I like the way they jazzed up the theme song for the sixth and final season. It was a welcome change after the music used for the first five seasons. When watching the episodes from season six, it was still a good show but there were signs the series was starting to get played out. One example is the episode- Beaver Joins A Record Club. It's funny but a little over the top watching the Beav groovin to his records while Wally tries to warn him what type of deal he's gotten involved in with the record company. There is not one single poor episode of Leave It To Beaver, but the last season did start to show a few dents in the armor. I think the series quit at the right time, with Wally graduating from high school and Beaver from grade school. The last ten episodes of the series sort of give a feel that things were coming to an end, with episodes like Beaver's Graduation, Summer In Alaska, The All Night Party, Beaver Sees America, and of course the finale Family Scrapbook. This was a great show, the first two seasons are out on DVD and it's a travesty the fans are still waiting for seasons three thru six. They need to do with this show like they did with Get Smart. Package the whole series, all six seasons on DVD in one shot with uncut episodes and nice bonus features.

One thing about this show is that even a good amount of this generation of youngsters like watching it.It's passed the test of time.
Even when the appeal of the Theodore character waned when turning into the awkward teenager,this show just kept on turning out great episodes(with the help of Ken Osmond IMO)This was a fabulous show.Truly underrated and probably more realistic than just about any other show of that era.
Oh yeah.Beaver dancing wasn't a pretty sight.:lol:

Beaver was become more of an awkward adolescent, especially in "The Silent Treatment", when he refused to talk to June after she made him go to the store and the episode when Beaver went from two dates to none for the 8th grade dance. It showed that "Leave it to Beaver" had run its course.

One thing about this show is that even a good amount of this generation of youngsters like watching it.It's passed the test of time.
Even when the appeal of the Theodore character waned when turning into the awkward teenager,this show just kept on turning out great episodes(with the help of Ken Osmond IMO)This was a fabulous show.Truly underrated and probably more realistic than just about any other show of that era.
Oh yeah.Beaver dancing wasn't a pretty sight.:lol:

Ken Osmond was great in this show. The series sorely needed a character like Eddie Haskell. He was the perfect foil, the antagonist that Wally and the Beaver could play off of. Both Wally and Beaver were well mannered, polite boys. Neither of them really had much of a personality. Beaver's and Wally's friends were the ones who came off as more memorable because they played funny, mischievious characters. Beaver and Wally got themselves in one spot after another and generally played it straight. Of Wally's friends, Eddie was clearly the funniest. I wish he had appeared in more episodes. I think he appeared in less than half of them. Of Beaver's friends, Larry was the funniest. Too bad Rusty Stevens' famliy moved away from Hollywood, I believe Rusty's last appearance in a Beaver episode was early in the 4th season. But Whitey, Richard, and Gilbert, those guys had their moments too.

Eddie and Larry were my favorite of the brother's friends.

The record club episode seemed too much like the episodes where Beaver sends his picture to a modeling agency, and the episode where he sends away for the accordion.

My least favorite episodes are the one where Beaver has to go to school dressed in a bunny costume, this might have been funny in the first or second season, but seeing him walk around dressed like that at the age he was....it just doesn't work.
And the episode where Beaver accidentally puts his dad's new suit into the clothing drive box. I thought Ward was acting really out of character, seeing the lessons he is always trying to teach his sons, then to act as selfish as he does in this episode. Yes, it's a new suit, but instead of writing it off as a good deed and charity, he wants to get the suit back.

The sixth season is my favorite of the series, and I will certainly buy it if it's ever released. I enjoyed the fifth season as well and would buy that one too. I preferred the series once Beaver started saying whole words and Wally faced the fun times of high school with Eddie and Lumpy. The jazzy theme song in season six also helped.