Leave it to Beaver Season #1
LEAVE
IT TO BEAVER
SEASON
#1
EPISODE
#0: IT’S A SMALL WORLD – Beaver learns he can win a new bike if he collects 1,000
milk bottle caps, so he and Wally set out to win the prize. Unbeknownst to
them, the contest is phony, made up by Wally’s friend as a joke. Sneaky Frankie
Bennett tells Beaver that he can win a new bicycle by entering a popular
television show’s Franklin Milk bottle cap contest; but Beaver and big brother
Wally, cause quite a commotion at the milk company’s office when no one there
seems to know anything about a contest after the boys show up to clam their
prize pulling a wagon loaded with a thousand bottle caps.
EPISODE
#1: BEAVER GETS ‘SPELLED’ – Beaver is afraid of bad news after Miss Canfield
hands him a note to take home to his parents. Beaver expects the worst when
teacher Miss Canfield sends him home with a sealed note for his parents. Beaver’s
teacher, Miss Canfield, sends a note home with Beaver and the other kids
convince him that It’s news that’s getting kicked out of school. So Beaver and
Wally take steps to hide the note from Ward and June. Beaver now in the second
grade, receives a note from his new teacher, Miss Canfield, who is new to
teaching the second grade, to take home to his parents. His friends convince
him that a note from a teacher can only mean something bad and further convince
him that something is that he going to be expelled. He is further convinced
after talking to his brother, eighth grade Wally. Scared, Beaver does whatever
he can to lose the note, but still convince Miss Canfield that there is good
reason why he hasn’t given the note to his parents. Wally tries to help Beaver
deal with the matter. Beaver’s made up story to Miss Canfield plus Wally’s
action lead to a series of misunderstandings, which in turn leads to Beaver
taking what he believes is the last gasp measure not to be punished for being
expelled.
EPISODE
#2: CAPTAIN JACK – Beaver and Wally send away for a genuine alligator. Beaver
and Wally send away for an alligator and they secretly keep it in the bathroom.
When the alligator falls ill, the boys get some advice from Captain Jack, an
owner of an alligator farm. However, keeping him a secret is going to be hard,
the alligator is growing and they need a new place to keep him without June and
Ward finding outing. Wally and Beaver secretly order a Florida Florida
EPISODE
#3: THE BLACK EYE – Beaver tries to hide a black eye, with Wally’s help, from
their parents. Beaver comes home with a black eye and Ward is upset when he
learns that Beaver didn’t fight back. This leads Ward to teach Beaver how to
defend himself. Little does Ward know, that the person who punched Beaver is a
girl not to mention she’s Violet Rutherford, the daughter of one of Ward’s
coworkers. After going head to heard with coworker Fred Rutherford over a
business deal, Ward comes home at the end of the day to find Beaver with a
black eye. Concerned when Beaver says he ran away from the kid who hit him,
Ward gives him tips on self defense and tells Beaver to go confront the boy;
but Ward doesn’t know that the “boy” who punched Beaver was Fred’s daughter,
Violet Rutherford! June notices that some of her makeup is missing. She and
Ward soon find out that Wally and Beaver took it to cover Beaver’s black eye,
which he sustained in a fight. The boys didn’t want their parents to know about
the black eye fearing Beaver being punished. Ward isn’t concerned about the black
eye itself, but the fact that Beaver, who didn’t initiate the fight, didn’t
fight back but rather ran away from the situation. Against June’s wishes, what
Ward does is teach Beaver how to fight, not in order to pick fights but defend
himself if provoked and show his adversary that he shouldn’t pick fights with
Beaver again. After the fighting lesson, Ward learns that his advice to Beaver
may not have been the most appropriate to deal with this specific situation. By
that time, it may be too late as Beaver marches off to use his new found
fighting skills on hid adversary. In the end, Beaver unwittingly teaches Ward
that children have better ways of handling such problems with adults (despite
Beaver not realizing so himself).
EPISODE
#4: THE HAIRCUT – Beaver loses the money he was given for a haircut. In order
to conceal his carelessness from his parents, he gives himself a haircut with
disastrous results. After losing his lunch money for three days in a row, Ward
gives Beaver one last chance by letting him handle his haircut money. However,
when he loses that too, Beaver decides to give himself a haircut just days
before he’s scheduled to be an angel in a play. When Beaver loses his lunch
money for the umpteenth time in a row, a frustrated Ward yells at his youngest
son about being more careful with money. Ward then gives Beaver $1.75 to get a
haircut. However, when Beaver arrives at the barber shop, that money is gone;
the barber tells Beaver to go home and get the money before he’ll render
services. Afraid of the consequences of losing still more money, Beaver turns
to Wally to give him a haircut (for free). However, Wally botches the job and
shaves the sides of Beaver’s head bald (leaving a Mohawk similar to what Mr. T
would wear years later). Knowing that Ward an June will be asking questions if they
see a bald-headed Beaver, the boys decide to don stocking caps and say they
need wear them all the time (as part of an initiation into a “secret club”).
