I can still watch it anytime it comes on, I guess that is the kid in Me, and it gives Me a chance to forget about how horrible Our world is now. There will never be another Beaver.
@@tonym994 Our President was not murdered until 5 months after LITB ended its original run on June 20, 1963. If you were not black or not living in only those few States that enforced segregationist laws, they also had it good and getting better year-after-year! The one State (city) that I read about then and turned fire hoses on them was in Birmingham, Alabama, so don't claim it happened in all the 50 States. Technically, those 7 years (1957-63) were as near-perfect for adults and kids as you can find in enjoying peace and increasing prosperity! Name another 7 years, even half as good!
I remember one very special episode where an old friend of the family showed up asking if he could do some handyman work around the house. he, as it turned out was a recovering alcoholic. Beaver, not knowing this gave him a bottle of wine on his request. this was one of the first sitcom moments that addressed an issue like that.
My favorite episode was Captain Jack where the boys raised an alligator. The part where Ward and June thought the maid was drinking because she saw a giant alligator in the washtub was great.
@@scotthillman8681 Same for me! The one in this video when Eddie later goes flying off the cliff, and lands on a little piece of rock, and had to be rescued by the forest ranger (John Hart, who played 'The Lone Ranger" in the 3rd season 1952-53). Gilbert's hilarious taunting of Eddie's carelessness was one of the great comeback get-evens for all the times Eddie would lambaste or make fun of the other kids as 'creeps', 'shrimps', or using other great '60s lingo!
I like the explanation of his nickname. Some of my kids got their nicknames that way. My first two daughters were just a year apart. When Catherine was born, Lisa couldn't pronounce her name - she called her "Caff-a-wee". She's 43 now and those in the family still call her "Caff" or "Caffy". So "Beaver" is believable to me.
I grew up in Aiken, SC. Mark Beaumont (Hugh's son), worked for my father at the Aiken County Recreation Department. I met Hugh a couple of times, but I was too young to fully remember. I recall he had a cane due to a stroke.
How cool to have met him! That’s right about Hugh Beaumont having a stroke. It happened sometime after the series was over. I imagine he did use a cane then. I bet he was a really nice and genuine guy. His daughter said her dad was very much like Ward Cleaver in real life.
We watched Leave it to Beaver all the time when I was a kid. It was a good show. The Beaver would do things that got hi. Into trouble but he didn"t get yelled at. He was still punished but not with a belt. It was a nice show with good parents.
I'll be 70 plus years old later this year, and I still get a kick from watching episodes of "Leave It To Beaver". It reminds me of the sweet, simple, fun filled, childhood, my parents provided for me, inspite of the civil, and social injustices, of the America, I actually grew up in. I thank my God, & my wonderful Mom, and Dad, for making that so. God bless, and continue guide, our Democracy, and all its people.
Good day, I remember one episode where Ward was barbecuing in the back yard and tells Wally, "Hand me those asbestos gloves". WOW!!! How times have changed.
I watch it everyday, this is a show that’s should be showing in every School, and to every young parents to help show them, there’s a lot of good advice, and understanding on how to raise your kids and give good directions, and learning Experience, that’s good for both parents and kids. It’s a good learning show. I gave my grandkids watching the show, and believe it or not they really love’s it.
you forgot to mention that leave it to beaver was the first tv sit-com to deal with alcoholism (episode: beaver & andy). it was also the first sit-com to deal with the effect divorce has upon children (episode: beaver's house guest). also in the early episodes ward would often yell at the boys. he would later apologize, but he did indeed yell. in an early episode ward was even shown to be jealous when his sons had rather play basketball elsewhere than at their own house (episode : The Perfect Father). ward was even shown to give downright bad advice to his sons at times. he would later admit his advise was wrong (episode: wally's election). if you watch closely you will notice that ward initially is very casual in his attire, but much more uptight in his parenting approach. later, he is more formally dressed, but he is more relaxed in his approach to parenting. LITB was also the first tv series to actually film a final, concluding episode. listen to wally and the beaver when they describe the fathers of other kids their ages on the show. often other fathers are described as 'hittin' fathers' or 'yellin' fathers.' the cleavers were not the rule, not even way back in 1957, the cleavers were the exception. the cleavers's household was actually a safe haven for the other kids of mayfield who were wally and the beave's ages. fred rutherford talks about beltin' his son lumpy right in the mouth. also, unlike any other show of it's era LITB contained the immortal character : EDDIE HASKELL.
I think that puts Ward Cleaver a cut above the Brady Bunch's Mike Brady in the TV father department as far as realism goes. I'm reminded of the episode when Ward demanded that Beaver attend a birthday party where Beaver was going to be the only boy attending, however, Ward didn't know about that and practically forced Beaver to go to the party because he didn't want his reputation as a father to be given a bad rap. Ward was so apologetic and regretful when he found out that was why Beaver didn't want to go to the party. Ward definitely knew that he didn't always get things right with his boys.
They also dealt with racism chewy the Spanish new kid who couldn't speak English ward asked beaver you wouldn't make fun of a person because they were a little different beaver said no ward said I didn't think you would I don't think trump would said that
@@deguyjay5408 i think robert reed is a very good actor. that being said i really do not like the brady bunch. it's plots are retreaded from other sit-coms and everything is so artificial. around the same time that the series debuted there were at least two movies which dealt with blended families: your's, mine and our's + with six you get eggroll. on the other hand, leave it to beaver is very organic and seems so very real.
@@kh-sg3rd i don't think politics has anything to do with anything here, but since you brought it up and completely ruined your otherwise fine comment: of the two major parties in the united states: i do not believe one political party is always right. i do not believe one political party is always wrong. i believe there are sincere people in both parties. i believe both parties contain people who have their own agenda and they are only concerned about their own interests. i believe both parties have their own agenda. i believe both parties some times tell the truth. i believe both parties are capable of lying. i believe both parties skew the 'facts' to fit their needs. i believe both parties contain people who have been mis-led by the leaders of each party as to what the party actually stands for/what the true agenda of the party is. i believe both parties spew misinformation. i believe just as fox is conservative, cnn, cnn hln, msnbc, abc, cbs, nbc are all slanted to the left. i believe that since people are not perfect and both parties are made up of people, both parties are flawed and capable of making mistakes. i believe both parties have been bought and sold; both have their own corporate sponsors. the banks, the drug companies, the insurance companies, the gasoline companies and a few others are who actually run the country. both political parties are corrupt. in other words, politics on the national level is now merely theater. no matter who wins the presidency the same people still run the country. it has been this way since 1968 with the assassination of RFK. with the assassination of JFK, johnson and his big oil cronies swooped in and since then nothing has ever been the same. with the assassination of RFK there was no one to stop the big corporations. well, since we are talking about what we 'think'...
@@johnrunion5357 I do agree with most of what you said did you know that ward was very generous to the poor and homeless I think Tony Dow said he had a ministry and would often go to skid row to help people after taping the show I grew up in the projects and believe it or not my childhood was very similar to Wally's and beaver's always outside with friends didn't worry about getting kidnapped or molested always had a ball or glove in my hand unfortunately we had to deal with racism at a church there was a church about half mile from the projects they had a baseball team they had the best new uniforms st.johns tigers little league me and a friend went to sign up the only to black kids we didn't care we just wanted to play they told us we didn't live in the district we couldn't play told my mom she look it up and found out we lived right in the district we went back up to sign up again the told us look this teams only for the white kids don't they have a team in the projects now don't come back the school heard about it and we was invited to join the boys club in the next town out of or district me and my friend broke the color bàrrier there and were still best friends today some 40years later
In the film, Leave It To Beaver, there was a scene where Beaver had jumped into a coffee cup as a trade off, to see if there was real coffee in there... The soup episode was based on that.
