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Leave It To Beaver coming to DVD!

Good news for us Leave It To Beaver fans. Universal has announced a release date of 11/22/2005 for Leave It To Beaver: The Complete First Season on DVD. The 3 disc set will have all 39 digitally remastered episodes from the complete first season of Leave it to Beaver. It will include the original pilot, titled "It's A Small World", which should be interesting to see again. The only time I've seen it before was once on TV back in the 80's. The pilot episode had different actors playing the part of Wally (Paul Sullivan) and Ward (Casey Adams) and a character named Frankie played by Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Spinal Tap, Saturday Night Live). The Leave It To Beaver series was produced in 1957-1963. more info...

Cast:
Barbara Billingsley - June Cleaver
Hugh Beaumont - Ward Cleaver (1957-1963)
Tony Dow - Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver
Jerry Mathers - Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver
Ken Osmond - Edward 'Eddie' Haskell
Frank Bank - Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford
Richard Deacon - Fred Rutherford
Robert 'Rusty' Stevens - Larry Mondello (1957-1960) (as Rusty Stevens)
Madge Blake - Mrs. Margaret Mondello (1958-1960)
Doris Packer - Cornelia Rayburn
Stephen Talbot - Gilbert Bates
Tiger Fafara - Tooey
Richard Correll - Richard Rickover
Stanley Fafara - Hubert 'Whitey' Whitney
Burt Mustin - Gus the Fireman
Jeri Weil - Judy Hensler (1957-1960)
Diane Brewster - Miss Canfield (1957-1958)
Sue Randall - Miss Landers (1958-1962)
Cheryl Holdridge - Julie Foster (1960-1963)
Howard McNear - Andy The Barber (1957-1960)
Majel Barrett - Gwen Rutherford
Bobby Mittelstaedt - Charles Fredericks (1957-1959)
Joey Scott - Benjie Bellamy

Mini-Bio: "Little Ricky" Keith Thibodeaux

Keith Thibodeaux (stage name Richard Keith) played "Little Ricky" Ricardo on "I Love Lucy". Before joining the "Lucy" cast he was already a professional drummer discovered by bandleader, Horace Heidt at the age of three. A child prodigy indeed. When his father took him to audition for the "I Love Lucy" TV show Lucy asked him if his son could act. He answered "no". Wondering why he would be auditioning she rather curtly asked him something along the lines of "then what can he do?". Keith proceeded to play the drums and Lucy's attitude quickly changed and she exclaimed "This is the kid! This is him! This is Little Ricky!". He actually took a pay cut when he left his previous gig and became "Little Ricky" on the television series, often displaying his amazing drum playing talent on the show.

Viewers confused Keith with Lucy and Desi's real-life son Desi Arnaz Jr. It didn't help that young Thibodeaux was billed as "Little Ricky" on the show's credits and not as Keith Thibodeaux or his stage name Richard Keith. He grew very close to Desi Arnaz Jr. and they remain friends to this day. He was also very fond of Desi Arnaz Sr. You may also recognize Keith occasionally as Johnny Paul, one of Opie's friends on "The Andy Griffith Show."

In 1994, he published his autobiography, Life After Lucy: The True Story of Keith Thibodeaux -"I Love Lucy's" Little Ricky. Today, Keith lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with his wife, Kathy, a professional ballet dancer. Thibodeaux became the executive director of Kathy's touring ballet company, Ballet Magnificat.

Keith Thibodeaux was born December 1, 1950 in Lafayette, Louisiana.