S6 E5 25m. Beaver tosses the newspapers wildly into the air with both hands: one of them plops into a wet cement, another one lands on a roof, one into a dog's mouth, one into a birdbath, one onto a cat, one into a man's leaf-vacuum nozzle, and one lands smack on a painter's head. Wally and Beaver secretly order a Florida alligator from a comic book ad, planning to keep the creature in their bathtub. On the first day of school, five days later, Ward and June tell Wally to accompany Beaver for a few days while Beaver gets used to riding his bicycle to school. This is a ranking and retrospective of the top ten episodes of Leave it To Beaver. Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) is June and Ward Cleaver's younger son and Wally's brother. Leave It to Beaver is a 1997 American comedy film based on the television series of the same name. Leave It To Beaver S06E37 Beaver Sees America. Following his graduation, he began working different jobs at State University of New York College and later went on to become a lecturer. Parents Ward and June, and older brother Wally, try to keep Theodore ('the Beaver') out of trouble. Karen is also put off by Kyle's bullying and leaves him for Wally. Directed by Norman Tokar. Then he snickers all the way to the bank", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leave_It_to_Beaver_(film)&oldid=986746143, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Grace Phillips as Miss Landers the School Teacher, Glenn Walker Harris Jr. as a punk who steals Beaver's bike, This page was last edited on 2 November 2020, at 19:31. A series gets an Average Tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. The youth, who is the younger brother of Kyle, challenges Beaver, as a way of getting his bike back, to climb up to a gigantic coffee mug atop the local cafe, which Beaver falls into and can't get out. The movie was developed into a new series titled The New Leave It To Beaver. The misadventures of two single women in the 1950s and '60s. Tell It to Ella. Then the leaf vacuum explodes and throws dirt through the truck driver's window, causing him to slam on his brakes and have his sticky pies thrown about. Episode 425 mins. When Wally and Eddie come out of the shop and hear that Beaver's bike was stolen, they look for it, but cannot find it. Inside the soda shop, Karen likes Wally and not Eddie. (1957–1963). Surprisingly, the show ran for a total of four seasons, and included many of the original cast members’ real children as actors on the show. A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville. With Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers. Leave It to Beaver is a 1997 American comedy film based on the television series of the same name. Beaver goes into the city and gets hit by a truck, but is unharmed. The misadventures of a wisecracking talking horse and his human owner. Eddie Haskell tells him that if he flatters his father by signing up for football, he will get it on his birthday. Did you know that Leave It to Beaver was the first show to give this type of ending? A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways. It starred Mathers alongside Barbara Billingsley , … June and Ward Cleaver’s first son Wallace “Wally” Cleaver was the one often getting … S6 E8 25m. Regardless of its age, "Leave It to Beaver" is harmless fun, good family viewing. At home, Ward sees him polishing it; tells him that it would be safer if it stays in the house; and, at Beaver's request, reads him a bedtime story. All of these films are presented in anamorphic widescreen. Aside from Ken Osmond's ever so polite Eddie, who's well mannered in front of the adults and a "big mouth, wise guy" to his pals, there's Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford, Lumpy's father; the charming Sue Randall as Miss Landers, Beaver's teacher; Burt Mustin as Gus, the fireman; Beaver's other friends including Stanley Fafara as Whitey Whitney, who appeared occasionally through the show's six seasons; Stephen Talbot as Gilbert, and Richard Correll as Richard Rickover. While it's good seeing those familiar faces again, a little older and slightly wiser, but minus the deceased Hugh Beaumont, who is sorely missed, nothing comes close to this original series. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, (from left): Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, (1963), 1957-63 / Everett Collection. View production, box office, & company info. S6 E7 25m. The series began with the 1983 reunion television movie Still the Beaver that aired on CBS in March 1983. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The sitcom was so popular it spawned a 1983 television movie, "Still the Beaver," and a follow-up series, "The New Leave It To Beaver," which ran from 1983 to 1989 and featured the once-young characters as the older generation. