‘Leave It To Beaver’ Actors Jerry Mathers And Tony Dow On The Unlikely Success Of The Sitcom | TODAY
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- Actors Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow, who played Beaver and Wally on “Leave It To Beaver,” sit down with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford to talk about what their TV parents were like in real life.
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‘Leave It To Beaver’ Actors Jerry Mathers And Tony Dow On The Unlikely Success Of The Sitcom | TODAY
Rest in peace Tony Dow. Your legacy will live on.
There's always a Wally type. It's timeless and he played it best. He played to good looking, athletic guy who was kind and honest, and didn't pick on smaller kids.
These two Guys are Legends. Rest in peace Tony Dow...!!!
It's so heartwarming to know that Tony and Jerry are close! They had a wonderful bond on the show as the show was really about the two of them as brothers.
Dear Tony has passed into eternity today.....part of my life has passed with him 💔
I still watch 2 episodes every day. There is just something about this show that makes people feel good. Someday I hope to meet those 2 great people.
i agre the best of times my friend!!
Me too.
I used to watch a Gunsmoke episode ever night,
but I grew tired of watching episodes more than one or two times
and stopped doing this. Especially since many of the episodes
had the same basic theme.
I watch them daily on Roku channel .It's the best. You can watch which ever one you want when you want to. Leave it to Beaver gives me laughs the time
@@ccdogpark Same with me, in watching Bonanza, but then grew a little tired of it...
I love those guys !!! The show was the best and still is till this very day. God bless Wally & Beave.
who the heck is ..Wolly? :0
Wally and Beave are my two favorites. I also like the fact in they always have good clean qualities for everyday living
I watch this show every night with my boys, they love it. Even though they're fictional characters, I've learned a lot from Ward and June about how a parent should be.
I have alway's really liked Wally's character too, such a cool and decent person!!!!!
Even after 60 years I look forward to watch Leave It to Beaver every morning that I can good show good family morals and funny I'll keep watching as long as I can
We need more shows like this on tv today.. Clean wholesome family fun and humor.. It seriously was good clean humor. I still watch every morning along with Hazel Dennis the Menace and all the other old shows. It brings back memories of growing up during that time.
I believe I've seen every episode. When I need to escape the dark reality of today I watch the show to this day!
For years a TV station in Barrie, Ontario showed reruns at lunchtime. I taped all 234 episodes on my VCR in the late 1980s. Yes, I still have them.
@@Lava1964 We still enjoy it every few weeks. But now we cut the cord. :(
@@Lava1964 I live in Barrie too! I remember that. Played at noon. Never missed it
Omg! Me too!
@@Lava1964 me too its a great show
I love LEAVE IT TO BEAVER! It ran before I was born but I record it now. I wish family values were like that today. Beaver was adorable, he and Wally made such good brothers, they couldnt have picked a better cast. They should have gave them more time, I wanted to hear more about Leave it to beaver!!!
Man .... why didn’t they let them talk longer? They were all ready to talk about some interesting stuff and they quickly cut off and away they went to the commercial. I wanted to hear more. LITB is my favorite tv show ever. We watch it now in reruns and with all the complicated crap in our world it’s just so refreshing to watch and actually still funny . It has always felt very authentic.
Because these shows are designed for the attention span of today's average listener which, nowadays, must be equivalent to a two-year old. If longer and more in depth interviews would help the ratings, they would do it.
@@trainliker100 So sad but true. Is that why I don’t get Sponge bob Square Pants? It’s just fast yelling at the same loud tone through the entire cartoon.The visuals are great. Other than that I have no idea what’s going on. It’s so annoying.
They look great wow around 60 years ago they started the famous icon TV show leave it to beaver. Watching it again make you feel like a kid again.R.I.P that played Mr & Mrs Cleaver.Thank you for the memories 🙂.
Great and cool parents!!!!!
i was a little kid in the 60s and i sure miss tv shows like this, i dont even watch modern tv anymore because its so dark and violent , i sure miss the good clean fun back then
Loved seeing the guys again. Would have enjoyed just hearing them talk, instead of the hosts asking stupid questions.
Greenie Williams o
Host ruin shows escpecially these gossipy types today brainless blunders
welcome to morning network television.
The hosts are admitted drunks that drink wine at 9am. The morning. What do you expect.