@Larry Chappell On your original post on not getting a tv until 1966. I'm showing my age (slightly), but I remember getting up at 6am to watch the old tv Indian pattern change, to start a new broadcasting day, and then watching cartoons! The 3 networks would sign-off at midnight and not come back on the air until 6am. This was probably in late 1957 or early 1958, and I also remembered watching and enjoying "Maverick" which started in the Fall of 1957. I don't know when the 3 networks started 24-hour broadcasting, but I'm guessing it wasn't until the late-'60s, just as cable tv got them to broadcast day-round.
I love how the Beaver got his nickname. I know a lot of kids who got their nicknames because of their sibling’s mispronunciation. But, I was a child of the 50’s, too. 😷
I wasn't born yet, but my mother told me the story, several times, about how one of my older sisters gave the other older sister a haircut. Not quite as bad as the one Wally gave to Beaver, apparently a few inches were cut off one side and as a result it all had to be evened out.
I like the episode where Beaver and his friend drill a hole 🕳 into the side of Beaver’s house. Beaver’s friend, Larry Mondello, kept a piece of baloney in his pocket
@@FactsVerse Well, there are so many moments to even relate but what I got from the entire show was the innocence of it all. Jerry was about my age at the time and it was just so relatable to me. There were some very lines that were very funny: Beaver is coming downstairs to go off to school June: Beaver, did you wash up like you were supposed to ? Beaver: Gee, mom, a guy doesn't get that dirty just sleepin'. I remember when I heard about the incident of 9/11 I happened to be flipping channels and there was "Leave It to Beaver" and it made me appreciate the era then as opposed to what's happening today in this country.
I’m so thankful that my father showed me all these shows when I was growing up. I was born in 93 and my father was born in 51. As I grow as an adult and look back on these shows now, I start to see where a lot of my morality and values come from. It’s crazy how much TV can influence us growing up and I’m so thankful that I was influenced by this instead of what else I could’ve been watching.
So my take on location. I get the ocean reference since there was inclusions of “the beach” and beaver owning a surfboard as well as Florida setting with the “Capetian Jack” episode with the alligator. That being said most other references lead to the location being in Ohio. Ward was from Cuyahoga Falls and the mention of Cleveland. Mayfield and Riverside (where Aunt Martha lived) are also both towns in Ohio, generic as the names may be, they fit.
Growing up in Massachusetts going to the beach meant the ocean. Living here in Michigan people also use the term but it simply means any lake with a beach. Probably true in Ohio as well. But as the video points out it seems the producers simply wanted Mayfield to be Anytown USA and it was.
Denise Dodd yes. I actually may be wrong on the city. After your comment I actually think I remember Ward saying in an episode that he was once called “The King of Shaker Heights” another Ohio town. Edit 12-7-20 The episode was called “Kite Day”. Ward was the referred to that for his ability to build kites. Also on the episode “Eddie Quits School” Wally explains to Ward that one of the reasons Eddie may be quitting school is that he got fired from being the track team manager after their loss to Cleveland High. All speculation I know but take it for what it’s worth.
I still watch leave it to beaver every morning I me tv everyone in the cast were great I especially liked ward the father he was so wise and gave the best advice
Jerry himself said that he was not on I Love Lucy. From his Facebook page: "I know that many of you have wondered whether or not I appeared in the I Love Lucy episode, “Ricky’s Old Girlfriend.” Although the young boy with Lucy in the dream sequence may resemble me, I never appeared in an I Love Lucy episode."
Yes, that boy resembled him but was too old at the time lucy was on. At least the photo if him on Lucy's lap looked like beaver at an older age in later episodes of LITB.
About a year ago I was on the Me-TV appand someone replied that leave it to Beaver was one of the worst shows ever made because it created a decade full of disillusion kids who thought the world was actually like that. I found that to be a ridiculous argument then and I still feel that way I grew up with leave it to Beaver it was one of my favorite shows
LITB was one of the more realistic 1950s-60s sitcoms. There were plenty of episodes that were not sweet and innocent. There was the episode regarding divorce. There was an episode about alchoholism, and being homeless. One of the last episodes, Ward warns Wally no drinking at the Prom and if he leaves early, parents will be called. That isn't much different from today. People think it was an innocent show, it wasn't.
@@kh-sg3rd, the show ended in June, 1963, 5 months before the Kennedy assassination, 2 months before the King speech at the Lincoln Memorial. The Civil Rights Movement was just getting started. LITB ran from 1958-1963, not exactly a time of racial integration. Not making excuses, but that was the way it was across the country at that time. There just wasn't any racial awareness.
@@edwardcricchio6106 your right thanks for for that unfortunately seems like we're getting back to that horrible time I found out Hugh Beaumont ward had a ministry and feed the homeless on skid row my all time favorite TV dad
The best show on television taught you to have respect for family,relatives,neighbors,friends,teachers,something you don't see anymore on TV ,that's why our society has deterioted.......
In 1964, I was a Cub Scout and our troop went to the San Francisco Airport for an outing. It was a meet and greet with TV celebrities. I got to shake hands with Tony Dow. ( Wally Cleaver ). He was a great guy and talked to our troop. It was a great day.
@@FactsVersethe show was started in the mid 50s and a lot was going on in the US. Crazy how the last episode was aired in 63. But the ratings were low
This was one of my favorite TV shows back when it aired. I'm also glad they did reruns of all the episodes.I also remember him climbing in the bowl of soup on the billboard and seeing him get rescued.
I'm going to suggest that the show took place in Oregon-still close to the coast (they mention beaches and surfboards all the time), still near mountains and lakes (often mentioned as in "going up to the lake"), and no winter. They also talk a few times' about going "to California" of somebody being "from California". Wally is on the track team, another Oregon staple. Of course, there is also the episode where Beaver's friend Richard isn't going home until he spots a New Jersey license plate, something unlikely to show up in Oregon in the 60s. I also thought New York might be a likely spot, though nobody was using surfboards there. Also interesting to see some of the cameos-Tim Mathieson plays Beaver's friend is a couple of episodes and Veronica Cartwright played his "girlfriend" in another.
@@jasonirelan4487 Well, to each his own, I LOATHED Eddie Haskell, (IMO), he was such an @SS wipe, and really needed his @as kicked, Stupid Wally couldn't see him for who he REALLY was, & let him use him, & get away with doing things to him, but for some reason that's what the writers did, & they liked his character. RIP, Ken Osmond
@@Getrealpeeps Great comment, and it voices my sentiments about Osmond's character Eddie Haskell, a very dislikeable guy, but it's a testament of how well Osmond played the role. So sugary and insincere with his compliments to June Cleaver ("Hello Mrs. Cleaver, gee that's a very pretty dress you're wearing."), and an outright punk to Beaver. Wally tolerated Eddie's BS but deep down knew he was a punk. Wally also knew that he could kick Eddie's @ss whenever he wanted to. To quote Wally, responding to Beaver telling him that Eddie said he could beat Wally up with one arm tied behind his back, and I paraphrase, "What? Eddie couldn't kick my @ss on a GOOD day." Props though to Mr. Osmond, he was in law enforcement just like I was once.
