanwhile, Beaver asks if he can dinner in his room so that he can pretend he’s staying in a hotel and ordering room service. Sure enough, Larry is hiding out in the boys’ bathroom. Beaver circumvents the truth by telling his parents that he hasn’t seen him outside. After Beaver feeds Larry with his meal, and Larry offers his complaints about how Mrs. Cleaver doesn’t cook her meatloaf and carrots the way he likes, Beaver goes outside to retrieve Larry’s suitcase so that Wally can pull it up through the bedroom window. Mrs. Mondello stops by the house to tell Ward that Larry still hasn’t been found. While she is speaking to him in the den, they both see Larry’s suitcase going past the window. Ward goes into the bathroom and tells the boys that he is going to run them a steaming hot shower. Larry finally makes himself known, and Ward brings him downstairs to his mother. Mrs. Mondello and Ward speak to Larry, and Ward tells him that he understands how he felt to be yelled at, but that it isn’t right for any boy to worry his loved ones by running away. Larry thinks that Mr. Cleaver really understands kids. Wally and Beaver wait upstairs for their punishment. The boys have to spend the weekend pulling weeds. Wally tells Beaver that their father isn’t being mean to them but giving them a just punishment. Wally realizes that they should have just went to their father and he would have helped them work it out. 2/25/23
• 094. Pet Fair – 1/16/1960
  • Beaver is upset at breakfast because they are going to have a Pet Fair at school the next day, and the kids will all be telling the class what they are bringing in. Ward reminds him that he doesn’t have a pet because he never took care of the others he has had. On the way to school, Beaver and Larry stop by Allen’s Pet Store to take a look at a 40-year-old parrot named Sgt. Burke that knows fifty words and how to sing. At school, when Mrs. Landers goes around the room to find out what animals the kids are bringing, Beaver is embarrassed that he won’t have a pet, so he lies and says he will be bringing a parrot. Beaver and Larry stop by the pet store again and ask Mr. Allen (Tim Graham) how much the parrot is, and they find how that he is $200. When Beaver gets home, he finds out that his father bought him a hamster because he felt bad that Beaver didn’t have a pet. Beaver tells his father that he played a dirty trick on him and runs out of the room. Beaver tells Wally about the situation and tries to think of a way out. He wants to call Miss Landers and tell her that he can’t bring the bird and then have Wally act like the parrot on the phone. Wally decides to tell his parents about the predicament that Beaver is in. Ward maintains that there’s nothing he can do about it, but June insists that he do something to help Beaver out of the situation. Ward goes to see Mr. Allen at 9pm and offers to rent the parrot for the day for $10. The kids have a successful Pet Fair, but it is Beaver who wins the first prize for Sgt. Burke. After all of the kids leave, Beaver confesses to Miss Landers that he doesn’t really own the parrot and that he made the story up the day before. She tells him how fortunate he is that Beaver has such an understanding father, but cautions him not to expect his father to always bail him out when he tells a lie. That night Beaver asks Ward why he went along with Beaver’s lie, and Ward tells him that sometimes a parent loves their child so much that they’ll do anything to keep them from being hurt, even if it makes a mistake. Patty Turner is Alice. 2/25/23
• 095. Wally’s Test – 1/23/1960
  • Wally has plans to go hang out at Mary Ellen Rogers’ house with his friends, but Ward reminds him that he has a History test coming up. Wally agrees to spend his Saturday studying, while Eddie and Lumpy say that they’ve got it covered. Eddie’s plan is to put all of the answers to the test on the paper towels in the boys’ restroom at school. Then during the middle of the test, they’ll ask to go to the restroom to wash their hands and get the answers. During the test on Monday, Wally actually does spill ink on his hands and asks to go wash them. His teacher Mr. Gannon (Frank Albertson) gives Wally permission to go, and when he pulls out a paper towel, he finds that it says, “To thine own self be true.” Later, Eddie goes to the restroom and finds nothing but blank paper towels. Wally and Lumpy get a 61 and a 52. When they see that Wally got a 92, Eddie and Lumpy assume that Wally took out the answers for himself. In fact, they are so sure, they anonymously tip off Mr. Gannon that Wally had cheated. That night, Mr. Gannon calls Wally at home and tells him that he wants to see him before school starts. Wally is nervous to talk to him, but Mr. Gannon merely shows him the note that Eddie and Lumpy wrote about him. Gannon knows that Wally likely didn’t try and cheat since he got such a good grade and that he doesn’t seem like that type of fellow. Gannon tells Wally that he suspects that it is Eddie Haskell, but Wally doesn’t think Eddie would do such a thing… until he sees the handwriting. Wally tells his father about the situation and that he wants to beat him up. Ward suggests that beating him up won’t change him, and that it will take Eddie waking up one day and realizing that he doesn’t like himself. Eddie then shows up at the house and apologizes the best that he can. He admits that he felt bad by himself, and that Gannon didn’t send him over. Eddie asks him if he wants to hang out and Wally says that he has to study. Eddie says he might try studying himself. The next day in school, Eddie actually stands up and answers a question. Carol Sydes is classmate Nita Norton. 8/4/23
• 096. Beaver’s Library Book – 1/30/1960
