Favorite Season?

[Stormtracker TF]

What Is It?

I Like Them All.

[*InThisMoment*]

I like all the seasons i couldn't choose! :happyface

[DarleneIllyria]

The first 3 seasons are my favorites.

[*ShortCake*]

I love all of them too :)

-Ashley

[buddy love]

I like them all too since they show the boys growing up and all the differences that come with age,ect. But I guess If push comes to shove I like the shows where Beaver is at his youngest most. So probably the first two or three seasons.

[B&W fan]

All the seasons have special episodes, and the boys are a little different each year. I too like them all, but if I had to pick it would be ....DRUMROLL.....




The LAST SEASON! I know I'm alone on this one (from previous comments made on this board) but I really enjoyed the boys as they were older. I also thought Eddie and Lumpy were at their wise-cracking best in the last season. Frankly, it seems to me that the stories were quite evenly split in that last season between Wally & Beaver, and since I liked both characters and their friends, this seemed to be the best season to me. Next would be season 5, and I believe for me it would progress backwards.

This is really abnormal for me, because practically every other TV show I enjoy works the other way around. I like the first season best, and work from there. But LITB is an exception.

B&W "almost every episode from the last season was good to me, and I can't necessarily say that about every other season" fan

[FOL85NatandMrsGRock]

i liek em all, but i have not seen the first season or most of the second season. But i like them all, and i thouroughly enjoy the last season myself, but i hear that the first seaosn is one to die for! :)

[Stormtracker TF]

Originally posted by FOL85NatandMrsGRock
i liek em all, but i have not seen the first season or most of the second season. But i like them all, and i thouroughly enjoy the last season myself, but i hear that the first seaosn is one to die for! :)

It is great! I love the first...But I love the last too maybe a little bit more...

[BBF]

The first season!

[bandito]

Originally posted by B&W fan
All the seasons have special episodes, and the boys are a little different each year. I too like them all, but if I had to pick it would be ....DRUMROLL.....

i agree the 5th & 6th seasons were the best


The LAST SEASON! I know I'm alone on this one (from previous comments made on this board) but I really enjoyed the boys as they were older. I also thought Eddie and Lumpy were at their wise-cracking best in the last season. Frankly, it seems to me that the stories were quite evenly split in that last season between Wally & Beaver, and since I liked both characters and their friends, this seemed to be the best season to me. Next would be season 5, and I believe for me it would progress backwards.

This is really abnormal for me, because practically every other TV show I enjoy works the other way around. I like the first season best, and work from there. But LITB is an exception.

B&W "almost every episode from the last season was good to me, and I can't necessarily say that about every other season" fan

[tdr]

My favorite seasons are #2 through #4, with #3 being the best.

The reasons I put these ahead of #1, #5, and #6 are because: In season #1, as in all series, they have to establish the roles and relationships, and as usual they struggle a bit. Beaumont played Ward as more strict and authoritarian than he became later. And much of what Beaver says is just repeating Wally; example: W: "Oh sure, Dad." B: "Oh sure, Dad." Definitely some of the best story ideas, taken from real life, are portrayed in this first season, but they might have been played a little better if we knew the characters better and they had better established their interrelationships.

In seasons #5 and #6, the writers or producers did not seem to know what to do with Beaver growing into his teens, and that may be why many eps in these seasons focus on Wally, who is already well in swing with being a teen. Beaver still gets suckered into doing things against his better judgment [e.g., the only one to actually wear the goofy monster t-shirt to school; calling Don Drysdale on his parents' phone] and still does things like he is about 8 years old-- trying to take back his electric train after agreeing to give it away to a small boy; using a whole box of soap in the washing machine. He was too old for these type of incidents to be believable.

In addition, Beaumont had some type of tragedy happen-- I think it was his mother being killed in a car trip from his home in Minnesota while he took a plane to meet a filming schedule-- and he blamed it on his being in LITB. You can see that in these last 2 seasons he is almost never shown wearing anything other than his suit, and he does not show much affection toward June; whereas in the earlier seasons we saw them kiss and touch.

But in seasons #2 through #4, the relationships are established, especially Beaver and his best friend Larry, and the comedy (and some drama) comes from knowing them and how they relate. Both Beaver and Wally are the right age for many new experiences, and Wally has become quite the philosopher to Beaver. Ward is in the prime of being the wise understanding father; and June, although she worries too much about the boys, is redeemed by her graciousness. These were also the seaons of Miss Landers, who is as understanding as a teacher as Ward and June were as parents.

I have often thought the 'peak' of the show was "In the Soup" in season #4. Beaver is just on the verge of being too old for this type of plot [being childishly suckered] to work any more, but it still works this time. After this, as when Beaver gets conned into helping Richard by letting R. pretend to keep B.'s jacket as his own, he is no longer convincing.

[Barnabas1]

I really do like the last three seasons..They had morals to them at least, in the first three seasons Beaver was kinda dumb when he was around girls. Not trying to be mean or anything.:)

[HaskellGirl]

Originally posted by tdr



In seasons #5 and #6, the writers or producers did not seem to know what to do with Beaver growing into his teens, and that may be why many eps in these seasons focus on Wally, who is already well in swing with being a teen. Beaver still gets suckered into doing things against his better judgment [e.g., the only one to actually wear the goofy monster t-shirt to school; calling Don Drysdale on his parents' phone] and still does things like he is about 8 years old-- trying to take back his electric train after agreeing to give it away to a small boy; using a whole box of soap in the washing machine. He was too old for these type of incidents to be believable.

In addition, Beaumont had some type of tragedy happen-- I think it was his mother being killed in a car trip from his home in Minnesota while he took a plane to meet a filming schedule-- and he blamed it on his being in LITB. You can see that in these last 2 seasons he is almost never shown wearing anything other than his suit, and he does not show much affection toward June; whereas in the earlier seasons we saw them kiss and touch.



I think the train episode was a brilliant episode, because Beaver WAS too old, but I think many people go through that, where they fall under the spell of childhood again. I'm sure if Beaver kept his trains, he would very quickly tire of them again. I think that particular episode works well, although there are other episodes where he it doesn't work. But that's what makes him the Beave.;)

I know about Hugh Beaumont's tragedy, but didn't that happen relatively early in the series? Would that really
affect what clothes Ward wore?