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The Best Episodes of Dennis the Menace Season 1

Every episode of Dennis the Menace Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dennis the Menace Season 1!

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The young blond boy with a cowlick and a mischievous personality, Dennis the Menace, gets into numerous scrapes and adventures with his dog Ruff and his friends Joey, Margaret, Gina, Tommy, PeeBee and Jay.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 4 - Shark Treatment/Jungle Bungle/Racetrack Menace
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    S1:E4

    They're shooting a "Jaws"-type movie at the beach, when the remote control falls into the mechanical shark's mouth, and it zooms off. Dennis finds the fake shark, and crawling inside it, has fun frightening his friends.

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  2. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 6 - Fishing for Trouble/Future Fortune/Time Bomb
    7.4/10(27 votes)

    S1:E6

    Dennis goes fishing with Mr. Wilson, who's out to finally catch "Old Gramps", smartest trout in the whole lake. After a number of zany mishaps due to Dennis' over-eagerness, Wilson manages to hook the prize-winning fish -- only to have Dennis cause it to escape back into the water. When Mr. Wilson gets his hands on a radio that PeeBee has invented -- one that seems to... Read all

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  3. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 5 - All the President's Menace/The Love Rowboat/Wilson the Menace
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    S1:E5

    Dennis and his family visit Mt. Rushmore, which is in the middle of being renovated. Dennis scales the scaffolding in an effort to help out. There he meets an old man holed up in one of the president's nostrils.

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  4. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 2 - A Visitor from Outer Space/Train That Boy/Genie Madness
    7.0/10(33 votes)

    S1:E2

    An alien from another planet lands in Dennis room in a quest for peace and quiet... but Dennis wants to show him around! A mad romp ensues with Dennis taking the alien to Mr. Wilson's house.

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  5. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 8 - Here, Kitty!/Circus Berserkus/The Monster of Mudville Flats
    7.0/10(21 votes)

    S1:E8

    Dennis brings home a stray kitten which Alice makes him turn over to the Wilsons. But the "kitten" is actually a baby mountain lion, which proceeds to wreck the Wilson's home. Things get worse when it's angry mother shows up, looking for its cub!. Mr. Wilson takes Dennis and Joey to the circus and ends up being the main event.

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  6. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 24 - Clip-Joint Capers/Tanks for the Memory/Second Honeymoon
    7.0/10(23 votes)

    S1:E24

    After making the barber's guard dog sick, Dennis volunteers Ruff for watch dog. When bank robbers next door drill a hole in the wall of the barber ship to escape through, Dennis and Ruff capture them but make a shambles of the barber shop.

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  7. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 3 - Cheer Up/Ghostblusters/The Life You Save
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    S1:E3

    Mr. Wilson slips on Dennis' skateboard and has to go to the hospital. Once there, Dennis arrives to cheer Wilson up... Wilson is in for the time of his life! The kids discover an abandoned old gothic house that Dennis decides would make a great club-house.

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  8. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 7 - Spa Blahs/Whale of a Tale/Disaster on the Green
    6.9/10(23 votes)

    S1:E7

    Mrs. Wilson has bought George a gift membership at a Health Spa. Dennis accompanies Wilson on his first visit, where he proceeds to drive poor Wilson nuts, speeding up his exercycle, pouring bubble bath in the spa water, etc. Finally the management tears up Wilson's membership.

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  9. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 32 - Laundry Business/Journey to the Center of Uncle Charlie's Farm/Dennis Springs Into Action
    6.9/10(19 votes)

    S1:E32

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  10. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 1 - So Long, Old Paint/Trembly Assembly/Private I
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    S1:E1

    Mr. Wilson is painting his house and Dennis invites himself over to help out. Needless to say, Dennis' "helping" gets Mr. Wilson close to a nervous breakdown. Dennis accompanies Henry to an auto showroom, where Dennis harasses the poor salesman so, that Henry buys a new car almost to avoid a law-suit. He discovers that the purchase entitles him to watch the actual car being built on the assembly line, with the hapless salesman acting as their guide. Now Dennis turns his impulsiveness toward the robot assembly line, screwing it up completely, and their "new" car comes out looking like futuristic junk!. A Raymond Chandler-type takeoff in which Dennis pretends to be a hard-boiled private eye, in the Bogart tradition, tracking down his missing pooch, Ruff, by questioning his friends and neighbors.

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  11. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 9 - The Price of Stardom/Space Menace/The Magic Flute
    6.8/10(22 votes)

    S1:E9

    Dennis is made the prop man for the community theater whereupon he turns a serious drama into a roaring comedy. When Henry takes Dennis and the gang on a tour of his aerospace company, the gang slips away. They find a rocket ship and decide to investigate. Once inside, Dennis hits a button and WHOOSH! they are blasted into outer space.

