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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. Background image for The Fifty-Thousandth Customer
    8.9/10(64 votes)

    #1 - The Fifty-Thousandth Customer

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Christmas Horse
    8.7/10(55 votes)

    #2 - The Christmas Horse

    S2:E12

    Dennis is determined to get a horse for Christmas, So on Christmas day he goes around the neighborhood trying to find what he thinks is his horse.

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  3. Background image for Trouble from Mars
    8.7/10(45 votes)

    #3 - Trouble from Mars

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Calling All Bird Lovers
    8.7/10(48 votes)

    #4 - Calling All Bird Lovers

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Dennis, the Campaign Manager
    8.5/10(37 votes)

    #5 - Dennis, the Campaign Manager

    S2:E15

    Dennis convinces Mr. Wilson to run for park commissioner because the playgroung is closed except on weekends.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Dennis Goes to Camp
    8.5/10(41 votes)

    #6 - Dennis Goes to Camp

    S2:E21

    Mr. Wilson takes Dennis and his friends to a camp to visit for a day and end up getting stranded there for a week because a bridge went out due to a storm.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Dennis' Newspaper
    8.5/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Dennis' Newspaper

    S2:E33

    Dennis overhears Mr. Wilson saying that he wishes he had his racoon coat back, so he gives the story to the newspaper and so all day people are bringing Mr. Wilson racoon coats.

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    Director:Unknown
  9. Background image for Mr. Wilson's Inheritance
    8.5/10(45 votes)

    #8 - Mr. Wilson's Inheritance

    S3:E9

    Mr. Wilson wants to represent Scotland for Dennis' School

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  10. Background image for The Lucky Piece
    8.5/10(42 votes)

    #9 - The Lucky Piece

    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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  11. Background image for The Fifteen Foot Christmas Tree
    8.5/10(53 votes)

    #10 - The Fifteen Foot Christmas Tree

    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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  12. Background image for The Man Next Door
    8.5/10(48 votes)

    #11 - The Man Next Door

    S3:E30

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

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    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Dennis and the Signpost
    8.4/10(112 votes)

    #12 - Dennis and the Signpost

    S1:E2

    Dennis replaces a fallen signpost... backwards.

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    8.4/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Pythias Was a Piker

    S2:E17

    Dennis writes a composition for school on his best friend and he chooses Mr. Wilson to write about.

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    8.4/10(38 votes)

    #14 - Dennis and the Miracle Plant Food

    S2:E32

    Dennis accidently steps on one of Mr. Wilson's plants and so he buys him a replacement and plants it in Mr. Wilson's flower bed. When Mr. Wilson sees it, he is convinced that his new miracle plant food that he invented works like a miracle.

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    Director:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Keep Off the Grass
    8.4/10(37 votes)

    #15 - Keep Off the Grass

    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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  17. Background image for Where There's a Will
    8.4/10(41 votes)

    #16 - Where There's a Will

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Background image for The Raffle Ticket
    8.3/10(37 votes)

    #17 - The Raffle Ticket

    S2:E11

    Dennis gets an electric car for his mom from the lady who won the Raffle.

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  19. Background image for Miss Cathcart's Friend
    8.3/10(47 votes)

    #18 - Miss Cathcart's Friend

    S2:E16

    Dennis attempts to find Miss. Cathcart a best friend, so he gets her a dog from the pound. However the dog's owner is looking for him and ends up showing up at Miss. Cathcart's house before Dennis brings the dog over to Miss. Cathcart. So she mistakenly thinks that the guy is the friend instead of the dog.

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  20. Background image for Dennis' Tool Chest
    8.3/10(37 votes)

    #19 - Dennis' Tool Chest

    S2:E22

    Miss Cathcart's cat is accidentally locked in the trunk of Mr. Wilson's car.

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  21. Background image for Woodman, Spare That Tree
    8.3/10(32 votes)

    #20 - Woodman, Spare That Tree

    S2:E28

    Mr. Wilson has a hundred doller bill which he drops and a crow picks it up and flies away with it. He later finds it in an old tree in a park which the park commissioner is going to cut down, So Mr. Wilson climbs the tree to get his hundred doller bill and to also save the tree from being cut down.

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  22. Background image for The Boy Wonder
    8.3/10(42 votes)

    #21 - The Boy Wonder

    S2:E29

    Mr. Wilson builds a barbecue in his backyard with help from Dennis' friend, Fred Bains.

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  23. Background image for The Soapbox Derby
    8.3/10(36 votes)

    #22 - The Soapbox Derby

    S2:E30

    Dennis enters a soapbox derby and Mr. Wilson accidently ends up being the one driving it in the race.

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  24. Background image for Dennis and the Camera
    8.3/10(36 votes)

    #23 - Dennis and the Camera

    S2:E31

    Mr. Wilson is supposed to take a picture of a plant that bloomes at night but ends up dozing off when it bloomes, So Dennis takes the picture of the plant for him.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.3/10(40 votes)

    #24 - The School Play

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Horseless Carriage Club
    8.3/10(40 votes)

    #25 - Horseless Carriage Club

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Fifty-Thousandth Customer" is the best rated episode of "Dennis the Menace". It scored 8.9/10 based on 64 votes. Directed by James Goldstone and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/12/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Christmas Horse".