I didn't grow up with "Leave It To Beaver", my folks did. I discovered it when I was around 12 or 13, via reruns that I'd watch after school on TBS. Although it was never stated outright, I always got the feeling that it was supposed to be somewhere in the Midwest. I love "In The Soup"! One of my favorite moments was as the crowd was forming, Miss Cleaver shows up. She asks Eddie Haskell, who was already there, what was going on? He started in saying something like(been years since I've seen it):"Some stupid kid....", in his usual way of talking. Then, hilariously, he remembers his phony, polite-around-elders front. "I mean, some poor unfortunate child got stuck up there." Eddie at his fake, funniest best, lol!
Also RIP Richard Deacon(Fred Rutherford), Rev.Hugh Beaumont( later on became a Presbyterian minister), and Barbara Billingsley. NEVER WILL forget her in the first AIRPLANE where she was speaking JIVE. HILARIOUS!!🤣🤣🤣 Another actor who wound up with an interesting career was Frank Bank(Lumpy Rutherford). He became an investment banker, and was so at his job that some the cast members went to him for financial advice. I'm not sure which one said it, but, after listening to him, they were financially set for the rest of their lives. ✌✌✌✌
leave it to david lynch. david lynch is my all time favorite director. leave it to beaver is my all time favorite show. this is MY theory: director/artist David Lynch in his life/work share many common themes with LITB. David Lynch's father was a tree surgeon in real life. In one episode of the series LITB Wally announces he wants to become a tree surgeon. Bugs and/or exterminators are mentioned several times on the series. In director Lynch's film Blue Velvet bugs are presented often and one character pretends to be an exterminator. In the big fight episode of the series (Beav vs. Violot) one kid reports another kid's ear has gotten torn off. In the film Blue Velvet, a severed ear is presented. Hugh Beaumont played Ward Cleaver. In Blue Velvet, Kyle MacLaughlin played Jeffery Beaumont. In real life, David Lynch was a Eagle level Boy Scout. On the show, Wally and Eddie became scouts, Beav wanted to. On David Lynch's television series, Twin Peaks, a character named Laura Palmer kept a diary. On LITB, Larry's older sister kept a diary. In another episode, Beav himself kept a diary. Beav makes a mention in one episode of a dead cat. In the art of Lynch he often uses dead, decaying animals. Wally and the Beav are fascinated by fire in the Shadow Lake episode. Fire is a reoccurring theme in much of Lynch's work. Beav is intrigued by magic/magicians and hypnotism/hypnotists. Magic and/or magicians are often presented or referred to in the director's film work. Dreams are a major theme in Lynch's film work. Beav has nightmares several times during the series. The Beav likes gory movies. Lynch fills his work with grotesque images. There are many other similarities between LITB and the works of David Lynch...if you only look beneath the surface. basically LITB's little town of mayfield is blue velvet's lumberton during the day light hours.
I record Leave it to Beaver on Metv and watch it all the time. The show was really well-written and all the characters are believable. I do think they could've come up with a better explanation for the nickname Beaver.
I’m 56 I still work as a street cop with 36 years, but I always record this show while Im on duty, but I also watch it on my patrol car mobile data terminal, because I’ve never worked as a Supervisor merely a non-administration Senior Corporal. However I watched this in the 60’s because I was born in 64, and my older brothers who were drafted to Vietnam in 73 & 74 , watched it every day, and I loved it, so much it’s still my favorite show above Police Story from the early 70’s, US Treasury man from the 50-60’s, The FBI 65-74, Highway Patrol 1955-59. May grandfather was a WW1 combat vet and was a cop until he passed away on duty in 1979, from a stroke at 77 years old, my father was a Korean War Marine in 50-51, and also a cop until he passed away from agent orange cancer in 2015, he was still an administrator as a cop when he passed, only me & one older brother were not in the military, and we were cops also, however my oldest two brothers who didn’t make it back from Vietnam loved Leave it to Beaver, and actually wanted to go to Hollywood when they got back, but I think that my father & mother’s father liked watching “Leave it to Beaver” , because it was hilariously funny, and they wouldn’t become sad thinking about my brothers who loved watching that show, but they never got to experience VHS recorders because they didn’t come out until about 1978 or so. This meant that they could only watch it when it showed on our black & white TV, we still only had a big black & white TV until the eighties. Again it was the same TV my older brothers used so my folks wouldn’t change it for a new one. I kept it because my mother paid a professional TV company to box it up for preservation.
One episode that I thought was really dumb was when mom and dad force the Beaver to go to a series of dancing classes with his pal, Larry. June, Ward and Wally made it their ambition in life to cajole and force Beaver on this issue. But, it is also realistic: Mothers, especially, get very sticky about B.S. like that.
I always figured it was because of his slight overbite that he was called Beaver. I called my sister "Sissy" so everyone in the neighborhood called her that.
One of the producers was in WWII with a guy name Beaver and his real name was Theodore and when he was little he couldn't pronounce it and it came out "Twever" which evolved in "Beaver". It was never Tweeter.
According to the Facebook Leave it to Beaver group the admin removed this video claiming it has false information... I left the group Ridiculous this is a nice video and there is nothing false in it as far as I can tell
Some say they lived in Wisconsin. They referenced Wally going to Madison, for a “competition”. The Cleavers also mentioned a trip to see The Green Bay Packers.
I seem to recall that, at the start of the series, the two brothers were six years apart in age. So, how did they end up finishing (Beaver and Wally) grammar and high school, respectively?
Theodore's nickname, Beaver, is a very good 👍 nickname from his big brother, Wally! I enjoyed watching 👀 this video, which had sadness 😢 and wishes coming true! Thank you 😊 all, for explaining everything and for showing this video to me and all of the Leave It To Beaver Admirers! I watch Leave It To Beaver every morning 🌄 which I'm so excited to see 👀, on MeTV, here in Saint Louis, MO! Again, thank you ❤️!
Some trivia I rediscovered when my wife and I were out day tripping from Kansas City Missouri.... Hugh Beaumont and Vic Edlebrock ( of hot rod fame) were both from Eudora, Kansas a typical small town about 20 miles east of Lawrence, Kansas. Hugh spent most of his life as a Methodist Minister
First time I've heard the origin story about his name but it rings true that older brother would struggle to pronounce Theodore and that it could easily morph to Beaver. I buy it!
When I was a kid my parents had friends that would come over on weekends. They had two boys and there father looked like the spitting images of Ward from leave to Beaver even his voice was a like. They are all dead except for the youngest kid and I haven't heard from him in over 30 years he might be gone as well. Time is cruel it takes away a lot of good people.
We were always under the impression that the reason for Theodore's nickname, "The Beaver" was that his front teeth stuck out like a beaver's teeth. There is an opening shot of The Beaver where he is looking out of the back window of the family car. He is smiling and he somehow makes his front teeth look more prominent. We thought this was to showcase this appearance as "beaver-like" and to justify why they gave him that nickname.
As a child I use to watch this but it wasn't until I was an adult I heard and loved Wally's one liners that make me laugh. Subtle but funny. I don't think they would of been as funny to be as a kid as they are now as an adult.
June was a murderer. She plays a Eastern European ballet dancer who is smuggling jewels into the U.S. She kills the dude who's on to her. It was S1E1 on the "Lone Wolf" T.V. (1954-1955) series.
They had already established how the name Beaver came about in an earlier episode. And, the house shown in the updated version of the Cleaver house was the house they used in The Munsters which was used in Desperate House Wives. But, I didn't know that's why they moved. I'm always disappointed when the episode comes up where they say they're moving.
it makes perfect sense that Wally flubbed the correct pronunciation. kids do it all the time. and we never once questioned why he was called Beaver. Theodore is so formal. BTW, ever see an old picture of Teddy (Edward)Kennedy as a child? dead ringer for the Beaver.
