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magellan333 · 05-21-2006, 11:20 AM

Does this set include the pilot where there is another boy playing Wally?

gilligan fanatic · 05-21-2006, 11:26 AM

yes it does, it also features openings to the episodes that aren't shown on TV Land. There is a different Ward too.

TV Knowledge Fan · 05-22-2006, 01:10 PM

...what you've shown are scenes from the original pilot, "WALLY AND THE BEAVER", which was eventually reworked by Connelly & Mosher into the show we know and love today! Casey Adams (nee Max Showalter) was Ward Cleaver, and Harry Shearer played the prototype of what became "Eddie Haskell". MCA-TV, who never liked to waste ANY of its TV projects, eventually tucked this pilot film into their syndicated series "HEINZ PLAYHOUSE" in the fall of 1957 as "It's a Small World". It wasn't until the mid-'80s that someone at MCA rediscovered it in the archives, and TBS finally rebroadcast it in 1987.

TV Knowledge Fan · 05-22-2006, 01:36 PM

----Paul Sullivan is "Wally" in this version of the original pilot episode.

treky · 05-25-2006, 03:21 PM

...they replaced him because by the time the pilot was picked up, the first Wally had outgrown the role.

05-21-2006, 11:20 AM	#1
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05-21-2006, 11:26 AM	#2
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05-22-2006, 01:10 PM	#3
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Yep, that's it.... ...what you've shown are scenes from the original pilot, "WALLY AND THE BEAVER", which was eventually reworked by Connelly & Mosher into the show we know and love today! Casey Adams (nee Max Showalter) was Ward Cleaver, and Harry Shearer played the prototype of what became "Eddie Haskell". MCA-TV, who never liked to waste ANY of its TV projects, eventually tucked this pilot film into their syndicated series "HEINZ PLAYHOUSE" in the fall of 1957 as "It's a Small World". It wasn't until the mid-'80s that someone at MCA rediscovered it in the archives, and TBS finally rebroadcast it in 1987.

05-22-2006, 01:36 PM	#4
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Oh, yes---- ----Paul Sullivan is "Wally" in this version of the original pilot episode.

05-25-2006, 03:21 PM	#5
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