Regarding Male Pattern Baldness in Mayfield, USA

[Sgt. Saunders]

On LITB, hair, or more to the point the lack of it, was hardly ever mentioned on LITB. The one episode I can recall where mention was made of the “male curse” was on the third season episode, “Beaver and Violet.”

In that episode, Fred Rutherford complains to Ward that some young and clearly disrespectful kid called him “skin-head” while Fred was walking over to the
Cleaver’s home. Later, in that same episode, Gwen Rutherford tells her husband, Fred, to put his New York Yankees baseball hat back on to avoid getting a glare from his shiny bald head when Ward is about to photograph the two of them while on a picnic with the Cleavers.

Gwen Rutherford’s candid remark to Fred reminds me of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets at Shea Stadium many years ago. As the tv cameraman was taking a shot of the Cardinals’s dugout, one of the Cardinal coaches, a fifty-something man with a completely bald head just happened to take off his baseball hat there in the dugout. This prompted Mets announcer, the late, great Tim McCarver, to immediately shout out in his wonderful Memphis, Tennessee accent, “Put that hat back on, the SHINE is BLINDING me!”

Now the only other man with a “denuded” head on LITB, who can I remember was the legendary Gus-the-Fireman. And, as another poster pointed out, Gus was also in need of some serious cosmetic dentistry procedures to fix his choppers. However, I got the impression that Gus, being a sage sexagenarian, was completely at ease and cool with having completely lost his hair during his younger years because, in the scheme of things, it really didn’t matter.

Although, I could see an incorrigible smart-@ss like Eddie Haskell saying something to Lumpy Rutherford like, “Hey, Lumpy, do you think you’ll eventually get a chrome-dome just like your old man?”

Can you think of any other characters on LITB, who were also “folliclely-challenged”?

[stevea]

There is Bartlett Robinson, whose follicles are in short supply, who appears in a couple of different roles.

In Beaver the Model from season 3, he is Ward's attorney friend. Beaver is suckered into a modeling contract, and he (as Mayfield's most ambulatory ten year old) goes to lawyer Compton's office, in an effort to worm out of the deal. Compton applies some Turtle Wax to his chrome dome and goes to work, after collecting 45 cents from Beaver.

In Yard Birds from season 5, as Mr. Hill, he owns a lot on the seedier side of Mayfield, near the dump, and not too far from Eddie's future apartment. The lot is attractive only to Eddie and Lumpy, who decide to jettison the Cleavers' garbage there. Mr. Hill's detective work leads him to a magazine with Ward's address on it, and eventually to the Cleaver front door.

[Sgt. Saunders]

Oh, yes, the very distinguished Bartlett Robinson, with a name like that, Mr. Robinson could have been one of the signers of The Declaration for Independence.

Bartlett Robinson had a prolific career, appearing on radio, on the stage and in films and on television. His film credits included “The Spirit of St. Louis,” “I Want to Live,” “No Time for Sergeants,” “The Fortune Cookie” and Mr. Robinson’s final film role as Dr. Orva in Woody Allen’s 1973 film, “Sleeper.”

I also remember seeing Mr. Robinson in the other Bob Mosher/Joe Connelly tv comedy hit, “The Munsters.” And, I think that Mr. Robinson was right up there with the late Dennis Patrick for the most appearances by an actor in American television series staring in the 1950s and through the next thirty years.

I don’t think that Mr. Robinson ever gave a bad performance during his long and distinguished career.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by stevea

There is Bartlett Robinson, whose follicles are in short supply, who appears in a couple of different roles.

In Beaver the Model from season 3, he is Ward's attorney friend. Beaver is suckered into a modeling contract, and he (as Mayfield's most ambulatory ten year old) goes to lawyer Compton's office, in an effort to worm out of the deal. Compton applies some Turtle Wax to his chrome dome and goes to work, after collecting 45 cents from Beaver.

In Yard Birds from season 5, as Mr. Hill, he owns a lot on the seedier side of Mayfield, near the dump, and not too far from Eddie's future apartment. The lot is attractive only to Eddie and Lumpy, who decide to jettison the Cleavers' garbage there. Mr. Hill's detective work leads him to a magazine with Ward's address on it, and eventually to the Cleaver front door.

Okay, he IS the attorney. Wasn't sure.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630229...1_cdt_epp_sm_1

[stevea]

Yes, I sometimes use pronouns too much.