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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 438963" data-attributes="member: 57984">Most of them were hard to watch -- although, as a kid, I did (in reruns). And I agree that early LEAVE IT TO BEAVER (which today, would mean something else) was indeed the best of the bunch, the early dialogue between the brothers almost subversive in its honesty -- such that the adults would never be permitted the same repartee.All these &#039;50s domestic sitcoms were snapshots of the decade -- or, rather, what the decade wanted us to believe it was -- but FATHER KNOWS BEST was the most emblematic of all that stuff. There was a tribal, slightly tragic, The-Bomb-is-New, doomed mood that underscored the &quot;comedy&quot; that the other shows were mostly too silly to quite glimpse.<img src="https://closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/father-knows-best-cast-4.jpg?fit=1600%2C1241" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The last season of BEAVER (&#039;62-&#039;63) had a whistling version of the theme I find rather hauntingly of the period (kind of like the theme from the first season of PETTICOAT JUNCTION) but they seemed to drop it midway thru the year.EDIT: okay, maybe it was Season 5:[MEDIA=youtube]aFOYxFvA5BE[/MEDIA]My mom quite rightly pointed out that The Beaver was a cute little kid in the beginning, but, even as a child, Jerry Mathers didn&#039;t age well.John Forsythe was reportedly responsible for casting his niece in BACHELOR FATHER, so maybe Joan was right about him.Oh, that&#039;s really interesting. They should&#039;ve left in the question mark. The &#039;misogynist&#039; title has haunted the series for dead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 438963, member: 57984"] Most of them were hard to watch -- although, as a kid, I did (in reruns). And I agree that early LEAVE IT TO BEAVER (which today, would mean something else) was indeed the best of the bunch, the early dialogue between the brothers almost subversive in its honesty -- such that the adults would never be permitted the same repartee. All these '50s domestic sitcoms were snapshots of the decade -- or, rather, what the decade wanted us to believe it was -- but FATHER KNOWS BEST was the most emblematic of all that stuff. There was a tribal, slightly tragic, The-Bomb-is-New, doomed mood that underscored the "comedy" that the other shows were mostly too silly to quite glimpse. [IMG]https://closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/father-knows-best-cast-4.jpg?fit=1600%2C1241[/IMG] The last season of BEAVER ('62-'63) had a whistling version of the theme I find rather hauntingly of the period (kind of like the theme from the first season of PETTICOAT JUNCTION) but they seemed to drop it midway thru the year. EDIT: okay, maybe it was Season 5: [MEDIA=youtube]aFOYxFvA5BE[/MEDIA] My mom quite rightly pointed out that The Beaver was a cute little kid in the beginning, but, even as a child, Jerry Mathers didn't age well. John Forsythe was reportedly responsible for casting his niece in BACHELOR FATHER, so maybe Joan was right about him. Oh, that's really interesting. They should've left in the question mark. The 'misogynist' title has haunted the series for dead. [/QUOTE]

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