I am 74 years old and I grew up with Leave It with Beaver. I loved it. It was a nice, clean show.

When"Leave It To Beaver" was produced, there was no such thing as internet, Netflix, or even a VCR. It was next to impossible for viewers to notice details like the license plate on the Cleaver car. Producers most likely used the car they had available, and it was highly unlikely a viewer would notice for the once a week the show originally aired.

I used to watch Leave It To Beaver back then, and still watch the reruns now!

Who could forget the episode when June said, Ward, you were awfully hard on the Beaver last night! Different times, it was a wonderful time❤❤❤

The most wholesome show EVER!

Things weren’t clear enough on TV back then to catch those strings bouncing around faces. Heck I was happy enough just being able to see people’s faces.

I’m the same age as Jerry Mathers, when I watched BEAVER his reasoning made perfect sense to me. Fast forward and I’m teaching elementary school. Now I’m ‘Miss Landers’, and kids STILL think like Beaver. This was the day of VCRs. I taped some BEAVER episodes from a cable channel and took the tape in to school. It was the last couple of weeks of school. One or two days a week I’d show an episode the last 25 minutes of the day. The kids thought this was the greatest show ever, and wanted to know which cable channel it was on. A great show is a great show, and I was able to share my childhood with my kids.

The practical effects in classic TV never fail to fascinate! From fake bees to reused license plates, the ingenuity of old-school TV producers shines through. It's like peeking behind the curtain of television history. 📺✨

Always liked watching Leave it to Beaver. Wally was my favorite.❤️

to add to the height part of June Cleaver, i heard in other documentaries that she wore heals because Ward was so much taller than her. the part about her wearing heels because the kids were getting taller was news to me.

Eddie making a mistake on the title ofa book may or may not have been an error by the writers. But Eddie was constantly feigning a greater degree of maturity than he actually possessed when talking to adults.

Ward and June were everyone's dream Mom & Dad.

I'm 66 and we didn't get our first TV till I was 9, and even after we got one we weren't allowed to watch anything except 6 p clock news, star trek on Friday nite and Saturday cartoons so I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up and didn't watch this show till I was in my 40s, it was a great show as were a lot of shows back then. I'm retired now and catching up with the world of TV

Machine keeps saying Wall-E. Instead of Wally. Hire a human.

Let's talk a little bit about record player mechanics of the time. Belt???????? Record players of the time usually didn't use a belt. Most used an idler drive wheel. About the only record player(turntable) of the era which comes to mind was the Empire turntable. Those were large and fairly prominent. I don't see an Empire turntable anywhere. It would be expected that a idler-driven record player of the day might come to an abrupt halt as the power is disconnected. The sound would definitely fade away and when the power is turned back on, would fade back in after the turntable came back up to speed. This is one reason that tube-amplified juke boxes kept power on the tube filaments so that sound would start instantly when the needle dropped on the record.

If you watch The Munster's where Igor the bat or Grandpa when he's a bat are flying around you can see strings holding the fake bats too. There's a episode of Bewitched where Tabitha's bottle floats upstairs to her. You can see the string holding it

The very young Beaver always reminded me of Teddy Kennedy as a child.

Great insight...I actually subscribed...a small discrepancy on the idea that cost was the reason that the producers kept the show in black and white as opposed to color...shows did not begin to be produced in color until the fall of 1966...beaver left the air in the spring of 1963...long before color was even an option...

Beaver was so cute when he was from the beginning then it progressed he got older kind of like kittens and cats. I think the star of the show was ward cleaver if that isn't the perfect example of everyone's father or at least how it should be.😅

“Leave It To Beaver” was favorite show as a youngster back in the 50’s and early 60’s. I still watch reruns regularly. Most kids I knew felt Beaver was a wimp and thought Wally was the real star of the show. Plus, we wanted to see more of Eddie.

13:54)An episode of "Happy Days" had Richie going to an USMC member's bachelor party. The footage came from "Love, American Style". 20:35)Before "Still The Beaver", Ken Osmond was shot 4 times in one incident. Medically retired from the LAPD.

"Boy Beaver.....when Dad gets home he's really gonna give you the business!"

I wish we could go back to using simple effects where our imaginations had no bounds.