What I particularly enjoyed about the show as I watched it while growing up (I'm a few years younger than Wally) was the way they stayed in the same place and had a seemingly stable life while my family moved house all the time. I couldn't stand June Cleaver, though. If my mother had been that kind of a helicopter mother, I would have wanted to smack her one.
I think how Beaver got his nickname is very realistic, because that mispronunciation is really how most nicknames do occur. Most families have a story just like that. Very Real.
I always assumed they lived in Florida or Cali. It was missing something you see EVERY year, in the Midwest... I don't remember a single episode with snow....
The Cleaners were the family every kid wished for. I've been a fan since childhood and still watch daily on MeTv. I think the explanation of how Beaver got the nickname is a good one. What other explanation could they have used? He chewed on trees and built dams when he was a baby?
The second house was also used for the exteriors of the Baxter home in Hazel! And pretty soon afterward too since this show ended in 1963 and Hazel started not long after!
Nope. You're wrong about the home on LITB. Hazel/Gidget's house was on the Columbia Ranch in Burbank, not Universal. Also, Hazel premired in 1961. Two years before LITB left in first run episodes. Both homes might look similar, but they are not the same.
If you like Leave it to Beaver so much you'd read about the show, the best Leave it to Beaver book is called, "The World Famous Beaverpedia." It was just released a few months ago and is almost 500 pages long. Even cast members of the show love it!
The funny thing is, when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, I think because my grandfather had built the house that my mom and her sisters and one brother grew up in and my grandma still lived there... it kind of had that leave it to beaver feel. Growing up, I listened to a lot of 50s and 60s music as a kid and then slowly started getting into the 80s stuff when it came around. Watched this and Brady Bunch and Little House, then Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley. I think that Threes Company was really my first modern style show that I really liked and watched, Growing up. In a lot of ways from the 50s to the early 80s, life hadnt changed that much. It was only from that point on where technology started making strides forward and the world started changing, for the better in someways and for the worse in others. Especially from the early to mid 90s on. Regardless, shows like this and Brady Bunch and many others allow even modern children to realize how different and wonderful life was before the Internet took over. Though I Imagine many couldn’t fathom living without their technology and actually using their imaginations for play time. But those are some of my best memories and something I wouldn’t change for anything. Which is something I’m glad I told my mom before she passed away. If I was lucky enough after this life to be able to go back and relive it again… I wouldn’t change a thing.
I can’t believe you showed the pilot and not mention that one of the children was Harry Shearer, later of Saturday night live and the movie Spinal Tap! That’s a pretty glaring omission
Probably because no one else gave a shit but forget that we have broad shoulders. I have a great idea why not correct it by making your own video to correct the omission.
One big reason that leads me to believe that Leave It to Beaver was filmed with the West Coast if it was in New York east coast they would have called up Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium Central area they might have called up Stan Musial but it was the West Coast they called up Don Drysdale in Los Angeles plus too much mention of surfboards to overlooked that they were near an ocean I would say I lived in Oregon where their father Ward could go salmon fishing but just my opinion
My favorite show of all time. Watching every morning on ME TV while SIP is in effect. Still laughing at Beaver's haircut, Lumpy's car axle joke and Beaver always responding to being called "chicken" (cup of soup episode). Trying to figure out the reference to a comment that this is the worse show ever because it was too ideal. Someone had a bitter childhood. Wish there were more episode. Saw some of Still the Beaver, but not quite the same.
Loc'd Trinity He didn’t… The I love Lucy episode was aired in 1953, Jerry Mathers was born in 1948… Therefore he would’ve been only five years old, this does not look like a five-year-old… They are very similar looking, even Jerry Mathers on his Facebook page admits that this is not him… I love Lucy aired from 1951 to 1957. ..... leave it to beaver was from 1957 to 1963… The episode in question “Ricky’s old girlfriend “was on the third season, which was 1953… This looks nothing like Jerry Mathers did in 1957 when leave it to beaver first aired when he was a lot younger than the boy in the I love Lucy episode looks like at that time.
Another TV show mystery. What happened to Richie's brother on Happy Days? Which Darren do you prefer on Bewitched? The 2 wives on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? It happens.
Let me say this I like LITB, because no matter your race, your economic status or your family status if you were a kid you could relate to Beav and Wally and Eddie. Eddie is one of my favorite characters, because we all had that friend your parents were leary of. But Beav was about the business and that's what made that show. I encourage my kids to watch the show because you can relate even in 2020
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I can still watch it anytime it comes on, I guess that is the kid in Me, and it gives Me a chance to forget about how horrible Our world is now. There will never be another Beaver.
Amen.... Well said! 😘
FORGETTING ALL THE AWFUL NEWS. SEPT 1, 2020 YES!
Best show of all time!
things weren't so peachy then, either. hell, a President was murdered, and black folks were fire hosed and clubbed in the streets.
@@tonym994 Our President was not murdered until 5 months after LITB ended its original run on June 20, 1963. If you were not black or not living in only those few States that enforced segregationist laws, they also had it good and getting better year-after-year! The one State (city) that I read about then and turned fire hoses on them was in Birmingham, Alabama, so don't claim it happened in all the 50 States. Technically, those 7 years (1957-63) were as near-perfect for adults and kids as you can find in enjoying peace and increasing prosperity! Name another 7 years, even half as good!
I remember one very special episode where an old friend of the family showed up asking if he could do some handyman work around the house. he, as it turned out was a recovering alcoholic. Beaver, not knowing this gave him a bottle of wine on his request. this was one of the first sitcom moments that addressed an issue like that.
I really don't like "special social-issue-of-the-week" episodes in sitcoms.
Mayfield was WASP heaven. LOL
My favorite episode was Captain Jack where the boys raised an alligator. The part where Ward and June thought the maid was drinking because she saw a giant alligator in the washtub was great.
When Wally and Eddie pulled the prank on Lumpy's car was hilarious.
That is one of my favorite episode. But I have a lot of them.
@@scotthillman8681 Same for me! The one in this video when Eddie later goes flying off the cliff, and lands on a little piece of rock, and had to be rescued by the forest ranger (John Hart, who played 'The Lone Ranger" in the 3rd season 1952-53). Gilbert's hilarious taunting of Eddie's carelessness was one of the great comeback get-evens for all the times Eddie would lambaste or make fun of the other kids as 'creeps', 'shrimps', or using other great '60s lingo!
That was the best episode for sure.
I like the explanation of his nickname. Some of my kids got their nicknames that way. My first two daughters were just a year apart. When Catherine was born, Lisa couldn't pronounce her name - she called her "Caff-a-wee". She's 43 now and those in the family still call her "Caff" or "Caffy". So "Beaver" is believable to me.
That is one cute story! A big hello to Lisa and "Caffy!"
From Theodore to Tweeter to Beaver? Not believable at all. They could have done better
I hear you Donna. My sister Louise is still Weezy and she's in her 50's.
@@deguyjay5408 Thanks! Going to visit Lisa over the wkend. I'll tell her you said, "Hi!" 😁
i agree they needed a better explanation for beaver name
I grew up in Aiken, SC. Mark Beaumont (Hugh's son), worked for my father at the Aiken County Recreation Department. I met Hugh a couple of times, but I was too young to fully remember. I recall he had a cane due to a stroke.
How cool to have met him! That’s right about Hugh Beaumont having a stroke. It happened sometime after the series was over. I imagine he did use a cane then. I bet he was a really nice and genuine guy. His daughter said her dad was very much like Ward Cleaver in real life.
We watched Leave it to Beaver all the time when I was a kid. It was a good show. The Beaver would do things that got hi. Into trouble but he didn"t get yelled at. He was still punished but not with a belt. It was a nice show with good parents.
