My youngest daughter really enjoyed LITB and has seen every episode. She insists she saw one episode where Ward Cleaver was portrayed by someone other than Hugh Beaumont

Maybe it was the pilot episode. it had a diffrient Ward and a diffrient Wally.I hope i was of some help.

Thanks for the info. Do you by an chance know the name of the person who played Ward in the pilot?

His name was Casey Adams and here's a pic. Hugh Beaumont made a much better Ward if you ask me.

do they ever show the pilot on tvland? ive never seen it i think it would be intrested to look at it

I don't know if it has ever been shown on TVLand, but I do know she saw it at least two times. I am almost positive that it was before TVLand began.

Taz

I was able to find out the following regarding the 'first' Ward.

The Pilot was called "It's A Small World"(1956) and Casey Adams did play the part. Casey Adams originally performed under the name Max Showalter and subsequently started using that name again in late 50's or early 60's.

Originally posted by BeaversBiggestFan
His name was Casey Adams and here's a pic. Hugh Beaumont made a much better Ward if you ask me.

That guy looks very familiar. I looked him up on imdb.com and I see he was in an episode of TAGS, but I also want to say he was in TZ. It doesn't list him on TZ, but I think I've seen him on there.

The unaired pilot has never been seen on tv (to the best of my memory) other than TBS during the New Leave it to Beaver run. That's actually how I got my copy of it, was TBS during that time. TV Land will probably never air it because it's an unaired pilot (same with Gilligan). TBS actually showed the Gilligan pilot back then too (TBS was cool back then).

I never liked the original Ward in comparison to Hugh that is. The first Wally was pretty horrible as well.