If The Show Had Continued Beyond Season 6

[Corvetteguy]

Over the past couple of years, I have been making up fake episodes for the show if it had continued beyond the 6th season. What changes do you think would have occurred and what would happen to the Mayfield gang ? I thought it would be fun if we each named some changes and wrote a few episodes synopsis.


The Changes For The 1964-65 Season

* June & Ward are now being featured in episodes about themselves.

* The show is now in color.

* June now has a helmet head bubble hairdo and wears head bands.

* Ward is nearly gray.

* Ward & June now drive a convertible.

* Wally is in second year of College and goes steady with Mary Ellen and marries her by season end.

* Beaver is more annoying and repulsive and dates Violet.


Episodes

A Touch of Mink......June & Gwen both win a fur coat jointly and take turns wearing it, which causes a riff between the Rutherfords and the Cleavers.


The Wedding Ring......Beaver and Gilbert are messing around in Wally's drawer and accidentaly knock Mary Ellen's engagement ring down the furnace vent. Beaver & Gilbert must find a way to retrieve the ring before Wally finds out.


Beaver's Accident......Beaver borrows Ward's new convertible to go to the market for June. When he returns, there is a large scratch on the door and he and his friends try to cover up the fact.


The Proposal......Wally has a day of mishaps when he tries to get Mary Ellen alone and ask her a very important question.


The Elopement.....Lumpy elopes with his girlfriend Gertrude and set up home life in a small apartment financed by Fred. After seeing what a hard time Lump is having (Fred makes Lumpy get a job to support himself and his new bride), Wally gets second thoughts about his upcoming wedding.


White Lace & Promises.......Mary Ellen wants a new wedding gown, but her mother wants her to wear the one she wore when she married Mary Ellen's father. Mary Ellen's grandmother also has her dress and wants her to wear it. Mary Ellen doesn't know what to do, until the perfect solution comes up. She will wear her soon to be mother-in-law June's


The Wedding......Wally & Mary Ellen are married and Eddie Haskel has plans to make Wally's honeymoon a night he will never forget.


The Homecoming......In all of the confusion of planning the wedding, Wally & Mary Ellen forget all about where they will live. They have no other choice but to live with the Cleavers.


The Jealous Brother.....Beaver becomes jealous of Mary Ellen after he feels he is no longer close to his brother.


Mother Knows Best......Mary Ellen feels inadequate after Wally gets sick with the flu and June continues to baby Wally during his illness and Mary Ellen's attempts seem to falter.

[UncleBilly]

Those are great scenerios. You kept the same type of story lines as the original writers and updated them for the family to be growing older. I especially like the one about Wally having the flu: that is exactly the way June would act even if Wally were married.

[Mark B.]

Those are great story treatments! They really have the same feeling of the New LITB/Still the Beaver series.

One correction though that would be consistant with the 80's series:

Eddie's wife is named Gert (Gertude), so you may want to choose another one for Lumpy's wife.

Plus, some of these stories seem like they would take place a few years later (maybe in the early 70s). Especially the storylines about Wally and Mary Ellen getting married. I believe the 80s series showed flashbacks of Wally courting and proposing to Mary Ellen- I think it took place in the 70s because wally had a perm and a beard.

[Courtnee]

Awesome!

[desilu #1]

That is too funny.

Wally has graduated from high school and finds out that Mary Ellen is pregnant! She gives birth with their daughter and flees! Ward and June raise the little girl as their own.

On the verge of the hippy era, there are threats of the Manson family visiting Mayfield. Ward puts deadbolts on the doors and builds an emergency shelter.

Beaver approaches Ward and tells him that he's in love with Gilbert and Ward socks him and says " I don't mind you wanting ass but it better be a woman's"! Beaver says " Gee dad, Gil is wearing lacey panties and he shaved his butt so it's smooth"!

Ward builds a high fence so June can plant her flowers in the nude while he watches.

[tdr]

For season #7, it would have been '63-'64, and one thing that can't be overlooked, especially with a Thanksgiving or Christmas story of that year, is the Kennedy assassination. I started a fanfic a couple of years ago focusing on Larry's return to Mayfield just before he and Beaver start high school, along with Wally and the gang getting started as freshmen at 'State,' but I didn't get very far on it. But I did have in mind a story about the Kennedy assassination, which occurred only 6 days before Thanksgiving, and how it would have affected them. In fact, many see that as the turning point in our society being orderly progressive and then becoming radical from both political spectrums. If LITB had kept going for a year or 2, it might have become very difficult to keep it a light comedy.

[TripperFan]

Yeah, unfortunately the second half of the sixties in real life didn't leave much room for "innocence comedy" on t.v. the same anymore. Everything started to change after Kennedy was assassinated. The end of innocence.