The episode "Beaver's Secret Life" where Beaver gets a diary, but after writing everyday "boring" things, he fabricates doing some exciting things. Ward and June don't know that Beaver is just making up the exciting diary entries and get concerned when Beaver comes home late one night. Feeling awful about the need to read Beaver's diary, out of concern that the entries he is writing about may be dangerous, ie. "Did hand stand at Miller's Pond." Ward talks to him:

"Son, it's fine to imagine and daydream, we all do that." This next line is the most powerful for me, "But Beaver, if you live your life in a dream, some day your going to wake up and realize that you never had anything real."

There is such a mellow gentleness but such a powerful, emotional impact in Hugh's delivery of that quote. I will never forget it for the rest of my life!

And equally powerful is Ward reading Beaver's composition in "The Most Interesting Character" episode. I am getting misty-eyed just thinking about it.

Jack

On youtube someone put both of those scenes in a tribute to Hugh. I loved that video. I watched it a lot. Then one day it was gone. It was my favorite video to watch, it brought a tear to my eye. I wish I could have saved it.

That's beautiful. Too bad they don't make shows like this anymore.