Chopper Cooper was played by Barry Gordon. I am absolutely certain that I never saw that episode.
I mainly saw that show in reruns in an afterschool timeslot. It was broadcast on CBS in 57-58 and we didn't get a TV until the summer of 1958. Then it switched over to ABC from then until 1963 when it ended. We didn't get an ABC station until 1967. Livin' in the boondocks and didn't know it.
As for that specific episode:
Beaver has just returned from his stint away at summer camp, Camp K̦nig. There he met a new friend named Chopper Cooper who he wants to invite for a weekend visit. His parents allow him to invite Chopper. Ward and June are surprised when Chopper is escorted by his "Uncle" Dave, Chopper's mother's boyfriend who Chopper believes will be his new stepfather. Chopper also talks openly and candidly about his father's several remarriages and Chopper now having step-siblings. Even though they like Chopper, Ward and June are concerned that Chopper's views may be too worldly for Beaver, who has never had friends with divorced parents. Indeed, Beaver, after hearing all the neat presents Chopper gets from his various parents, wants his own parents to divorce, not really understanding what that means. But Beaver has a different view when he sees the effect of divorce a little more closely, especially as it affects the child in the family
My daughter has me regale her friends with the stories I tell of being older than their parents. The idea of only having ABC, NBC, and CBS on the television, it being in black and white, going off the air between midnight and 5am, the school not having air conditioning, or a gym, AM radio offered in the car, I was at the tail end of those days, and they can't understand that world being just a few years ago.
Holy Cow, post: 387442, member: 50 wrote: Apparently those flying monkeys were in Kansas the entire time, just like Dorothy, Toto and everyone else, including the witches..................based on how the movie ends. That's the part that gets the attention of a very young Kansan.
Thanks Mike Berry, still laughing
Add in a crank-style telephone hanging on the wall and a two-holer out beyond the chicken house. Water handpumped from a well on the back porch. Had a neighbor with a car old enough to have suicide doors. Knew a fellow born in 1873 whose now 86 year-old daughter is a lifelong friend of mine.
Must be talking about Eddie. Didn't get rich 'til years later. Picked up a pool cue and took the name "Fast Eddie". It's rumored he beat Minnesota Fats at nine-ball.....
Holy Cow, post: 387510, member: 50 wrote: Water handpumped from a well on the back porch.
You had it easy. Ours was 200 feet away. I suppose the guy who built the place in the 1800's wanted it where it was handier for watering livestock.
About 250 feet away was the second well. It was in what we called the cow lot, but it had provided water for the work horses and later for hogs as well as being handy for supplying water for the milking cleanup. That's right, two wells that close together.
No one has bothered to mention that Glinda was the good witch of the North, not of the East... The house landed (and killed) the Wicked Witch of the East. And the Wicked Witch of the West was the antagonist in the 1939 movie.
There is mention of a Wicked Witch of the South in the books. However, the various online information sources indicate that Glinda was, at least in one writing, the Good Witch of the South (not the north). I really need to read all of those novels.
skwyd, post: 390807, member: 6874 wrote: And the Wicked Witch of the West was the antagonist in the 1939 movie.
Well yeah, but that was back in 1939, alliances change over the years.