However, Ward and June suspect the truth that night, after the boys are asleep
and check out Beaver’s head. The next morning, they question the boys about the
haircut; the boys try to bluff at first, but Ward boxes them into a corner and
Beaver lets the truth slip. Ward is very angry and sends the boys to their room
while he tries to decide on a punishment. However, June tells Ward that they need
to go easy on them, since Ward’s earlier reprimand for losing money made the
wrong impression. Ward agrees and decides to show grace and mercy to his sons. June
learns that Beaver has been going without his lunch for three days and she can’t
get him to tell her why. Ward has a man-to-man talk with his young son, and the
truth comes out: he “losted” his lunch money. Ward is angry and informs Beaver
that this had better never happen again. The next day, Beaver goes to get a
haircut at the barber: June wants him to look his best when he plays an angel
in the school play. Ward gives him the money; Beaver loses the money. Beaver simply
can’t tell his father that he has done it again. Instead, he tries to give
himself a haircut. Later, he makes Wally complicit in his scheme by asking him
to finish up the job he is clearly botching. Wally only makes the haircut
worse. Now Beaver is nearly bald, with odd tufts of hair sticking out here and there
and a long strip in the middle. His only hope of escaping punishment is to
conceal his head until his hair grows back.
EPISODE
#5: NEW NEIGHBORS – Eddie has Beaver worried about a jealous husband after he
is kissed by the new neighbor Mrs. Donaldson. The Cleavers have new neighbors,
the Donaldson’s and June sends Beaver over to welcome them with a vase of
flowers. However, when Mrs. Donaldson thanks Beaver by kissing him on the
cheek, Beaver becomes convinced that Mr. Donaldson will kill him because he let
a married woman kiss him and it’s all thanks to Eddie Haskell, who planted that
idea in Beaver’s mind. June sends Beaver with a welcome-to-the-neighborhood
bouquet to new next-door neighbor Mrs. Donaldson; but when the little boy is
rewarded with a kiss on the cheek, rascally Eddie Haskell warns that a jealous
Mr. Donaldson will soon show up at Beaver’s door. All in the Cleaver household are
intrigued for various reasons by the family moving into the house next door. They
are the Donaldsons. When Wally says that he can’t since he’s entertaining Eddie
Haskell, Beaver on behalf of the family, offers to take a bouquet of flowers to
the Donaldsons as a welcome to the neighborhood gift. After Mrs. Donaldson
kisses Beaver as a thank you, Eddie and Wally, on Eddie’s urging, can’t resist
telling Beaver that Mr. Donaldson will come after him for kissing his wife. The
Donaldson’s, enthralled with Beaver, decide that he would be the perfect
playmate for their niece, Julie. So when Beaver is invited to their house for a
party and as Eddie and Wally see that Mr. Donaldson has left the house (unknown
to them to pick up Julie), all three boys now truly believe that Beaver is
being set up so that Beaver will be alone with Mrs. Donaldson, while Mr.
Donaldson ultimately rushes in to catch his wife and Beaver together and thus
kill Beaver. Will anyone eventually learn about this misunderstanding?
EPISODE
#6: BROTHERLY LOVE – An argument leads June to have Wally and Beaver sign a
pact to spend weekends together. June has had it with Wally and Beaver fighting
and demands they make a pact to be nice to one another and do things together.
However, when each boy gets an invitation for individual social outings, they
each attempt to break the pact. June makes Wally and Beaver sign a friendship
pact to stop them from fighting and do more things together. But when each boy
is offered a Saturday activity that doesn’t include the other, they find the
pact is not so easy to keep. Wally and Beaver are fighting, about which Ward
seems unphased as he sees it as typical sibling behavior. June, however, wants
them to stop and act more like loving brothers to each other. After she uses a little
psychology to show the brothers that brotherly love is a precious thing, that
psychology which fails, instead makes the boys sign a friendship pact, vowing
that they will stop fighting, be friends and do everything together. Ward
believes she nor anyone else can force two people to be friends. Both brothers
want to honor the pact in spirit, but find it difficult to do so as they are
individually asked by different people to do two different activities at the same
time, which out of circumstance cannot accommodate the other brother. So both
try to make the other break the pact so that they can go off and do their
activity, but both refuse believing the other will squeal to their mother. Will
their outward brotherly love lost or will they both end up resenting the other
for not being able to do what they want?
EPISODE
#7: WATER, ANYONE? – Beaver tries to earn money by selling water to the
neighborhood after finding out the supply will be shut off. Wally and his
friends are trying to earn enough money to buy baseball uniforms so they put a
plan into action by doing their chores at a slow pace in order to maximize
their hourly pay. Meanwhile, Beaver, also wanting to be on the team, begins
selling water to his family and neighbors. Beaver is left out when Ward and the
other neighborhood dads offer to pay Wally and his friends for doing outdoor
chores to help them buy uniforms. But after Beaver finds out that the main
water line will be shut off on a very hot day, he loads up his wagon with full
water buckets and makes his own money… at five cents a cup! Wally asks his
father for close to $4 so that he can buy a uniform for the baseball team he
and his friends Chester Chester
EPISODE
#8: BEAVER’S CRUSH – Beaver develops a serious crush on his second grade
teacher, Miss Canfield. Beaver has a crush on his teacher, Miss Canfield. When
Judy, Whitey and Larry tease him for being a “teacher’s pet”, Beaver tries to
prove them wrong and places a spring snake in her desk. However, Beaver has
second thoughts and becomes determined to remove the snake before she finds it.
Beaver’s crush on his teacher Miss Canfield and teasing by the other kids leads
him to put a spring snake in her desk drawer. When his conscience starts acting
up, he does his best to make sure the snake stays in the desk. Beaver has
developed his first crush on a girl: Miss Canfield, his home room teacher. He
has even been staying after school for the past two weeks to help her with
whatever classroom chores. But the other kids notice his behavior and tease him
about being the teacher’s pet. To stop the kidding and prove he isn’t, he takes
them up on a dare: To place a spring toy snake in her desk drawer. But after he’s
done it, he wishes he hadn’t and does whatever he can to get the snake from out
of her desk drawer with Wally’s help. Some of their ideas include breaking into
the school in the middle of the night, or trying to get it out when Miss
Canfield isn’t in the room all the while preventing her from opening the desk
drawer. But through it all, Beaver feels worst of all for doing anything to
hurt or scare Miss Canfield, or to make her think badly of him.
EPISODE
#9: THE CLUBHOUSE – Beaver tries to earn $3 to join a clubhouse that Wally and
his friends are building. Wally and his friends building a clubhouse and Beaver
wants to join. Although the dues are $1 for 8th graders, Beaver has
to come up with $3 in order to join their club. How can Beaver earn the money? A
rainy day indoors prompts Wally and his friends to build a clubhouse across the
street. When Beaver can only join if he comes up with $3, he decides to hit the
streets with a newfound entrepreneurial spirit. It’s a rainy weekend day, when
all in the Cleaver household are stuck inside figuring how to spend their time.
When Eddie and Tooey come over, the boys’ minds wander. Although it was really
Beaver’s idea, Eddie takes credit for the idea that he, Wally and Tooey build a
clubhouse on the vacant lot across the street. They will charge other eighth
graders $1 to join, but Eddie decides to charge Beaver $3 instead, just because.
As Eddie, Wally and Tooey start building the clubhouse, Beaver starts trying to
get the $3. When Ward refuses to give him the money knowing that Beaver will
not really appreciate it, Beaver, after speaking to June, decides he will try
and raise the money adults do it. Beaver starts his own business based on what
he sees Pete the hobo doing, but Beaver put his own spin on it. As the older
boys’ focus on the clubhouse begins to fade, Beaver shows his mettle by
sticking to his plan. But a further chat with Pete makes Beaver reconsider his
end goal.
EPISODE
#10: WALLY’S GIRL TROUBLE – Beaver feels abandoned by his brother after Wally
gets his first girlfriend. Wally and Beaver dread attending dance school, so
when suddenly Wally takes a liking to it, June and Ward are dumbfounded. It
seems Wally has developed a crush on a girl named Penny and Beaver soon feels
neglected and left out when Wally begins spending all his time with Penny. Although
he can’t understand why any boy would give up fishing to spend time with a
girl, Beaver still tries to help brother Wally make up after a fight with
pretty Penny. For the first time in six months since their parents forced them
to take classes, Wally and Beaver seem actually excited to go to dance school
this day. What their parent’s don’t know is that excitement masks their scheme
to get out of class by Beaver faking spraining his ankle once there and Wally
needing to take him home, while in reality they plan to go fishing instead of
going home until class is supposedly over. But Wally’s excitement about class
turns to being real when he meets Penny Jamison, a new girl in class with who
he has a mutual attraction. Dancing with Penny replaces Wally’s plan to go
fishing with Beaver. Beaver doesn’t quite understand what Wally sees in a girl
compared to going fishing. When Ward and June find out about Penny, they are
afraid that Wally and Beaver’s true brotherly relationship will be sidelined.
As Beaver still sees Wally in that light, he will do anything to help Wally
along, even if it is to impress a girl.
EPIISODE
#11: BEAVER’S SHORT PANTS – A visiting Aunt Martha buys Beaver a unique suit of
clothes and forces him to wear them to school. When June goes on a trip to
visit her sister, Peggy, June’s Aunt Martha steps in and stays with Ward and
the boys. Ward and the boys do their best not to hurt Martha’s feelings but
Beaver has the hardest time, when she buys him a suit, knee socks, a cap and
short pants and makes him wear the outfit to school. Beaver suffers the consequences
when June’s beloved Aunt Martha comes to stay at the Cleavers and sends him to
school dressed in her idea of what a young boy should wear to school… an
old-fashioned suit with short pants and cap. While June is away helping her sister
Peggy with her new baby, June’s Aunt Martha comes to stay with the three
Cleaver males, much to Ward’s chagrin as Aunt Martha even makes him feel like
he’s doing something wrong all the time. Ward and June both believe Aunt Martha’s
ways, old-fashioned, but June doesn’t want Ward undermining her authority
during her stay. The boys even vow to their mom that they won’t make any
trouble for Aunt Martha. Upon seeing him, Aunt Martha believes Beaver – or Theodore
she calls him – doesn’t dress like a little boy should and thus takes him
shopping for what she considers proper clothing: A suit with short pants, long
stockings, bow tie and formal cap. Beaver feels embarrassed wearing his new
clothes and Wally feels embarrassed for him. Beaver isn’t looking forward to
school on Monday, when Aunt Martha wants him to wear his new clothes. At
school, Beaver does whatever he can to prevent the other kids from seeing his
new ensemble, especially the most embarrassing aspect of the shorts. Will Ward
come to Beaver’s rescue against Aunt Martha, who June considers like a mother?
EPISODE
#12: THE PERFUME SALESMEN – To earn money to buy a movie projector, Beaver and
Wally decide to sell perfume. Unfortunately, it has the odor of an old catcher’s
mitt. Wally and Beaver want to win a fancy film projector and in order to get
it they have to sell 24 bottles of perfume. However, the appalling aroma of the
perfume quickly leads to zero sales and has Ward trying to think up a sales
gimmick. Wally and Beaver send for a supply of “Flower of the Orient” perfume
to sell door-to-door, planning to make enough money to buy a movie projector.
But selling the perfume turns out to be harder than they think especially when
everyone agrees that it smells like an old catcher’s mitt! Although Ward and
June know that Wally and Beaver are sending away for something, they don’t know
what that something is and they as trusting parents are not going to ask. What Wally
and Beaver do send away for is a twenty-four bottle supply of Flower of Orient
perfume, which they are supposed to sell for $1 as bottle, their prize for
doing so being a movie projector. As Wally and Beaver go door-to-door trying to
sell the perfume, they hit a roadblock as perfume is a misnomer for the
product, which Beaver describes as smelling like an old baseball glove. As
such, Wally and Beaver put the perfume away hoping their problem will just go
away. When Ward and June learn of the perfume via a letter from the company
lawyer suing the boys for not returning the money or the perfume, Ward
initially plans to help the boys by just sending the perfume back. But he
changes his mind, believing the boys should take more initiative to sell the
perfume, with which he inadvertently states that he will help them. But when he
and June “smell” that the problem may not be the boys but the perfume, Ward
decides to take a slightly different tact, all done in the name of love for his
sons.
EPISODE
#13: VOODOO MAGIC – Wally and Beaver go to a movie called Voodoo Curse despite
against their parents’ wishes. June and Ward make Wally and Beaver promise that
they won’t go t o the movies and see a scary movie. However, Wally and Beaver
are talked into seeing it, thanks to Wally’s so-called best friend, Eddie
Haskell. The movie has quite an influence on Beaver, who makes a voodoo doll,
names it Eddie Haskell and sticks it with pins. Eddie Haskell thinks its funny
when Wally and Beaver are grounded after he tricks them into going to the movie
“Voodoo Curse” even though they promised June that they wouldn’t… until Beaver
gets even by using a little “voodoo magic” on Eddie! Eddie, Wally and Beaver
are going to the movies to watch either “Massacre at Blood River
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