Still the Beaver Episode 1 Growing Pains Nov. 7, 1984, Disney Channel
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- The first 26-minute episode of the revival series Still the Beaver on commercial-free premium cable service The Disney Channel, which was debuted on Nov. 7, 1984 as the first of 26 episodes on the network before it moved to Ted Turner's WTBS Supersation for three more seasons from 1986-89 under the name The New Leave it to Beaver.
This series followed a 20th anniversary TV movie reunion in 1983 of most of the cast of the classic black-and-white sitcom Leave it to Beaver that ran from 1957-63. It picks up from the end of the movie with Beaver living at the family home in Mayfield with his two sons and mother June following his divorce (June remains in the home even though in the movie she said she would sell the house to Beaver and move nearby and come to dinner once a week). As established, Beaver works with Lumpy Rutherford, Wally is a lawyer married to his high school sweetheart Mary Ellen Rogers, and Eddie Haskell runs a shyster construction company.
In this series, Kipp Marcus replaced Corey Feldman as Beaver's oldest son - now called Kipp instead of Corey; Wally suddenly has an elementary school-age daughter called Kelly played by Kaleena Kiff (in the TV movie a year-and-a-half earlier their first child had just been born at the very end and it appeared to be a boy called Ward); Keri Houlihan joined the cast as J.J., Lumpy Rutherford's daughter and best friend of Kelly; Eddie Haskell's son's same switched from Junior in the movie to Frederick "Freddie" Haskell, and the death of Richard Deacon necessitated a new actor in the the role of Mr. Rutherford here.
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We LOVE "The Beaver" old series ("The Haircut" episode in the old series made us LAUGH & LAUGH!!) We are ENJOYING this newer series as well. Great family value lessons in "EVERY" Episode!! "Thank you" for posting these GREAT family episodes in this newer T.V. series. We NEED good shows like this in this hectic world.
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I remember watching this on the Disney channel when I was seven years old. I loved this show and I can't believe this episode is basically 40 years old!
Fun, and yes, coming up on 39 years old this year. The CBS pilot TV reunion movie Still the Beaver had its 40th anniversary a couple months ago
As an 80s kid I was one of the few that was lucky enough to have The Disney Channel in 1984 and I loved Still The Beaver and then The New Leave It To Beaver on TBS.
Great, yes Disney Channel had nearly 2 million subscribers as a commercial-free premium channel like HBO when Still the Beaver started with this episode in November 1984 and more than doubled that by the time Still the Beaver ended a year later in December 1985, but while two million is a lot of homes, it was just 2% or so of the total number of TV households. Glad you loved Still the Beaver and The New Leave it to Beaver and have found it again here on my channel, where I have resurrected every episode here as originally shown in the 1980s, and without commercials. Here's an improved copy of this episode with some fun extras at beginning...
ua-cam.com/video/caZU1Uj5fd0/v-deo.html
A beautiful tribute for One of the greatest 50's tv series ever made!!!!
I'm enjoying watching these episodes! All of them were very well done and have a moral to the story. Wonderful for family and friends!
where can you find them from? Please tell me
God, I feel old. The shows were really good back then.
It's interesting to see the changes from the 'Still the Beaver' movie to this show. 'Baby Ward' from the 'Still the Beaver' movie is now Kelly (and she's not an infant), Corey is now Kip, Wally now lives right next door instead of in his custom house, 'young Edward' Haskell is now Freddie, and June didn't move to some condo.
In the movie Wally had only been married 4 years. In this show Kelly is about 8-9. More than 4 years older than their marriage. 😂
Well couples have babies out of wedlock so they could have gotten married after her birth
@oooh19 Did you even watch the TV movie that served as the pilot to this new series, which aired just one year prior to this? No, Wally and Mary Ellen did not have a baby out of wedlock. SMH. On the contrary, a major theme in the TV movie is that they had tried for years to have children, as a *married* couple, and could not. But at the end of the movie, Mary Ellen finally became pregnant, and she gave birth to a baby boy, whom Wally appropriately named Ward, in honor of his father. But then the goofy writers just totally scrapped all of that and replaced baby Ward with an 8 or 9-year-old daughter the very next year! So incredibly stupid.
your uploads are appreciated bro!!
