Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver

1957
Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver

7.6 | TV-G | en | Comedy

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

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EP39  Family Scrapbook
Jun. 20,1963
Family Scrapbook

While cleaning, June runs across an old family scrapbook and gathers the family together to reminisce about the past six years. The Cleavers recall scenes from previous episodes including: Beaver Gets 'Spelled, New Neighbors, My Brother's Girl, The Shave, Beaver Runs Away, Larry Hides Out, Teacher Comes to Dinner, and Wally's Election.

EP38  The Clothing Drive
Jun. 13,1963
The Clothing Drive

Beaver's school is having a clothing drive and whoever brings in the most clothes is awarded 1000 school points. June, Ward and Wally round up all the old clothes they can find and put them in a box. When Beaver picks up the box to take into school, he mistakenly thinks Ward's nearby suits for the dry cleaner are also for the clothes drive.

EP37  Beaver Sees America
Jun. 06,1963
Beaver Sees America

Beaver has the chance to travel around the country for six weeks during the summer and he's all excited about it. However, he quickly realizes when he's gone Gilbert will go after the girl Beaver has a crush on, Mary Margaret. Fortunately, he quickly realizes there's more to life than Mary Margaret.

EP36  The All-Night Party
May. 30,1963
The All-Night Party

After graduation, an all-night party is set to begin, which has June and Ward very wary. They aren't sure if they should allow Wally to attend. Meanwhile, Wally's date for the party has the same problem. This leads her to invite Wally to meet her folks and put their worries to rest.

EP35  Wally's Practical Joke
May. 23,1963
Wally's Practical Joke

Wally and Eddie fall prey to Lumpy's practical joking after he plants cherry bombs under the hoods of Eddie's car and Wally's car. Both Eddie and Wally want to get him back but their plan goes awry when they destroy Lumpy's car after chaining it to a tree. All fingers point to Wally after Fred finds that the chain has Ward's name printed on it.

EP34  Beaver's Graduation
May. 16,1963
Beaver's Graduation

It's come down to the final week before junior high school graduation and Beaver is having a ball and even skips a class with Gilbert. However, Beaver becomes convinced he won't graduate after Gilbert and him take a peek at the diplomas on Mrs. Rayburn's desk and find Beaver's diploma to be missing.

EP33  Summer in Alaska
May. 09,1963
Summer in Alaska

Eddie is happy to break the news that he plans to spend his summer on a fishing boat in Alaska and this prompts Wally and Lumpy to think about signing up to do the same thing. However, they all get a dose of reality when they discover just what kind of conditions they would be living in.

EP32  Don Juan Beaver
May. 02,1963
Don Juan Beaver

A school dance has Beaver with a major dilemma: he has two girls who ask him to go with them. However, he has a little problem, he accepted the first invitation but now wants out of it when he's asked by the second girl. This leads him to take some of Eddie's poor advice.

EP31  The Poor Loser
Apr. 25,1963
The Poor Loser

Ward is given two tickets to a baseball game and is faced with an impossible decision: should he take Wally or Beaver? Beaver lets him off the hook when he announces he has plans with Gilbert. However, when they fall through, Beaver changes his mind about the game and becomes convinced that because he's the youngest he gets the short stick.

EP30  The Book Report
Apr. 18,1963
The Book Report

Beaver has been assigned to write a book report on The Three Musketeers. However he's waited right down to the wire to get reading and quickly realizes that he'll never get finished. He decides to watch the movie that's going to be on TV and write his book report based on the movie.

EP29  Eddie's Sweater
Apr. 11,1963
Eddie's Sweater

Eddie has been seeing one particular girl, Cindy Andrews and she wants to give Eddie a birthday gift, so she decides to knit a sweater. She uses Wally as a model and he begins spending so much time at Cindy's that he arouses the suspicions of Julie, Eddie, Lumpy, Beaver and his parents.

EP28  Wally and the Fraternity
Apr. 04,1963
Wally and the Fraternity

Wally has his mind pretty much made up about going to Ward's alma mater, State University and he's even considering joining Ward's old fraternity. However, both Eddie and Wally think twice when they hear from a college student that it's the worst fraternity on campus, but Ward has already sent out his letter of recommendation for both of them.

