Season 1: 1957-1958
| Title | Original airdate | # | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "It's a Small World" | April 23, 1957 | P | |||
| Wally and Beaver want a new bicycle. Frankie Bennett, a mischievous boy, tells them new bikes can be had at a local dairy in exchange for 1,000 bottle caps from the company's products. The boys collect the bottle caps, but, in attempting to redeem them, learn they've been duped. Ward takes pity on the boys and buys them a bicycle. | |||||
| "Beaver Gets 'Spelled" | October 4, 1957 | 1 | |||
| Beaver's new teacher, Miss Canfield, gives him a note after class to take home. Beaver's classmates convince him the note means he is going to be kicked out of school. Worried that he'll be the first second-grader in the school's history to be 'spelled, Beaver hides the note. The next day, Miss Canfield finds the note under Beaver's desk and instructs him to take it home. Beaver loses the note on the way home. Wally helps Beaver in his predicament by writing a note (from "Mrs. Ward Cleaver") to Miss Canfield assuring her that Beaver has been whipped for his offense. The next day, Miss Canfield is at a loss trying to understand such a severe response to her request that Beaver play Smokey Bear in a school pageant. She calls June to the school. When Beaver discovers where his mother is headed, he runs away and climbs a tree. When Ward, June, and Wally find Beaver in the tree, they are unable to persuade him to come down. June decides to leave him there even if it rains. Beaver comes down to get his raincoat. The next day, he has a talk with Miss Canfield and asks her to call him "Beaver" rather than "Theodore". He offers her some tips on understanding second-graders. The following day, Beaver leaves for school carrying his most precious object for Miss Canfield — a rubber shrunken head. | |||||
| "Captain Jack" | October 11, 1957 | 2 | |||
| Beaver and Wally buy an alligator and keep it in their bathroom. | |||||
| "The Black Eye" | October 18, 1957 | 3 | |||
| Beaver gets a black eye and Ward decides to give him boxing lessons. | |||||
| "The Haircut" | October 25, 1957 | 4 | |||
| Beaver gives himself a ragged haircut and tries to hide it from his parents. | |||||
| "New Neighbors" | November 1, 1957 | 5 | |||
| A new neighbor gives Beaver a kiss, and the bigger boys tease him about it. | |||||
| "Brotherly Love" | November 8, 1957 | 6 | |||
| June forces the boys into a friendship pact that causes trouble. | |||||
| "Water, Anyone?" | November 15, 1957 | 7 | |||
| Entrepreneurial Beaver sells water to the bigger boys after the water main is shut off for several hours. | |||||
| "Beaver's Crush" | November 22, 1957 | 8 | |||
| Beaver has a crush on his teacher and puts a spring snake in her desk. | |||||
| "The Clubhouse" | November 29, 1957 | 9 | |||
| Beaver needs to earn money to join the bigger boys' clubhouse. | |||||
| "Wally's Girl Trouble" | December 6, 1957 | 10 | |||
| Wally becomes smitten with newcomer Penny Jamison and neglects Beaver. | |||||
| "Beaver's Short Pants" | December 13, 1957 | 11 | |||
| Aunt Martha buys Beaver a short pants suit to wear to school, much to his embarrassment. | |||||
| "The Perfume Salesmen" | December 27, 1957 | 12 | |||
| The boys cannot sell their bottles of perfume until Ward intervenes. | |||||
| "Voodoo Magic" | January 3, 1958 | 13 | |||
| Beaver makes a voodoo doll of Eddie and sticks a nail into it. | |||||
| "Part Time Genius" | January 10, 1958 | 14 | |||
| Beaver takes an IQ test and is interviewed at a special school. | |||||
| "Party Invitation" | January 17, 1958 | 15 | |||
| Beaver is miserable when Linda Dennison invites him to her all-girl party. | |||||
| "Lumpy Rutherford" | January 24, 1958 | 16 | |||
| Lumpy Rutherford bullies Wally and Beaver on their way home from school. | |||||
| "The Paper Route" | January 31, 1958 | 17 | |||
| The boys get a newspaper delivery job to earn money for a bicycle. It proves more difficult than expected, and the parents find a stack of undelivered papers in the garage. Collecting fees door to door also proves problematic. | |||||
| "Child Care" | February 7, 1958 | 18 | |||
| The boys babysit a troublesome youngster who locks herself in the bathroom. | |||||
| "The Bank Account" | February 14, 1958 | 19 | |||
| The boys empty their savings accounts and leave school to buy Ward a new jacket. | |||||
| "Lonesome Beaver" | February 21, 1958 | 20 | |||
| Beaver is left home alone when Wally joins the scouts with the bigger boys. | |||||
| "Cleaning Up Beaver" | March 7, 1958 | 21 | |||
| Beaver moves into the guest room when Wally thinks he is too untidy. | |||||
| "The Perfect Father" | March 14, 1958 | 22 | |||
| Ward drives his boys and their friends away when he tries too hard to be a great dad. | |||||
| "Beaver and Poncho" | March 21, 1958 | 23 | |||
| Beaver brings home a lost Chihuahua and takes him to school. | |||||
| "The State vs. Beaver" | March 26, 1958 | 24 | |||
| Beaver gets a traffic ticket when he drives his kart into the street. | |||||
| "The Broken Window" | April 2, 1958 | 25 | |||
| The boys break a window in the car and try to hide the accident from their parents. | |||||
| "The Train Trip" | April 9, 1958 | 26 | |||
| The boys cannot pay for train tickets and make up a story for the conductor. | |||||
| "My Brother's Girl" | April 16, 1958 | 27 | |||
| Mary Ellen Rogers finds a way for Wally to take her to a dance. | |||||
| "Next Door Indians" | April 23, 1958 | 28 | |||
| Beaver gets into trouble when he makes up a story about an Indian battle. | |||||
| "Tenting Tonight" | April 30, 1958 | 29 | |||
| The boys pitch a tent in the backyard but are rained out. | |||||
| "Music Lesson" | May 7, 1958 | 30 | |||
| Beaver takes clarinet lessons at school but fails to make the band. | |||||
| "New Doctor" | May 14, 1958 | 31 | |||
| Beaver feigns sickness to get attention but is disappointed. | |||||
| "Beaver's Old Friend" | May 21, 1958 | 32 | |||
| Beaver finds his old teddy bear while cleaning the garage. | |||||
| "Wally's Job" | May 28, 1958 | 33 | |||
| June finishes painting the trash cans when the boys run off to see a fire. | |||||
| "Beaver's Bad Day" | June 4, 1958 | 34 | |||
| Beaver upsets his parents when he rips his suit pants playing at a worksite. | |||||
| "Boarding School" | June 11, 1958 | 35 | |||
| Wally wants to leave home to attend a military school at Bellport. | |||||
| "Beaver and Henry" | June 17, 1958 | 36 | |||
| Beaver puts talcum powder on baby rabbits after handling one, causing the mother to shun the babies. | |||||
| "Beaver Runs Away" | June 25, 1958 | 37 | |||
| Beaver runs away after being disciplined by Ward and stays with Larry. | |||||
| "Beaver's Guest" | July 2, 1958 | 38 | |||
| Larry Mondello stays overnight with Beaver and upsets the household. | |||||
| "Cat Out of the Bag" | July 16, 1958 | 39 | |||
| The neighbors leave their cat in the care of Wally and Beaver. This was the final episode to air on CBS. | |||||
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