Leave it to beaver is a gentle, goodhearted movie about an 8yearold who sighs, i used to want to be a kid the rest of my life, but lately i just want to get it over with. Leave it to beaver is one of the first primetime sitcom series written from a childs pointofview. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Unlike most other sitcoms of that innocent era, the stories. Kenneth charles osmond born june 7, 1943 is an american actor and retired policeman. The complete first season marked the first fullseason dvd release of a classic 1950s childrens television series an ambitious undertaking in itself, as a full season in 195758 meant 39 episodes. Leave it to beaver season 1 by james neilson, norman.
Throughout still the beaver and the new leave it to beaver, of course, was barbara billingsley as now the perfect grandmother june. With kristen bell, percy daggs iii, teddy dunn, jason dohring. Make offer leave it to beaver the complete first season dvd, 2005, 3disc set sealed. Daunted by the length of the three musketeers that he chose to read for a school book report, beaver writes his report from a film version of the story the three musketeers 1939 instead, not realizing until too late that the film that he watched was a musical farce. Leave it to beaver just stumbles about in a bland, ironydeprived suburbia that denies the movie any juice or bite and renders the cleaver family even duller than it was. Leave it to beaver would film for four seasons total at universal before the series wrapped with the 196263 season. The new leave it to beaver the official jerry mathers. The new leave it to beaver was a sequel to the 1950s sitcom, leave it to beaver. Leave it to beaver 19571963 leave it to beaver 1957 design set leave it to beaver old shows home tv tv land vintage tv classic tv classic series. Meanwhile wally is trying to help his friend eddie haskell to get. In other words, the filmmakers try to have it both ways, and they dont quite succeed in either attempt. Classic 1957 peter sellers british comedy film english humor. Its not easy being beaver cleaver as this laughfilled update of the classic television series leave it to beaver shows.
American television, film and stage actor jerry mathers shot to tv stardom at age 9 when he began his famous starring role of theodore beaver cleaver on the sitcom leave it to beaver 19571963, a role that later brought him a special award at the 1985 young artist awards. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. It consisted of 39 episodes shot in blackandwhite, each running approximately 25 minutes in length. Leave it to beaver is such a great show and with only 2 seasons released, one can only hope that with more and more complaints, the powers that be will hopefully listen and bring on the rest, so that we can all enjoy more of beaver, wally, lumpy, eddie and the rest of the gang. June 29, 2010 the series if you have never seen leave it to beaver, you should first know that any summary of. Leave it to beaver is a 1997 american comedy film adapted from the television series of the same name. Leave it to beaver 1957 tv series dvds for sale in. Between 1957 and 1963, leave it to beaver ran for 234 consecutive episodes. Find out information about leave it to beaver 1997 film.
After leave it to beaver, jerry joined the united states air force reserve, eventually rising to the rank of sergeant. Watch all 39 leave it to beaver episodes from season 5,view pictures, get episode information and more. The show is timeless, i would watch it over most of the new shows anytime i had to get them all for my collection. The rest of the cleaver family may be models of good behavior, but not the beaver cameron finley, an ordinary kid with an extraordinary. Leave it to beaver changed houses when the show changed studios, from republic to universal. I saw them collected under a heading for leave it to beaver. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Expand your home video library from a huge online selection of movies at. The show also starred barbara billingsley and hugh beaumont as beavers parents, june and ward cleaver, and tony dow as. Leave it to beaver is one of the first primetime sitcom series written from a childs point of view. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. In the shocking, actionpacked first season finale, a determined. Theodore beaver cleaver jerry mathers cant seem to avoid trouble, and his older brother wally tony dow, and mischievous pal eddie haskell ken osmond, arent any help.
Id definitely purchase a release of the new leave it to beaver series. Wally insults both ward and beaver with one sentence, in leave it to beaver duration. A brief history of leave it to beaver considerable. With barbara billingsley, hugh beaumont, tony dow, jerry mathers.
