The Best Leave It To Beaver Episodes

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List of the best Leave It to Beaver episodes, as determined by voters like you. This 60's comedy follows the Cleaver family, with "The Beaver" being the nickname of the main character, Theodore Cleaver. With all the amazing episodes of the show that exist, it's hard to trust just one person's opinion of what the top Leave It to Beaver episodes of all time are. Fans of Leave It to Beaver are very passionate about the show, and there are often debates over which episodes are the greatest. That's why this list exists- so you can vote for your favorites and we can find out once and for all what everyone thinks the best episode is.

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  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Four: In The Soup
    1

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Four: In The Soup

    45 votes
    Season 4 Episode 32: To prove there's no soup inside a giant cup on a billboard, Beaver climbs up and accidentally falls in. Unfortunately for Beaver, he's too short to climb back out of the cup!
  • The State vs. Beaver
    2

    The State vs. Beaver

    March 26, 1958
    37 votes
    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.
  • Train Trip
    3

    Train Trip

    April 09, 1958
    34 votes
    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.
  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Six: Wally's Practical Joke
    4

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Six: Wally's Practical Joke

    25 votes
    Season 6 Episode 35: Lumpy puts cherry bombs in Eddie and Wally's cars, and Eddie wants to pay him back. The joke doesn't come off as planned, and Wally and Eddie spend the day fixing the damage to Lumpy's car.
  • Found Money
    5

    Found Money

    June 18, 1959
    33 votes
    Larry invites Beaver to the carnival and tells him that his mother will treat him. However, when Mrs. Mondello refuses to give Larry money, Larry decides to find some. He throws some of his mother's money out the window and when Beaver comes over, Larry pretends as if he's found some money.
  • Mother's Day Composition
    6

    Mother's Day Composition

    14 votes
    Season 3 Episode 31: Beaver's class is assigned to write on what their mothers did before they were married. When Beaver finds that his mother's life was fairly uneventful, especially when compared to the other children's accounts, he rewrites her biography by infusing it with a famous Broadway actress's life
  • Wally's Practical Joke
    7

    Wally's Practical Joke

    May 23, 1963
    44 votes
    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.
  • Wally's Haircomb
    8

    Wally's Haircomb

    May 21, 1959
    65 votes
    Wally begins combing his hair a new way, inspired by a fad started by Eddie that has swept his school. However, June and Ward are aghast at his hairdo and June becomes determined to get Wally to change his hairdo back to his normal style.
  • Wally's New Suit
    9

    Wally's New Suit

    December 04, 1958
    55 votes
    Wally needs a new suit for an upcoming dance and he convinces his parents that he's old enough to pick out his own clothes. So he and Beaver go down to the shop and pick out the loudest, cheapest plaid suit in the entire shop.
  • In the Soup
    10

    In the Soup

    May 06, 1961
    100 votes
    Wally is throwing a party and is successful in getting Beaver out of the house, who is planning to spend the night at Whitey's. However, on the way to Whitey's house, him and Beaver get into an argument over a billboard that is advertising for soup and this leads to Beaver falling into the giant soup bowl mounted at the top of the billboard.
  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Four: Eddie Spends The Night
    11

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Four: Eddie Spends The Night

    12 votes
    Season 4 Episode 26: During a sleepover at the Cleavers' house, Eddie is caught cheating at chess and angrily storms out. Can June and Ward convince Eddie to return to the house in order to salvage an old friendship?
  • Beaver Plays Hooky
    12

    Beaver Plays Hooky

    January 22, 1959
    53 votes
    Larry and Beaver find themselves tardy for the third time this week and decide to skip altogether. However, they quickly find themselves being caught when they inadvertently walk on the set of a live TV show.
  • Larry Hides Out
    13

    Larry Hides Out

    January 09, 1960
    36 votes
    While Beaver is staying at the Mondellos, Larry sneaks a peak at his sister's diary and his mother discovers him and yells at him right in front of Beaver. This prompts Larry to run away, to Beaver's house, who secretly hides him in his bathroom.
  • Mother's Day Composition
    14

    Mother's Day Composition

    April 30, 1960
    22 votes
    Beaver must write a composition about his mother but soon finds himself the only one with a seemingly ""boring"" mother while Richard, Larry and Judy have colorful mothers. Beaver decides to make his mother colorful too even if it means making up things.
  • Beaver Gets 'Spelled
    15

