Season 1
7.9/10315 votesLoading...Beaver Gets 'Spelled'
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1957
Beaver's teacher, Miss Canfield, sends a note home with Beaver and the other kids convince him that it's news that he's getting kicked out of school. Beaver and Wally take steps to hide the note from Ward and June.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.9/10274 votesLoading...Captain Jack
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1957
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 out.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.9/10240 votesLoading...The Black Eye
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1957
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, Violet Rutherford, the daughter of one of Ward's co-workers.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
8.0/10253 votesLoading...The Haircut
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1957
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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bill Manhoff
7.8/10229 votesLoading...New Neighbors
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1957
The Cleavers have new neighbors, the Donaldsons, 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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.2/10199 votesLoading...Brotherly Love
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1957
June has had it with Wally and Beaver's 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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
8.2/10230 votesLoading...Water, Anyone?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1957
Wally and his friends are trying to earn enough money to buy baseball uniforms. 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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Clifford Goldsmith
7.7/10212 votesLoading...Beaver's Crush
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1957
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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
7.6/10187 votesLoading...The Clubhouse
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1957
Wally and his friends build 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?
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Ben Gershman, Mel Diamond
7.9/10185 votesLoading...Wally's Girl Trouble
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1957
Wally and Beaver dread attending dance school, so when suddenly Wally takes a liking in 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 her.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Ben Gershman, Mel Diamond
8.1/10211 votesLoading...Beaver's Short Pants
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1957
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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.7/10180 votesLoading...The Perfume Salesmen
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1957
Wally and Beaver want to win a fancy film projector. 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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Ben Gershman, Mel Diamond
8.1/10203 votesLoading...Voodoo Magic
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1958
June and Ward make Wally and Beaver promise that they won't go to 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.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Bill Manhoff
7.6/10184 votesLoading...Part Time Genius
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1958
After taking an IQ test, Beaver scores the highest in his class and Mrs. Rayburn suggests that it would be best if Beaver went to a special school where his abilities can be challenged. However, little does anyone know that everything is not as it seems.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
7.8/10195 votesLoading...Party Invitation
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1958
Beaver is invited to Linda Dennison's birthday party and quickly discovers that he is the only boy that she invited. Fearing for his reputation, Beaver tries his best to get out of attending, but June and Ward are insistent, not aware of the situation Beaver's in.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Ben Gershman, Mel Diamond
8.1/10209 votesLoading...Lumpy Rutherford
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1958
The local bully, Lumpy Rutherford, has been picking on Beaver and Wally and, thanks to a story Ward tells them, they decide to play a joke on Lumpy. However, their ploy catches the wrong person—Lumpy's father and Ward's co-worker Fred Rutherford, is caught in the trap.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.6/10173 votesLoading...The Paper Route
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1958
Wally and Beaver want to get brand new bike and they ask Ward for some money. He suggests that they earn the money. This leads Wally and Beaver to get a job delivering papers. Later, while trying to help the boys out, Ward and June inadvertently almost get Wally and Beaver fired.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Fran van Hartesveldt
7.6/10200 votesLoading...Child Care
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1958
After Ward's bragging about Wally and Beaver being responsible, Herb and Janet Wilson assume that it would be all right to leave their 4-year old daughter in Wally and Beaver's care while they go out to a party with Ward and June. Trouble begins when the youngster locks herself in the bathroom.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
8.6/10232 votesLoading...The Bank Account
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1958
Ward tries to teach Wally and Beaver the importance of saving by giving them a piggy bank. The boys quickly save up a handful of change and are all ready to spend it on some baseball equipment. However, unknown to their parents, they change their minds and decide to spend the money on a most unselfish gift.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Phil Leslie
7.2/10170 votesLoading...Lonesome Beaver
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1958
Wally goes away on a trip with the Boy Scout troop that he belongs to, leaving a lonesome Beaver behind. Finding his friends to be busy, Beaver takes up other means to make the time go by.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.1/10160 votesLoading...Cleaning Up Beaver
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1958
Wally begins to outgrow his "sloppy" faze and becomes much neater. This is noticed by Ward and June who try to encourage Beaver to undergo the same transformation. However, Beaver changing like that just seems too extraordinary of a task.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Bill Manhoff
7.5/10165 votesLoading...The Perfect Father
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1958
Ward becomes a bit jealous when Wally and Beaver begin spending time playing basketball at Willie Dennison's house after Willie's dad put up a backboard and a basket. This prompts Ward to do the same thing but it just seems like things are working against him being the perfect father.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