Thanks for posting! I loved this show in the 80s. I like how both the first episode of the original series and this one has a kid up in a tree hiding from his father.
I'm enjoying watching still the beaver this is the first time watch these episodes I show do miss Wiley rip wiley
Love u thanks for this can't find anywhere
You're welcome -- you can't find it anywhere because it has not existed anywhere else for more than 30 years and this is still the only place, which is why I spend two years digitizing all my old recordings and posting here. Glad you're enjoying -- appreciative comments like yours make it worthwhile
I am loving the Osmonds junior and senior!
??? Osmonds?
@@shettrickEric and Ken (Freddie and Eddie)
@@LB-gz3ke Ah yes, of course, my favorites too. (Thought you meant Donnie and Marie - haha)
I was in bootcamp when this show started. We grew up without TV in our house so after I got to my 1st duty station I bought a TV watched the original series on cable.
I used to watch in when i was a kid wow lots of memories ❤❤❤❤❤ good old tv show that you can watch with your family without fear of unpleasant scenes or bad dialogues, 😢
Thank you for showing these episodes.. We appreciate it.
It's my pleasure
@@shettrickwho was your favorite character on this show?
Was awesome!! Damn shame that it was on a channel you had to pay for!! It would have done great on regular tv!! I think it's great!!!thanks for sharing it!!!💯🔨🎼🏈👍🏻🍀❤️💡🙏🇺🇸🌎✨💎
You're welcome. The original reunion movie Still the Beaver was on free CBS TV, and the final 75 episodes were on basic cable network TBS Superstation. Just these first 26 episodes were on then-pay-channel Disney Channel but all were rerun on free local TV stations from 1990-92
Thanks for posting all of these episodes! A long lost treasure for sure! I really enjoyed watching these when I was a kid growing up in the 1980's! It would be great if you could get them all up one day! I still haven't given up hope that they may be available for purchase one day! Thanks again for sharing these!
📌Wow! Yeah I remember this show! As a matter fact considering the airdate was premiered the day before my 9th birthday; definitely makes it special to me. Thanks for uploading these little nostalgic gems!🍿✌🏽😊
Very cool! Glad you enjoy
Eddie Haskell was still Eddie Haskell. 😀
How graceful June has aged to be !
Thanks for sharing this priceless GEM, Scott!
Thank you! Loved this so very much! It was great fun! Looking forward to watching the next one! ♥️
Greatest show ever the original now that finished all seasons any other recommended other than lassie and Dennis the menace
I never did see the series - worked a lot of evenings until 1987, then my life went through a series of changes and watching television was mostly for my favorite shows after 9 p.m., or watching what I had recorded on my very first VCR...
HAPY TRAILS Tony Dow ✌❤
Wow they had the Disney Channel the year I was born I had no idea I know it sounds silly but just to watch what show I like and think about my mom was probably watching this while she was pregnant with me is amazing I'm sure other people have the same kind of story cool thanks for the upload I didn't even think they had cable boxes in 85 LOL
Yes indeed, we had our first cable box in mid-1970s (HBO launched in 1978). And Still the Beaver started on The Disney Channel in fall 1984, the year after Disney Channel launched in April 1983. Glad you are enjoying.
We had cable boxes in 1984 lol I was one of the lucky kids that got to watch this show when it debuted on The Disney Channel.
I watched an interview with Jerry Mathers from a few years ago, and sadly he said the entire series was somehow lost by Turner/Universal over the years, so I am glad you had copies of them - they are likely the only ones in existence.
