Re: Beaver Episodes

[~*KristenCleaver*~]

They are showing the episodes of when Beaver was really little tomorrow! (They restarted the season again, yay!) Also, there has been an addition to our schedule. Beaver will now be shown at 10:30 P.M. again, and 11:30 A.M. on Sundays starting tomorrow.

[Michael [hXc]]

I love the early episodes. They have a real mid 50s feel to them, and I love the first and second season closing music:D . Also the early episodes are when Wally really resembled June.

[~*KristenCleaver*~]

I just love them because the boys were so much younger and cuter, especially Beaver! And Wally had a lot of blonde in his hair! When he was really little it was probably all blonde. He looks cuter with light hair. Hehe!
(P.S. I have a quote in my signature from the earlier episodes. This is one of my favorites.)

[Michael [hXc]]

In the real early ones Wally's voice sounds so young that when I first saw the first ones (I saw the later ones first) I almost didn't know it was him:lol: . And seeing Beaver so young reminds me of my own little brother. awwww

When Wally was young he very much resembled June, but later on, he started to look more like Ward. Beaver looked like Ward from the start to the end of the show.

[~*KristenCleaver*~]

I have been told by my friends, (and I noticed it myself), that my little brother looks kind of like Beaver! LOL, and my brother Jonathan is 7 now, the same age Beaver was when the show first started. What's even scarier that I look kind of like Wally! (Deep set eyes, kind of pug nose, etc.) Except my hair is dark brown.

[David VP]

They have a real mid 1940s feel to them ...
:confused:

40s?? Odd, since it was the late 50s. :)

Did you mean to say 50s?

I think they DO have a nice "50s feel" myself...and the cute musical cues/bridges only enhance this "feel" IMO. They changed the music completely in the latter (2nd house) seasons.

Ever notice, though, how in "The Scrapbook" (final show) the music has been RE-DONE to include the more modern, later-seasons music and cues?

The flashbacks from early seasons have the NEW music inserted. Odd, I thought.

In addition, any of you LITB fanatics ever noticed that the "Beaver Music" is used on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". And even in the Theatrical Trailer for Hitchcock's 1960 thriller "Psycho".

Kind of odd, isn't it, considering you probably couldn't get two programs at MORE opposite ends of the genre scale -- innocent, family-oriented "Beaver" shows vs. the blood, murders, knives, killers, and macabre horror of Hitchcock material.

And yet the very same musical cues are used. LOL! :)

The music was obviously just part of the "Universal music archive" of material that anyone could pluck from the files and use for any given show/movie. I've probably heard the familiar Beaver music in other programs as well.

[Michael [hXc]]

look back at my post again:D

[Michael [hXc]]

Originally posted by MrsTonyDow91
I have been told by my friends, (and I noticed it myself), that my little brother looks kind of like Beaver! LOL, and my brother Jonathan is 7 now, the same age Beaver was when the show first started. What's even scarier that I look kind of like Wally! (Deep set eyes, kind of pug nose, etc.) Except my hair is dark brown.

That's cool.
:)

But what is weird is that in the beginning (when he had blondish hair and blue eyes) he very much resembled June. But later on as his hair got darker (regardless of his eye color) he started to look like Ward.

[Mrs. Ducky]

I like the later episodes better. I think it's because the characters were more developed, I can't stand Judy and Larry, everybody was better looking, and it annoys me how Beaver is constantley clinging to Wally. If I were Wally I would tell Beaver to go find his own friends and leave me the hell alone!

[1954Boomer]

I like the earlier episodes for Beaver, mainly because his acting was better when he was younger, since the scripts matched his age at the time. I also liked the Larry and Judy characters in those earlier episodes. Finally, I also enjoyed the earlier episodes for the interaction between Ward and June.

Having said all that, I generally enjoyed the Wally, Eddie and Lumpy characters in the LATER episodes better, as well as the episode plots in seasons three through six better.