 Fred plays golf at a local country club, sometimes accompanied by the reluctant Ward.Like Lumpy, Fred is self-aggrandizing.In the pilot episode "It's a Small World", Richard Deacon plays a character named "Mr. Baxter", an employee for the "Franklin Milk Co."

Beginning in "Leave It To Beaver"'s fifth season which launched in September 1961, Fred Rutherford began appearing less often in episodes because Richard Deacon began appearing as a regular on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".