Sorry, I don't agree that this one was a dud. The Beaver never grew up -why should we have expected him to? He was a whiny kid who grew up to be a whiny, clueless adult. I loved the first scene when his wife turns the sprinklers on him and later, when June is sitting in the graveyard saying "Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver." Meeting Eddie Haskell's kid, who is his father all over again, of course, was also great fun.
Leave it to Beaver was never fine theater or great writing,it was just a look at the way America never really was.
Leave it to Beaver was never fine theater or great writing,it was just a look at the way America never really was.