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  12. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 15 - Up Up and Away (From Here)/Going Ape/Dennis the Pirate
    6.8/10(21 votes)

    S1:E15

    Dennis, George, Henry, and Joey all enter a balloon race. Dennis wins the race, but only after a wild series of adventures. A take-off on King Kong, in which PeeBee, experimenting with a gas-filled balloon, loses control of it, and he, Dennis, Margaret, and Joey, are carried off, ending up on a banana-shaped island.

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  13. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 35 - The Bicycle Thief/Menace of the Mine Shaft/Margaret's Birthday Party
    6.8/10(18 votes)

    S1:E35

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  14. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 45 - Vampire Scare/Give Me Liberty or Give Me Dennis/Wilson for Mayor
    6.8/10(18 votes)

    S1:E45

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  15. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 11 - Snowman Madness/The Invisible Kid/Home Destruction
    6.7/10(21 votes)

    S1:E11

    Slippery ice causes chaos when Henry and Dennis set out to make a snowman. After tumbling and sliding all over the ski resort, they end up as part of a snowman and receive hot cocoa for their efforts.

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  16. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 13 - The Supermarket/The Big Candied Apple/The Defective Detector
    6.7/10(20 votes)

    S1:E13

    Dennis visits a supermarket and completely dismantles it. The Mitchell's visit New York. The Statue of Liberty will never be the same. The gang goes to the beach and decide to look for treasure with a metal detector. Once there, a bully tries to take it away from them. Ultimately, Dennis saves the bully from danger by way of the metal detector's powerful magnet.

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  17. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 20 - Hopping Mad/Mayan Mayhem/The Big Power Trip
    6.7/10(21 votes)

    S1:E20

    Dennis buys a magician's hat and gives it to Margaret at her cello recital. The hat goes wild, spewing frogs and rabbits all over the place, creating all kinds of comedy. Dennis and George Wilson take the wrong vacation plane and end up in South America, being pursued by Mayan natives. They have all kinds of wild adventures trying to get back home.

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  18. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 22 - Invasion of the Blob/Wild West Show-Down/The Hen Party
    6.7/10(21 votes)

    S1:E22

    A blob from outer space enters various forms tree, Ruff, Alice, Henry, Mr. Wilson, baseball in search of a good place to plan an invasion. But Dennis manages to make the blob uncomfortable no matter where it hides.

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  19. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 25 - A Couple of Coo-Coos/The Cloneheads/Nothing But the Tooth
    6.7/10(22 votes)

    S1:E25

    Dennis accidentally locks the keys in the car while out in the country with Mr. Wilson for a demonstration of homing pigeons. Dennis ties a note to the pigeon which gets stuck in a tree and then Mr. Wilson gets stuck after freeing the bird.

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  20. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 47 - High Steel/Bicycle Mania/Little Dogs Lost
    6.7/10(18 votes)

    S1:E47

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  21. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 10 - Dennis' Yard Sale/The Abominable Snow Menace/It Came from the Planet Dennis
    6.6/10(20 votes)

    S1:E10

    When Henry and Alice leave to go to a "Poor People's" charity auction, Dennis decides to help the poor people by selling most everything in the Mitchell household.

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  22. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 16 - It's a Ruff Life/Professor Myron Mentalapse/Dennis Race 2000
    6.6/10(19 votes)

    S1:E16

    When Ruff upsets one of PeeBee's experiments, the dog and Joey end up with their brains switched, Ruff can speak, while Joey can only bark! PeeBee and Dennis chase them around town, trying to capture them and re-switch their brains back to their owners.

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  23. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 17 - A Better Mousetrap/The Wizzer of Odd/Canine Car Wash
    6.6/10(22 votes)

    S1:E17

    Mrs. Wilson will not return until Mr. Wilson gets rid of all the mice. PeeBee's special mousetraps are regarded as circus rides by the mice and they come from everywhere to play, which costs Mr. Wilson a lot of quarters, the price he pays to the boys for each mouse captured.

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  24. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 19 - Medieval Evil/Beaver-Mania/Say Uncle
    6.6/10(17 votes)

    S1:E19

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  25. Dennis the Menace Season 1 Episode 26 - Mummy's Little Boy/Horsing Around/Dennis Plasters Pamplona
    6.6/10(18 votes)

    S1:E26

    Wrapped head to toe in bandages while playing hospital, Joey gets picked up by an ambulance and taken to the hospital. Dennis and Margaret attempt to rescue him and make a shambles of the hospital corridors. Dennis makes friends with an old horse named Horace.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Shark Treatment/Jungle Bungle/Racetrack Menace" is the best rated episode of "Dennis the Menace" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/30/1985. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Fishing for Trouble/Future Fortune/Time Bomb".