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S1 • E1
Sneaky Frankie Bennett tells Beaver that he can win a new bicycle by entering a popular television show's Franklin Milk bottle-cap contest, but Beaver and big brother Wally cause quite a commotion at the milk company's office when no one there seems to know anything about a contest after the boys show up to claim their prize, pulling a wagon loaded with a thousand bottle caps.
S1 • E1
Beaver expects the worst when teacher Miss Canfield sends him home with a sealed note for his parents.
S1 • E2
Wally and Beaver secretly order a Florida alligator from a comic-book ad, planning to keep the creature in their bathtub. But when a tiny baby alligator shows up in a shoebox instead of the full-grown 8-footer shown in the ad, the boys enlist the help of crusty alligator expert Captain Jack to raise their new pet.
S1 • E3
Violet Rutherford gives Beaver a black eye.
S1 • E4
To conceal his carelessness in losing the money he was given for a haircut, Beaver gives himself one--with disastrous results.
S1 • E5
June sends Beaver with a welcome-to-the-neighborhood bouquet to new next-door neighbor Mrs. Donaldson, but when the boy is rewarded with a kiss on his cheek, rascally Eddie Haskell warns that a jealous Mr. Donaldson will soon darken Beaver's door.
S1 • E6
June makes Wally and Beaver sign a friendship pact to stop them from fighting and do more things together, but the pact isn't so easy to keep when each boy is offered a Saturday activity that doesn't include the other.
S1 • E7
Beaver is left out when Ward and the other neighborhood dads offer to pay Wally and his friends for doing outdoor chores to help them buy uniforms, but after Beaver finds out that the main water line will be shut off on a very hot day, he loads up his wagon with full water buckets and makes his own money--at five cents a cup.
S1 • E8
Beaver's crush on his teacher Miss Canfield and teasing by the other kids leads him to put a spring snake in her desk drawer. When his conscience starts acting up, he does his best to make sure the snake stays in the desk.
S1 • E9
A rainy day indoors prompts Wally and his friends to build a clubhouse across the street. When Beaver can only join if he comes up with $3, he hits the streets with a newfound entrepreneurial spirit.
S1 • E10
Although he can't understand why any boy would give up fishing to spend time with a girl, Beaver still tries to help brother Wally make up with pretty Penny after they fight.
S1 • E11
Beaver suffers the consequences when June's beloved Aunt Martha comes to stay at the Cleavers' and sends him to school dressed in her idea of what a young boy should wear to school: an old-fashioned suit with short pants and a cap.
S1 • E12
Wally and Beaver send for a supply of "Flower of the Orient" perfume to sell door-to-door, planning make enough money to buy a movie projector. But selling the perfume turns out to be harder than they think, especially when everyone agrees that it smells like an old catcher's mitt!
S1 • E13
Eddie Haskell thinks it's funny when Wally and Beaver are grounded after he tricks them into going to the movie "Voodoo Curse" although they promised June that they wouldn't ... until Beaver gets even by using a little "voodoo magic" on Eddie.
S1 • E14
After having to listen to colleague "Corny" Cornelius brag about his children's academic excellence, Ward is thrilled to return the favor when principal Mrs. Rayburn calls to say that Beaver's score on an intelligence test is the highest in the school; but one of Beaver's classmates has a secret and Ward might need to eat his words.
S1 • E15
Beaver finds himself where no self-respecting second-grade boy would ever want to be: the only boy invited to Linda Dennison's otherwise all-girl party.
S1 • E16
The Cleaver boys' plan to get even with bully Lumpy Rutherford for picking on them backfires when Lumpy's dad Fred suffers the consequences instead.
S1 • E17
Ward and June struggle to not interfere after mean Mr. Merkel threatens to fire Wally and Beaver from the after-school paper route they took on to earn money for a new bicycle.
S1 • E18
Wally and Beaver get more excitement than they expect when they give up their Saturday visit with Pete the fireman to babysit mischievous little "Puddin'" while her parents go with Ward and June to a wedding.
S1 • E19
A package delivered to the Cleavers' from a high-end sports store seems to confirm Ward's suspicions that Wally and Beaver skipped school to buy expensive baseball mitts with piggy-bank money that they promised to deposit into their college funds.
S1 • E20
Beaver faces a lonely weekend when his neighborhood pals can't come out to play and older brother Wally's Scout troop leaves on a camping trip.