7.7/10185 votesLoading...Beaver and Poncho
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1958
Beaver makes a trade with Larry Mondello: a glass doorknob for a Chihuahua. Larry found the dog in his garbage can, so when Beaver brings it home, Ward immediately breaks the news that he's going to place an ad in the lost and found and that Beaver probably won't be able to keep the dog. Despite this, Beaver quickly begins to grow close to the little pooch.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
8.2/10176 votesLoading...The State vs. Beaver
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/26/1958
Ward helps Beaver and Wally build a miniature race car powered by a lawn mower motor and Ward makes the boys promise not to use it without him being with them. Later, Larry talks Beaver into taking it for a spin resulting in being pulled over by a traffic officer.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.8/10166 votesLoading...The Broken Window
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/2/1958
While playing baseball in the street with Wally, Chester and Tooey, Eddie hits a baseball through the Cleaver's window resulting in Ward forbidding the boys to play baseball so close to the house. However, later, Beaver talks Wally into pitching one, but this results in a broken car window.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
8.1/10178 votesLoading...Train Trip
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/9/1958
After a week long visit with their Aunt Martha, Wally and Beaver prepare to head home to Mayfield on a train. After talking Martha into letting them buy their own tickets, they discover they're short the money after spending it on junk food and find themselves wondering how they are going to get home.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
8.0/10188 votesLoading...My Brother's Girl
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/16/1958
An eighth grade dance has Wally being pressured into attending with a girl, instead of going stag with Eddie. However, Mary Ellen Rogers becomes determined to have Wally take her and goes through Beaver to get to him.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
7.3/10149 votesLoading...Next Door Indians
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/23/1958
Wanting to be liked by Wally's friends, Beaver makes up a wild story about the vacant lot next to his house being an Indian battle ground. After making a bet with Eddie, Beaver has Wally help him plant artifacts in the lot. However, that is forgotten when the kids make a discovery that they believe will make them rich.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.5/10159 votesLoading...Tenting Tonight
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/30/1958
After a weekend spent at the movies goes awry for Ward, he decides the boys should spend their weekends outside and plans a camping trip. However, when Ward's called into work, Wally and Beaver decide to camp out in the backyard.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
7.6/10149 votesLoading...Music Lesson
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/7/1958
Wally makes the baseball team and Ward openly shows how proud he is of him, leaving Beaver feeling inferior. Trying to impress his parents, Beaver tries out for the band and begins practicing the clarinet. However, Beaver soon finds himself with more problems when he's let go from the band.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A
7.2/10153 votesLoading...New Doctor
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/14/1958
June has Wally stay home from school when he comes down with a sore throat and suddenly Wally is emersed in attention from his parents, friends and doctor. Jealous and feeling left out, Beaver fakes illness, seeking that same attention.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.9/10151 votesLoading...Beaver's Old Friend
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/21/1958
Wally and Beaver are helping Ward clean out the garage when they run across Beaver's old teddy bear, Billy. Beaver reluctantly throws him away after Ward and Wally tell him he's too old for dolls. However, Beaver changes his mind but he's too late, the garbage truck came, which leads Beaver to take drastic measures to get him back.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Roland MacLane, Dick Conway
7.2/10149 votesLoading...Wally's Job
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/28/1958
Wally jumps at the chance to paint a couple of garbage cans for Ward, who offers 50 cents a piece. However, once Eddie tells Wally, that his father was charged $3.00 to have his painted, he becomes disinterested in the job which is when Beaver steps in and takes over the job.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.7/10162 votesLoading...Beaver's Bad Day
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/4/1958
An incident at the park leads to Beaver ripping the pants on his gray flannel suit. When he's questioned by Ward and June he makes up a wild story that his parents quickly see through. Lectured in telling the truth, Beaver does just that when the pants of his other suit are ripped but Ward and June don't believe him.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, John Whedon
7.1/10161 votesLoading...Boarding School
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/11/1958
An old friend of Wally's stops by with stories about how great it is at the military school he attends. This leads Wally to decide that he would like to attend military school, despite a wary Ward and June.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Dick Conway, Roland MacLane
7.6/10152 votesLoading...Beaver and Henry
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/18/1958
An animal is chewing up June's flower bed, so Ward and the boys set a trap to catch it. They soon catch a white rabbit whom Beaver talks Ward and June into keeping. Beaver names him Henry only to later discover Henry is really a Henrietta and she's expecting.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.8/10165 votesLoading...Beaver Runs Away
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/25/1958
Larry gets Beaver into trouble when he goads Beaver into trying out Ward's drill and in the end there are two holes in the garage wall. Ward hits the roof and scolds Beaver who in turn decides to run away.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.7/10150 votesLoading...Beaver's Guest
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 7/2/1958
Beaver is all excited to have his friend, Larry Mondello, stay over for the weekend. However, things start off on the wrong foot when Beaver and Larry get into a fight ending with Beaver punching Larry in the stomach.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly
7.4/10151 votesLoading...Cat Out of the Bag
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/16/1958
The neighbors are going away for the weekend and Beaver and Wally have been put in charge of taking care of their lawn and their cat, Puff Puff. When Eddie shows up with his dog, Wolf, chaos erupts and Wolf chases Puff Puff away.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: N/A