McKeever and the Colonel

Season

1962

USA

7.3

A young cadet at a boys' military academy is always getting into trouble and driving his superior officer crazy.

Episode List

S1 • E1

General McKeever

Cadet Gary McKeever wants to join his father, an U.S. Air Force major, who is stationed in Paris. Currently enrolled in a stateside military school, he schemes to be kicked out by amassing demerit and demerit. The school's headmaster, Colonel Blackwell, knows that Gary's leadership score is off the charts and refuses to dismiss him.

S1 • E2

The Army Mule

S1 • E3

TV or Not TV

S1 • E4

Straight and Narrow

While McKeever is becoming a model cadet so he can earn a weekend pass and fly with his dad to Vandenburg AFB, the sudden change in McKeever, including cleaning the rifles, makes the Colonel think he is out to get him.

S1 • E5

The Mascot

The cadets rescue a baby elephant and are determined to make him the school mascot.

S1 • E6

The Cookie Crumbles

McKeever misinterprets a letter from Tubby's parents and thinks they will withdraw him from the academy because of financial difficulties. The boys decide to raise money but their use of school supplies to do so makes the Colonel suspicious.

S1 • E7

By the Book

S1 • E8

The Bugle Sounds

Gary McKeever joins the Academy's yearbook staff and the editor gives him his first assignment - investigate Colonel Blackwell's background for this edition's dedication.

S1 • E9

Blackwell's Stand

McKeever is assigned to write the school play honoring Blackwell, an ancestor of the Colonel. When Blackwell's army record reveals he was not a hero, McKeever doesn't know how to avoid upsetting the Colonel with the news.

S1 • E10

McKeever and the Celestial Bells

McKeever and his fellow cadets are selected to take dance lessons. McKeever and his two closet friends scheme to avoid them.

S1 • E11

Hand in Glove

S1 • E12

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Thinking that Sergeant Barnes is unhappy because Miss Warner is ignoring him, the cadets decide to make him more attractive and buy him a toupee.

S1 • E13

Happy Birthday, Colonel

Colonel Blackwell is depressed because everyone is too busy to remember his birthday. Meanwhile, his cadets and staff are working hard on a surprise birthday.

S1 • E14

For Dear Old Westfield

S1 • E15

Too Many Sergeants

In an attempt to improve discipline at the Academy, the Colonel brings in Sergeant Max Gruber, unaware she is a woman. She proves to be too strict and it is up to McKeever and his friends to soften her up.

S1 • E16

McKeever's Astronaut

Westfield Academy is preparing to celebrate the visit of one of America's astronaut, not realizing that the space traveler is a chimpanzee.

S1 • E17

The Neighbor

S1 • E18

Love Comes to Westfield

When Andrea overhears her uncle, Colonel Blackwell, tell his aide to keep her from meeting Gary McKeever, the rebellious child tries to spend ever waking minute with the cadet. She even convinces him to play a prank on her uncle which backfires badly.