Beaver Gets 'Spelled'
- Episode aired Oct 4, 1957
- 30m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
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Beaver expects the worst when teacher Miss Canfield sends him home with a sealed note for his parents.Beaver expects the worst when teacher Miss Canfield sends him home with a sealed note for his parents.Beaver expects the worst when teacher Miss Canfield sends him home with a sealed note for his parents.
Diane Brewster
- Miss Canfield
- (as Diana Brewster)
Stephen Paylow
- Boy #2
- (as Steve Paylow)
Rory O'Connor
- Beaver (double)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Joe Connelly(uncredited)
- Bob Mosher(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt is revealed that the boys attend the same grammar school on Grant Avenue. Beaver is in the 2nd grade and Wally is in the 8th.
- GoofsStanley Fafara played Beaver's classmate, Hubert 'Whitey' Whitney, in many subsequent episodes. In this early episode (the first one broadcast), when Miss Canfield speaks to him in class, she calls him "Harold".
- Quotes
[opening narration]
Ward Cleaver: When you were young, you had your own set of values. Values that nothing could change. An ice cream cone was a snow-capped mountain of sheer delight. An autographed baseball was more precious than rubies. And a note from the teacher meant only one thing: Disaster. And that's our story tonight on "Leave It To Beaver".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Leave It to Beaver: Family Scrapbook (1963)
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Nostalgia on steroids
Revisiting this premiere episode of the beloved family series 60 years after first watching it broadcast (courtesy of ME TV) certainly brought back memories, and reacquainted me with the quaintness of the show's initial approach. Beaver's malapropisms and childishness are laid on with a trowel, but it's certainly fun to see both Mathers and Dow as pint-sized versions of the characters they created and that linger in the memory.
Unlike later seasons, this early version seems to be playing down too much to the audience, with silly exaggeration where later on we got believable antics of youth and a weekly life lesson or two. Certainly Beaumont and Billingsley were already comfortable in the roles, while perhaps having Norman Tokar as director (unlike later helmers of the show like the great Hollywood veteran David Butler or latterly Beaumont himself) was a bit much, as I suffered growing up watching many of his kiddie movies for Disney, none of them ranking among the studio's best achievements.
It was fun seeing character actors, chiefly the aged and ageless Burt Mustin plus Ralph Sanford in supporting bits and the distinctive Doris Packer who spanned the series' lifetime as school principal. All in all, a worthwhile trip down memory lane.
Unlike later seasons, this early version seems to be playing down too much to the audience, with silly exaggeration where later on we got believable antics of youth and a weekly life lesson or two. Certainly Beaumont and Billingsley were already comfortable in the roles, while perhaps having Norman Tokar as director (unlike later helmers of the show like the great Hollywood veteran David Butler or latterly Beaumont himself) was a bit much, as I suffered growing up watching many of his kiddie movies for Disney, none of them ranking among the studio's best achievements.
It was fun seeing character actors, chiefly the aged and ageless Burt Mustin plus Ralph Sanford in supporting bits and the distinctive Doris Packer who spanned the series' lifetime as school principal. All in all, a worthwhile trip down memory lane.
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- Jun 13, 2017
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- Runtime30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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