  • Beaver is assigned to read a book for a school book report in, so Ward suggests that he try out Treasure Island. Ward can’t find the book in his den, so he gives Beaver his library card and tells him to stop at the library after school and check it out. Beaver finds it, checks it out, and reads it as planned. The librarian (Claudia Bryar) reminds him to return it on time or else there will be a five-cent per-day fine. Four days later, Beaver writes his book report on the book, but it is very short because Beaver lost the book after only reading 30 pages. A couple of weeks later, Eddie comes over and snoops through Beaver’s drawer and finds several overdue notices indicating that he now owes $1.00 after the book is now 20 days overdue. Eddie tells Beaver and Larry that since the book is in his father’s named that Ward could be arrested and thrown in jail. Beaver and Larry go into the library to speak to the head librarian Mr. Davenport (Theodore Newton) to request that he not put his father in jail. Davenport has Beaver explain the situation to him and assures him that they would never put his father in jail. However, he tells him that the book will need to be replaced and that he should tell his father about the situation. Ward gets notified about the book by Mr. Davenport, while Beaver writes his father an apology letter, which Wally tells him sounds like it’s not spontaneous. Beaver faces his father, who tells him that he should have come to him earlier. He reminds him that one lie always leads to another, and no one is smart enough to keep up with a lot of lies. Later, Beaver tells Wally that he found the library book in Larry’s locker at school while cleaning out the food in his locker. 8/4/23
• 097. Wally’s Election – 2/6/1960
  • There is a lot of activity going on at the boys’ schools: Wally is selling space for the school newspaper, Beaver needs a coconut cake for a bake sale, and Wally’s sophomore class is holding elections for class officers, of which Wally says he has no interest. However, once they make their homeroom nominations in Mr. Hyatt’s (Ross Elliott) class, and Lumpy is nominated by Tooey, and it is seconded by Chester, Eddie decides to nominate Wally. He is seconded by a beaming Alma Hanson (Cindy Carol aka Carol Sydes), so he goes along with it reluctantly. When he gets home, he makes it known that he wants no part of being class president. When Fred stops by and tells Ward that Lumpy is also running for class president, he suddenly becomes disappointed that Wally doesn’t plan to put his hat in the ring. Ward has a talk about not sitting idly by while others pass him by in life. He tells Wally to be aggressive, and to approach students in the school and to introduce himself to others and ask for their vote and support. Some of the students talk about how Wally doesn’t sound natural and think it is creepy the way he is approaching people. Tooey, Chester, and Alma talk about how they might vote for Lumpy since they’ve always known he was a creep. Even Ward doesn’t think Wally sounds at his best when he is negotiating with his classmates to get their votes, so it is no surprise to him when he finds out that Wally has lost the election to some guy named The Horse. Ward admits to June that he thinks it might be partially his fault that Wally carried himself the way he did. He goes upstairs to apologize to Wally for giving him a bum steer, but Wally doesn’t blame his father. In fact, he agrees that The Horse is the better man for the job after all. The next day at school, Eddie tries to make Wally feel guilty for losing, but Wally is a gracious winner. Lumpy even congratulates Wally for getting over 50 votes, while he got less than 10. Lumpy says that his father was furious with him for doing so badly, while Wally tells the guys that his father apologized to him and took part of the blame. Eddie and Lumpy can’t believe that any father would behave that way. Anne Barnes is Frances Hobbs. Dennison Kerlee is the tall sophomore boy. 12/2/23
• 098. Beaver and Andy – 2/13/1960
  • Beaver encounters a man named Andy Hadlock (Wendell Holmes) hanging around outside the house, and he tells Beaver that he gave Beaver’s parents a silver dollar when Beaver was born. When June hears he is there at the house, she seems concerned that Ward is going to get involved with him again. It turns out that he did odd jobs for the Cleavers at their old house, but they had to sever ties with him because he had a drinking problem. Ward has a chat with him and reluctantly hires him to do some painting at the house, verifying with him that he no longer has an issue with drinking. June is particularly concerned that Beaver is not exposed to any drinking, and they make sure that he doesn’t know about the drinking problem. Andy seems to be doing a good job, with the added bonus of regaling Beaver with stories of his time as a sailor during World War 1. At one point, Beaver tells Andy that he’s heard his parents talking about him having a problem, but Beaver lets him know that he doesn’t see any problems. This prompts Andy to pour out his bottle of whiskey. Beaver winds up finding the bottle in the bushes and asks Wally about it. All Wally can say is that he knows that adults drink it at parties to make them feel good. One afternoon while Beaver is home alone, Andy asks Beaver to get him a drink because he is feeling shaky. Beaver says his parents don’t have whiskey, but his father has a bottle of brandy that he got from his Uncle Billy. Ward later talks to Andy on the phone, and Ward tells him that he will get someone else to finish the painting. He later talks to June about how Andy fell off the ladder after getting drunk. June doesn’t want Wally to tell Beaver about the incident. However, Beaver presses Wally for information, and Wally can’t help but tell him. When Beaver brings this up at the dinner table, Ward finally reveals the whole story. Ward says he believes that Andy would have been fine had someone not sold him the alcohol. Beaver then reveals that he is the one who gave Andy the whiskey. Ward gets upset and says that this is the worst thing he could have done, but then realizes that he never told Beaver that Andy has trouble with alcohol, so there is no way he would have known what to do. The next day, Andy runs into Beaver and apologizes for everything, telling him that it is always the people who care about him that he ends up hurting. Andy tells Beaver to tell his father that he will be back to finish up the painting. 12/2/23
