The New Leave It to Beaver

- Season 1

(1984)

Now in his mid-30s, the Beav is divorced, out of work, and living in his mother's house with his two children. Beaver's brother Wally, also married, is doing rather better, but his friendship with neighbourhood shark Eddie Haskell threatens his financial well-being.

Beaver warns his young son to decline a job offer from Eddie Haskell's sneaky boy, Freddie.

Beaver's older son Kip decides to have Thanksgiving dinner with a friend instead of the family.

Wally's daughter Kelly tells a lie about owning a doll that everyone wants.

Kip and Oliver get a pet (or two) and learn a lesson in responsibility.

Kelly can't stand the idea of being kissed in the school play "Sleeping Beauty", while June goes on a date with on old friend, which worries Beaver and Wally.

Oliver, desperate to make new friends, joins a gang called "The Gladiators," and ends up with a black eye.

When Wally and Mary Ellen think Kelly is a piano prodigy they get her a teacher. And Kelly doesn't like his methods of teaching. When she tries to tell them the ignore her.

Beaver's boyhood friend Richard, now a successful psychiatrist, brags how his daughter is more advanced than Beaver's son Oliver.

The kids need a go-cart, but must get work first.

While writing to a pen pal (and through flashbacks), Oliver describes his new life at his grandmother's house, and tells about a fight that he had with his brother, Kip.

Beaver steps in as baseball coach for Kip and Oliver's team, not realising that making the playoffs means being pitted against a team coached by Eddie Haskell.

Kelly runs away from home when her parents have good news: Mary Ellen is having a baby. Kelly is upset by the good news, so she moves in next door with Kip and Oliver. However, she later moves back in with her parents and finally welcomes the new upcoming member of the family.

Kelly is having her first slumber party, but plans fell apart when a pet frog and a 13-year old with makeup and hair dye spoil the night.

After losing his job at the firm owned by his co-worker Lumpy's father, Beaver considers his future employment opportunities before starting out on his own - with Lumpy as a partner.

Beaver's son Oliver is driving the family crazy with his school's home safety report. In the meantime, Freddie Haskell overcomes his shyness with girls to go on his first date to a school dance.

On Father's Day, the boys scramble to buy Beaver a gift but Oliver discovers that a gift from the heart is the greatest gift of all.

Gert kicks Eddie out of the house.

Kelly "borrows" June's pearls without her knowing, and they get destroyed in an accident.

Mary Ellen convinces Wally that it is time to trade his sports car in for a more conventional vehicle, while Kip and Freddie experience the trials and woes of their first few days of high school.

On a dare from Freddie, Oliver finds himself carried aloft by a balloon over Mayfield.

Lumpy's sister, Violet, comes back to Mayfield, and Beaver goes on a date with her. The two of them, however, decide that they do not have good chemistry.

Kelly Cleaver takes up swimming lessons after much hesitation. Olly and her swimming coach tell her the reason she needs to be able to swim is because "one day you'll fall out of a jet-plane into the ocean!"

Kip needs extra money, so he gets a job at a gas station, However, he learns a lesson when a worker tells him about his life.

Oliver owns a comic book that is worth $3,000 -- but June has done some spring cleaning, and it's now at the dump.

Freddie takes his oldest pet snake Arthur to the veterinarian, who tells him that Arthur should be put to sleep.

Beaver goes away on a trip, leaving June to take care of Oliver.

While writing a letter to his pen pal in Africa, Oliver recalls some of the most memorable things have taken place since he moved in with his grandmother after his parents' divorce.