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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.

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.

When Wally and Eddie pulled the prank on Lumpy's car was hilarious.

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.

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.

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.

HA! I remember watching the: "in the soup" episode.

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.

Hugh Beaumount was My Favorite TV Dad, He Kept It Real.

In the first episode “Beaver Gets Spelled” he explained how how got his nickname Beaver to his teacher Mrs. Canfield.

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.

EASILY ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS OF ALL TIME

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 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.

My 2 favorite episodes were The Soup and Beavers Haircut.

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. 😷

Love this show. Eddie Haskell was my favourite character. RIP Ken Osmond.

This old show is my favorite...Thank you so much for the info......Smile

Ive always love that show.

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 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."

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 love leave it to beaver with mathers and Dow.

Rest in peace Ken Osmond who was Eddie Haskell.

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.

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

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.

Love that show,Eddie was always up to something.

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".

Tony Dow looks like he could play Kenny Rogers in a bio pic.

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

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.......

They dont make families like this anymore....💕

I literally watch this show every night when I cook! One of my favorites!

Loved this show!!💜💜

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!

Hugh Beaumont and Carl Betz from the Donna Reed show were great fathers.

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.

Great show.

I grew up watching Leave It to Beaver and I really liked the show.

Loved the show & I never knew why he was called Beaver---but that makes perfect sense!!!

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.

It's all fine how the Beav got his name. It was a wonderful show!!!

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

One of the best shows of my childhood.

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. ✌✌✌✌

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 ❤️!

my grandparents seriously make me watch leave it to beaver EVERYDAY

Season 2 and 3 are the best. Still watch it today.

Love the episodes as stated i a previous comment

Always ♥️ Leave it to Beaver!

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.

He Should've been called 'Beaver' because he was always "Busy as a beaver".

I still watch i most every morning before going to work on MeTv.

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.

I think how Beaver got his name is perfect Jerry Mathers can lump it, the little goof

From what I’ve found out, Mayfield was a Cleveland, Ohio suburb. Just check out Shaker Heights... Also very near a beach (Lake Erie)...

Still enjoy watching all these years later. Better Than all the stuff on now on my opinion.

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.

they introduced toilets in TV shows that served another purpose besides what its used for! Still love the Beaver and his family!

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 watch to this day!

Mathers (playing a grown up Beaver) in that Married with Children episode. Hilarious.

I used to be amazed at how good Beav's posture was.

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.

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 watch it every morning on METV. I also have the DVD set.

Solid show that I learned to like thru reruns ..if it wasn't for those I wouldn't have known it existed..about beaver getting his name ..seems par for the coarse in those days..they lacked imagination..the writers but then again it was intended to be somewhat a serious show...great vid ..thanks

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?

Well I don't know if these facts changed everything, but they were at least mildly interesting. Nice job, Facts Verse!

Jerry had a little brother who looked just like him, jim mathers who was also in show business.

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!

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.

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

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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.

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.

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?

Always liked the In The Soup episode.

My gran knew a fishmonger who was the spitting image of Hugh Beaumont! LOL

Do a show about My Favorite Martian and one about I Dream of Jeannie. I like your shows.

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.

The show came on Tv land and I remember it. All the characters Lumpy, Wally, Beaver, and Judy. Him and Judy was funny

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!

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.

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.

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.

I was born on june 2nd 1948.Same as the Beaver. I also spent 6 years in the usmc

It’s genuinely funny yet never over the top n

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.

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.

Ward couldn't get it up so Fred Rutherford was givin' it to June.

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.

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

I watch beaver every day on TV...I think the beaver name suits him good

Dam. Wally was red as a 🖍 crayon! 🧐

Regarding where was Mayfield, I remember an episode where Beaver got in trouble for making a long distance call to the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse, so they weren't in LA.