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The Best Episodes of Dennis the Menace

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The Best Episodes of Dennis the Menace

This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but...

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  1. 8.9/10(61 votes)

    #1 - The Fifty-Thousandth Customer

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    S3:E7

    Mr. Finch is having a contest that when the fifty-thousandth customer walks in his store they will win 5 minutes of free shopping of which Mr. Wilson is determined to be the one who wins.

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  2. 8.7/10(41 votes)

    #2 - Trouble from Mars

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    S3:E1

    Mr. Wilson accidentlly gets a space helmet that belongs to Dennis stuck on his head.

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  3. 8.7/10(46 votes)

    #3 - Calling All Bird Lovers

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    S3:E15

    Mr. Wilson holds a bird lovers session at his home Where a woman does bird calls that sounds just like a bird.

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  4. 8.5/10(44 votes)

    #4 - Mr. Wilson's Inheritance

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    S3:E9

    Mr. Wilson wants to represent Scotland for Dennis' School

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  5. 8.5/10(41 votes)

    #5 - The Lucky Piece

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    S3:E11

    Mr. Wilson tricks Dennis into taking a silver coin that says GOOD LUCK and a horseshoe on it instead of 50 cents that he owes him for cutting his lawn. Mrs. Wilson is very angry with him about it. So, she and Alice start a scheme of their own by making lucky things happen to Dennis all day. Mr. Wilson soon starts to believe that the coin was lucky after all and is sorry he ever let it go. He then realizes that it was all a charade to teach him a lesson.

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  6. 8.5/10(52 votes)

    #6 - The Fifteen Foot Christmas Tree

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    S3:E12

    Dennis, Henry and Mr. Wilson go out in the woods and cut down a big Christmas tree which ends up getting almost destroyed by the time they get it home.

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  8. 8.5/10(46 votes)

    #7 - The Man Next Door

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    S3:E30

    Mr. Wilson thinks his next door neighbor is the stocking bandit and tries to prove it.

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  9. 8.4/10(36 votes)

    #8 - Keep Off the Grass

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    S3:E3

    Henry gets a ticket for walking on the grass in the park. When Mr. Wilson hears about it he thinks it isn't fair, So he convinces Henry to go to court and contest it.

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  10. 8.4/10(41 votes)

    #9 - Where There's a Will

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    S3:E19

    Mr. Wilson gives Dennis a Gold watch in his will. Soon after that Mr. Wilson begins to feel old and is convinced that he has short time to live.

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  11. 8.3/10(40 votes)

    #10 - The School Play

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    S3:E6

    Dennis' school is putting on a play which Mr. Wilson ends up being in (not by choice) because him and Tommy (who is also in the play) get handcuffed together before the play starts.

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  12. 8.3/10(39 votes)

    #11 - Horseless Carriage Club

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    S3:E26

    Mr. Wilson takes Dennis and his friends up to the lake and back in an old car. Mr. Wilson then gets elected president of the Horseless Carriage Club.

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  13. 8.2/10(34 votes)

    #12 - Best Neighbor

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    S3:E2

    Dennis and Mr. Wilson camp out on a moutain so that Dennis can join the Junior Pathfinders club.

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  14. 8.2/10(35 votes)

    #13 - Dennis and the Pee Wee League

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    S3:E8

    Mr. Wilson coaches Dennis' Pee Wee League baseball team because Dennis' dad (who originally was the coach) got sick.

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  15. 8.2/10(36 votes)

    #14 - Dennis Is a Genius

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    S3:E10

    The school test scores mistake Dennis as a genius.

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  16. 8.2/10(36 votes)

    #15 - Through Thick and Thin

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    S3:E14

    Dennis' cub scouts are putting on a circus of which Mr. Wilson is the Lion in the circus, which is suppose to be a secret from everyone.

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  17. 8.2/10(40 votes)

    #16 - Silence Is Golden

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    S3:E16

    Mr. Wilson agrees to give Dennis his magnifying glass if he doesn't talk around him for the day.

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  18. 8.2/10(36 votes)

    #17 - A Quiet Evening

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    S3:E21

    Mr. Wilson plans to have a quiet evening at home, but his plans change when Henry needs a sitter for Dennis.

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  19. 8.1/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Mr. Wilson's Safe

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    S3:E4

    Dennis is using numbers for a football play which is the combination to Mr. Wilson's safe, So Mr. Wilson and Henry get Dennis so confused that he forgets the combination. Then Mr. Wilson forgets it. Now they are in a real mess because Mr. Wilson has something very important locked in the safe. So Mr. Wilson tries everything including trying to hypnotize Dennis so he can remember the combination. He ends up hypnotizing himself and remembers the combination at last.

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  20. 8.1/10(38 votes)

    #19 - The Private Eye

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    S3:E22

    Mr. Wilson gets his wallet taken by a pick pocket, So Dennis and Tommy try to find the crook for the police.

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  21. 8.0/10(50 votes)

    #20 - Haunted House

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    S3:E5

    Mr. Wilson and Henry both invest in a house that is known to be a haunted house.

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  22. 8.0/10(44 votes)

    #21 - Dennis' Bank Account

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    S3:E13

    Dennis opens a bank account at the bank of where Mr. Wilson works at and causes a lot of chaos at the bank.

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  23. 8.0/10(34 votes)

    #22 - Mr. Wilson's Uncle

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    S3:E20

    Mr. Wilson's Uncle comes to visit him and convinces him that he isn't in shape, so he starts a physical fitness program and forces Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Wilson to be in it.

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  24. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Junior Astronaut

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    S4:E15

    Dennis' School has a contest that any student who collects the most stamps wins a trip to Cape Canaveral and meet an Astronaut. Unfortunately, Dennis comes down with the chicken pox right when he is about to win.

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  25. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Big Basketball Game

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    S4:E21

    Dennis and his friends help a boy who is poor and feels that he doesn't fit in prepare for and play in the school basketball game.

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  26. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - My Four Boys

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    S4:E24

    Mr. Wilson enters a contest that requires having children, so he passes Dennis and his friends off as his kids.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Fifty-Thousandth Customer" is the best rated episode of "Dennis the Menace". It scored 8.9/10 based on 61 votes. Directed by James Goldstone and written by N/A, it aired on 11/12/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Trouble from Mars".