Beaver Gets 'Spelled is the premiere episode of the iconic American
television series Leave It to Beaver (1957â€"1963). The episode aired
on CBS on October 4, 1957. The episode is the first episode in the
first season, and the first episode in the complete series. "Beaver
Gets 'Spelled" is available on DVD.Beaver's new teacher, Miss
Canfield, gives him a note after class to take home. Beaver's
classmates convince him that the note means he is going to be kicked
out of school. Worried that he will be the first second-grader in the
school's history to be "'spelled" (expelled), Beaver hides the
note.Beaver's new teacher, Miss Canfield, gives him a note after class
to take home. Beaver's classmates convince him that the note means he
is going to be kicked out of school. Worried that he will be the first
second-grader in the school's history to be "'spelled" (expelled),
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 â€" a
rubber shrunken head.Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley star as
archetypal suburban couple, Ward and June Cleaver with Tony Dow and
Jerry Mathers as their sons, Wally and Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver.
Diane Brewster plays Miss Canfield, Beaver's teacher, with Doris
Packer playing Grant Avenue Grammar School principal, Mrs. Rayburn.
Jeri Weil and Stanley Fafara play Beaver's classmates, Judy Hensler
and "Whitey" Whitney respectively while Burt Mustin and Ralph Sanford
play Beaver's adult friends in the neighborhood, Gus, the fireman, and
"Fats" Flannaghan, a junkyard operator. Steve Paylow appeared as the
boy who informs the Cleavers about Beaver's whereabouts, while Gary
Allen as First Man and Alan Reynolds as Second Man are onlookers in
the scene where Beaver climbs a tree. The episode was written by the
show's creators, Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, and directed by Norman
Tokar. Beaver Gets 'Spelled Top Movies & Young Movies