    Beaver Gets 'Spelled

    October 04, 1957
    32 votes
    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.
  • The Shave
    16

    The Shave

    November 20, 1958
    24 votes
    When Eddie and some of his other friends brag about shaving, Wally decides it's time he try. After nicking his face, Ward tries to discourage him but this just leads Wally to continue to shave. When Ward catches him again, he scolds him right in front of Eddie which leads to Wally being made fun of.
  • Wally's Pug Nose
    17

    Wally's Pug Nose

    February 05, 1959
    27 votes
    When the new girl, Gloria, tells Wally that he has a pug nose, he becomes incredibly self-conscious and purchases a contraption that is suppose to give him a strong Roman nose. When Ward discovers the device, he gives him a pep talk which just makes matters worse.
  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Five: Wally's Weekend Job
    18

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Five: Wally's Weekend Job

    17 votes
    Season 5 Episode 6: Jealous of Wally's new job at the soda fountain, Eddie decides to play a prank on his best friend by ordering a delivery of six quarts of ice cream to a birthday party that doesn't exist.
  • Larry's Club
    19

    Larry's Club

    16 votes
    Season 3 Episode 22: Beaver is invited to join Harold's secret club, "The Bloody Five," while Larry is excluded, prompting Larry to start his own rival club! Will Beaver choose to stick with his new friends, or remain loyal to his best friend?
  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Five: The Yard Birds
    20

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Five: The Yard Birds

    12 votes
    Season 5 Episode 32: When Beaver and Wally's horseplay causes them to miss their deadline in getting the garage and yard in order, they decide to take matters -- and the trash -- into their own hands!
  • Ward's Baseball
    21

    Ward's Baseball

    April 09, 1960
    21 votes
    Ward's cherished autographed baseball becomes the object that Larry and Beaver just can't keep their hand off of. They decide to play catch with it and it ends up getting run over by a truck.
  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Five: A Night In The Woods
    22

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Five: A Night In The Woods

    10 votes
    Season 5 Episode 36: Wally is asked to replace one of the boys' fathers as a guide during Beaver's camping trip with the guys. But when he asks Eddie and Lumpy to join them, he has no idea they've got plans of their own.
  • Leave it to Beaver, Season Four: Substitute Father
    23

    Leave it to Beaver, Season Four: Substitute Father

    10 votes
    Season 4 Episode 39: Wally takes on the fatherly duties of the household while Ward is away, including going in to speak to Beaver's teacher after he gets into trouble.
  • The Hypnotist
    24

    The Hypnotist

    March 12, 1960
    30 votes
    After seeing someone being hypnotized in a movie, Beaver sets out to do the same but Eddie wants to play a trick on Beaver and pretends Beaver has hypnotized him and Beaver gets scared when Eddie doesn't snap out of the trance.
  • Beaver's Poem
    25

    Beaver's Poem

    October 02, 1958
    22 votes
    Beaver comes to Ward for help on the night before a poetry assignment is due. This prompts Ward to totally take over the project and writes the whole poem himself. Things get complicated when Beaver wins an award for the poem and Ward is faced with explaining the truth to Beaver's principal.
  • Eddie Spends the Night
    26

    Eddie Spends the Night

    March 25, 1961
    19 votes
    Wally invites Eddie to spend the night. However, during a game of chess, Eddie accuses Wally of cheating and they get into a big argument ending with Wally ordering Eddie to go home.
  • Wally's License
    27

    Wally's License

    October 11, 1962
    19 votes
    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.
  • Eddie's Girl
    28

    Eddie's Girl

    October 09, 1958
    24 votes
    A school dance has Eddie swooning over his so-called ""girl,"" Caroline. However, it's obvious Eddie has made up their relationship when Wally and him visit her and she instantly becomes smitten with Wally.
  • Tire Trouble
    29

    Tire Trouble

    January 02, 1960
    18 votes
    Beaver wants to raise chinchillas and begins building a cage in the garage. However, when Beaver changes his mind, Ward tries his best to get Wally and Beaver the clean the mess up in the garage. Things get worse, when Ward unknowingly runs over some of the wood and nails that Beaver left laying around with the car, causing the boys to try to patch a flat tire before Ward finds out.
  • Wally's Orchid
    30

    Wally's Orchid

    April 02, 1960
    28 votes
    Wally asks out a rich girl who drops hints that she would like an orchid for her corsage. Wally quickly discovers that getting one is going to be more difficult then he originally thought.