I loved that show as a kid. The Wally Cleaver character was pretty bland. What made the show memorable was Eddie Haskell. Let's face it: we all either knew a real-life Eddie or wanted to be one ourselves.
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How much time is now required to validate that someone is actually dead after the first announcement? Too bad about "Wally" but he outlived his wiseass friend, "Eddie Haskell."
Not sure that's gonna help; guys are getting identified as murderers thirty or forty years down the road. Dinosaur bones get identified by it. DNA is forever.
RIP Wally ...time goes by but those memories as a kid watching the perfect family of Cleavers ..well that's precious and of course a family like that unheard of today!
I suspect a family like that was unheard of back then, too! For most of us, our parents were more like Ralph and Alice Kramden than Ward and June Cleaver.