One thing I liked about the “Henry Aldrich” films is how they usually incorporated a bit of suspense in with the humor. One film (perhaps “Henry Aldrich, Editor”) involved a firebug on the loose, with Henry somehow being accused of being the arsonist and having to clear his name. “Henry Aldrich Haunts a House” also had some nice old-time juvenile thrills. Plus, the films, in their own way, capture a bit of that 1940s wartime-era ‘teen’ culture, which generally didn’t get captured in too many films.
It’s a shame they don’t really circulate at all anymore. The last actual time I encountered them on tv was on an independent channel back in 1986, which aired them in their late-night movie slots. Eventually I got some bootleg videotapes of most of them, even the initial two films with Jackie Cooper as Henry, which weren’t part of the official film series.