In the tv movie "Still the Beaver" Beaver's kids are called Corie and Oliver. In the series they are called Kipp and Oliver. I wonder why the name was changed.
Wally and Mary Ellen had a baby (wrapped in blue) at the end of the movie "Ward" I think, but in the series they have a girl (Kelly) who is about the same age as Oliver Cleaver. Were these changes explained in the series?
Beaver's son was always named after the actor playing him. They recast between the movie and the show (guess Corey Feldman was busy by that point) with Kipp watsisname.
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Not sure when this was actually stopped but there was a time they used to wrap baby boys in pink and girls in blue.
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Except that my grandparents were the ones that originally told me this, they had seen it with their own eyes, lol. So I can't agree with you that it's an urban legend.
shareIt doesn't matter what color the baby blanket was. At the end of the Still the Beaver movie, June clearly says that Wally and Mary Ellen are the parents of a son. I just watched this movie 2 days ago.
The gender change was never explained in the series nor why Kelly was just a year younger than Oliver. I'm guessing TPTB decided they had enough boys and wanted a Cleaver girl. They probably made her close to Oliver's age so they could pal around - which they did. In any event, the little girl who played Kelly was adorable and could actually act.
From what I can remember, that was at the very end of "Still the Beaver" which was originally just supposed to be a TV movie/reunion. Corey was played by Corey Feldman, and then was later replaced by Kipp Marcus when it became a TV show. I'm assuming that Corey/his parents or whoever probably had thought it was a good deal as movie, but didn't want to be dedicated to a TV show (that is just my guess) and they were going to leave it at that with Wally and Mary Ellen's baby. Again, when it became a show, they probably aged Kelly (changing it that Kipp was Ward Cleaver the Second or something, and Kipp was a nickname) so she would be Oliver's age and it would make sense instead of having a toddler running around. When Kevin was born later, they ended up aging him the next season, and even then it just didn't sit well, as he wasn't old enough to really "go" with the story lines of the others and always seemed to me to be more of comic relief, such as causing Kelly problems, making everyone laugh, stuff like that. It also showed that Wally and Mary Ellen had moved into a house built by Eddie that was a ways away from where they lived, but suddenly they lived next door (which obviously hadn't just been built) so I always figured all of those changes were just do it going from committing for one movie, or a tv series that ended up lasting four years (also, Beaver's friends were in the movie, and then later on the last two episodes of the show, but otherwise were non-existent).
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