S1 • E21
When Ward and Wally pressure messy Beaver to be neater, Beaver takes buddy Larry's advice and asks for his own room.
S1 • E22
Busy Ward thinks that his boys spend all their time over at the Dennisons' because they can play basketball there with their friends. But when Wally and Beaver still prefer the Dennison driveway, even after Ward puts up his own backboard, it takes a frank conversation with neighbor Chuck Dennison to reveal the secret that will bring the Cleaver boys back home.
S1 • E23
Beaver gets attached to a runaway chihuahua named Poncho and sneaks the little dog to school under his coat on the morning the owner comes to claim it.
S1 • E24
Beaver gets a ticket and winds up in front of a tough traffic-court judge after he and Larry are pulled over while taking a quick spin down the street without a license in a home-built race car powered by a lawnmower engine.
S1 • E25
The boys accidentally break the car window while playing baseball.
S1 • E26
Traveling home from a visit to Aunt Martha, Wally and Beaver spend too much of their money on food in the train station and don't have enough left to buy their tickets.
S1 • E27
Mary Ellen Rogers schemes to get unsuspecting Wally to ask her to the school dance, using her friendship with Beaver to get closer to his big brother.
S1 • E28
To impress the older boys, Beaver makes up a story about a real, live Indian fight that occurred across the street from the Cleaver house 200 years ago and bets Eddie Haskell $1.50 that it really happened. But Beaver knows that he's in trouble when Eddie and the boys show up with shovels to prove him wrong ... until they find what they think are valuable gems.
S1 • E29
Concerned that Wally and Beaver are spending too much time at the movies on the week-ends, Ward plans a camping trip and the excited boys tell all their friends. But when Eddie Haskell's dire prediction that Ward never really intended to go camping seems to come true after unexpected office work forces the busy dad to cancel the trip, the disappointed Cleaver boys pitch a tent and spend a rainy night in their back yard to avoid giving Eddie the satisfaction of thinking he was right.
S1 • E30
Cut during the first day of tryouts, Beaver tells his parents that he made it into the school band and carries his clarinet to school for weeks, thinking that he has plenty of time to tell them the truth; but time runs out when June finds a concert announcement in Beaver's pocket and the whole family plans to go.
S1 • E31
Impressed by all the attention Wally receives while in bed with a sore throat, Beaver decides to get some for himself by pretending to be sick.
S1 • E32
Memories of companionship and comfort prevent Beaver from letting go of his well-worn teddy bear, Billy, and prompt the little boy to rescue his furry friend from the garbage truck even though Ward and Wally tease that he's "too old" to play with dolls.
S1 • E33
Wally hedges after making a deal with his dad to paint the trashcans for fifty cents each, convinced by Eddie Haskell to hold out for more money. But when Beaver takes the job at the original price, causing hard feelings between the brothers, Ward looks for a compromise to satisfy everyone and finds, in the end, that boys will be boys and moms are full of surprises.
S1 • E34
The whole Cleaver family learns a lesson in truthfulness after Eddie Haskell intimidates Beaver into lying about how his good suit pants were torn.
S1 • E35
Initially impressed by Johnny Franklin's military academy uniform and good manners when Wally's former schoolmate comes to visit, June becomes alarmed when, as a result, Wally wants to attend the academy instead of Mayfield High with the rest of his friends.
S1 • E36
Capturing a white rabbit in a home-made gopher trap is only one surprise that awaits the Cleavers when their new pet "Henry" turns out to be expectant-mother "Henrietta."
S1 • E37
Beaver decides to run away from home when he thinks he is unfairly reprimanded for allowing his friend Larry to accidentally drill holes in the Cleaver garage wall with Ward's electric drill.
S1 • E38
Typical boyish shenanigans result in an eventful stay when Larry Mondello comes to spend the night with Beaver.
S1 • E39
In spite of Ward's misgivings, all goes well when Wally and Beaver volunteer to feed the neighbor's prize-winning cat, Puff Puff, until Wally breaks a promise, Beaver leaves a gate open and Eddie Haskell's dog chases Puff Puff up a tree.
June Cleaver
The Beaver
Ward Cleaver
Wally Cleaver
Eddie Haskell
Larry Mondello
Whitey Whitney
Gilbert Bates
Clarence Rutherford
Richard Rickover