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Lee Majors plays a character who is a stuntman yet Majors rarely if ever did any actual stunts on the show. In fact most of the scenes involving stunts by Major's character don't try to hide the fact that it's not Majors- most of the stunt doubles are not the same build as Majors and the camera angles show the faces of the stunt doubles.

And then there's the unecessary story lines and subplots of Seavers working as a bounty hunter on the side. Most of the acting is wooden and cheesy and the actors just phoning it in. Heather Locklear was hired obviously just to be eye candy for the horny young men in the viewing audience as was Douglas Barr for the horny young girls in the audience. It's too bad that the writers had to rely on the same types of plots over and over again it was like a bottle of head and shoulders shampoo lather rinse repeat.

When we last saw the Cleaver family, Ward , June and the boys were all going over the family scrapbook reliving memories. It was a rather anticlimactic episode that ended up with Wally and Beaver playing with some type of robotic toy. Now 20 years later - we have a grown up Beaver and Wally - Ward has died and June is living alone. Wally is married to Mary Ellen and Beaver is getting divorced. Several characters from the original show also show up. The plot has Beaver getting kicked out of his house and trying to gain custody of his kids from his narcissistic uncaring wife. He goes back to live with Mom and Wally of course lives with his wife in the same town - and there is a subplot of them trying to have a baby. It can be very difficult to watch because of how bad the acting is especially by Mathers - he looks lost and half the time I think he's trying to act like Beaver did in the original show. And also he is supposed to be in his thirties you would think he would have shaken the Beaver nickname. Especially now that it's the '80s and the word Beaver was probably not something you'd want as a nickname. Tony Dow doesn't very much better - the situations and dialogue don't really help him he's not given much to work with here. It also seems that none of the original characters that show up here have grown up any .Eddie is still an immature jerk, lumpy is also still an idiot , and what the heck happened to Larry Mondello?. It just seemed like the writers took them from 1963 to 1983 yet still wanted them to act like their 1963 selves. If you're a die-hard Leave it to Beaver fan you may want to avoid this garbage because it really doesn't add anything and was probably unnecessary. An equally abysmal TV series followed.