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Beaver Cleaver
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I’ll be telling you guys a lot of stuff that happened to me and all my friends. Oh, and my brother Wally and all his creepy friends.
Lots of Fun Facts and junk too.
Fun Fact:

In the 1961 episode “Wally goes Steady”, 20 year old Ryan O’Neal plays Tom Henderson the husband of a girl who’s sister Wally’s been dating. Ward and June worry about Wally possibly getting married at a young age but Wally witnesses the hardships of his girlfriend’s sister and husband.
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I think this was like Wally in the future or something?
November 30, 2024 at 10:25 PM
One time me and Wally were babysitting my neighbor Mr. Donaldson’s cat Puff Puff. I let him out in their back yard one day and creepy Eddie Haskell’s dog scared Puff Puff away. That night we heard Puff Puff crying and found him up in a tree so we had to rescue him.
November 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Grown up’s rules.

Me: Wally?

Wally: Ya, Beav?

Me: The rules are a lot easier on grownups than they are for little kids.

Wally: Sure, they are, Beav grownups are the ones that make the rules.
November 30, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Test your memory.

Which of the following is the correct order in which the cast's names are displayed in the opening credits?
November 29, 2024 at 7:47 PM
One time Gilbert had an idea that me and him make goofy faces when they took our class picture only the dirty rat double-crossed me and didn’t make a face, but I did. I got in a lot of trouble but they were able to fix the picture.
November 28, 2024 at 5:01 PM
There was this time my dad started giving me allowance, he wanted me to learn financial responsibility. He said I could join a record club for 87 cents a week so I did. Wally kept reminding me to send a card back to the company to avoid paying for bonus records, but I didn’t. Boy what a mess.
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Fun Fact:

Tony Dow was once a guest star on The Love Boat in 1977.
November 27, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Another Fun Fact:

Beavers visitor friend “Chopper” played by Barry Grordon later in 1980 played “Gilbert” in the Secret Admirer episode of Three’s Company.

“Yoo hoo, pretty lady!”
November 27, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Dad helped me and Wally build a neat go cart but told us not to drive it without him around. Larry talked me into driving it on the street when my dad wasn’t home. A policeman gave me a ticket. I was afraid to tell my dad so Wally took me to court. The judge told us to tell my dad and we did.
November 26, 2024 at 2:44 AM
In April of 1960 heartthrob Tony Dow made the cover along with a story in teen magazine “DIG”. 🥹
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Eddie Haskell

In the fall of 1957, 14-year-old Osmond was called into a typical "cattle call" audition to read for the role for which he became most identified, that of Wally Cleaver's best (and worst) friend, Eddie Haskell, on Leave It to Beaver.
November 25, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Fun Fact
Canceled After Its First Season

Viewers weren’t tuning in and the ratings for season one weren’t that great.
So in 1958 the first season ended, and immediately after, CBS gave it the axe. However, the ABC network came to the rescue and kept the show on the air for another five seasons.
November 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Fun Fact:

Because of a Growth Spurt, a New Wally Was Casted.

Wally was originally portrayed by Paul Sullivan in the show’s pilot. But, after filming the first episode, the kid had a huge growth spurt and was reportedly replaced. Tony Dow would go on to replace Paul Sullivan.
November 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Richard

Richard Thomas Correll (born May 14, 1948) is an American television actor, director, writer, and producer. After working as an actor during his childhood and teenage years, he transitioned to directing in the 1990s.
He’s 76 years old.
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
It was said Larry (Rusty Stevens) left the show in 1960 because his family moved from Burbank, California, to Philadelphia, however, Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver, said in a TV interview that Stevens was fired because his overbearing stage mother caused grief for the producers.
November 24, 2024 at 10:22 PM
My friend Gilbert. Stephen Talbot

Talbot gave up acting in his teens choosing a career as a respected broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker. He became an anti war advocate in the early 70’s. In order to be taken seriously in those roles he felt it best to put his acting past behind him.
November 24, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Fun Fact:

Falls Lake (as "Friend's Lake")
This scene from the episode "Wally the Lifeguard" was filmed at the backlot's "Falls Lake"...in its original location on the lot. The beach umbrella is strategically placed in this scene to hide grass-roofed structures on the north end of Falls Lake
November 22, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Fun Fact:

The soon-to-be "Munster" house is the setting for the above scene from the Leave it to Beaver episode "Community Chest."
Here we see Beaver and Gilbert walking by this creepy old house.
November 22, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Fun Fact:
In the first episode Wally and Beaver buy a pet alligator. The producers wanted to have them keep it in the toilet but at that time, you not only couldn't show a toilet, you couldn't show a bathroom on television.
It was later agreed that they would only show the back of the toilet tank.
November 21, 2024 at 6:13 PM
There was this time me and my friends all bought these neat monster sweatshirts and agreed to wear them to school the next day. All of our parents told us we couldn’t wear them to school but I was the only one who snuck mine out and wore it anyway. Boy did I ever feel like a creep.
November 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM
There was this time my brother Wally met this pretty lady at the tennis court. I think they really liked each other because they played tennis a lot. Those creeps Eddie and Lumpy spied on em once.
Wally found out she was using him to make her real boyfriend jealous and Wally was real sad.
November 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Sad Fact🫤:

Besides me (Jerry Mathers), Larry (Rusty Stevens) and Gilbert (Stephen Talbot) are the only friends of mine on the show that are currently still alive. 🫤
November 20, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This is one of Wally’s friends. Can you guess his name?

Is it…

A) Gary
B) Wilber
C) Earl
D) Tooey
November 20, 2024 at 1:20 AM
That creepy Eddie Haskell.
November 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM