| − | |This spinoff of the Jack Webb-produced series ''Dragnet'', also based on actual cases and more than one per episode, now focuses on LAPD street patrol officers Peter Malloy and James (Jim) Reed while demonstrating the same moral examples as ''Dragnet''. It was remade into a limited (Los Angeles and New York City) syndication show in 1989-1991 with unknown main players, new characters, and situations. None of the original series' three main players (Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett) ever fell victim to Hollywood Values: Milner and McCord stayed married to their same wives with whom were the only mothers of all their childrenbetween them and Boyett, despite his first marriage to Willagene Wither (1947-1950) ending in divorce, his second marriage to Joan Amelia Reynolds in 1957 lasted until his death in 2004, age 77, with nine children between them: Milner (who died in 2015 at age 83) had four, McCord had three, and Boyett (who died in 2004 at age 77) had two (with Joan) and became a grandfather twice over. The 1969 episode "Baby" is said to have been based on Kent McCord's own real life wife's birth of one of their own children that year. | + | |This spinoff of the Jack Webb-produced series ''Dragnet'', also based on actual cases and more than one per episode, now focuses on LAPD street patrol officers Peter Malloy and James (Jim) Reed while demonstrating the same moral examples as ''Dragnet''. It was remade into a limited (Los Angeles and New York City) syndication show in 1989-1991 with unknown main players, new characters, and situations. None of the original series' three main players (Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett) ever fell victim to Hollywood Values: Milner and McCord stayed married to their same wives with whom were the only mothers of all their children between them and Boyett, despite his first marriage to Willagene Wither (1947-1950) ending in divorce, his second marriage to Joan Amelia Reynolds in 1957 lasted until his death in 2004, age 77, with nine children between them: Milner (who died in 2015 at age 83) had four, McCord had three, and Boyett (who died in 2004 at age 77) had two (with Joan) and became a grandfather twice over. The 1969 Season 2 episode, "Baby", is said to have been based on Kent McCord's own real life wife's birth of one of their own children that year. |
| − | |Very pro-family, clean cut, clean living sitcom of the 1950s-early 1960s traditional nuclear family, the Cleavers. Unfortunately, their real lives off screen were hardly Cleaver-esque, as all of its main stars except Ken Osmond, who played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's archenemy Eddie Haskell, went through several divorces and remarriages between them while Osmond never became addicted, broke (bankrupt) or turned to crime after the original show ended; unlike so many other former child stars, Osmond is still married to his only wife, Sandra Lee Purdy, since 1969, with whom he had two children, born 1971 and 1974 and after the original show ended, did something very opposite his "bad boy" Eddie Haskell persona: he became a police officer from 1970-1988 (Los Angeles Police Department), retiring on medical disability in 1988 while repeating his original role in the 1980s cable-TV/syndicated remakes of the original series; remakes that ran from 1984-1989 with a CBS pilot (first episode) in 1983, a 20 year "reunion" TV movie titled ''Still the Beaver'', after the original show's ending, followed by sequel series ''The New Leave It to Beaver'' on the Disney Channel for its first season, then on TBS and in first-run syndication for the remaining seasons. Both the 1983 pilot and 1980s remake had Beaver, Wally and Eddie back as 1980s middle aged adults in a world of more depressing 1980s problems. | + | |Very pro-family, clean cut, clean living sitcom of the 1950s-early 1960s traditional nuclear family, the Cleavers. Unfortunately, their real lives off screen were hardly Cleaver-esque, as all of its main stars except Ken Osmond, who played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's archenemy Eddie Haskell, went through several divorces and remarriages between them while Osmond never became addicted, broke (bankrupt) or a criminal after the original show ended, unlike so many other former child stars. Osmond is still married to his only wife, Sandra Lee Purdy, since 1969, with whom he had two children, born 1971 and 1974 and after the original show ended, did something very opposite his "bad boy" Eddie Haskell persona: he became a police officer from 1970-1988 (Los Angeles Police Department), retiring on medical disability in 1988 while repeating his original role in the 1980s cable-TV remakes of the original series; remakes that ran from 1984-1989 with a CBS pilot (first episode) in 1983, a 20 year "reunion" TV movie titled ''Still the Beaver'', which became its own Disney Channel series from 1984-1985. In 1986, it became ''The New Leave It to Beaver'' on TBS until |