The subject comes up seemingly in every episode, including “Happy Weekend.” “Hot dog, Beaver!” Wally says as the boys are looking over the cabin. Like so many of the series’s best installments, that one was written by the show’s creators, Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, men apparently obsessed with bathing. Dow named as his favorite “Happy Weekend” (Season 2, Episode 13), a wise, wistful tale in which the boys’ father, Ward (Hugh Beaumont), drags them against their will to the cabin where he used to vacation as a child. Dow in what is now called Jaws Lake on Universal’s back lot. Mathers said his selection was based on the memory of the down time between scenes, when he outfished Mr. It seems like a perfect instance of brotherly rivalry that, when asked to choose his favorite episode, Mr. Yes, Wally is still saying “goofy.”Ī still from Season 5. “They put a goofy-looking hat on me,” Mr. Dow cited “Wally, the Lifeguard” (Season 4, Episode 4), in which Wally thinks he has been hired as a lifeguard but finds himself hawking hot dogs instead. The only thing that would be funnier would be a bunny in a beaver suit.”) And Mr. (The episode gave Lumpy the opportunity to utter the memorable line: “Beaver in a bunny suit. Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, still cringes at “Beaver, the Bunny” (Season 5, Episode 16), in which he ended up in a ridiculous rabbit suit for a school pageant. Ken Osmond the slick, weaselly Eddie Haskell, one of the most memorable characters television has ever seen spoke of receiving a faceful of differential fluid in “Wally’s Practical Joke” (Season 6, Episode 35). We would throw jokes out at the table reading.”įrank Bank, who played Wally’s friend Lumpy Rutherford, recalled taking a quart of melted ice cream (which, he confessed in an interview, was actually yogurt) over the head in “Wally’s Weekend Job” (Season 5, Episode 6). “They get in the way of your concentration when you’re trying to get at a story. “Jokes get in the way,” Tony Dow, who played Wally, said in a telephone interview, talking about the “Beaver” writers’ reliance on more placid, observational humor. Kennedy, when American life at least as it is often now mythologized stood blissfully still. The discs are a technical upgrade over previous releases, but the real prize is being able to immerse yourself in the entire body of work, a time capsule from that brief moment between the end of the Korean War and the assassination of President John F. A boxed set out this week from the Shout! Factory collects the entire series, with assorted extras and annotated booklets for each season. Wally and the Beaver, of course, were the focus of “Leave It to Beaver,” and that bathtub scene was in Episode 1 of Season 1: “Beaver Gets ‘Spelled.’ ” There would be 233 more episodes during the show’s six-season run, from 1957 to 1963, and they are full of small, knowing moments.

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