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Tankeryanker · 11-23-2019, 07:24 AM

Do we ever hear any of the boy's voices change and get deeper?

stevea · 11-23-2019, 12:36 PM

Mathers had a noticeable change in season 5.

Tony Dow and Steve Talbot--happened, but more gradually.

Dude111 · 11-24-2019, 03:55 AM

Yup I was gonna say BEAVER...... Man did his get deeper!!!

Scrabjan1 · 11-24-2019, 04:10 PM

The kid who played Ernie Douglas really had a voice change. I think they had an episode all about it. Some were lucky and it changed over the summer before the new season.

stevea · 11-24-2019, 04:59 PM

Yeah Barry Livingston's voice did a lot of cracking.

I'm betting the episode you're thinking about re voice change was a Brady Bunch episode. They made a big thing about Peter's voice cracking and changing, as part of their music group. They finally made use of the change in the song.

Stepperry40 · 11-27-2019, 09:14 PM

How older was Lumpy Frank Bank then Wally Tony Dow? Age difference and wasn't a regular right away could be why you didn't notice much of differance with Lumpy's voice. Was 3rd season that Eddie became a regular and even though Eddie was same age as Wally and his friends Ken Osmond is older by couple of years then them.

stevea · 11-28-2019, 08:23 AM

Bank was born in 1942 and Osmond in 1943. Haskell was always portrayed as being in the same class as Wally (Dow was born in 1945), but there were two references to Lumpy being left back. One was within the first two seasons, and the last one was in soph. history, season 3. During a history test where Eddie and Lumpy tried to cheat, Mr. Gannon mentioned having been through WW 1 or 2 with Lumpy last year.

Scrabjan1 · 11-28-2019, 09:19 AM

As I recall Paul Peterson in Donna Reed grew up on TV with no voice change. He also didn’t seem to go through the awkward phase. Johnny Crawford didn’t have a voice change but in the last season of Rifleman they treated him like a girl.

11-23-2019, 07:24 AM	#1
Tankeryanker Do you like my monkey picture? Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 22, 2014 Posts: 3,058	Boy's voices Do we ever hear any of the boy's voices change and get deeper?

11-23-2019, 12:36 PM	#2
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 45,412	Mathers had a noticeable change in season 5. Tony Dow and Steve Talbot--happened, but more gradually.

11-24-2019, 03:55 AM	#3
Dude111 Forum Legend Join Date: Nov 05, 2013 Posts: 37,475	Yup I was gonna say BEAVER...... Man did his get deeper!!!

11-24-2019, 04:10 PM	#4
Scrabjan1 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 27, 2013 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 3,521	The kid who played Ernie Douglas really had a voice change. I think they had an episode all about it. Some were lucky and it changed over the summer before the new season.

11-24-2019, 04:59 PM	#5
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 45,412	Yeah Barry Livingston's voice did a lot of cracking. I'm betting the episode you're thinking about re voice change was a Brady Bunch episode. They made a big thing about Peter's voice cracking and changing, as part of their music group. They finally made use of the change in the song.

11-27-2019, 09:14 PM	#6
Stepperry40 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Mar 11, 2019 Location: CA Posts: 163	How older was Lumpy Frank Bank then Wally Tony Dow? Age difference and wasn't a regular right away could be why you didn't notice much of differance with Lumpy's voice. Was 3rd season that Eddie became a regular and even though Eddie was same age as Wally and his friends Ken Osmond is older by couple of years then them.

11-28-2019, 08:23 AM	#7
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 45,412	Bank was born in 1942 and Osmond in 1943. Haskell was always portrayed as being in the same class as Wally (Dow was born in 1945), but there were two references to Lumpy being left back. One was within the first two seasons, and the last one was in soph. history, season 3. During a history test where Eddie and Lumpy tried to cheat, Mr. Gannon mentioned having been through WW 1 or 2 with Lumpy last year.

11-28-2019, 09:19 AM	#8
Scrabjan1 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 27, 2013 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 3,521	As I recall Paul Peterson in Donna Reed grew up on TV with no voice change. He also didn’t seem to go through the awkward phase. Johnny Crawford didn’t have a voice change but in the last season of Rifleman they treated him like a girl.