or in any other way I guess, although I'm thinking primarily of eps. Maybe share about your favorite eps with Dave or a scene in an ep that really stuck with you. I'm going to be watching a LOT of O & H again, but really those eps where Dave figures prominently.

To me, ANY ep with Dave is a very good ep but I really liked the ones from at least the 6 or 7th season on. My all time favorite ep with David is "David And The Teenager" where this 14 yr old girl gets a real puppy dog crush on Dave. I think this one also has a special meaning to me as it was one of the very first eps I saw of the series and WAS the first one I saw with June in it. Also it was a nice change of pace seeing Dave being presented as "the dashingly handsome" brother - instead of Rick. Its also one of the few eps I have that is totally complete-with all the commericals and that absolutely wonderful flashback sequence at the end - to the very first ep I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think I am)

Another ep I really like is "David's Other Office" where we see Dave's patient grace even though June is driving him up a wall with all her interruptions. It was also fun seeing Reta Shaw a bit out of character - still forceful - but toned done a bit from the uber-steamroller dowager type she usually plays. And of course any ep with "Miss Edwards" is icing on the cake.

What are yours?

I really like the episode, "David and the Stewardess" from early 1958. I taped it years ago from the Disney channel. Have never found it on DVD. Anyway, the whole family's on a flight and Dave gets the number of a pretty stewardess, and then of course things get tangled up to comic effect. Dave gets a ticket for another short flight, thinking he'll ask for the stewardess and then lower his newspaper to surprise her. But, she's not on that particular flight! The best part for me -- other than the fine example of Dave's usual low-key grace -- is seeing that more genteel, and I daresay "golden" age of air travel. Everyone is dressed in their "Sunday best", there are little cloths on the head rests (I believe they used to be called "antimacassars"), and everyone is so polite! No slovenly, oafish passengers with a sense of entitlement back then! It all makes me wish I had lived back when society just seemed so much more civil. And I thank Ozzie for filming it all. Sure, there was some "artistic license" and likely quite a bit of exaggeration in this and all the episodes, but really, I don't think there was too much of a difference between the lives on screen and in person. Like others may have mentioned, O&H was perhaps more of a "reality show" than mere sitcom. Moreover, I imagine David in "real life" was truly the nice guy we came to love on the show. I still am in shock that he's gone. Had always wanted to meet him and let him know how much he and his family mean to me.

The "teemager" in that episode with David was Bernadette Withers. She is the niece of Jane Withers who played "Josephine the Plumber" in the old Comet cleanser commercials and (going back some years) the "bad girl" in the Shirley Temple movies. Bernadette had parts in a number of TV series in the 1960's.

The episode that endeared David to me was "A Lamp for Dave and June." Who wouldn't want a husband with his sense of humor, tolerance and understanding? A lot of husbands would hit the ceiling if their wife forgot to pay the rent or rationed their food. I love when Dave and June are lamp shopping and the prices get higher and higher as they walk through the store. He has a cute line about how they are going the wrong way. I say that all the time when I'm shopping and I don't like the prices.

That was a very nice episode for both Dave and June. I also liked his episodes in the law office, including "Rick Grows a Beard." Good acting for sure. And of course a must-see episode: "David Hires a Secretary" ('60) with June playing another character, footage of which later appears in "A Wife in the Office" ('64) -- where "Cathy" becomes good ol' June.

After I saw the episode last month, June and the Great Outdoors became an instant favorite.

I thought Dave did a great job of losing his patience yet still trying to still keep his cool with June. Especially when he's trapped in the trailer and June won't go get the keys.

I've always felt that at the beginning of the series, David seemed a bit timid, and shy where Rick was very outgoing, and lively and more natural, but by the end of the run, Dave seemed to be the one who was more natural and at ease while Rick you could tell had sort of withdrawn and seemed to now be the shy one.

Dave picks a Pie has always been a favorite of mine.

and June's always Late. Where Dave threatens her that if she's late again, he'd leaving without her.. and then he does. So the next time she sets all the clocks BACK so she'll fool herself into thinking she needs to be ready, but she'll actually be early. Only she should have set the clocks AHEAD not back.

The Fraturnity episodes I always love as well.