Thanks, I was surprised also to learn several years ago that legal ownership issues have prevented the show from being seen anywhere for 30 years. My understanding is that the shows were not lost, although it's unclear whether they were part of a 2008 fire at Universal Studios that destroyed 40,000 video and audio masters. The biggest problem was that the man who bought the rights to the series from Universal in late 1980s (Turner never owned it -- he just licensed the show from owner Universal for first few years) became a federal fugitive and went into hiding in Spain and then died, leaving the ownership rights in a legal quagmire. Because the series was not a huge ratings success and wasn't widely seen or popular, none of the entities involved have ever been interested enough ever since to go to the trouble and expense to sort it all out.
So, it does appear I may be the only one, or one of the few, who has every episode exactly as they were originally shown on CBS, then Disney Channel, then WTBS. Glad you are enjoying them.
Thanks for posting this. I remember this show.
In the movie, Wally had a son, Ward, who I guess is a young girl now in the series.
I loved the Character of Eddie Haskell.
Ken Osmond wrote a book a few years ago, I read it yesterday, it was good.
Right, at the very end of the movie (which I also posted on this channel), Wally and Mary Ellen have a baby but it happens so quick in the last few seconds and it sounds like he probably says the child's name is Ward but it's impossible to hear for sure and there is no other mention of the name or gender of the child. In any case, you're right that by start of this series a year later their first child - a daughter named Kelly - is already in elementary school. A couple seasons later they do have a son they name Kevin who also grows very quickly on the show.
Scott Hettrick I’m glad you’re uploading these, I really like them.
And yes, I watched the movie on your channel.
I remember the baby being named Ward, because when they were carrying the baby from the car, they said something about the baby even having Wards ears, which was a reference/ flashback to a part in the movie where Ward tells Wally about how he used to tape his ears back when he was a kid.
I didn’t like Corey Feldman as Beavers son, he came off as too sullen.
Have you read Ken Osmonds book?
It’s like $6 on amazon Kindle, you may like it.
@@beckigreen Glad you are enjoying them. Have not read that Osmond book - thanks for the tip.
Good show!!!❤❤😂😂
Eddie Haskell's parenting gives off Al Bundy vibes.
The difference between Freddie and Eddie. Freddie saved the kid Eddie would have run away laughing.
wow I have not seen this series in such a long time (I'm pretty sure at one point FOX acquired the rights to air the series in the summer during prime time '88-89 during the early days of Fox (Awesome upload) This series was really good seems to have been overlooked over the past 20-25yrs
Glad you enjoyed. Actually, this series began with a CBS TV movie in 1983 (also here on my UA-cam channel), then became a TV series on The Disney Channel for one season of 26 episodes in 1984-85 before Ted Turner picked it up for three more seasons on his TBS Superstation from 1986-89. It ran briefly in reruns in some countries, including Canada, in early 1990s for a couple years.
You're right that's it's been overlooked ever since and has never been put on DVD or shown in reruns, and that's because it became entangled in a legal mess and ownership rights are still unclear. Also, it's believed the Master tapes and copies were destroyed in a huge fire at Universal Studios in 2008 that destroyed tens of thousands of tapes. So, that's why I have been uploading my Betamax tape copies from 1980s since this show cannot otherwise be seen anywhere.
Yes they did n I remember
Hey Mom, weren't you the Jive lady? Why yes I was bro, catch you on the flip side.
I would love to have this on DVD
Many of us would, but after waiting 30 years without luck for it to be on VHS or DVD or Blu-ray or in syndicated reruns or streaming, and realizing that its ownership and distribution rights are in limbo with no attempt to resolve, I finally spent two years transferring my Betamax recordings of all 101 episodes to UA-cam here at my channel.
BTW, here is a link to this same first episode that I revised quality and added a couple small things...
ua-cam.com/video/FH-HvQmv1co/v-deo.html
I had no idea that I live in a smaller town than Mayfield! 😆
My mom read a article few years ago. That they were going to do a third Beaver series were the Beaver had grandkids Jerry Mathers made the decision to not do another series. Because he was afraid that they would run it into the ground.