This show was one of the best family shows of all time. First time I have seen Tony Dow in many years and he still looks fit and really good for his age. Always a pleasure to see the Beaver!
They should have had Eddie Haskell on with them, that dude's wise cracks were so funny. Great show guys.
In real life, Eddie was an LA police officer.
Yeah Eddie "Hassle" lol
Great T-shirt caption I saw with Ken Osmond's pic: "Wally, I swear if your dumb brother comes with us I'm gonna...Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver. I was just telling Wallace how nice it would be if Theodore accompanied us to the movies."
He had passed already
The Don he’s still alive
Love the episode where Beaver falls into the soup bowl on the billboard and can't get out.
Eddie Haskell's "Save my Child" crowd response is classic funny stuff along with his interaction with the Beaver's father Ward while the firemen get Beaver out of the bowl.
Eddie's line, "Here come the fire engines!" with appropriate fire engine noises, is also one of my favorite lines in that famous episode. Another one is this one: "Yeah, I'm a dumb kid, all right!" --Whitey, who goads Beaver into going up to see if there was really soup in the bowl
I watched this show all the time. These guys seem so real.
They are absolutely television legends! I absolutely love the show even now! They need to get better recognition for their accomplishments. Love Wally and the Beave!
Tony's skin is flawless for his age
Tony really looks good. His skin is beautiful, wrinkle-free.
@Stevie Wayne And good diet i expect.
Tony looks younger then Jerry! Oh, Tony has the white hair but look at his eyes, his demeanor. The way he carries himself.
Couple of great guys. Those Leave it to Beaver shows were so funny.
Miss Landers was the best looking TV Show Teacher Ever. 👩🎓🌹 💛
I liked Miss Canfield better(Diane Brewster) I thought was better looking,but we men all have different tastes.Miss Landers was good looking and was from Phila.
Tony, you will always live in our hearts, and minds. You spirit will live on. Good Man
Such fond memories, they are and were the best. When I sit down and watch an episode now, it just takes me right back to the moment of my childhood, I can get right into it, it's great. Thanks guys!
as straight-laced as this show was, in its day, that IS how kids were raised. lots of parental control and obedience from the kids...imagine that??? this country in a simpler time for kids who knew what the word "family" meant and cherished it....the good and the bad.
Tony was so handsome and still is. That man aged well.
HappySlayer81 I think he looked better now
@JDGmez: he was a dreamboat!
creep alert
I'm 69 and grew up with show. Wow, we're all old now. Oh well, life goes on.
Tony Dow (Wally) is still one cool dude.
Well good grief, the interview was over before it got started.
they didn't get to talk about Lumpy, Eddie, even mom, or any of the other kids on the show.
Blink and you miss it.
I thought so too. Why have these people on for what seems like 5 or 6 mins.?
Closer to three. @@deborahf.5671
60 years and they get like 60 seconds? Ridiculous.
they'd rather focus on fake news.
EXACTLY WOODROW
Jesus Saves 👍
That's probably as long as Tony and Jerry could tolerate those loony liberal women.
Hated the way they were interviewed! No class..
'Heck, Beav .. you want Dad to clobber you?'
'Well gee dad!'
Don't be a wiseguy Eddie.
Tony Dow always had such a distinctive voice. I was expecting it to be the same, but it is gone.
I love this program! I watched it EVERY CHANCE I GOT! I always thought Beaver was way too cute! 😊
I was born in 1971 so obviously I was watching reruns. I didn't care.
I wish it was running again!
Love it! ❤❤
RIP Tony Dow I've been watching this show on Peacock again and absolutely love it.
Still watchin My grandkids and great grandkids. Love the show and I’m 77
There's one thing missing..Eddie haskel !!
Just purchased the 2nd season..I'll never growup !!
That interview was at least 10 minutes too short.
I happened to notice Tony sitting on the patio with his dog at Western Bagel in Woodland Hills, so I said hi , and sat down to chat with him for a few minutes. He asked me how I recognized him, and I said he looks like he did on the series. Then I was like Chris Farley " remember when you and Lumpy were in the car.......!!!??? " and he was very cool and patient with my nerdiness ..
Wow!!! That's GREAT!! I REALLY want to meet them in person. I hope it's soon!! I LOVE❤LITB FOREVER!!!🤗❤❤❤
Jetry Mathers Tony Dow are still so great looking
They deserved more air time! Great to see them but too fast and random.
