#Lumpy leave it to beaver series#

Amused by the comings and goings of the Cleaver family and I suspect, wishing our own families could be as perfect as the Cleavers. What they never showed was Mom ironing which must have been a daily ordeal to keep all those nice outifts pressed.Ī life crisis consisted of a lost report card or failure to eat your vegetables. Mom, well, poor Mom seemed obliged to remain perfectly coifed and dressed regardless of task. Parents never raised their voices or were too busy for the kids. Leave It To Beaver Tidbits Leave it to Beaver contributed to the notion of the perfect Fifties family. Stanley Fafara as Hubert 'Whitey' Whitney Robert 'Rusty' Stevens as Larry Mondello (1958-1960) Jerry Mathers as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaverįrank Bank as Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford Script error: No such module 'Check for unknown parameters'.1950s Sitcoms such as Leave It to Beaver idealized the motherhood role and supplied a perfect model for American families.īlack and White - 30 minutes - 234 total episodes Script error: No such module 'check isxn'. Script error: No such module 'Catalog lookup link'. Mathers, Jerry.And Jerry Mathers as 'The Beaver'.Script error: No such module 'Check for unknown parameters'. Script error: No such module 'Episode table'. Script error: No such module 'Labelled list hatnote'. Season 3 was released on DVD on June 15, 2010. The adult theme of alcoholism is tackled in 'Beaver and Andy'. Unlike the previous two seasons, the Pine Street garage is used infrequently as a setting for the masculine confabs of Beaver and his friends or for father and son get-togethers. Like the Mapleton Drive house, the boys' bedroom has an en-suite bathroom. In the Pine Street house, however, Ward has a panelled, bookcase-lined den (the location of many scenes in which Ward disciplines the boys), and June has a laundry room off the kitchen (where Beaver creates chaos in a future episode). The Pine Street house has a layout similar to the Mapleton Drive house: front entry, living room with fireplace, dining room, picnic patio, kitchen, garage, and three or four bedrooms on the upper level. Grammar School, and Wally the tenth grade at Mayfield High.

Beaver enters the fourth grade at Grant Ave.

#Lumpy leave it to beaver series#

The family remains in the Pine Street house for the remainder of the series the boys attend the same schools and visit the same friends. In the first episode of the third season, the Cleavers are settled in a new house at 211 Pine Street. When the second season closes, the Cleavers have sold their house on Mapleton Drive. Several directors new to the series (including Norman Abbott) participate. Hugh Beaumont directs his first episode, 'Wally and Alma' and would ultimately direct twenty-three episodes for the show. Norman Tokar directs the majority of episodes. Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell and Frank Bank as Lumpy Rutherford become Wally's best friends and constant companions for the remainder of the series. Penny would replace Judy Hensler as Beaver's classroom nemesis in the following season when Jeri Weil leaves the show.Īctors Lucas 'Tiger' Fafara II (Tooey Brown), Buddy Hart (Chester Anderson), and Bobby Mittelstaedt (Charles Fredericks) leave the show. Karen Sue Trent joins the cast as Penny Woods. Richard Correll joins the show and remains for the duration as Beaver's classmate and friend, Richard Rickover. Like the previous two seasons, all four main characters appear in every episode. The third season closing sequence features the new house and is used for both the fourth and fifth seasons. The boys walk along, approach the house and go to the door. Beaver walks along the curbstone carrying a baseball glove rather than schoolbooks until a passing vehicle forces him onto the sidewalk. The boys are seen in the distance approaching the viewer. Like the second season, the closing sequence shows Beaver and Wally walking down the street. The camera zooms in for a close-up of Beaver as he rubs the sleep from his eyes and smiles at Ward. Ward wakes Wally, while June wakes Beaver. The opening sequence shows Ward and June entering the boys' bedroom to wake them for a new day. Like the first two seasons, the third consists of 39 black-and-white, full-screen, half-hour episodes (with ads) recorded on 35mm film. The show moved from its Thursday time-slot to Saturday at 8:30 P.M., where it remained until September 1962, when it moved yet again for the final season. The third season of Leave It to Beaver debuted on ABC October 3, 1959, with 'Blind Date Committee' and concluded its run June 25, 1960, with 'Beaver's Team'.