Record players did not use belts in this time period. They used idler wheels that would promptly disengage and engage. The electronics were comprised of vacuum tubes. The song cutting off without winding down and restarting without winding back up again was plausible.They were true to the mechanics of the record players of the time.

.....I remember watching lots of black and white TV back in the 50s and 60s..... it's 2024 and it seems like I'm still watching tons of black and white

Back in the days of the Lone Ranger of the 50s when the lone ranger and Tonto rode out of town, it was usually the same scene in every episode. Because the episodes were a week apart, you couldn’t remember that scene. As an adult, I watch reruns almost 2 or three times a day of those episodes and now you can actually see the towns are basically the same, no matter where they were located in the script. What the likely they just use the same shoot for every episode rather than a refill refilm.

Heinz studio 57, Twilight Zone, Alcoa Playhouse are called “Anthology Series.”

I don’t understand the age issue. I don’t think it was a problem. The show was six seasons and depending on when Wally’s birthday was, he would have been 5 -7 years older. Same with the Beaver. If he was 7 when the series started, he would’ve been 5-7 years older, depending on where the birthdays fell during the imaginary years of the episodes.

June struck me as naive for being a mom of two boys ( which she also was in real life). Or maybe I shd blame the writers. For example: ‘Ward, do you really think Beaver would have stayed up in that tree till he died?’ ‘Ward, why would Beaver be carrying a box of mud?’ ‘Ward, why do the boys have to fight? Why can’t they get along like little gentlemen?’ ‘Ward, why would Wally and his friends want to go watch at the dancing school? They’re not taking dance classes.’ Even for the 50’s, those were sone pretty ridiculous lines….

Lumpy, always giving everybody "the business" 😄

Love that show. I still watch it on ME tv.

Movie? When the show started Wally was supposed to be 12 years old and the beaver 8. By the end of the series, Wally HAD aged 5 years, so, 5 + 8 adds up to 13, which is about correct for the Beaver being 14. So, yes, Beaver DID age. I guess that you didn't watch TV alot, or even movies? Scripts are often patterned after real life experiences. Plus, scripts are often written about current events and things to make the news. Especially in recent years, different shows revolve around the same situations which really happened in real life when the scripts were written. Speaking of introducing shows within other established shows, it's been happening for a very long time. Maybe one of the characters in the "pilot" caught on, so a show was created for that character. Speaking of the Simpsons, you realize that it started as a short animated part of the Tracy Ullman show. The rest is history. Where's the toilet tank? All I see is the lid for a toilet tank.

When I was a kid, for the longest time I thought the beaver had gone off and gotten killed in the Vietnam War… 😂

I loved Beave it to Leaver.

Your recounts of this history are generalized but not specific to actuality. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was on ABC. ABC just started color broadcasts in 1962 with select shows. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was in its last season. Since all of the shows were filmed in black and white, there was no desire to go to color. What are "expensive cameras?" The same cameras were used. There was a thing called color negative film that could be used in any standard camera. This was no longer the days of Technicolor film cameras--and issue made possible with the introduction of the color negative film in 1947. There was talk of an expanded format going to NBC in color, but the plans were cancelled, partly because Jerry Mathers was interested in quitting and going to school full time. Regarding the license plate, the decision was simple. NO ONE noticed it, and the shows were not viewed back-to-back so that people could nit pick on such things. The same goes for the same calendar in the kitchen. It was a prop that made a suggestion. It was not that noticeable that anyone saw that it was the same calendar, nor did they care. Your attention was supposed to be on June Clever. It you weren't looking at her, there was something wrong with you. As for things like things being "edited out," there is no such thing in film editing. Continuity was generally consistent since there was a production person called a "Script Girl" whose job it was to observe what was in scenes and keep a record. Later on when the Polaroid Camera came along, the snap shots were used for accurate reference. When I saw this episode when originally aired, I was aware of the "wow" issue that results from shutting off the power to a phonograph. It actually would have been funnier if the rundown and start-up of the record had happened, but that would have given away the gag. The interruption makes it more of a mystery. Eddie making the mistake on the author of the book was on purpose. Eddie was always pandering to the Clever parents to appear polite and intellectual. And no, the writers did not have trouble combining reality and make believe. Many of the stories came from things that happened with the kids of the creators. The show was from the child's point of view, which was the key to the show.