I'll be 70 plus years old later this year, and I still get a kick from watching episodes of "Leave It To Beaver". It reminds me of the sweet, simple, fun filled, childhood, my parents provided for me, inspite of the civil, and social injustices, of the America, I actually grew up in. I thank my God, & my wonderful Mom, and Dad, for making that so. God bless, and continue guide, our Democracy, and all its people.
Good day, I remember one episode where Ward was barbecuing in the back yard and tells Wally, "Hand me those asbestos gloves". WOW!!! How times have changed.
I watch it everyday, this is a show that’s should be showing in every School, and to every young parents to help show them, there’s a lot of good advice, and understanding on how to raise your kids and give good directions, and learning Experience, that’s good for both parents and kids. It’s a good learning show. I gave my grandkids watching the show, and believe it or not they really love’s it.
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you forgot to mention that leave it to beaver was the first tv sit-com to deal with alcoholism (episode: beaver & andy). it was also the first sit-com to deal with the effect divorce has upon children (episode: beaver's house guest). also in the early episodes ward would often yell at the boys. he would later apologize, but he did indeed yell. in an early episode ward was even shown to be jealous when his sons had rather play basketball elsewhere than at their own house (episode : The Perfect Father). ward was even shown to give downright bad advice to his sons at times. he would later admit his advise was wrong (episode: wally's election). if you watch closely you will notice that ward initially is very casual in his attire, but much more uptight in his parenting approach. later, he is more formally dressed, but he is more relaxed in his approach to parenting. LITB was also the first tv series to actually film a final, concluding episode. listen to wally and the beaver when they describe the fathers of other kids their ages on the show. often other fathers are described as 'hittin' fathers' or 'yellin' fathers.' the cleavers were not the rule, not even way back in 1957, the cleavers were the exception. the cleavers's household was actually a safe haven for the other kids of mayfield who were wally and the beave's ages. fred rutherford talks about beltin' his son lumpy right in the mouth. also, unlike any other show of it's era LITB contained the immortal character : EDDIE HASKELL.
I think that puts Ward Cleaver a cut above the Brady Bunch's Mike Brady in the TV father department as far as realism goes. I'm reminded of the episode when Ward demanded that Beaver attend a birthday party where Beaver was going to be the only boy attending, however, Ward didn't know about that and practically forced Beaver to go to the party because he didn't want his reputation as a father to be given a bad rap. Ward was so apologetic and regretful when he found out that was why Beaver didn't want to go to the party. Ward definitely knew that he didn't always get things right with his boys.
They also dealt with racism chewy the Spanish new kid who couldn't speak English ward asked beaver you wouldn't make fun of a person because they were a little different beaver said no ward said I didn't think you would I don't think trump would said that
@@deguyjay5408 i think robert reed is a very good actor. that being said i really do not like the brady bunch. it's plots are retreaded from other sit-coms and everything is so artificial. around the same time that the series debuted there were at least two movies which dealt with blended families: your's, mine and our's + with six you get eggroll. on the other hand, leave it to beaver is very organic and seems so very real.
@@kh-sg3rd i don't think politics has anything to do with anything here, but since you brought it up and completely ruined your otherwise fine comment: of the two major parties in the united states: i do not believe one political party is always right. i do not believe one political party is always wrong. i believe there are sincere people in both parties. i believe both parties contain people who have their own agenda and they are only concerned about their own interests. i believe both parties have their own agenda. i believe both parties some times tell the truth. i believe both parties are capable of lying. i believe both parties skew the 'facts' to fit their needs. i believe both parties contain people who have been mis-led by the leaders of each party as to what the party actually stands for/what the true agenda of the party is. i believe both parties spew misinformation. i believe just as fox is conservative, cnn, cnn hln, msnbc, abc, cbs, nbc are all slanted to the left. i believe that since people are not perfect and both parties are made up of people, both parties are flawed and capable of making mistakes. i believe both parties have been bought and sold; both have their own corporate sponsors. the banks, the drug companies, the insurance companies, the gasoline companies and a few others are who actually run the country. both political parties are corrupt. in other words, politics on the national level is now merely theater. no matter who wins the presidency the same people still run the country. it has been this way since 1968 with the assassination of RFK. with the assassination of JFK, johnson and his big oil cronies swooped in and since then nothing has ever been the same. with the assassination of RFK there was no one to stop the big corporations. well, since we are talking about what we 'think'...
@@johnrunion5357 I do agree with most of what you said did you know that ward was very generous to the poor and homeless I think Tony Dow said he had a ministry and would often go to skid row to help people after taping the show I grew up in the projects and believe it or not my childhood was very similar to Wally's and beaver's always outside with friends didn't worry about getting kidnapped or molested always had a ball or glove in my hand unfortunately we had to deal with racism at a church there was a church about half mile from the projects they had a baseball team they had the best new uniforms st.johns tigers little league me and a friend went to sign up the only to black kids we didn't care we just wanted to play they told us we didn't live in the district we couldn't play told my mom she look it up and found out we lived right in the district we went back up to sign up again the told us look this teams only for the white kids don't they have a team in the projects now don't come back the school heard about it and we was invited to join the boys club in the next town out of or district me and my friend broke the color bàrrier there and were still best friends today some 40years later
HA!
I remember watching the: "in the soup" episode.
In the film, Leave It To Beaver, there was a scene where Beaver had jumped into a coffee cup as a trade off, to see if there was real coffee in there... The soup episode was based on that.
@@gabrielromero9512 The soup episode was based on a film that came out roughly 40 years later? That's bizarre.
EASILY ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS OF ALL TIME
Hugh Beaumount was My Favorite TV Dad, He Kept It Real.
As much as I love Barbara Billingsley, occasionally she gave the kids bad advice, but I guess that made her real.
Reminds me of my dad
@@Jbuddy58 • Larry's dad had chick on the side, and probably another family.
He was fantastic and you couldn't be more on the mark.
@Larry Chappell On your original post on not getting a tv until 1966. I'm showing my age (slightly), but I remember getting up at 6am to watch the old tv Indian pattern change, to start a new broadcasting day, and then watching cartoons! The 3 networks would sign-off at midnight and not come back on the air until 6am. This was probably in late 1957 or early 1958, and I also remembered watching and enjoying "Maverick" which started in the Fall of 1957. I don't know when the 3 networks started 24-hour broadcasting, but I'm guessing it wasn't until the late-'60s, just as cable tv got them to broadcast day-round.
In the first episode “Beaver Gets Spelled” he explained how how got his nickname Beaver to his teacher Mrs. Canfield.
I love how the Beaver got his nickname. I know a lot of kids who got their nicknames because of their sibling’s mispronunciation. But, I was a child of the 50’s, too. 😷
My 2 favorite episodes were The Soup and Beavers Haircut.
ABSOLUTELY !!
I wasn't born yet, but my mother told me the story, several times, about how one of my older sisters gave the other older sister a haircut. Not quite as bad as the one Wally gave to Beaver, apparently a few inches were cut off one side and as a result it all had to be evened out.
With covid I had to have my wife cut my hair my only request was not to make me look like Beavers
I like the episode where Beaver and his friend drill a hole 🕳 into the side of Beaver’s house. Beaver’s friend, Larry Mondello, kept a piece of baloney in his pocket
Beaver's hideous haircut was difficult to look at! Funny, but absolutely horrid!
Met Jerry and Ken at a Boston convention. Spoke to them. Very nice guys. I asked them if they ever strayed from the script and they said "NO".
Lucky you! Do you have any favorite moments from the show?
@@FactsVerse Well, there are so many moments to even relate but what I got from the entire show was the innocence of it all. Jerry was about my age at the time and it was just so relatable to me. There were some very lines that were very funny:
Beaver is coming downstairs to go off to school
June: Beaver, did you wash up like you were supposed to ?
Beaver: Gee, mom, a guy doesn't get that dirty just sleepin'.
I remember when I heard about the incident of 9/11 I happened to be flipping channels and there was "Leave It to Beaver" and it made me appreciate the era then as opposed to what's happening today in this country.
I like the way Beaver got his name. My dad had a friend, his name was Adrian, and when I was very young I couldn't pronounce it and I'd say "Apron."
Love this show. Eddie Haskell was my favourite character. RIP Ken Osmond.
I’m so thankful that my father showed me all these shows when I was growing up. I was born in 93 and my father was born in 51. As I grow as an adult and look back on these shows now, I start to see where a lot of my morality and values come from. It’s crazy how much TV can influence us growing up and I’m so thankful that I was influenced by this instead of what else I could’ve been watching.
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So my take on location. I get the ocean reference since there was inclusions of “the beach” and beaver owning a surfboard as well as Florida setting with the “Capetian Jack” episode with the alligator. That being said most other references lead to the location being in Ohio. Ward was from Cuyahoga Falls and the mention of Cleveland. Mayfield and Riverside (where Aunt Martha lived) are also both towns in Ohio, generic as the names may be, they fit.
Do you mean the character Ward was supposed to be from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio? I'm confused since I thought Hugh's family was from Kansas.
Yep! That's a big mystery where they lived.
Growing up in Massachusetts going to the beach meant the ocean. Living here in Michigan people also use the term but it simply means any lake with a beach. Probably true in Ohio as well.
But as the video points out it seems the producers simply wanted Mayfield to be Anytown USA and it was.
Denise Dodd yes. I actually may be wrong on the city. After your comment I actually think I remember Ward saying in an episode that he was once called “The King of Shaker Heights” another Ohio town. Edit 12-7-20 The episode was called “Kite Day”. Ward was the referred to that for his ability to build kites. Also on the episode “Eddie Quits School” Wally explains to Ward that one of the reasons Eddie may be quitting school is that he got fired from being the track team manager after their loss to Cleveland High. All speculation I know but take it for what it’s worth.
I still watch leave it to beaver every morning I me tv everyone in the cast were great I especially liked ward the father he was so wise and gave the best advice
They dont make families like this anymore....💕
Jerry himself said that he was not on I Love Lucy. From his Facebook page: "I know that many of you have wondered whether or not I appeared in the I Love Lucy episode, “Ricky’s Old Girlfriend.” Although the young boy with Lucy in the dream sequence may resemble me, I never appeared in an I Love Lucy episode."
I agree, resembles, but not really all that much.
This blow my mind. I've been believing (and repeating ) this error for years!
Not Jerry on Lucy. That needs to come out.
Yes, that boy resembled him but was too old at the time lucy was on. At least the photo if him on Lucy's lap looked like beaver at an older age in later episodes of LITB.
I thought this was facts first! 😂
This old show is my favorite...Thank you so much for the info......Smile
I love leave it to beaver with mathers and Dow.
Mathers
About a year ago I was on the Me-TV appand someone replied that leave it to Beaver was one of the worst shows ever made because it created a decade full of disillusion kids who thought the world was actually like that. I found that to be a ridiculous argument then and I still feel that way I grew up with leave it to Beaver it was one of my favorite shows
LITB was one of the more realistic 1950s-60s sitcoms. There were plenty of episodes that were not sweet and innocent. There was the episode regarding divorce. There was an episode about alchoholism, and being homeless. One of the last episodes, Ward warns Wally no drinking at the Prom and if he leaves early, parents will be called. That isn't much different from today. People think it was an innocent show, it wasn't.
Yeah I still watch it every morning and ward was always great life lessons I never seen a black person on the show not even in the backround
@@kh-sg3rd, the show ended in June, 1963, 5 months before the Kennedy assassination, 2 months before the King speech at the Lincoln Memorial. The Civil Rights Movement was just getting started. LITB ran from 1958-1963, not exactly a time of racial integration. Not making excuses, but that was the way it was across the country at that time. There just wasn't any racial awareness.
@@edwardcricchio6106 your right thanks for for that unfortunately seems like we're getting back to that horrible time I found out Hugh Beaumont ward had a ministry and feed the homeless on skid row my all time favorite TV dad
@@kh-sg3rd • Kim Hamilton played a maid at a wedding not a speaking part Blacks weren't invented yet.
Ive always love that show.
The best show on television taught you to have respect for family,relatives,neighbors,friends,teachers,something you don't see anymore on TV ,that's why our society has deterioted.......
In 1964, I was a Cub Scout and our troop went to the San Francisco Airport for an outing. It was a meet and greet with TV celebrities. I got to shake hands with Tony Dow. ( Wally Cleaver ). He was a great guy and talked to our troop. It was a great day.
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@@FactsVersethe show was started in the mid 50s and a lot was going on in the US. Crazy how the last episode was aired in 63. But the ratings were low
@@FactsVerseTony looked old or older like 22 or 23 in the later episodes
This was one of my favorite TV shows back when it aired. I'm also glad they did reruns of all the episodes.I also remember him climbing in the bowl of soup on the billboard and seeing him get rescued.
I'm going to suggest that the show took place in Oregon-still close to the coast (they mention beaches and surfboards all the time), still near mountains and lakes (often mentioned as in "going up to the lake"), and no winter. They also talk a few times' about going "to California" of somebody being "from California". Wally is on the track team, another Oregon staple.
Of course, there is also the episode where Beaver's friend Richard isn't going home until he spots a New Jersey license plate, something unlikely to show up in Oregon in the 60s. I also thought New York might be a likely spot, though nobody was using surfboards there. Also interesting to see some of the cameos-Tim Mathieson plays Beaver's friend is a couple of episodes and Veronica Cartwright played his "girlfriend" in another.
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Love that show,Eddie was always up to something.
Hugh Beaumont and Carl Betz from the Donna Reed show were great fathers.
Tony Dow looks like he could play Kenny Rogers in a bio pic.
😂! For real! Never thought of that before 😄
Rest in peace Ken Osmond who was Eddie Haskell.
@@leondillon8723 Eddie was always one of my favorite characters because of the way he got Beaver in trouble and caused trouble in other ways.
@@jasonirelan4487 Well, to each his own, I LOATHED Eddie Haskell, (IMO), he was such an @SS wipe, and really needed his @as kicked, Stupid Wally couldn't see him for who he REALLY was, & let him use him, & get away with doing things to him, but for some reason that's what the writers did, & they liked his character. RIP, Ken Osmond
@@Getrealpeeps Great comment, and it voices my sentiments about Osmond's character Eddie Haskell, a very dislikeable guy, but it's a testament of how well Osmond played the role. So sugary and insincere with his compliments to June Cleaver ("Hello Mrs. Cleaver, gee that's a very pretty dress you're wearing."), and an outright punk to Beaver. Wally tolerated Eddie's BS but deep down knew he was a punk. Wally also knew that he could kick Eddie's @ss whenever he wanted to. To quote Wally, responding to Beaver telling him that Eddie said he could beat Wally up with one arm tied behind his back, and I paraphrase, "What? Eddie couldn't kick my @ss on a GOOD day."
Props though to Mr. Osmond, he was in law enforcement just like I was once.
