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So old-time Hollywood producer Harry Akerman had a casting call that drew thousands of hopefuls.
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The Beaver pilot has another teenager in the role, but that actor was maturing too quickly for the TV show. Tony Dow and Firebird Tim Lawrence signing at Autobooks-Aerobooksīoomers, myself among them, flocked to Autobooks-Aerobooks in Burbank, California, for a book signing session featuring the Dow, still humble and with his shy smile.įans asked questions and Dow conversed naturally and happily.Īmong things we discovered was that Dow was an accomplished swimmer and, at age 14, held five national records and also was the top-rated junior diver on the West Coast.Īs the story goes, he landed the role of Wally pretty much by accident. The Tony Dow book, written by Tony and his wife Lauren and illustrated by Fireball Tim, covers everything from Leave It to Beaver to cars, sailing, and Dow’s work as a sculptor. One of Fireball’s current endeavors is publishing Kustom automotive (and sea life) coloring books and trading cards ( Subjects of the coloring books include the likes of Gene Winfield, Gary Wales, Syd Mead and - Tony Dow.
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He also has had a long friendship with Fireball Tim Lawrence, a Hollywood concept artist responsible for designing more than 400 Hollywood movie cars, including Batmobile 1989 (designed while Fireball was a student at The Art Center College of Design), as well as cars seen in The Avengers, The Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, The Green Hornet and the Fast and the Furious. The show ran for four seasons before going off the air.Fast forward several decades, and it turns out that while Tony Dow wasn’t the typical car guy, he was involved with cars throughout his acting career. Several original cast members reunited for the spinoff, including Mathers, Dow, and Osmond. The New Leave It to Beaver premiered in 1983 following Wally and Beaver as adults with families of their own. I’ve done very well and I’m in fairly good shape.”
“Just yesterday, I got a check - I forget what show it was - something in the ’90s,” Mathers said, before disclosing the amount.
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Leave It to Beaver reunions and spin-offs that came after the original series ended in 1963 provided residuals. However, that isn’t to say they’re not making money from the show in other ways. The actor said royalties ran out after each episode had aired six times. As Mathers told the AARP Bulletin in October 2011, he and his fellow Leave It to Beaver cast members stopped earning royalties long ago. Unlike the cast of Friends, the stars of Leave It to Beaver aren’t earning substantial sums thanks to reruns. RELATED: ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Author Lived Next Door To Eddie Haskell From ‘Leave It to Beaver’ The ‘Leave It to Beaver’ cast still gets residuals but not from the original series It’s also available to rent on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes for $1.99 per episode.
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There are other ways to watch the show.Īll six seasons of Leave It to Beaver are available for free on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock. Have a Netflix subscription and want to watch Leave It to Beaver? Unfortunately, the iconic series isn’t part of the streaming giant’s programming. “Joe used to be one of those guys who’d walk around with a pad of paper in his pocket and whenever a kid would say something funny, he’d write it down,” Brian Levant, the co-writer on 1983’s Still the Beaver, said.Īccording to Levant, “There is a legendary story that Ricky Connelly once left the dinner table in a huff and stopped at the top of the stairs and said, ‘I’m never giving you any more material for your show.’” ‘Leave It to Beaver’ isn’t streaming on Netflix
Connelly even kept a pen and paper on him in case his sons or their friends said something that’d make for good TV. As for Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) and Larry Mondello (Robert “Rusty” Stevens), they were inspired by the Connelly boys’ friends. He based the characters’ own experiences on those of his sons.Īccording to the Los Angeles Times, Connelly’s 14-year-old son, Jay, inspired Wally, and his 8-year-old son, Ricky, inspired Beaver.
Joe Connelly, the co-creator of the classic series, used his two sons as the inspiration for Wally and Beaver.
Many of the storylines and conversations on Leave It to Beaver were inspired by what kids actually said to each other. RELATED: Were Ken Osmond and Jerry Mathers Friends in Real Life? Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow on Leave It to Beaver | Walt Disney Television via Getty Images