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MeTV Back to School with Beaver (2026)

Marcus2026 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:49:12 GMT

This Sunday, head back to school with Theodore Cleaver aka the Beaver with selected school-themed episodes of Leave It to Beaver!

List of episodes, all times Eastern:

11am-S1E1: "Beaver Gets 'Spelled" (OAD: October 4, 1957)
11:30am-S1E14: "Part-Time Genius" (OAD: January 10, 1958)
12pm-S2E17: "Beaver Plays Hooky" (OAD: January 22, 1959)
12:30pm-S3E17: "Wally's Test" (OAD: January 23, 1960)
1pm-S3E38: "Last Day of School" (OAD: June 18, 1960)
1:30pm-S4E30: "The School Picture" (OAD: April 22, 1961)
2pm-S3E19: "Wally's Election" (OAD: February 6, 1960)
2:30pm-S5E11: "Beaver's English Test" (OAD: December 16, 1961)
3pm-S6E30: "The Book Report" (OAD: April 18, 1963)
3:30pm-S6E34: "Beaver's Graduation" (OAD: May 16, 1963)

Watch Leave It to Beaver weekdays at 8am ET and Sundays at 1pm ET on MeTV.

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Whatever Happened To STEPHEN TALBOT, Gilbert Bates from TV's "LEAVE IT TO BEAVER"?

TMC — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:11:32 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxEQNlIodUw

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Stephen Talbot played Gilbert Bates on Leave It To Beaver. In this video, I discuss what he's done since leaving that iconic television show. Thanks for watching!

Leaving your 9-year-old son to get his haircut

Tankeryanker — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:17:13 GMT

Guy on X says a 9-year-old boy should be left in the barbershop to get his haircut and to tell the barber what cut he wants.

How old was Beaver when he went to town with money and lost it?

Eddie Punches Wally in the Face

CosmicCharlie — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:06:00 GMT

I'm surprised they allowed that !

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What If Judy Hensler and Penny Woods Had Been Classmates at The Grant Avenue School?

Sgt. Saunders — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:24:16 GMT

I don�t think we ever saw Beaver�s two female antagonists together in a LITB episode. Apparently, Jeri Weil, who portrayed the self-centered Judy Hensler was blossoming very early into young womanhood and was replaced by Karen Sue Trent, who portrayed Penny Woods, an equally self-centered young girl.

Yet, I�ve often wondered what would have happened if these two forceful and opinionated young girls had had to interact with one another on a daily basis in Miss Landers�s grade school class? Would their exchanges have been like the pointed repartee that might have taken place between a very young Hillary Rodham Clinton and a very young Sarah Palin in grade school?

Would Miss Landers have had her hands full, trying to maintain order in her class with these two driven, future female corporate executives or members of Congress?

And, would Beaver, Larry, Whitey, Richard, and the rest of the boys in Miss Landers�s class just have ducked down low in their seats, hoping not to get caught in the rapid crossfire between Judy �The Harridan� Hensler and Penny �The Ninja Warrior� Woods?

Alas, what might have transpired in that grade school classroom.

Miss Landers 1st Name

CosmicCharlie — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:43:55 GMT

What episode do we find out her 1st name is Alice ?

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Don Juan Beaver

CosmicCharlie — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:37:59 GMT

Charla Doherty as Melinda Neilson

Her career was from 1962 -1969

She is in one of my fav movies - Village of the Giants - 1965
CHECK IT OUT ! many famous people in this fun movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059878...cord_1_cdt_t_6

Here are a few pix from her final movie - In the Year 2889 - 1969 with Paul Peterson

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060536...cord_1_cdt_c_1

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Beaver Delivering His 1st Kiss (?)

CosmicCharlie — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:12:36 GMT

The series just wrapped up on MeTV

Beaver made it to 8th grade yet never kissed a girl, except during the school play, or when Lumpy's sister kissed him on the cheek at the picnic.

Who do you think Beav had the chance to kiss but never delivered ?

Who would you have made the move on if you were Beav ?

Wally said of Mary Margaret Mathews, "she's an operator". When Beav was on the porch swing with her she leaned into him, then nothing LOL Maybe he could have kissed her good bye before he left for the Beaver Sees America !