ALSO HE WAS LAPD...FOR REAL
@@Getrealpeeps I always looked at eddies as...sort of a role model
I didn't grow up with "Leave It To Beaver", my folks did. I discovered it when I was around 12 or 13, via reruns that I'd watch after school on TBS. Although it was never stated outright, I always got the feeling that it was supposed to be somewhere in the Midwest. I love "In The Soup"! One of my favorite moments was as the crowd was forming, Miss Cleaver shows up. She asks Eddie Haskell, who was already there, what was going on? He started in saying something like(been years since I've seen it):"Some stupid kid....", in his usual way of talking. Then, hilariously, he remembers his phony, polite-around-elders front. "I mean, some poor unfortunate child got stuck up there." Eddie at his fake, funniest best, lol!
I grew up watching Leave It to Beaver and I really liked the show.
Also RIP Richard Deacon(Fred Rutherford), Rev.Hugh Beaumont( later on became a Presbyterian minister), and Barbara Billingsley.
NEVER WILL forget her in the first AIRPLANE where she was speaking JIVE. HILARIOUS!!🤣🤣🤣
Another actor who wound up with an interesting career was Frank Bank(Lumpy Rutherford). He became an investment banker, and was so at his job that some the cast members went to him for financial advice. I'm not sure which one said it, but, after listening to him, they were financially set for the rest of their lives. ✌✌✌✌
It's all fine how the Beav got his name. It was a wonderful show!!!
From what I’ve found out, Mayfield was a Cleveland, Ohio suburb. Just check out Shaker Heights... Also very near a beach (Lake Erie)...
leave it to david lynch. david lynch is my all time favorite director. leave it to beaver is my all time favorite show. this is MY theory: director/artist David Lynch in his life/work share many
common themes with LITB. David Lynch's father was a tree surgeon in
real life. In one episode of the series LITB Wally announces he wants
to become a tree surgeon. Bugs and/or exterminators are mentioned
several times on the series. In director Lynch's film Blue Velvet bugs
are presented often and one character pretends to be an exterminator.
In the big fight episode of the series (Beav vs. Violot) one kid
reports another kid's ear has gotten torn off. In the film Blue
Velvet, a severed ear is presented. Hugh Beaumont played Ward Cleaver.
In Blue Velvet, Kyle MacLaughlin played Jeffery Beaumont. In real
life, David Lynch was a Eagle level Boy Scout. On the show, Wally and
Eddie became scouts, Beav wanted to. On David Lynch's television
series, Twin Peaks, a character named Laura Palmer kept a diary. On
LITB, Larry's older sister kept a diary. In another episode, Beav
himself kept a diary. Beav makes a mention in one episode of a dead
cat. In the art of Lynch he often uses dead, decaying animals. Wally
and the Beav are fascinated by fire in the Shadow Lake episode. Fire
is a reoccurring theme in much of Lynch's work. Beav is intrigued by
magic/magicians and hypnotism/hypnotists. Magic and/or magicians are
often presented or referred to in the director's film work. Dreams are
a major theme in Lynch's film work. Beav has nightmares several times
during the series. The Beav likes gory movies. Lynch fills his work
with grotesque images. There are many other similarities between LITB
and the works of David Lynch...if you only look beneath the surface. basically LITB's little town of mayfield is blue velvet's lumberton during the day light hours.
my grandparents seriously make me watch leave it to beaver EVERYDAY
Still enjoy watching all these years later. Better Than all the stuff on now on my opinion.
they introduced toilets in TV shows that served another purpose besides what its used for! Still love the Beaver and his family!
I record Leave it to Beaver on Metv and watch it all the time. The show was really well-written and all the characters are believable. I do think they could've come up with a better explanation for the nickname Beaver.
I’m 56 I still work as a street cop with 36 years, but I always record this show while Im on duty, but I also watch it on my patrol car mobile data terminal, because I’ve never worked as a Supervisor merely a non-administration Senior Corporal. However I watched this in the 60’s because I was born in 64, and my older brothers who were drafted to Vietnam in 73 & 74 , watched it every day, and I loved it, so much it’s still my favorite show above Police Story from the early 70’s, US Treasury man from the 50-60’s, The FBI 65-74, Highway Patrol 1955-59. May grandfather was a WW1 combat vet and was a cop until he passed away on duty in 1979, from a stroke at 77 years old, my father was a Korean War Marine in 50-51, and also a cop until he passed away from agent orange cancer in 2015, he was still an administrator as a cop when he passed, only me & one older brother were not in the military, and we were cops also, however my oldest two brothers who didn’t make it back from Vietnam loved Leave it to Beaver, and actually wanted to go to Hollywood when they got back, but I think that my father & mother’s father liked watching “Leave it to Beaver” , because it was hilariously funny, and they wouldn’t become sad thinking about my brothers who loved watching that show, but they never got to experience VHS recorders because they didn’t come out until about 1978 or so. This meant that they could only watch it when it showed on our black & white TV, we still only had a big black & white TV until the eighties. Again it was the same TV my older brothers used so my folks wouldn’t change it for a new one. I kept it because my mother paid a professional TV company to box it up for preservation.
WOW 😀
Thanks for sharing your story. It brought me to tears. Wonderful meteorites I’m sure.
I think how Beaver got his name is perfect
Jerry Mathers can lump it, the little goof
We agree, Manuel!
One episode that I thought was really dumb was when mom and dad force the Beaver to go to a series of dancing classes with his pal, Larry. June, Ward and Wally made it their ambition in life to cajole and force Beaver on this issue. But, it is also realistic: Mothers, especially, get very sticky about B.S. like that.
I always figured it was because of his slight overbite that he was called Beaver. I called my sister "Sissy" so everyone in the neighborhood called her that.
One of the producers was in WWII with a guy name Beaver and his real name was Theodore and when he was little he couldn't pronounce it and it came out "Twever" which evolved in "Beaver". It was never Tweeter.
One of the best shows of my childhood.
I still watch i most every morning before going to work on MeTv.
According to the Facebook Leave it to Beaver group the admin removed this video claiming it has false information... I left the group
Ridiculous this is a nice video and there is nothing false in it as far as I can tell
Some say they lived in Wisconsin. They referenced Wally going to Madison, for a “competition”. The Cleavers also mentioned a trip to see The Green Bay Packers.
Loved the show & I never knew why he was called Beaver---but that makes perfect sense!!!
I thought it was a huge coffee cup.
Oh well: Coffee Cup or Bowl of Soup what's the difference?
I seem to recall that, at the start of the series, the two brothers were six years apart in age. So, how did they end up finishing (Beaver and Wally) grammar and high school, respectively?
I literally watch this show every night when I cook! One of my favorites!
I watch it every morning on METV. I also have the DVD set.
Mathers (playing a grown up Beaver) in that Married with Children episode. Hilarious.
Theodore's nickname, Beaver, is a very good 👍 nickname from his big brother, Wally! I enjoyed watching 👀 this video, which had sadness 😢 and wishes coming true! Thank you 😊 all, for explaining everything and for showing this video to me and all of the Leave It To Beaver Admirers! I watch Leave It To Beaver every morning 🌄 which I'm so excited to see 👀, on MeTV, here in Saint Louis, MO! Again, thank you ❤️!
I used to be amazed at how good Beav's posture was.
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Some trivia I rediscovered when my wife and I were out day tripping from Kansas City Missouri.... Hugh Beaumont and Vic Edlebrock ( of hot rod fame) were both from Eudora, Kansas a typical small town about 20 miles east of Lawrence, Kansas.
Hugh spent most of his life as a Methodist Minister
He Should've been called 'Beaver' because he was always "Busy as a beaver".