Only in the US could one compare the launching of the USSR Sputnik with Leave It To Beaver, and actually make the TV show sound more important.

there are some errors in THIS video as well... at the 7:56 minute mark. .the narrator refers to this show as a "movie"... and then at the 8:16 minute mark they claim it was wally who had aged by 5 years... when they meant Beaver had aged 5 years.. while Wally stayed at 14.. but actually neither was 14.. I would suggest at the start of the show Wally WAS 12 and Beaver WAS 8... but toward the end of the show,,.. Wally was.. 17 and Beaver was 13 or 14/// I think they both aged properly within the show's lifetime..

Perhaps Mr. Rutherford had a thing for moms that wore pearl necklaces during the day.....hmmmm....

I always liked Gilbert we were same age and kind of looked alike

Harry Shearer? The Simpsons started as a short cartoons as part of the Tracy Ullman Show.

starting at the 20:46 minute mark they present a brief history of Jerry Mathers Post Leave it to Beaver... while the whole time displaying photos.. of Tony Dow. in the video.. apparently the makers of this video did not know which was which..?..

I'd like to know why Mr. Rutherford was parking in the Cleaver driveway when Ward was not there.

They didnt realize just how hard people were watching

The final episode was in 1963. I’m not sure if any sitcoms were broadcast in color by then.

It looks like Wally was played by other actors. There is also a scene where 'Ward' is sitting on the couch and it is clearly not Hugh.

Lot of shows stayed black and white till 1965

Ward Was A Great Human Being Perfect for this Part. I liked all of them Pretty Cool Good JuJu for Teaching right from Wrong to Kids of the Times and after. Hopefully.

Why is Young Sheldon in black and white?

Why didn't you mention Hugh Beaumont at the end? Guess dads don't matter, huh?

You were kind of hard on the Beaver last night Ward.

Well, to be fair, TVs were only 10x11 inches. Som you couldn't tell back then.

There wasn't even color for most people back then. The first color I ever saw was Star trac.

I enjoy black and white movies

The first pornography on T.V. was when June asked Ward not to be rough on the beaver.

The mother staying taller than her sons was weird.

A place for everything and everything in its place, people bought quality over quantity

Mrs. Beaver was having an Affair with Mr. Rutherford. That's why his car was in the driveway.

Tony Dow aka Wally was such a Hunky Heartthrob back then. Can imagine other little Gay boys agreeing.

Why are there two Beavers at 4:24? A young Beaver, and younger Beaver!

First tv show to have a toilet in the bathroom

I doubt any of the viewers would know the real named author of a book.

Sunday Eve The Ed Sullivan show Beatles, Stones, Miriam Makeba and lots more.

It always amused me that half the time, Ward grew up on a farm, the other half, he grew up in the city of Shaker Heights. But one thing that always bothered me was that when one of the boys was in trouble with Ward, and he punished them according to what he believed in, June always asked if his dad would have been as ‘nice’ to him in a similar situation. Then when Ward ALWAYS said no, he would’ve gotten the belt (or some other type of physical punishment, the audience always laughed. I just see nothing funny about punishing a child by hitting them with a belt. I know that was more popular punishment in the 50’s & before then etc. but it wasn’t funny then and I can’t understand why the writers (or soundtrack people) thot it was….

That BEE was Real! Look close. It's been said Mathers got stung 3 times during the filming. Being somewhat allergic, Mathers was THEN given a fake bee.

I mean, who actually looks at, or even memorizes a license plate?

How come they wore those long overcoats as valets. Wouldn't it be uncomfortable and difficult to drive in?

Who wears suits at supper time and she wore jewelry while washing dishes

Does anyone today realize how much everyday American women hated the characters played by Barbara Billingsly, Donna Reed, and their ilk! Real women didn’t wear high fashion and heels to clean the bathroom or cooked dinner!

What about your OWN goofs in the narration?? You called the show a movie at one point, you called Dana’s book “The Mast”. You call the various mistakes “horrible”. That’s a little extreme …

Check out the maid in The Parking Attendants episode...she's hot!!!

Who cares about minutia.😊

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Fake robonarration has to go

While Ward and June were parents that I'd die for, my drunk father was beating me half to death for forgetting to take out the trash.

You need to go for speaking lessons . Your drone is very boring and makes it hard to watch

Eddy Hascal was rumored to be porn star John Holmes.