Episode
Leave It to Beaver: Substitute Father
Overview
Before leaving on a business trip, Ward asks Wally to look after June and Beaver and Wally does indeed. However, when Miss Landers hears Beaver swear at a bully, Beaver turns to Wally to handle the situation and be a ""substitute father.""
Details
- Series
- Leave It to Beaver
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 39
- Air date
- 1961-06-24
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Substitute Father is Episode 39 in Season 4 of Leave It to Beaver. It aired on 1961-06-24. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 35: Beaver's Frogs
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Episode 34: Junior Fire Chief
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Episode 33: Community Chest
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Episode 32: In the Soup
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Episode 31: Beaver's Rat
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Episode 30: The School Picture
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Episode 29: Wally's Dream Girl
Wally falls head over heels for a popular girl in school, Ginny Townsend. To get them together, June slyly invites Ginny on a picnic and the Cleaver's quickly discover that Ginny is not exactly a barrel of laughs.
Episode 28: Mistaken Identity
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