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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1960910, member: 4910&quot;]I am putting together a list of episodes of the 1959-1963 CBS Televsion show &quot;Dennis the Menace&quot; which feature coin or numismatic related topics.</p><p><br /></p><p>The show was about a mischevious small boy Dennis and his grumpy neighbor Mr. Wilson.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Wilson had a number of hobbies and coin collecting was one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This show has been mentioned on this forum before, usually in replies to another post.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found four episodes so far which featured coins or coin topics.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;Dennis and the Rare Coin&quot;</b> (Season 1, Episode 15, first shown January 17, 1960)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Wilson pays $250.00 for a rare gold coin from a con artist that turns out to be a fake coin. The good news is that the coin gives Mr. Wilson a free wish when Dennis throws the coin in the fountain in the park, Mr. Wilson wishes that Dennis would go on vacation for a week and his wish comes true in the end when he learns that Dennis is going to his Grandpa&#039;s for a week.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;Dennis&#039; Paper Drive&quot;</b> (Season 1, Episode 24, first shown April 10, 1960)</p><p><br /></p><p>Dennis and a bunch of other town boys are collecting papers for a charity and the prize for the boy who collects the most papers is a rare silver dollar that is worth $600. When Mr. Wilson gets word of that he is determined to make sure that Dennis wins the prize so that he can get the silver dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;The Lucky Piece&quot;</b> (Season 3, Episode 11, first shown December 7, 1961)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr Wilson gives Dennis a coin with Good Luck written on it for mowing his lawn. Dennis thinks it is a lucky coin, and he seems to have a lot of good things happening to him.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;A Quiet Evening&quot;</b> (Season 3, Episode 21, first shown February 25, 1962)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Wilson&#039;s plans for a quiet evening with his coin collection go awry when he unexpectedly has to babysit Dennis, Margaret, and Seymour.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anybody add more episodes to this list?</p><p><br /></p><p>I put writeups of the first three above episodes on my website&#039;s &quot;Coins on Television&quot; section.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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