❤️Loved this show and I love these 2 gentlemen...Thank you for bringing us this segment.Congratulations & Happy 60th Anniversary on this classic GUYS!
RIP BARB AND HUGH
Yes, best show ever!! Still enjoy watching the reruns.
Wally looks younger than Beaver.
Amazing how time flies. I feel really old after seeing those guys
"Heck, Beaver, those guys were giving you the business"....Love these guys! My favourite child actors of all time! Tony Dow is still as handsome as ever and Jerry still looks like the Beaver.......too bad the interview wasn't longer.....I'd love to see these guys interviewed in depth about the show, their co-stars, the making of the show, all of those things....It should be on record in their own words.
Wonderful family - oriented series! RIP Eddie.
Still watch this heartwarming show daily, too!! You guys are right!!... It just makes you feel good!! RIP sweet Tony!! 🙏💕
Wally & the Beaver !!
That is so awesome !!
I LOVE this show !!!
Happy Father's Days Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers I grawn up watching the 2 most famous great actors .
Thank You. Beatri
Part of American History!!!!!!!!!!!!!Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed them both and also Eddie Haskell who was the wise guy on the show! I knew “friends” like him when I was a kid, too!
Now they call them Frenemies. People who pretend they’re your friend but really despise you and work against you. He was good at making snide remarks and laughing it up.
I was watching an old episode of Bewitched a few years ago, and was surprised to see ( who I THOUGHT was ) Jerry Mathers ........looking exactly like the 12 year old 'Beaver'. I knew this couldn't be possible, and so waited for the end credits. Turns out it was his younger brother, which I never knew he had.
The episode is called "Little Pitchers Have Big Fears." It's from the first season of Bewitched. I had the same impression when I saw that episode. At first, Oh wow, Jerry Mathers is on Bewitched! Then it occurred to me that the episode was from 1964 a year after Leave It to Beaver had gone off the air, and Jerry Mathers was already a teenager with a deepening voice at this point. So how can he be playing this kid? So I knew it had to be his brother (Jimmy Mathers). But except for the age difference, he looked like Jerry's identical twin! Maybe they were twins and their mother spent several years in labor. :)
Man, you're not kidding ! Jimmy Mathers is a belated twin to Jerry when they were young. Thanks to your knowledge of "TV trivia" I looked up the episode on Dailymotion. They look nothing alike now but back then, Beaver's clone !
Your comment made me curious. I looked up a relatively recent photo of Jimmy Mathers and, no, he and Jimmy no longer resemble one another very much. How interesting that they can have such a strong resemblance early in life, then grow to look so different. images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjM0NTk1MzQ3MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTA4NTQ1MzE@._V1_UY1200_CR165,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
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Rest I. Peace Tony you were a great man
Jerry Mathers has not aged well, but Tony Dow looks much younger and his skin is smooth. I am watching 'Leave It To Beaver' at this moment on ME television. I grew up watching this show and I loved Wally and Beaver characters. They were loving brothers.
Rest in Peace Tony Dow 😔🙏
one of my all time favorite shows growing up, thanks
I've never seen anything so rushed like that before. Nice job NBC
bluetwinbill In and out the door
I'm 68 and grew up on the beav, so did my kids
It was interesting to hear about Hugh Beaumont. I'm glad Jerry and Tony were friends. Sorry to hear of Tony Dow's death. I'm glad Kathie Lee and Hoda did this interview with them.
I love both of you, Tony and Beaver. When you were very young, I watched you guys everyday. Love you!
I hang out with Wally & the "Beav" every morning on FETV and grew up with the Cleavers...
Dang that was a hard transition LOL From Hugh hustling to run his ministry to 'So were all the girls digging Wally?!' to Mmm'buhbye now. LOL wowwwww hahahahahaha
Rest in peace TonyDow Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley Ken Osmond etc Jerry Mathers thank you all for the awesome memories I will always cherish them l still watch Leave it to Beaver on Metv channel 😊❤
Wow
I'm watching Leave it to Beaver 0n TV and this popped up on my YT feed.
"Hey Beave. Ya wanna hunk of milk?" Love it.
