While I love the entire series I especially like the first few seasons with Don DeFore as Thorny usually getting into trouble with Oz.No idea if I’ll get to sample the Shout set tonight but it did arrive. Looks like it has an episode or two from each season. I should still be able to follow it all even with all the set’s skipping around, right?
While I love the entire series I especially like the first few seasons with Don DeFore as Thorny usually getting into trouble with Oz.
I'll never understand why people who, often vociferously, proclaim to dislike the main subject of a thread still feel a need to go into said thread and continue to share their ill will toward the subject.
With Halloween coming next week, I will be watching"Halloween Party" from the first season. 1952. A young Jerry Mathers aka Beaver Cleaver appears as one of the Trick or treaters.
I like the different eras of the show for different reasons, and it would be hard for me to pick one over the other. Like Gary16, I enjoy the early years in particular because of the interaction with Don DeFore's 'Thorny' and Ozzie. It was a great pairing and Don was the perfect neighbor to give 'Oz' the business. Fun stuff.
But I also enjoyed the latter years because of the inclusion of Skip Young's character, 'Wally'. I thought he was a great addition to the show and whenever he was in an episode I thoroughly enjoyed it. Similar to Ken Osmond or Frank Bank showing up in a Leave it to Beaver episode. It just always added something extra. Wally's crazy laugh may have irritated some, but it was infectious for me. Loved it when he was part of the storyline.
Gary "so I guess I'm saying I like the entire run, with both early and later having something different yet really good" O.
If I had to desert island choose my favorite seasons of both shows they would no doubt be from the earlier years, but I can still watch the later ones with equal enjoyment once some adjustments are made, both within the shows themselves and within me.
I agree completely. Both shows brought in some amazing actresses in the later years in addition to Cheryl. Let’s not forget Tuesday Weld, Roberta Shore, Ahna Capri, Linda Evanstad (aka Evans), Brooke Bundy, Barbara Parkins, etc.Great comments, Glen. You are undoubtedly in the majority with your season preferences of both shows (LITB and O&H). What I'm about to write will put me into heretic realm, I'm sure, but with LITB I have always said I prefer the later years. In fact, I actually rate that show from favorite to least favorite this way 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Crazy, I know. But I so enjoy the interaction with Wally, Eddie and Lumpy that it makes those seasons all the better for me.
As for Ozzie & Harriet, that's a much tougher call. I could probably flip a coin and be fine either way. I love both eras of the show exactly the same. The show did become more easy going as it progressed, and if Skip Young had not entered the picture in season 5 I have no doubt I'd prefer the earlier seasons to the later ones.
The changes in story-lines with both series, as they progressed, were also both spot on and worked well. In the early years girls were not as much a focal point, but obviously as the boys in both shows grew up that had to be an addition to keep things real. And I thought both shows did a great job of that. In fact, that reminds me that another reason I enjoy the later runs of both series is because they were able to bring in Cheryl Holdridge for guest spots from time to time. And that was always a plus in my book.
Gary "great discussion about a great series" O.
I agree completely. Both shows brought in some amazing actresses in the later years in addition to Cheryl. Let’s not forget Tuesday Weld, Roberta Shore, Ahna Capri, Linda Evanstad (aka Evans), Brooke Bundy, Barbara Parkins, etc.
I agree completely. Both shows brought in some amazing actresses in the later years in addition to Cheryl. Let’s not forget Tuesday Weld, Roberta Shore, Ahna Capri, Linda Evanstad (aka Evans), Brooke Bundy, Barbara Parkins, etc.