First time I've heard the origin story about his name but it rings true that older brother would struggle to pronounce Theodore and that it could easily morph to Beaver. I buy it!
What's your favorite episode from the show?
@@FactsVerse No single ep stands out in my memory but we always watched the show.
When I was a kid my parents had friends that would come over on weekends. They had two boys and there father looked like the spitting images of Ward from leave to Beaver even his voice was a like. They are all dead except for the youngest kid and I haven't heard from him in over 30 years he might be gone as well. Time is cruel it takes away a lot of good people.
We were always under the impression that the reason for Theodore's nickname, "The Beaver" was that his front teeth stuck out like a beaver's teeth. There is an opening shot of The Beaver where he is looking out of the back window of the family car. He is smiling and he somehow makes his front teeth look more prominent. We thought this was to showcase this appearance as "beaver-like" and to justify why they gave him that nickname.
As a child I use to watch this but it wasn't until I was an adult I heard and loved Wally's one liners that make me laugh. Subtle but funny. I don't think they would of been as funny to be as a kid as they are now as an adult.
Jerry had a little brother who looked just like him, jim mathers who was also in show business.
June was a murderer.
She plays a Eastern European ballet dancer who is smuggling jewels into the U.S.
She kills the dude who's on to her.
It was S1E1 on the "Lone Wolf" T.V. (1954-1955) series.
Season 2 and 3 are the best. Still watch it today.
They had already established how the name Beaver came about in an earlier episode. And, the house shown in the updated version of the Cleaver house was the house they used in The Munsters which was used in Desperate House Wives. But, I didn't know that's why they moved. I'm always disappointed when the episode comes up where they say they're moving.
it makes perfect sense that Wally flubbed the correct pronunciation. kids do it all the time. and we never once questioned why he was called Beaver. Theodore is so formal. BTW, ever see an old picture of Teddy (Edward)Kennedy as a child? dead ringer for the Beaver.
Do a show about My Favorite Martian and one about I Dream of Jeannie. I like your shows.
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What I particularly enjoyed about the show as I watched it while growing up (I'm a few years younger than Wally) was the way they stayed in the same place and had a seemingly stable life while my family moved house all the time. I couldn't stand June Cleaver, though. If my mother had been that kind of a helicopter mother, I would have wanted to smack her one.
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I was born on june 2nd 1948.Same as the Beaver. I also spent 6 years in the usmc
Fun stuff, thanks for sharing this info! Which episode is the most memorable for you?
The show came on Tv land and I remember it. All the characters Lumpy, Wally, Beaver, and Judy. Him and Judy was funny
I think how Beaver got his nickname is very realistic, because that mispronunciation is really how most nicknames do occur. Most families have a story just like that. Very Real.
I do wish that they had tried harder to keep Larry Mondello. None of Beaver's friends could replace him!
I always assumed they lived in Florida or Cali. It was missing something you see EVERY year, in the Midwest... I don't remember a single episode with snow....
Makes you wonder why the Brady bunch refused to have a toilet many many years later didn't do anything bad to that series
My gran knew a fishmonger who was the spitting image of Hugh Beaumont! LOL
The Cleaners were the family every kid wished for. I've been a fan since childhood and still watch daily on MeTv. I think the explanation of how Beaver got the nickname is a good one. What other explanation could they have used? He chewed on trees and built dams when he was a baby?
The second house was also used for the exteriors of the Baxter home in Hazel! And pretty soon afterward too since this show ended in 1963 and Hazel started not long after!
Nope. You're wrong about the home on LITB.
Hazel/Gidget's house was on the Columbia Ranch in Burbank, not Universal.
Also, Hazel premired in 1961. Two years before LITB left in first run episodes.
Both homes might look similar, but they are not the same.
If you like Leave it to Beaver so much you'd read about the show, the best Leave it to Beaver book is called, "The World Famous Beaverpedia." It was just released a few months ago and is almost 500 pages long. Even cast members of the show love it!
Very interesting, thank you so much for sharing this information. Which episode of the show appealed to you the most?
@@FactsVerse So many of them in the first two seasons. Too many to just name one.
Loved this show!!💜💜
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The funny thing is, when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, I think because my grandfather had built the house that my mom and her sisters and one brother grew up in and my grandma still lived there... it kind of had that leave it to beaver feel. Growing up, I listened to a lot of 50s and 60s music as a kid and then slowly started getting into the 80s stuff when it came around. Watched this and Brady Bunch and Little House, then Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley. I think that Threes Company was really my first modern style show that I really liked and watched, Growing up. In a lot of ways from the 50s to the early 80s, life hadnt changed that much. It was only from that point on where technology started making strides forward and the world started changing, for the better in someways and for the worse in others. Especially from the early to mid 90s on.
Regardless, shows like this and Brady Bunch and many others allow even modern children to realize how different and wonderful life was before the Internet took over. Though I Imagine many couldn’t fathom living without their technology and actually using their imaginations for play time. But those are some of my best memories and something I wouldn’t change for anything. Which is something I’m glad I told my mom before she passed away. If I was lucky enough after this life to be able to go back and relive it again… I wouldn’t change a thing.
I can’t believe you showed the pilot and not mention that one of the children was Harry Shearer, later of Saturday night live and the movie Spinal Tap! That’s a pretty glaring omission
Probably because no one else gave a shit but forget that we have broad shoulders. I have a great idea why not correct it by making your own video to correct the omission.
Great show.
One big reason that leads me to believe that Leave It to Beaver was filmed with the West Coast if it was in New York east coast they would have called up Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium Central area they might have called up Stan Musial but it was the West Coast they called up Don Drysdale in Los Angeles plus too much mention of surfboards to overlooked that they were near an ocean I would say I lived in Oregon where their father Ward could go salmon fishing but just my opinion
My favorite show of all time. Watching every morning on ME TV while SIP is in effect. Still laughing at Beaver's haircut, Lumpy's car axle joke and Beaver always responding to being called "chicken" (cup of soup episode). Trying to figure out the reference to a comment that this is the worse show ever because it was too ideal. Someone had a bitter childhood. Wish there were more episode. Saw some of Still the Beaver, but not quite the same.
Love the episodes as stated i a previous comment
I actually love this show. I didn't realize Jerry Mathers made a guest appearance in that scene of I Love Lucy. I never paid attention.
Loc'd Trinity He didn’t… The I love Lucy episode was aired in 1953, Jerry Mathers was born in 1948… Therefore he would’ve been only five years old, this does not look like a five-year-old… They are very similar looking, even Jerry Mathers on his Facebook page admits that this is not him…
I love Lucy aired from 1951 to 1957. ..... leave it to beaver was from 1957 to 1963… The episode in question “Ricky’s old girlfriend “was on the third season, which was 1953… This looks nothing like Jerry Mathers did in 1957 when leave it to beaver first aired when he was a lot younger than the boy in the I love Lucy episode looks like at that time.
It's weird that when the showed 1st started, the boys were 6 years apart, but at the end, they were 4 years apart!
Another TV show mystery. What happened to Richie's brother on Happy Days? Which Darren do you prefer on Bewitched? The 2 wives on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? It happens.
Let me say this I like LITB, because no matter your race, your economic status or your family status if you were a kid you could relate to Beav and Wally and Eddie. Eddie is one of my favorite characters, because we all had that friend your parents were leary of. But Beav was about the business and that's what made that show. I encourage my kids to watch the show because you can relate even in 2020
I think Beaver was an appropriate name for him. It sounds like Jerry was an "eager beaver" right from the start.
Always liked the In The Soup episode.
Ward couldn't get it up so Fred Rutherford was givin' it to June.