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Beaver is enthralled with Richard's new jacket with leather details and a lock on the inside pocket zipper. Richard's parents paid $23.76 - taxes included - for it. Beaver wants the exact same jacket. Despite believing it an exorbitant price for a jacket and knowing that Beaver's current jacket is perfectly good, Ward, the decision maker due to the expense, buckles in and lets Beaver get the jacket. The first day Beaver has the jacket, he learns from Richard that he lost his, but knowing where he lost it he's sure he will eventually get it back. In the meantime, he proposes a scheme to Beaver so that he won't get in trouble with his parents for losing his new jacket, that scheme which entails Beaver lending him his jacket. Beaver agrees. Complications ensue as Beaver and Richard try to sneak Beaver's jacket in and out of the Cleaver house without Ward or June's knowledge. A worse scenario for Beaver is if Richard does something with the jacket he borrowed from Beaver.

Beaver's jacket would cost $192 in today's dollars.

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    • Author: Nikobar
    Richard has a new jacket, a little too big for him but he'll grow into it. What's important is that it has leather panels, and an inside locking pocket, and Beaver wants one. Wally suggest Beaver just ask for one after seeing Richard's. Ward and June both believe spending twenty-three dollars is a bit much, but Beaver sulks his way into a yes.

    Beaver has the new jacket and is ready for school. Richard has already lost his new jacket. Richard has an idea, I'll go to your house and you toss the jacket out the window to me, and we'll trade it off back and forth until I find my lost jacket. I'm sort of getting tired of Beaver listening to his friends and getting screwed. If Richard lost his jacket in a day, how long until he loses Beaver's; and he won't care as it wasn't his. But here Beaver goes again. It's only so much time before his is gone, and the writers come up with some much-needed better ideas.

    Beaver puts his jacket on but the sleeve is stained. How will he explain Richard spilling something on the jacket? He does but more bad news, Richard minus the jacket. It's at the cleaners but won't be back for a week. And why didn't Richard finally fess up to his mom; because he didn't want to get in trouble, but is willing to let Beaver get into trouble.

    Coming in from school, Wally mishears a question from June, and Wally almost spills the beans. He should have. Richard found his jacket but he can't bring it over. He's being punished. But the cherry on the mess is when Beavers tells Richard he'd better show up early to continue the jacket charade, Richard gets angry for the mess Beaver got himself into. But Richard shows up and as the jacket is going up to Beaver, Ward sees the flying jacket. Finally, the jacket plot is discovered and Beaver has to fess up.

    This has to be one of the winning contestants for lame Leave It To Beaver episodes. At least if Beaver had learned what a crappy friend Richard is, then we might be ahead. Instead we have an episode leaving Ward on the phone trying to explain what happened to an angry Mrs. Rickover.
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    • Author: Exellent
    Beaver's friend Richard gets an expensive new jacket, and Beaver wants one just like it. Surprisingly he talks his dad into buying him one. When Richard loses his jacket, talks Beaver into lending him Beaver's jacket after school and returning it via rope before school to Beaver's upstairs bathroom window. This same scene seems to go on ad nauseum. The writing on this series was usually excellent and often funny and instructive. This teleplay was none of these.
  • Episode complete credited cast:
    Barbara Billingsley Barbara Billingsley - June Cleaver
    Hugh Beaumont Hugh Beaumont - Ward Cleaver
    Tony Dow Tony Dow - Wally Cleaver
    Jerry Mathers Jerry Mathers - Theodore Cleaver
    Rich Correll Rich Correll - Richard Rickover (as Richard Correll)
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