The sixth season of Leave It to Beaver debuted on ABC September 27, 1962, with "Wally's Dinner Date" and aired its last episode, "Family Scrapbook", June 20, 1963.
In the opening sequence, the camera shows the Cleavers' front yard and June walks out of the house with a picnic basket.
Episodes were written by either the writing teams of Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher or Dick Conway and Roland MacLane.
Rusty Stevens, who played Larry Mondello in the first four seasons, returns in flashbacks in the finale, "Family Scrapbook."
His parents find the wallet and Ward, who frequently takes business clients to the restaurant, calls them to request that they put the charges on his account.
Beaver starts a conflict in the Cleaver household when he refuses to wear a coat and tie to a formal father-son football awards banquet because all the boys had agreed they would dress casual.
Inspired to become a reporter by a visiting foreign news correspondent, Beaver goes to the local newspaper after school to get a job as a paperboy, but another kid has beaten him to it.
June thinks that Beaver was attacked by that paperboy "bully" and Ward calls the paper to complain about the incident.
When she comes by to collect payment for the deliveries, they learn that her brother was the one who had gotten the job, then became ill, so she filled in to keep him from losing it.
To teach Beaver the business of budgeting, Ward gives him an allowance to join a record club and for his other weekly spending.
Wally reminds him that if he doesn't want to pay for bonus records, he needs to send a card back to the company.
Wally wants to ask Ward to borrow his less-than-week-old new car for Friday night so that he can take Shirley Fletcher to the school prom.
Wally ends up breaking one of the headlights on his dad's car and initially intends to tell his parents about the accident.
Beaver takes it personally when schoolmate Shirley makes fun of his hair and calls him a sheep dog.
Beaver goes as far as cutting practice, feeling he's too good to have to go; but he learns his lesson when the coach suspends him from the team for non-attendance.
Ward and June convince Wally to extend an invitation to Beaver, suggesting he'll probably only hang around long enough for a bite to eat.
Wally takes the blame and declines payment from Mr. Langley for his work, and learns another life lesson about responsibility.
While Wally leaves to fetch the car, Eddie tells Beaver not to give it to his mother because doing so would make Ward look like a 'cheapskate'.
Donna's angry father, Bob Yeager, won't let her keep the expensive gift, much to her dismay.
Eddie's father receives the credit card bill and after calling the service station, finds out the battery went into Wally's car.
Ward and June learn that Aunt Martha is coming for a visit and that she wants to send Beaver to Fallbrook for high school.
College student Chuck Bradford tells them that the Alpha Kappa fraternity is terrible ("a pig outfit"), making Eddie want to back out.
The family notices that Wally has been spending a lot time at Eddie's girlfriend Cindy Andrews' house.
It is; Wally is acting as a fitting model for a sweater that Cindy is knitting for Eddie as a birthday present, and is keeping the situation secret.
At Gilbert's suggestion, he finds himself watching a Ritz Brothers musical farce of The Three Muskateers on TV and he presents the humorous details of what he saw in his report.
Beaver eventually manipulates Wally into surrendering his ticket, but he can't enjoy the game with his dad because of the guilt he feels.
Beaver then meets a new student, southern belle Melinda Neilson, who calls him that evening and asks him to take her to the dance.
Wally has a talk with Mr. Haskell and they come up with a way to have Eddie not feel bad about finally declining the job offer.
Wally and Eddie do manage to repair Lumpy's car and learn that practical jokes aren't worth it.
Guests: Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell, Stephen Talbot as Gilbert Bates, Stanley Fafara as Whitey Whitney, Lori Martin as Mary Margaret Matthews.