Both Beaver and Wally are constantly led into trouble by their best mates.
shareBeaver far more often than Wally, though. Wally was more savvy.
shareI haven't watched much of this show but it does seem to me there aren't any black characters. They should add some in digitally. The wife could easily be made black. And one of the sons.
sharelmao there's no black people in this show.
shareThe show is about the trials of being a kid/teen. If Beaver had been cautious due to good instincts or just plain fear of doing something wrong he'd have to account for, the show would have been dull.
But if now and then the writers had Beaver tell someone like Richard to go pound sand and we saw 'Rickover' get in trouble for a change, that would have been good too.
I went to school in the late 1950s and 1960s, exactly the same time the show covers, and there was one black girl in my kindergarten class. That's all. I saw no others, all the way through high school. I would have had no problem with having black children among my friends, if they had happened to be there, but they just weren't around.
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