I don't believe much of that is true -- at least I've never heard any of it in any of the many times I've interviewed and talked with all the actors and producers. Actually, Beaver and Wally did play grandparents in this episode of New Leave it to Beaver: ua-cam.com/video/0Y3OxKaK3Tw/v-deo.html
Never knew this was on in the 80s. It surprisingly work. But Eddie is the star. He actually works better as a adult. To bad it's badly degraded. Don't think the series was repeated and residuals. Ken said tape were lost in a vault.
The series has never been seen again anywhere since early 1990s due to a legal quagmire over ownership / distribution rights. It's also uncertain whether the Master tapes were among the 40,000 video and audio Masters destroyed in a fire at Universal Studios. Thus, I spent two years resurrecting, transferring and upgrading the Betamax tape recordings I made of each episode exactly as each episode were originally shown. I also improved and re-posted this first episode here two years ago: ua-cam.com/video/caZU1Uj5fd0/v-deo.html
Barbara's intro should have included "and my beloved husband Ward is now in heaven" it was wrong for them to ignore Ward in the series it should have had many more flashback scenes in every episode so we could have seen Hugh Beaumont in old footage giving good advice to Wally and Beaver and they use that advice for their own kids in every episode.
Oh my goodness, you obviously didn't watch the series -- there are more references to Ward, more highlights of him, more times when characters recall his advice with flashbacks, and more dedications and tributes to Ward and Hugh Beaumont than any series has ever done for any former character and actor. They even have Beaumont's real sister flown in for a touching Thanksgiving scene with Ward's sister.
@@shettrick I have not seen every episode if you put together a montage of all the Ward flashback scenes that would be great to see where we see the old footage then the new scene where Wally or Beaver use that old advice with their own kids.
@@moviesgalore9947 Haha, well, first of all it would take me longer to put together that kind of montage than it would take you to watch every episode. And that would be taking them out of context, which is what makes them the most powerful. Also, copyright issues on Leave it to Beaver clips restrict each one to just a few seconds each.
For starters, did you not see the touching montage tribute to Ward in the original 1983 TV reunion movie Still the Beaver? Here are just five minutes of highlights from that tribute: ua-cam.com/video/rByIMy9DGlc/v-deo.html
Also, there is
Also, since you made such a critical judgment in your comment, you must also be unaware there was an entire episode devoted to memories of Ward Cleaver. Here is that episode, minus eight minutes of the full length of each Leave it to Beaver clip that I had to cut for copyright restrictions, but each one is still represented so you will understand that this series did not "ignore Ward in the series," as you wrote, and did in fact "have many flashback scenes," which you claimed it did not: ua-cam.com/video/I4_IWEoG7M0/v-deo.html
Finally, here's a highlight of an example of where this series did exactly what you say it should have done -- Ward "in old footage giving good advice to Wally and Beaver who use that advice for their own kids" (you obviously also made that criticism without knowing what the show did): ua-cam.com/video/lkkyJJSdi1Q/v-deo.html
Hopefully all this will give you a better appreciation of this series in general, but more importantly help you restrain yourself from making judgmental criticisms of things before you know whether or not your criticisms are accurate.
@@shettrick yes I like those scenes I loved the flashback to World War II episode with young Ward and young Fred at the USO show and young June that was a great episode I just wish they had done these flashback scenes with old footage in every episode that would have been fantastic if they could have done that so each episode you see a few minutes of old footage then new scenes with the advice being passed on they did not do this in every episode if they had it would have made the new series even better that's all I was suggesting.
@@moviesgalore9947 OK, gotcha. Well, that would have been more than 100 flashbacks, which would have been an awful lot of flashbacks. Also, those two episodes that flashed back to Ward in the 1940s were not actually flashbacks to Leave it to Beaver, but to before Ward was married and before he was a father. But I agree those were well done too.
good episode
so wholesome
I really enjoyed Oliver. Such an adorable boy. I’m partial to redheads.
Its sad how ward wasn't on the show.