EP27  Beaver's Prep School
Mar. 28,1963
Beaver's Prep School

June and Ward are excited when they learn that Aunt Martha has made arrangements to send Beaver to a prep school in New England. However, Beaver quickly realizes he will miss his friends as they are all entering Mayfield High School next year. This puts Beaver in a delicate position, how to tell Aunt Martha he doesn't want to go without hurting her feelings.

EP26  Uncle Billy's Visit
Mar. 21,1963
Uncle Billy's Visit

June and Ward go away for a couple of days and leave Uncle Billy to stay with Wally and Beaver. Beaver quickly realizes Billy runs a much looser ship than Ward and June and feels as if he can get away with more things. However, he's soon in for a rude awakening when he helps Gilbert sneak into the movies.

EP25  The Silent Treatment
Mar. 14,1963
The Silent Treatment

Beaver is all set to go with Eddie and Wally to hook up an AM/FM car radio in Eddie's car, but June stops him and insists he go to the grocery store to pick up the items as he had promised. This leads Beaver to give June the cold shoulder treatment while playing up to Ward.

EP24  Lumpy's Scholarship
Mar. 07,1963
Lumpy's Scholarship

When Wally is notified that the State College scholarship he applied for went to Lumpy Rutherford instead, he graciously throws a party to celebrate with his friend and secretly helps out after Lumpy gets disappointing news.

EP23  Box Office Attraction
Feb. 28,1963
Box Office Attraction

June and Ward have noticed the Wally has been spending quite a bit of his time at the movie theater but it's not to see the movies. He's been eying the pretty young lady who works in the box office. Thanks to Eddie, Wally works up enough courage to ask her out but quickly sees another side to the young lady that is a bit too mature for Wally's taste.

EP22  Beaver on TV
Feb. 21,1963
Beaver on TV

Beaver comes home with the news that he applied to appear on a local television show called Teen Forum and he has been accepted. Beaver gets out of classes for the taping and all his classmates are treated to being able to watch him on TV during class. However, what Beaver, his friends and family don't know is that the show tapes each episode a week in advance.

EP21  Beaver the Caddy
Feb. 14,1963
Beaver the Caddy

Beaver has gotten a job as a caddy and is quickly running around the golf course chasing balls. However, all innocence is broken when one of the guys Beaver is caddying for cheats in order to win a bet. Soon, Beaver begins wrestling with his conscience over whether or not to tell anyone.

EP20  The Credit Card
Feb. 07,1963
The Credit Card

Eddie agrees to use his new credit card to buy a battery for Wally's car. After Wally pays him back, Eddie uses the cash to buy some clothes. When Eddie's father confronts him about the large bill, he lies and says that Wally didn't pay him back.

EP19  Beaver's Good Deed
Jan. 31,1963
Beaver's Good Deed

Beaver seems to be on a selfish streak after backing out of a babysitting and later not wanting to do a simple favor for Wally. Ward gives Beaver a stern lecture and soon takes Ward's advice when a tramp comes to the door wanting some kindness. Howver, the tramp quickly takes advantage and helps himself to more than a glass of water.

EP18  More Blessed to Give
Jan. 24,1963
More Blessed to Give

Beaver and Gilbert go to a carnival and Beaver surprisingly wins a fourteen caret gold locket in one of the carnival games. Beaver thinks about giving it to June but thanks to Gilbert, Beaver decides to give it to a girl whom he has a crush on. However, soon it becomes apparant that this was a mistake when the girl's parents discover Beaver's gift.

EP17  The Parking Attendants
Jan. 17,1963
The Parking Attendants

The social event of the season, according to Fred Rutherford, is big party that a wealthy family is throwing and he rubs it in due to the fact that June and Ward didn't get an invitation. However, Wally and Eddie will be there after they get jobs parking the guest's cars. However, trouble ensues when Eddie parks Fred's car in a no parking spot and the car gets towed away by the city.

