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Oddball: Raging Elephants, Raging Brides

Posted: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:03 PM by Countdown
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On this date in 1909, Hugh Beaumont was born.

A college football star, he went into acting, then got a degree in theology, then appeared in the movie "The Mole Men," but gained immortality as the father -- Ward Cleaver -- in the quintessential saccharine sitcom of the '50s "Leave It To Beaver"...

Thus he was the inspiration for the hilarious but apocryphal line never actually said by the actress Barbara Billingsley:

"Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?"

On that note, let's Play Oddball!


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Leave It To Beaver runs several times daily on TV Land, therefore logging many more hours weekly than Keith Olbermann or any MSNBC show, news included.

Through "Beaver," Barbara Billingsly, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers are still going strong almost 50 years after the show first aired. In 10 years people will barely remember Olbermann. And that's the ODDBALL truth.

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