He died months before the series was produced but he had suffered a stroke several years earlier and it might have been awkward to have him on the show. Yes, woulda been nice if he coulda been on show like June but I think it actually worked out pretty well to have June living in same house with Beaver and her grandsons and right next door to Wally -- mighta seemed a little weird if Ward woulda been there too
@@shettrick To me? Nah. I mean sure if he had problems but just like a arc of some point would of been nice to be honest. The Movie I meant
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I was waiting for “Oliver” to put holes, in the garage wall. Taking in the footsteps of his dear father.
I hope Stephen Talbot is happy with himself for refusing to appear in LitB reunion shows....Miss Landers is gone, Fred Rutherford and his son Lumpy are gone, Julie Foster is gone, Mrs. Cleaver is gone, and now Eddie is gone.
It makes feel so sad and empty.
@@wendylawson3857 I'm sure when they made him the offer, he said "I don't know about you guys, but I'm going home!"
Watta jerk
It's sad a lot of good performers are gone. Todays TV shows focus more on violence rather than comedy. Family shows like these taught youngsters clean fun. Those days it showed more on families sticking together. Divorce wasn't even an issue. If it was it was quiet because it was a big issue. Today there's too much hatred & violence being taught on TV. It's sending bad messages to young people.
How true
Excuse me, 47? XD Someone should of told Barbara that that's too old. Wow...
Freddie always looked cool whether he's preppy or more punk
I normally don't comment on this channel, but I still can't find a way to officially buy episodes of "Still The Beaver" on DVD. If anyone can help me, that would be great. Especially since UA-cam videos unfortunately get deleted from time to time.
None of the Still the Beaver or New Leave it to Beaver have ever officially been released on DVD and have not been available on TV reruns or anywhere for nearly 30 years, and won't be anytime soon. That's why I spent two years transferring and uploading every single one of the 101 episodes and the TV reunion movie from my Betamax copies as each was broadcast the very first time. They won't get deleted because there is no clear legal owner or rightsholder of the series, which is why it hasn't been made available anywhere.
BTW, here's a link to a better transfer I posted of this first episode... ua-cam.com/video/caZU1Uj5fd0/v-deo.html
In spanish, please....this sitcom is wonderful 🙂
Wally was cutest during this era of the show's run.The video looks good but the sound isn't too great.
What happened to baby Ward, that Wally, and his wife had at the end of the tv movie what happened to him?
I watched the first episode of this when it first came out, and there seems to be some key scenes missing at the very beginning that shows the family leaving the funeral of Ward Cleaver during a rain storm, and how Theodore came to split from his wife and came back to live with his mom. Why was this left out??? Can you explain this Scott??
Yes, you're confused - you're thinking of the TV reunion movie also called Still the Beaver in March 1983 that I also posted on here prior to this first episode of the series that followed the movie a year and a half later
You're thinking of the original 1983 CBS Still the Beaver TV reunion movie shown a year-and-a-half before this first episode of the 1984-85 Disney Channel series. I posted that movie here as well, shortly before this episode
Yes, Scott, you're right, I watched it and realized that's where the missing pieces were. Thanks for the explanation......and the correction.
Oh my god!! Someone actually remembers?!? All these years I always thought I made that scene up in my head or when I would try explaining this show to people they had no idea what I was talking about!!
That was in the reunion movie to set up the show
That is a long intro!
Some classic shows shouldn't be made into movies.
This isn't a movie, it's the first episode of a sequel TV series with same cast 25 years later that ran in the 1980s
Eddie still the same
Adult Cleavers just doesn’t work.
Worked well enough to be the highest-rated original scripted series on The Disney Channel at that time and as popular as many broadcast network shows in Disney Channel homes, and worked well enough for Ted Turner to make an unprecedented commitment to order 75 more new episodes (three seasons) in advance. None of that means you need to think it works for you, but it does mean a lot of people did like it 40 years ago, and my 101 videos of the episodes are generating thousands and tens of thousands of views, so there are others enjoying it.
Shame they couldn’t of kept beavers oldest still called Cory lol & I wonder why June didn’t move/sell the house to beav & I wonder what happened to wallys newly built house & why he moved into the one next door
I hear ya Kaitlyn. I was wondering what happened to Wally's son, Ward, and why they changed a son to a daughter. lol
Great show, but what a shame it was vandalized by stretching the original 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9.