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney Fife. While television of the 1950s and '60s had its share of family shows during its black and white age, including "Father Knows Best" with Robert Young and Jane Wyatt; "The Donna Reed Show" (with Donna Reed and Carl Betz); "Dennis the Menace" (starring Jay North); and later, the long running series, "My Three Sons" (1960-1972) with Fred MacMurray, it seemed unlikely that "Leave It to Beaver" would become the one sit-com to survive and continue to air on television, whether locally or on cable, decades after its concluding episode in 1963. Directed by Hugh Beaumont. Double Date. S6 E4 25m. Leave It to Beaver was actor Tony Dow's first dramatic experience. [1] It features many of the original regular characters, most played by new actors, with some cameos by the original TV cast. With Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers. Leave It To Beaver, Seasons 1-2 The first two seasons of Leave It To Beaver were filmed at CBS Radford, then known as Republic Studios. The show premiered in 1957 and ended in 1963, according to … Leave It To Beaver S03E32 Beaver And Violet. Following Leave It to Beaver, Osmond scored occasional roles on shows like The Munsters and Lassie, though he ultimately found himself too frequently type … The character Wally was portrayed by Paul Sullivan in the pilot episode. Tad Dibbern . Leave it to Beaver is one of TV’s all-time classics. Beaver and Wally apologize then ride away. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? I learned to recognize all kinds of beaver "signs". Ward had found out about Beaver skipping football practice and says Beaver can quit the team; but Beaver rejoins the team. With the writers sensing this, the scripts placed Beaver in support in several episodes while stories revolved around more on Wally and his friends. With each passing season viewers got to see the show's new opening, watching the boys growing and maturing to young adults by season six. Mathers played Theodore Cleaver on "Leave It to Beaver." The Haircut. The first episode of "Leave It To Beaver" aired on October 4, 1957; the last episode was June 20, 1963. Wally's Dinner Date. "[2], Roger Ebert gave it 3 out of 4 stars writing, "I was surprised to find myself seduced by the film’s simple, sweet story, and amused by the sly indications that the Cleavers don’t live in the 1950s anymore. "Leave It to Beaver" geared to its younger viewers when first aired, but today, the children who loved it back then are either adults or grandparents currently sharing their TV memories with their young ones. The only actor who didn’t return was Hugh Beaumont, who had died several years prior. It features many of the original regular characters, most played by new actors, with some cameos by the original TV cast. The show ran from October 1957 to June 1963, and its reruns still air today. In the boys' bedroom, they get into a fight, which sends Beaver's new computer flying out the window. S6 E2 25m. The site's consensus states: "Declining to update the television series' sensibility for modern audiences while lacking in its requisite charm, Leave it to Beaver should have just left these characters in the past. Beaver uses a concession stand to block the boy's way, causing the boy to fly across a judges' table of pies set up to be judged and into an entire cart of them. Instigator and troublemaker Eddie Haskell is an older kid who always manages to avoid being caught. After school, Eddie asks Wally to come to the soda shop to see him flirt with Karen. The acclaimed actor has been married three times. Many in-jokes and sub-plots relating to the series are adapted for the film. After “Leave It to Beaver” finished its run in 1963, Osmond returned for the telefilm “Still the Beaver” in 1983 and for the revival series “The New Leave It to Beaver.” This results in Ward completely losing all of his patience and grounding the boys. Fast forward to 1980; he released his first documentary,Broken Arrow, … Leave It to Beaver (season 6) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The sixth and final season of the television series Leave It to Beaver aired from September 27, 1962 to June 20, 1963 on ABC. Beaver encounters the guy who stole his bike. Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. Use the HTML below. CBS canceled "Leave It To Beaver" in 1959,but in the fall of that year the show moved to ABC-TV where it remained for the next four seasons from October 3,1959 until June 20,1963 producing an astounding 156 episodes. Written by Widower Sheriff Andy Taylor, and his son Opie, live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry, North Carolina. The Cleavers are the 1950's 'All-American Family' in this 'feel-good' family sitcom. When Ward urges Beaver to follow in Wally's footsteps and become the next Cleaver basketball star, Beaver tries out for the City Park basketball team. "Summer Sneaks; Cut-Rate Comedy; 'Leave It to Beaver' producer Robert Simonds loves a good, cheap laugh. The fire department and Ward help get him down, Ward realizing the Beaver may be under too much pressure. The misadventures of a suburban boy, family and friends. At the Mayfield Festival, he again encounters the boy on the stolen bike and chases him. Episode 425 mins. Unlike real life, these situations are always easily resolved to the satisfaction of all involved and the Beaver gets off with a few stern moralistic words of parental advice. 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