EP16  Wally Buys a Car
Jan. 10,1963
Wally Buys a Car

A friend has a car for sale and Wally is interested, however, Ward and June are, as usual, hesitant about the whole thing. Ward decides to give in to Wally and allow him to buy the used car, with the condition that he inspect it first. Ward quickly finds problems with the car and he helps Wally look elsewhere giving Wally tips on the process of used car shopping.

EP15  The Mustache
Jan. 03,1963
The Mustache

Wally's on-again off-again girlfriend, Julie Foster seems to have thrown him over for a new guy in school who just happens to have a mustache. Wally's ego is bruised when Eddie tells him that Julie thinks he's naive and immature. This is the last straw and Wally decides to grow a mustache, much to the dismay of his family.

EP14  The Party Spoiler
Dec. 27,1962
The Party Spoiler

Wally asks June and Ward if he could have a party and with some prodding, Wally finally gets their permission. June quickly begins the plans and Beaver gets a look at the guest list and quickly finds that he's not invited. For revenge, Beaver decides to sabotage Wally's party with a variety of gags that he bought at a magic shop.

EP13  Beaver's Autobiography
Dec. 20,1962
Beaver's Autobiography

Beaver has been given an assignment in which he must write a autobiography for class but isn't sure about his abilities at writing. So, he convinces a girl, who likes him, to write it for him. When she discovers that he is merely using her, she writes an outrageous life story and hands it in, causing embarassment for Beaver when the teacher reads it in class.

EP12  Beaver, the Hero
Dec. 13,1962
Beaver, the Hero

During one of his football team's games, Beaver is sent in and scores the winning touchdown which results in a picture in the paper. Soon, Beaver finds himself swamped with attention and quickly lets it goes to his head. He begins acting like he's better than everyone and begins to alienate Gilbert, Whitey and Wally.

EP11  Beaver, the Sheep Dog
Dec. 06,1962
Beaver, the Sheep Dog

At school, Beaver gets into an argument with a girl who retaliates by making fun of Beaver's hair, calling him a sheepdog. Incredibly self-concious, Beaver goes out to the store and buys different hairsprays and gels to try to improve his hairdo. He doesn't get the reaction he was expecting when he tries his new hairdo out on his family.

EP10  Wally's Car Accident
Nov. 29,1962
Wally's Car Accident

June and Ward go away for the weekend and Wally asks to borrow Ward's new car to go to a dance. Although hesitant, Ward finally gives in and lets him take it. However, after the dance, Lumpy runs into some car trouble which results in Wally smashing the headlight on the car. Wally is now faced with having it repaired and paying for it himself and trying to find a way to break it gently to Ward.

EP9  Beaver Joins a Record Club
Nov. 22,1962
Beaver Joins a Record Club

Beaver wants to join a record club and asks Ward for the money to join. Fed up with Beaver constantly asking for money, Ward decides to put him on an allowance. However, Beaver is so thrilled with his records he disreguards the bills for them and quickly finds himself swamped with records, a rising bill and not enough allowance to pay for everything.

EP8  Bachelor at Large
Nov. 15,1962
Bachelor at Large

The news that Eddie has moved out of his parent's house and into an apartment of his own has June worried that Wally may be contemplating something similar. However, Wally gets a picture of just how ""happy"" Eddie is being on his own and it makes him think twice.

EP7  Tell It to Ella
Nov. 08,1962
Tell It to Ella

After coming home late on a school night, Ward and June punish him by not allowing him to go anywhere on school nights. Beaver feels the punishment is unfair and when Eddie suggests Beaver write to an advice column but is disappointed with the response.

EP6  Eddie, the Businessman
Nov. 01,1962
Eddie, the Businessman

Wally and Eddie get jobs at the Mayfield Dairy thanks to Ward pulling some strings. They soon unknowingly find themselves involved in a plot started by the foreman and his assistant who are secretly stealing the merchandise. When Ward learns of the plot, he warns Wally who in turn tries to warn Eddie, but Eddie doesn't buy it.