Leave it to beaver the complete series movie description one of the most popular series in tv history, leave it to beaver 19571963 stood out from the flock during tvs golden age. Beaver stubbornly refuses to put on a suit for his schools father and son football awards banquet after he and the other team members secretly agree to wear casual clothes to the formal event. Leave it to beaver still holds up because of clever writing and excellent acting. Revue was universals television production company. Join the cleavers, americas quintessential family, in all 39 digitally remastered, unforgettable episodes from the complete first season of leave it to beaver. The quality is as good as can be expected, considering how old the series is and the quality of tv at the time. The first season of the american television situation comedy leave it to beaver premiered on october 4, 1957 and concluded on july 16, 1958. Search, discover and share your favorite leave it to beaver gifs. This site explores the neighborhood surrounding the cleavers house at 211 pine street, and the other areas of the universal city backlot which served as. This was the only season that the show originally aired on cbs. In leave it to beaver, thanks to their proclivity to stay with triedandtrue vehicles for success, universal is producing a movie remake of a popular 19571963 tv show about the cleaver family which championed good family values. Many injokes and subplots relating to the series are adapted for the film. Cleavers are an allamerican family living in ohio wise father ward, loving mother june, teenage son wally and 8yearold beaver theodore. Any chance the new leave it to beaver will be released.
Now you can see all 39 episodes of the classics fourth season, completely restored and remastered from amazing highdefinition transfers of the original film elements. Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s, leave it to beaver is a glimpse at middleclass, white american boyhood. Domesticity explanation of leave it to beaver 1997 film. But the ambitious film pioneer would become responsible for creati. Leave it to beaver became the first ever show to have a series finale despite still pulling in good ratings, when mathers decided he wanted to focus on his education as he entered high school. It features many of the original regular characters, most played by new actors, with some cameos by the original tv cast. Leave it to beaver on universal citys colonial street. Leave it to beavers first season was released by universal back in november 2005, but this was at a time when the company shamelessly released a lot of classic tv and film library titles on defective, doublesided, duallayered dvd18s manufactured in mexico, discs that almost inevitably would freezeup and refuse to play properly.
Spread across three doublesided platters, the shows are all in an excellent state of preservation, in crisp blackandwhite fullscreen. Leave it to beaver stars art hits the louvre wally cleaver might have lettered in three sports, but his reallife alter ego is having his art honored in amazing fashion. The premise had wally cleaver and younger brother, theodore beaver cleaver all grown up, with families of their own. Leave it to beaver beavers house guest tv episode 1960. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of four, osmond is best known for his iconic role as eddie haskell on the 1950s television situation comedy leave it to beaver, and for reprising it on the 1980s revival series the new leave it to beaver. Newly seventeenyearold wallys anticipation of getting his drivers license is dampened by mom junes worry. Because of this he was able to join the cast of the new leave it to beaver and reprise his role as the twofaced protagonist to beaver and the cleaver clan. Leave it to beaver 1997 film article about leave it to. For six seasons, leave it to beaver gave audiences a hilarious look at the allamerican family. Ward and june are concerned when they discover that beaver s visiting friend chopper has divorced parents but soon see that choppers own experience will serve as beaver.
At the end of the day after we did our filming, the director would pick which one of the takes to print, and the rest of. Watch leave it to beaver online stream full movie directv. To a great guy on his 70th birthday it doesnt sound so bad being that old because i just hit 65 on june 2nd and it didnt hurt a bit. Its available to watch on tv, online, tablets, phone. The complete first season on dvd 0251929123 from universal. Of course nothing can top the first series, but the new show did try to stay true to the basic premise of the original. Love my leave it to beaver dvd, the quality is very good. It is one of my all time favorite shows and i love seeing the teenager episodes when wally and beaver are older. And it did bring back all the old cast other than hugh beaumont, who had sadly passed away just before this new series got started, and they did well. Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s lassie and my three sons, leave it to beaver is a glimpse at middleclass, american boyhood.
An allamerican boy cameron finley grows up in suburban ohio under the tutelage of loving parents christopher mcdonald, janine turner and an older brother. Leave it to beaver was filmed at universal studios stage 17. Leave it to beaver is a 1997 comedy film adapted from the television series of the same name. Beaver cleaver despairs of ever being as smart, as popular, as talented and especially as old as his teenage brother wally, and all of his schemes to evolve in that direction seem doomed. If you want to start a film leaveittobeaver page, just click the edit button above. I dont remember seeing the very first ones, either.
Beavers documentary the fascinating story of beavers. Staring tony dow, barbara billingsley, ken osmond and jerry mathers. Leave it to beaver tries to find a middle ground between the nostalgia of the innocent 1950s and the contemporary concerns of the more modern 1990s, when the film was released. Veronica mars leave it to beaver tv episode 2005 imdb. Leave it to beaver complete series internet archive. This is not because we didnt make mistakes, but rather that, leave it to beaver was shot on 35mm film, like many motion pictures were.
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