In watching the LITB episodes featuring Wally’s sometime girlfriend, Julie Foster, I’ve always been struck on how bubbly and effervescent the comely Julie was on the show. She always seemed to be flashing that million-dollar-smile of hers, whether she was at an all-girls slumber party or just walking in the corridor at Mayfield Hugh School on her way to her next class.

Julie also struck me as being blithely unaware (or just downright indifferent) to just how much things cost or in paying her personal debts. Remember how Julie almost gave Wally a stroke when she suggested that Wally take her to dinner at the new restaurant in Mayfield, The White Fox, a four-star restaurant which even the extremely wealthy parents of the spoiled and privileged members of The Barons, would think twice about ordering the most expensive meal at this upscale and exclusive eatery?

And, how about when the kind and callow Wally reluctantly gave Julie several ice
cream bars for her and her friends on her assurance to Wally that she’d pay him back the entire amount very next day, with the ditsy Julie then stiffing Wally, telling him that she just had to get her hair permed first before she got around to reimbursing Wally for the ice cream?


Julie wasn’t very nice (to say the least!) to Wally either, when she casually (not to mention also rather coldly) dumped the dependable and boring Wally in order to date the new guy at Mayfield High, Wayne “The Mustachioed Fop” Gregory, an especially oily and unctuous character. Wally should have seen the handwriting on the wall then, when “Ms. Selfish” dumped him and told himself that were plenty more fish in the sea rather than grow that God-awful mustache in an attempt to win her back. She wasn’t worth it.

Heck, even when Julie was initially Gloria Cusick on the show, she was rather “space cadet-like” and even very thoughtless and tactless, when she told Wally that he had a cute pug nose, causing the extremely sensitive Wally to develop an inferiority complex over the shape of his proboscis.

I’m not surprised therefore, that Wally eventually married the pretty and far more down-to-earth and level-headed Mary Ellen Rogers on the LITB sequel series. In fact, on that later LITB series, Julie Foster gave the sultry Marlene Holmes a run for her money as “The Messalina of Mayfield,” when Julie made a play for the happily married Wally, much to Mary Ellen’s shock and dismay.

Julie should have married Don, the sleazy and apparently satyriasis-afflicted tennis instructor, who thought he was God’s great gift to women. The two of them deserved one another, in my opinion.

Yes, Julie was kind of shallow. We knew her a little better than Mary Ellen, whose father threw Wally out when he tried to deliver ice cream to the girls' slumber party. But way back in the first season, she played up to Beaver to get to Wally, trying to get him to ask her to a dance.

As you mentioned, Julie was renamed from Gloria Cusick for unknown reasons. As for Mary Ellen, that actress, Pamela Beaird, played two girlfriends for Wally--but one was a one-shot. She also played Myra, a girl who wanted Wally to get her an orchid corsage since she was the most popular girl in the class. We see her primping in the mirror as she discusses the orchid with Wally, on the phone.

As we know Wally dated many other girls, some of whom were certainly a better match for him that these two girls. But, of course, in the TV world, we later learned he married Mary Ellen.

I thought that Wally would eventually marry Evelyn Boothby. The LITB writers featured actress Mary Mitchell as Evelyn Boothby in several episodes during the show’s final season. I think that Ward and especially June both “slightly” preferred Evelyn over Marlene Holmes as a suitable match for Wally.

Mary Mitchell also appeared in an episode on that other Mosher/Connelly tv show, “The Munsters.” In addition, I saw Mary Mitchell on an episode of “Hogan’s Heroes.” I believe that the very pretty Mary Mitchell eventually gave up acting to work behind the camera in Hollywood.

She would have met June's approval, although June had some palpitations when she found out Evelyn's slightly older sister was married and Wally might get "ideas" (heaven forbid).

Kathy Gregory, the girl who ended up in the fountain after the all night party, was really nice. But her dad would have been a real pain for Wally as a father-in-law.

Yes, Kathy Gregory was a very attractive and likable young woman.

Although, I agree with you about her “slightly” overbearing father; he was kind of like Fred Rutherford, but with a full head of hair!

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High school is the place to be shallow and try new things including how to behave towards others.

I'm so glad I never had to deal with very many dads of my high school classmates.

I remember in either my junior or senior year, my best friend was absent, sick, for one of our tests. I think it was Physics. Anyway, his dad called me to find out what kind of questions were on the test - his son would be taking the make-up. So in the process of giving him info over the phone, I either joked or said something off-topic and he practically bit my head off. Some gratitude (and he was a prominent doctor).

One thing about Leave it to Beaver, is how many dates Wally had over the 6 years of the show. How situations came up and how he and his father or mother talked about it. How he was nervous going on the date and in the end he the dates weren't so bad. Other than fast Marlene, he did well. Then I wonder how more dates he had in college, by then all his thinking was his or maybe a roommate might have given him thoughts. He had a lot of practice until he did find a girl to marry.

I wonder if she just didnt care?

Wally was on Adam 12 S3-E5 Cigarettes Cars & Wild Wild Women and the was still struggling with girls and AN EASY TARGET ! ( I like this episode)

Wally was just too nice of a guy to be a Jerk +- lol