Tiny Dow. I loved his character. Seemed like a great guy. R.I.P❤️
God bless them, there getting older, I use to watch them in the 80's when I was little on KTLA 5, miss those days man :')
What is the point of whether TD looks younger than JM? They are both blessed to be senior citizens, remember JM has survived diabetes and works diligently to help others. Both men have proven to be great role models for our generation, and wholesome entertainment for the rest of you.
Hht
Holy Cow, leave it to beaver. Forgot about this show. This is the first time I've ever seen these 2 in color.
Still my favorite show of all time.
Very nostalgic - and a little bittersweet. It would be nice to see Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont with them, but sadly that's not possible.
TONYS OLDER,BUT JERRY LOOKS OLDER..THEY LOOK GREAT THOUGH!!
At My Age In My 60's Im Still A fan Of The Series.Good OLD Clean T.V.
Watching it now
Gets my morning started
So Very Very Sad to hear this. This boy / Man has brought us so many laughs, happy moments, and good loving cheer through the years that none of us ever wanted it to end, with the good morals of his time which I believe we will never see again. So sorry to see you go, love from all of us Tony, and Thank you, we sure will miss you!!!
Ive watch the whole season like so many times during summer
Tony Dow was studio-schooled through the whole series, meaning he never went to either Jr High or aHigh School. He was always athletic and a great diver.
Swimmer, all around athlete!!!!!
When you looked at Wally, you could always buy that he was the athlete the show proported him to be. Unlike Opie. Ron is cool, but Opie always looked very clumsy.
I'm 59 years old and I still watch leave It to Beaver I tape it faithfully
RIP 😭🌹TONY DOW/WALLY CLEAVER
You’re the best , you’re unique you are the best role model of a brother Son and friend.. 🌹🌹😭
My 3 favorite shows back then were Car 54 Where Are you, Leave It To Beaver, and The Munsters. I still watch and love them. Today's TV shows really stink.
Tony Dow looks much younger then Jerry Mathers
Beav looks older than wally
Jerry was 69, and Tony was 72 in Oct. 2017; now they are 71 and 74, respectively, Nov. 2019. Tony's hair is all white, while Jerry's is darker, so Jerry has that over Tony on the aging process!
@@freeguy77 I'd rather have a "better face" over a few more dark hairs.
"Am I high enough Whitey?" "No Beaver.. put your foot on the ladies thumb!" :)
Because of this show, I'm wearing cardigan sweaters again.Cool look with a mock neck
Tony looks younger than Jerry.
Jerry has been very sick with a diabetic condition.
Hi Mark, Sorry to hear that.
Kitty cat Eva has her claws out. Meow.
Diabetes ravages one's health...it's happening to my brother as I write.
She looks a little different is all. Great personality and still going on well.
RIP Tony!!!
The best show and still the best. I still watch it. Its so funny. That was the perfect family..
Loved this show I still watched today., Wally still looks pretty good for his age, what happened to Beaver looks much older lol Terrible interview though these guys are legendary
This is the best show ever
RIP Tony…
I looked up some Leave it to Beaver stuff on TH-cam and now TH-cam is showing me a remarkable quantity of interviews with these two and sometimes with others from the show. They must have done a vast number of these interviews and answered the same questions countless times. Yet they remain gracious. I think in the entertainment world, especially nowadays, they rate quite high on having some class.
Same here. I looked up some things about the show and am now getting all these great videos. I've grown to love these guys. They seem so genuine.
I can see them in their 90’s still talking about that ancient TV show. And they will still sound like teenagers from Southern California. I got Jerry Mathers’ autograph in Beverly Hills when he was about 20. Painfully shy and awkward but was surrounded by fans asking if he remembered various episodes.
I LOVE😍 LITB 4EVER!!!😀👏👏❤❤❤
I never knew Tony Dow was so short... unless Hoda's heels are so frickin' high!
SuperPat88 No its just that Honda’s a rather big lady ...
America just lost it's favorite big brother, RIP Tony Dow..
Tony Dow looks fabulous! He looks like a youngster dressed up like a grownup.
Best show I've seen in a while
Awww they warm my heart just seeing them
I love this,this so nice 2c these guys🤣
Best agree this is my favorite show today. Lots of life lessons. Ward is a star in this show. They were all - all star actors. If there was a trophy today they should get one. Thanks
Wow luv the Beaver 👍🎥