Leave It To Beaver
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The Perfect Father - S1-E23

Continuity mistake: As the boys are playing basketball at the Cleavers' house, Tooey is shown in the first shot without his glasses, but immediately in the next shot where he shoots for a basket, he is wearing them. Magical glasses, indeed.

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School Play - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: After the school festival performance, when Beaver reveals himself as the mushroom, the two costume straps hang straight down over Beaver's shoulders, but in the wide shot the two straps are crisscrossed, then reverts back to the original way. (00:22:20)

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It's a Small World - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: As Beaver and Wally are starting upstairs after Ward asks them to go change their shirts for supper, the camera cuts from a long shot of Ward across the room in a chair reading a newspaper, wearing a light grey suit, to a medium close-up of Ward wearing a much darker suit, and then back to the light grey.

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Mother's Helper - S4-E23

Continuity mistake: When Margie Manners is shown mopping the Cleaver's kitchen floor she is using a sponge mop. When Wally comes in, the scene then shows Margie pushing a string mop against Wally's shoes.

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Captain Jack - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Ward jokes about the boys having two baths in three days, being some kind of record. It then cuts to the boys sitting on the floor in the bathroom, and we can see the hamper at the right with nothing atop it, but when Wally stands up to put CJ back in the "aquarium" the tank lid is lying on the hamper. (00:11:35)

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School Play - S2-E11

Visible crew/equipment: At the start, while Whitey is reading aloud about the school festival, there's a large chalk T-mark on the floor in front of the boy at the center, and a small T-mark on the floor between Whitey and Beaver. (00:00:45)

Super Grover

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Next Door Indians - S1-E29

Continuity mistake: After Ward puts a new lightbulb in the fridge June stares at the mess Ward made, and the scalloped range hood vent is conspicuously missing, but when Beaver walks into the kitchen, the hood vent is back in its proper place. (00:17:10)

Super Grover

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Tenting Tonight - S1-E30

Visible crew/equipment: When Ward tells June he wants to take the boys to Friends Lake, for an overnight camping and fishing trip, as Ward heads for the staircase so he could tell the boys, he passes a piece of filming equipment which is visible at the right side of the screen. (00:08:25)

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Beaver and Poncho - S1-E24

Visible crew/equipment: When Mrs. Bennett shows up the second time and tells June that she'd like to give Beaver a reward, the curved chalk actor's mark is visible on the floor near the staircase, and it's where June will stand after Poncho and his "mother" leave the house. (00:21:05)

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Captain Jack - S1-E3

Trivia: The episode "Captain Jack" was the first time a toilet was shown on TV; the boys buy a baby alligator and Wally is shown putting it in the toilet tank. The network censors were so spooked by the thought of showing a toilet on television that they delayed the episode. And when the censors finally relented, the compromise allowed only the toilet tank to be shown, not the bowl.

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