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The New Leave it to Beaver

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TV Series

The Resume

    (March 19, 1983-June 4, 1989)
    Reboot of Leave it to Beaver
    Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver
    Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver
    Jerry Mathers as The Beaver/Theodore Cleaver
    Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell
    Janice Kent as Mary Ellen Cleaver
    Frank Bank as Lumpy Rutherford
    Kipp Marcus as Ward 'Kip' Cleaver II
    John Snee as Oliver 'Olly' Cleaver
    Kaleena Kiff as Kelly Cleaver
    Troy Davidson as Kevin Cleaver
    Giovanni Ribisi as Duffy Guthrie
    Aired on Disney Channel as 'Still the Beaver' (Season 1)
    Aired on TBS (Seasons 2-4)
    Premise: A divorced Beaver with two kids moves back home with his mother; his brother Wally, now a husband and father, lives next door

Why The New Leave it to Beaver might be annoying:

    Its title was uncreative and obvious.
    The new Cleaver kids' acting abilities were poor.
    Its premise reads like a SCTV/MADtv parody sketch.
    It was spawned from a TV movie repurposed as a pilot (titled 'Still the Beaver').
    It was named one of the Worst TV Shows of All Time by TV Guide (2002).
    It practically ran the same number of years as its predecessor. Let that sink in.
    Almost all of the original characters - save maybe June and Wally - behaved exactly the same.
    Jerry Mathers remained as bumbling and awkward as his teenage self (think of his Married with Children cameo but played straight).
    A rumor persisted that a lookalike actor replaced Jerry as The Beaver because he had been killed in Vietnam (but who are they kidding - we'd know that monotone line read anywhere).
    It popularized the trend of doing unnecessary - and usually God awful - sitcom reboots (begetting everything from What's Happening Now!! to Fuller House to The Conners).

Why The New Leave it to Beaver might not be annoying:

    It provided job security for Tony Dow and Barbara Billingsley.
    Eddie Haskell's kids were portrayed by Ken Osmond's actual two sons.
    Tony Dow wrote and directed several episodes, kicking off a successful career as a television director.
    Jerry Mathers called the pilot a cathartic experience for the original cast to come to terms with the death of Hugh Beaumont which had occurred a year prior.
    It integrated old clips from the original show into episodes as part of flashback sequences.
    When it moved to TBS, Ted Turner ordered a then-record 89 episodes (the largest order to that point in TV history).
    It aired the unearthed pilot episode - 'It's a Small World' - for its third-season premiere; exactly 30 years after the original series officially premiered on CBS (October 4, 1987).
    Until the advent of YouTube episodes were almost impossible to find due to legal issues preventing a VHS/DVD release.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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