1957-1963 CBS-ABC
I hate when they stretch things out to be proportioned for today's TV screen, but this is what I found.
REPRIEVE IT FOR BEAVER
MAD #262, April 1986
w: Dennis Snee
a: Angelo Torres
Sitcom about American family that's become the generic defenition of “1950s American household”, the mythical white suburban picket fence family. It was parodied in their feature A Bad Case of the Re-Runs they had briefly in the eighties when Nick at Nite first started.
The family was father Ward (Hugh Beaumont), mother June (Barbara Billingsley), and kids Wally (Tony Dow), and Theodore a/k/a “The Beaver” (Jerry Mathers). They had various friends but for this there were Larry Mundello (Rusty Stevens) and Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond).
The neighbor here is Ozzie Nelson from The Nelson Family. The man from Mars is, of course, Bill Cosby, back when we liked him.
Here's something weird: in 1983, National Lampoon contributors Will Jacobs and Gerald Jones wrote a book called The Beaver Papers, which used the show as the basis for a series of mostly literary parodies, mimicking authors such as Tennessee Williams, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Faulkner, Beckett, Dostoevsky, and Hemingway. In 2014 they published a sequel, with stories in the styles of Salinger, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Plath, Philip K. Dick, Ayn Rand, and H.P. Lovecraft.
ReplyDeleteGerard Jones, I mean, not Gerald.
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