EP5  Double Date
Oct. 25,1962
Double Date

Wally's new girlfriend Carolyn can't go out to the movies on Saturday night because she has to watch her little sister Susan. Carolyn suggests that Beaver take Susan out to the movies and that they all double date. Not wanting to let Wally down, Beaver decides to go along, despite being nervous.

EP4  The Late Edition
Oct. 18,1962
The Late Edition

Beaver has his heart set on taking a swing at being a paper boy again but another kid beats him to it. This leads Beaver to think about using sabatoge to get the new paper boy fired. However, the boy may just do that himself when the service becomes terrible leading Beaver to confront him only to discover he is a she.

EP3  Wally's License
Oct. 11,1962
Wally's License

Now that Wally is 17, he feels it's about time that he get his drivers license. However, June and Ward are a bit apprehensive about the idea of Wally driving but Wally is persitant and finally gets his parents to agree to let him take a drivers class.

EP2  Beaver's Football Award
Oct. 04,1962
Beaver's Football Award

Beaver is scheduled to recieve a football award at a father son dinner being held in the school gym. While talking with his friends, Beaver learns that none of them are planning on wearing a jacket and a tie so when June and Ward insist that he wear one, he adamently refuses.

EP1  Wally's Dinner Date
Sep. 27,1962
Wally's Dinner Date

Wally has been constantly spending his time at Julie Foster's house and June suggests that he's old enough to take her out on a dinner date. Julie suggests a new expensive restaurant called The White Fox. However, during the meal Wally discovers that he forgot his wallet at home.

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7.6 | TV-G | en | Comedy , Family | More Info
Released: 1957-10-04 | Released Producted By: Revue Studios , MCA Television Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

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Cast

Jerry Mathers , Barbara Billingsley , Hugh Beaumont

Director

Harry Ackerman

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Revue Studios , MCA Television