I also like the one where Dave gets tricky with Ricky. He thinks Rick is looking a little to much at a girl he likes, so he arranges it so this other girl is always running into Ricky so he gets intersted in that girl so Dave is free and clear with the girl he likes.

Dave and the School teacher

then there's the one where Dave starts tripping over everything and gets all clumpsy everytime he gets around this girl.

There's so many.

I have all my vhs tapes rather stored away right now, I have to get them out and find Rick Nelson a Brother Remembers and watch that again. I haven't watched it in ages. Dave put together a real nice tribute there to Rick. When I find it I'll have to put it on dvd and put it up on Youtube.

I also have an interview somewhere with Dave on Live With Regis and Kathie Lee from back in themid- late 80's, they were at Disney World.

Speaking of Disney World, I always like to go in the big Epcot ball ride.. I forget what it's called, It's in that bigb all that'slike the symbol of Epcot.. There's a little movie thing that goes on at one part of the ride and they show a scene from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Anytime I go there I check to make sure they still have that scene playing, and it was the last time I was there in the mid 2000's. I like to think how millions of people a year see that scene from O&H.

The episode that endeared David to me was "A Lamp for Dave and June." Who wouldn't want a husband with his sense of humor, tolerance and understanding? A lot of husbands would hit the ceiling if their wife forgot to pay the rent or rationed their food. I love when Dave and June are lamp shopping and the prices get higher and higher as they walk through the store. He has a cute line about how they are going the wrong way. I say that all the time when I'm shopping and I don't like the prices.

Dave really did have a lot of patience. He was such a good guy - so even tempered. Haven't seen this ep in a while but I do remember her getting really hung up on some pricey lamps. Think I'm gonna give it a whirl tonight.

or in any other way I guess, although I'm thinking primarily of eps. Maybe share about your favorite eps with Dave or a scene in an ep that really stuck with you. I'm going to be watching a LOT of O & H again, but really those eps where Dave figures prominently.

To me, ANY ep with Dave is a very good ep but I really liked the ones from at least the 6 or 7th season on. My all time favorite ep with David is "David And The Teenager" where this 14 yr old girl gets a real puppy dog crush on Dave. I think this one also has a special meaning to me as it was one of the very first eps I saw of the series and WAS the first one I saw with June in it. Also it was a nice change of pace seeing Dave being presented as "the dashingly hansome" brother - instead of Rick. Its also one of the few eps I have that is totally complete-with all the commericals and that absolutely wonderful flashback sequence at the end - to the very first ep I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think I am)

Another ep I really like is "David's Other Office" where we see Dave's patient grace even though June is driving him up a wall with all her interruptions. It was also fun seeing Reta Shaw a bit out of character - still forceful - but toned done a bit from the uber-steamroller dowager type she usually plays. And of course any ep with "Miss Edwards" is icing on the cake.

What are yours?

Dave has a nice part in " Busy Christmas". He volunteers to drive Ozzie all over on the night that Ozzie plays Scrooge and Santa. He is with his father every step of the way. I also liked Dave with June. One episode June tells him she can't cook and he looks at her and saids: "Who Cares?"

"Trip Trap" is one of my favs - Dave with all those gorgeous girls, trying to convince June they don't want to go to Hawaii.

I love all the David and June episodes I have seen....esp most recently, the camping episode :)

I love all the David and June episodes I have seen....esp most recently, the camping episode :)

Yes - that one is fun. I got it on a DVD set that did have a cheesy aspect - it didn't give you name of any of the eps. But I was able to match the shows up to their names. On the other hand, this 14 ep set had 9 eps I never saw before, so that made up for everything.

These are all wonderful. I really love Trip Trap where June tricks Dave into the trip. Boy is she slick. And lol he sure doesn't seem to mind all those pretty gals swarming around him. (Hey when you got it you got it)

And Busy Christmas is, to me , one of the classic eps of the series along with
"The Fraternity Rents A Room " and "Tutti Frutti Ice Cream". Busy Christmas is my favorite O & H Xmas ep - I loved seeing the family together in two distinct time periods '56 and '64 - and Dave is wonderful in it. Actually, all the Nelsons are!

Sigh, wish I had the stewardess ep, sounds like it was wonderful. Maybe one day I'll come across it ( I hope)

David had his own special charm that just shown through and he lit up when he worked with June!