What could go wrong, goes wrong and wrong again!
A fondly remembered episode, dedicated to all of us up and coming teens who played in our dad's car --but left it in the driveway. Such is Beave's problem of the day, playing bickering mom and dad with Gilbert -- while the car rolls into the middle of the street and just sits there. How embarrassing!
Wally to the rescue, only to have a traffic cop get into the mix and its a big, fat ticket and a date in court. I agree with the last reviewer, the cop in real life probably would have let the guys off with a warning. Adding injury to insult, the judge gives Wally a dressing down in front of Ward, and good ole dad, on the way out the door, was just about to tell the judge where to put his advice! Spot on writing from Dick Conway. My takeaway from this is Dick may have gotten a ticket himself, and took it out on the judge! There's something more to that scene we'll never know, ya know?
Good directing from Charles Haas, later director for the OUTER LIMITS. While at Harvard, he studied under the famous poet, TS Eliot. Haas was also working at the time at Warner Brothers/ABC tv, as was Sue Randall (Miss Landers).
Look for familiar character actress Gail Bonney as the court clerk. She was everywhere on tv in the 50s and 60s. Teenage tv star Stuffy Singer makes an appearance as Steve. Stuffy co-starred on the BLONDIE series as Alexander, later becoming a world famous handball champion. Stuffy is still around today.
Note all those big gas guzzling cars in the street scene, soon to be crushed into refrigerators and washing machines in the 70s!
From SEASON 5 remastered.