Editing Leave It to Beaver (section)

==Spinoffs==
A made-for-television reunion movie, ''Still the Beaver'', appeared in [[1983 in television|1983]]. The main original cast appeared, except for Beaumont, who had died the previous year. Ward Cleaver was still a presence, however: the film's story used numerous flashbacks to the original show, as it followed young-adult Beaver's struggle to reconcile divorce and newly minted single fatherhood, straining to cope with what his father might or might not have done, as he faces the possibility of his widowed mother selling their childhood home. June Cleaver is later elected to the Mayfield City Council.

Its reception led to a new first-run, made-for-cable series, ''[[The New Leave It to Beaver]]'' (1984&ndash;1989), with Beaver and Lumpy Rutherford running Ward's old firm (where Lumpy's pompous, demanding father &mdash; played by [[Richard Deacon (actor)|Richard Deacon]] in the original series &mdash; had been the senior partner), Wally as a practicing attorney and expectant father, June having sold the old house to Beaver himself but living with him as a doting grandmother to Beaver's two young sons. Eddie Haskell runs his own contracting business and has a son, Freddie, who is every inch his father's son &mdash; right down to the dual-personality.

===Feature film===
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1997's movie adaptation of the series starred [[Christopher McDonald]] as Ward, [[Janine Turner]] as June, [[Erik von Detten]] as Wally, and [[Cameron Finley]] as Beaver. It was panned by many critics, except for [[Roger Ebert]], who gave it a three-star rating. It performed poorly at the box office, earning only [[United States dollar|$]]10,925,060 against a budget of $15&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Mojo title | id=0119509 | title=Leave It to Beaver}}</ref> Barbara Billingsley, Ken Osmond and Frank Bank made [[cameo appearance]]s in the film.