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famelovingboy68 I am only 25, but saw Leave it To Beaver on television about 5 years ago and was already nostalgic and then went on to watch it whenever I could on TV Land. A few months ago when we were back where I grew up in Washington, I showed this to my 16-year old brother and he liked it right away; I started with the final season I bought in Seattle earlier in the trip so he saw him in his older days where his voice had deepened and he had a "funny sounding" voice. These were such episodes as where Wally grew a mustache, and Beaver finds that the paperboy he wants to get back at was really a girl, and Beaver gets ready to tour the USA with his class. He liked the older Beaver better. Ward was rather liberal for the late 1950's and early 1960's. How He is sometimes seen in the kitchen and doing dishes for example and rarely punishes Wally and Theodore. Beaver is his nickname to those who weren't part of the generation. When Beaver drills a hole in the garage with Larry coaxing him into having fun with the drill Ward just gave a stern lecture with no punishment, which still led the 7 or 8 year old Beaver to try and run away. When his father wasn't lenient giving a stern talking to or just passing a wise lesson along, he was maybe just on par with parents who are neither lenient nor strict. The one thing that may have bothered me before is that Hugh Beaumont died before I was even born. Mayfield was one of those towns where the state doesn't seem to be revealed, as the nature of Ward's work was never revealed, he was just seen in his office, often with his bumbling and annoying coworker, Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford's dad. Wally was perhaps the funniest part of the show. The generation gap and placing friends above family what Wally and later the Beaver had to say to their parents was a funny recurring joke on the show ie. " oh, people just sort of goofed around back then"," gee dad I'd feel like a creep having you introduce yourself in front of the class, mom that'd ruin me." Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow's voice's deepened a little early. One thing I didn't like was how much Beaver treated girls as repulsive and how long it took him to get over it, he only knew that adult women were too grown up to be icky in any way, he had an infatuation with his young teachers in season 1 and season 2. Mathers was a cute boy, all the way through the show and didn't lose his charm after his voice deepened. He was a nice and charming teenager. if only there was a kid like that now. Sometimes i might feel like a dork wanting to watch a series that is outdated by nearly 50 years every night, when most people under their mid or late 30's or so haven't even seen Leave it To Beaver, much less make early TV Land era shows part of their lineup. ButI have even got my contemporary slightly older brother to watch Leave it To Beaver. there's way too much to say about this show for one review.
jhrunion Controversial film maker/artist David Lynch shares much in common with LITB. In real life, Lynch's father was a tree surgeon. In one episode of the series, Wally announces he would like to become a tree surgeon.Bugs and/or exterminators are often mentioned on the series. In Lynch's film Blue Velvet,bugs are often presented and one character pretends to be an exterminator. In the big fight episode of the series, one kid states another kid had his ear torn off. In Blue Velvet, a severed ear is featured. Hugh Beaumont played Ward Cleaver. Kyle MacLaughlin played Jeffery Beaumont in Blue Velvet.In real life, David Lynch was an Eagle scout. On the series, Wally and Eddie became scouts, Beav wanted to. On the series, Larry's older sister kept a diary. In another episode, Beav himself kept a diary. In Lynch's television series, Twin Peaks, a character named Laura Palmer also kept a diary. Beav mentions a dead cat in one episode. In the art of David Lynch, dead, decaying animals are some times featured. Wally and the Beav are fascinated by fire in the Shadow Lake episode of the series. Fire is a reoccurring theme to much of Lynch's work. Beav is intrigued by magicians/magic and hypnotism/hypnotists. Magic and magicians are often featured or referred to in the director's work. Dreams are also a reoccurring theme to the director's work. Several times Beav has nightmares. Beav enjoys watching gory horror movies. Director Lynch makes movies filled with grotesque images. Like the works of Lynch, there is more than meets the eye to the series LITB...if you only look beneath the surface. It's a strange world!
fertilecelluloid One of the greatest TV shows ever. As an accurate portrait of two brothers growing up together in a middle class family environment, it was dead-on. Watching The Beaver and Wally's suburban adventures (in re-runs, of course) was like revisiting my own childhood. My brother and I were Wally and The Beaver. Our Dad was more Archie Bunker than Ward Cleaver, and Mom was more Marge Simpson than June, but, to me, "Leave It To Beaver" has a ring of authenticity about it that no other TV series about growing up (with the exception of the brilliant "James At 15") ever had."Beaver" was always about the little dramas that, to a kid, were big dramas. It addressed some heavier social issues, too (alcoholism, theft, homelessness), but it always kept its focus on the boys and their unpredictable suburban world. And that world, for the most part, was a microcosm of the world that lay ahead of them, the world of "adulthood".The characters were gold. Ken Osmond's "Eddie Haskell" is one of the most brilliant creations in TV history, along with "Dr. Smith" and "Thurston Howell III". His grossly sycophantic conversations with Ward and June were hilarious, as was his uncanny ability to avoid responsibility and talk The Beaver into another stupid scheme. "Whitey" (Stanley Fafara) always reminded me of the Fair Weather Friend we've all had, the opportunistic kid who slinked between you and another pal he'd never introduce you to. Frank Bank's "Lumpy" was another gem, a cloddish, awkward bully who had respect for Wally and contempt for "The Beave".If you're coming from a particular perspective, the show is hilarious, charming, moving, scary and comforting. It's about the curiosity in all of us, the insecurity. It''s about our obsessions, lessons only learned through experience, and the importance of family.It's a masterpiece.
Roger Reynolds I have read the other comments about Leave It to Beaver and noticed there was an important aspect about the late fifties that is not brought out by the writers. Several make general reference to the show reflecting its times, but not with anything elaborated on. Watching the show it would be useful to recall what was happening in the world while this show was on. People forget today the fifties were the peak of the cold war. Children in schools were practicing duck and cover air raid drills to get ready for the bombs to start falling. In the movies, a whole new generation of horror films began appearing, many of which were about monsters created by nuclear testing and science meddling where it shouldn't. The other side of this insecurity in the fifties was reflected in the TV shows that showed happy families living in safe town where problems always had a solution. It might be interesting for some viewer to try to study the show by correlating certain episodes to what was in the news at the time the show was being written. Also, by the way, I always liked the show.