 In another early episode, the Beaver's classmate Linda Dennison becomes sweet on him and invites him to her all-girl birthday party.He wins a big doll in a party game and retreats from the feminine frills and furbelows to the den where Linda's father (Lyle Talbot) entertains him by exhibiting his gun collection.As the Beaver grew into an awkward young teen, he sometimes took a back seat to his older brother Wally, a student in his final years of high school.