Hanson is played by Jean Vanderpyl, Penny's mother in later episodes and also the voice of Wilma Flintstone in cartoons. Wally Cleaver is the oldest son of June and Ward Cleaver and is the older brother to Beaver. 'Wally is a pretty innocuous character to be.
Hanson which is uncharacteristic of LITB, and for that reason I withheld a few stars. After playing Wally on Leave It to Beaver, which ran from 1957 to 1963 and more than 200 episodes, Dow admitted that he found himself typecast.
Even so, there is a note of caricature in the depictions of Mr. The accent here is on suburban social satire, which LITB did very well. June takes this badly, but Ward is pleased. Hanson in tow - and haughtily tells June and Ward that Wally has been coming over every day and that she wants her daughter to see other boys. Hanson marches into the Cleavers' - with a very passive Mr. Wally is the thirteen-year-old son of archetypal 1950s suburban parents, Ward and June Cleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old ('almost eight') title character, Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver. Actor Tony Dow, best known as older brother Wally Cleaver on the 1950s sitcom Leave it to Beaver, is living out his final hours in home hospice care. (Eddie brags about his highfalutin European travel plans.) The plan works - but not quite in the way Ward had intended. Wallace ' Wally ' Cleaver is a fictional character in the iconic American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. This leads to some amusing vignettes as Wally brings a whole series of his classmates over to Alma's to introduce them: first Eddie, then Lumpy, then a guy named Harry Myers who is a math wiz.
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Ward gives him some advice on how to politely "ditch" Alma: just gradually see less and less of her, all the while introducing her to some other guys. Wally takes pretty, high-class Alma Hanson to a dance and pretty soon her mother is acting matchmaker, arranging all sorts of outings between Alma and Wally.
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June is delighted, Ward less so: he doesn't like the idea of a mother pushing romance, especially on two kids who are so young. This episode is full of the social commentary that made LEAVE IT TO BEAVER so distinctive. Newly seventeen-year-old Wally's anticipation of getting his driver's license is dampened by mom June's worry that he's still too young and know-it-all classmate Shirley's back seat driving. This episode is full of the social commentary that made LEAVE IT TO BEAVER so distinctive.