Vandalized? It's a 1980s cable sitcom not a cinematic Stanley Kubrick work of art. Haha.
@@shettrick Why so sensitive? Are you the one who thought squashing the actors into flat pancakes was a good idea?
@@theancientlink7800 You obviously don't know my work -- probably one of biggest proponents of letter-boxing and preserving original aspect rations in Hollywood when I was working journalist for L.A. Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter. I'm not sensitive about this; just wondering why you would use such a strong word and make such a strong comment about a cable TV sitcom. If you're enjoying this show being seen and available for the first time in nearly 30 years, isn't that enough -- your first and only comment has to be about the format? In the words of Jack Nicholson, I'd prefer you just say thank you and be on your way. I'm doing the best I can in getting these transferred at all from my 1980s Betamax tapes.
@@shettrick No, I don't know your work. Should I? Are you a household name? And strong word? Do you mean vandalize? You never answered my question. Did you ruin these episodes? If not, I don't even understand what your offense is about. I loved the show, but no, not enough to watch it after they were butchered this badly. Considering your resume claims, one would think you would agree that they have been vandalized.
@@theancientlink7800 Yes, you should know who someone is before you accuse them of vandalizing. And yes vandalizing and now "butchered" are strong words you are using without provocation. If you want to have a civil discussion without name-calling and severe judgment, I'd be happy to do that. If you want to help do better resurrections of this show you loved, I'd be happy for the help and suggestions. These are original recordings from original broadcast and on Betamax, so they are in the original Academy ratio. When I play them back for transfer they get expanded to full screen. I know I could figure out how to put them back to original aspect ratio but it is not a high priority for me, just as it is not a high priority to do a more professional transfer to get better audio and video quality. It's enough for most of us to finally be able to see this show again that has been lost for decades. Sorry you are not happy with the butchering and vandalizing.
and who knows what else?
Shameful, sad and disappointing.
This is as poorly reproduced as the the rerun of the reunion episode.
Blurry images, muffled sound
Give me a break - do you think I and everyone else isn't aware of this? I have spent 18-months transferring these, starting with not knowing anything about how to do it, so I just videotaped off the TV for the reunion movie and first 14 episodes of series before I figured out how to do it properly, then spent months transferring the next 77 episodes and just went back and re-did the movie properly.
Stop complaining and just enjoy - stop being the guy who complains about his kid getting a B in once class even though he got all A's in his other classes.
Especially since he's getting it for free!!!
I loved Leave It To Beaver....but this is really bad.
servicarrider Cut me some slack, Jack!
An Airplane reference? Slick.
Harder than bad.
He still doesn’t 👀 👍 a 🦫. 😄
Who still doesn't what?
@@shettrick He still doesn’t look like a beaver.
I'm looking at the whole season I luv the beaver
Is lumpy still alive
No, Frank Bank died more than 10 years ago
I thought Wally had a son in the Return To Beaver movie
Yes, in the last few seconds of the 1983 CBS Still the Beaver reunion TV movie they show Wally and Mary Ellen coming home with a baby boy and it sounds like they are going to call him Ward. And Beaver's oldest son also changed from Corey to Kip. And they changed the actor playing Fred Rutherford. Like many shows, including the original Leave it to Beaver where the original pilot had different actors playing Ward and Wally and a different smart-aleck character instead of Eddie Haskell, producer and writers change things for when the original movie or pilot gets made into a series. In this case, they gave Wally and Mary Ellen an older daughter in elementary school so there wouldn't just be three boys and so the show would have appeal to young girls as well, and they replaced Corey Feldman with Kipp Marcus. And Richard Deacon died after the 1983 movie so they had to get a different actor to play Mr. Rutherford in first few episodes of the late 1984 series before they eliminated his character.
@@shettrick really love these-I watched the original and I love how they tried to get the original cast when they could-thanx!