Beav brought Mimi Gibson (Mary Tyler) up to his bedroom to play Monopoly but she went for Wally LOL

My 1st kiss was summer 8th grade, how about you ?

I like coming of age movies ! Do you have a fav ?

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Were There Times On LITB When June Didn�t Have A Clue?

Sgt. Saunders — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:18:51 GMT

In watching the LITB episodes there were times when I thought June did not exercise good judgment at all.

We’ve already discussed in a previous thread, how June’s careless and thoughtless action, when she placed the “How To Make A Million” book that Beaver had bought for Ward in the family’s cookie drawer, which hurt and upset the Beaver greatly.

I also thought June was looking at the world through the proverbial “rose-colored glasses,” when she selected a photograph of a nude baby Beaver, stretched out on a blanket. Didn’t she realize that the other children, but especially Judi Hensler and Larry Mondello, would have made life absolutely miserable for Beaver if Miss Landers had gone ahead and placed that photograph of Beaver, au naturel, on the classroom bulletin board?

And, how would little June Bronson have reacted if Aunt Martha had submitted a photograph of her to June’s grade school class, showing baby June, lying on a blanket and showing her cute, little keester for everyone to see and comment on?

On another LITB episode, when June asked Wally to help new Mayfield High School student Dudley (and, by the way, what an absolutely “wonderful” Christian name to saddle your own son with for life?), the son of one her closest grade school friends, she did it again, when she urged the very naive Dudley to leave on that dorky-looking fedora he was wearing and wear it to school as he walked with Wally for Dudley’s first day at Mayfield High.

I mean, even Ward immediately realized that that fedora hat along with that drab black fly front rain coat Dudley was wearing, made Dudley look like a pallbearer at a funeral. Ward obviously knew that such longtime smart-@sses as Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford, would make life especially miserable for the callow Dudley. Ward very tactfully suggested to Dudley that he leave the hat at the Cleaver home, but, once again, June “Miss Goody-Two-Shoes” Cleaver interfered much to both Ward and Wally’s mild annoyance.

I’ve always wondered if Ward ever mentioned to June how she unintentionally made both of her sons feel very uncomfortable with her puzzling and thoughtless actions?

June really needed to get her head out of the sand, in my opinion.

I saw Barbara Billingsley on the Danny Thomas Show and thought

TVFactFan — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:52:11 GMT

It was a crossover. But realized she was his date and this was in Jan of 1957 and Leave it to Beaver started in October of 1957

Marlene Holmes Today

Tankeryanker — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:57:19 GMT

What do you think she would look like? Full of tattoos?

Same type of job?

Maybe after Wally stopped seeing her, she decided that if she cleaned up her act, she could keep a guy like Wally. She would have to stop dancing with other men, of course, but...

Was community college a thing back then? What type of upward-mobility jobs could she get without an education?

FETV Leave It to Beaver Back to School Marathon (2026)

Marcus2026 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:14:24 GMT

On Sunday, August 2nd, its time to head back to school with Wally and the Beaver with a 6-hour marathon of school-themed episodes of Leave It to Beaver!

Here's what will be airing on this marathon, all times Eastern:

9am-S1E8: "Beaver's Crush" (OAD: November 22, 1957)
9:35am-S1E14: "Part-Time Genius" (OAD: January 10, 1958)
10:10am-S3E3: "School Bus" (OAD: October 17, 1959)
10:45am-S3E17: "Wally's Test" (OAD: January 23, 1960)
11:20am-S4E9: "Beaver's I.Q." (OAD: November 26, 1960)
11:55am-S4E30: "The School Picture" (OAD: April 22, 1961)
12:30pm-S4E34: "Junior Fire Chief" (OAD: May 20, 1961)
1:05pm-S5E11: "Beaver's English Test" (OAD: December 16, 1961)
1:45pm-S5E35: "Sweatshirt Monsters" (OAD: June 2, 1962)
2:25pm-S6E30: "The Book Report" (OAD: April 18, 1963)

Watch Leave It to Beaver weekdays at 10:30am ET and weeknights at 2am ET on FETV.

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