• 099. Beaver’s Dance – 2/20/1960
  • Beaver gets an invitation to join in the Mayfield Cotillion Dances, where he can wear his blue suit and his white gloves and learn the finer points of ballroom dancing under the tutelage of Mrs. Prescott (Katherine Warren). Wally is sure that Beaver will balk when it is mentioned to him, and Ward isn’t too sure if Beaver will agree to go, but June is hellbent on sending him. That night at dinner, they broach the topic with Beaver, who is so adamantly against the idea that he says they can do anything they want to him, but that he is not going. June tells him that Larry is going and offers to let him call Larry and ask him, but Ward puts his foot down and tells him in no uncertain terms that he is going to go to the dances. That weekend, Beaver and Larry go to the dancing school together, and Beaver is even more embarrassed than the other boys, when all of them get paired off with other little girls, while Beaver is forced to ask Mrs. Prescott to dance. After the dance, Beaver tells Larry that he is never coming back, and they both take a vow that this will be their last dance. The next week, Beaver puts up a fuss to June about putting on his suit, but when she sends Ward up, Beaver is already in the process of putting it on. Larry comes over again to meet Beaver, but this time instead of going to class, they go hang out at the Anderson barn and eat the bologna sandwiches that Larry has in his pocket. While they are eating, a little tomboy cowgirl (Karen Sue Trent) rides up on her horse Whiskers. She offers to let the boys ride on it too, so they both climb up and go for a ride. That afternoon they come home filthy, so they are both questioned about where they were. Beaver admits to his parents that they met a kid and rode on ‘his’ horse and skipped dancing school. Ward tells them that they were disobedient and that he is ashamed and disappointed. He sends Beaver up to get a good cleaning by Wally. Later, Beaver and Larry discuss how they were let off pretty easy, outside of the baths they were forced to take. The agree to finish out dancing school. Beaver expresses interest in seeing the girl again, but Larry says that things will be different and that they would have a hard time living up to how fun it was the first time. Ward is supposed to clean the fireplace, but he gets Wally to do it. 4/10/24
• 100. Larry’s Club – 2/27/1960
  • Larry is trying to get ahold of Beaver, but he is nowhere to be found because he is being initiated into a secret club called the Bloody Fives with his friend Whitey, Harold (Neil Seflinger), and two other boys (Bobby Beakman, Gary Allen). Harold insists that Larry is ‘not neat enough’ to join the club, and although Beaver is upset about it, he agrees to go along with it. Meanwhile, Larry is stewing about the situation and is bitter toward Beaver for joining the club that won’t have him. Larry’s mother tries to intervene, but Larry stop her. Instead, Larry goes over to Beaver’s house wearing a paper bag on his head. He tells Beaver that he has to hide under the bag in case of spies. He also shows Beaver his secret skull armband that represents the new club that he is in called The Fiends. He tells Beaver that he can’t tell him much about it or reveal the membership, but that it is mostly older fifth grade boys and that they show movies and hold meetings at midnight in the graveyard. He says there will be an upcoming meeting in his basement. Beaver expresses interest in the club, but Larry tells him that he can’t join since he is in the Bloody Fives. Beaver thinks it sounds like the neatest club he’s ever heard of, so he drafts a resignation letter to the Bloody Fives. When they read the letter, they tell him that he is a creep and forbid all of their membership from associating with him. Beaver tells Larry that he’s not longer in the Bloody Fives and wants to get into The Fiends. Larry puts him off and tells him that The Fiends may not want him, but Beaver insists that he introduce him to the members. Larry takes him to his basement and makes Beaver wear a bag over his head so that he cannot see the membership. Larry has ‘the club’ vote on his membership and they vote to let him into The Fiends. Beaver then takes off his mask so he can see them but finds an empty basement. He is furious with Larry for lying to him about the club, which convinced him to quit the Bloody Fives. When Ward and June get wind of the fight between Beaver and Larry, they ask Wally what is going on, so he tells them about the clubs. Ward and June agree that they don’t like Beaver joining clubs that keep other out. Ward tells Beaver a story about a French community that started putting up castles for certain group in order to keep others out. Then when they faced a common enemy, they were all individually unable to defend themselves from the enemy. Beaver understands that the castles were an allegory for the club and understands why it is not right to keep other out. Beaver tells Wally that he and Larry will be alright, and it won’t be necessary to apologize. Wally is disappointed because he is hanging around a guy named Marty who has a sister that Wally likes, and when he and Marty go to the movies, Marty doesn’t bring her. 4/10/24

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