Everybody and his brother sent me this, so: Ken “Eddie Haskell” Osmond.
I’ve never been a fan of “Leave It to Beaver”, but much respect to the late Mr. Osmond for honorable service with the LAPD:
“I’m not complaining, because Eddie’s been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by,” he said. “In 1968, I bought my first house, in ’69 I got married, and we were going to start a family and I needed a job, so I went out and signed up for the L.A.P.D.”
As an officer on motorcycle patrol, he grew a mustache to disguise himself. In 1980, he was shot three times in a chase with a suspected car thief but escaped serious injury: One bullet was stopped by his belt buckle, the others by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988.
Michel Piccoli, prominent French actor.
Leave it to Beaver was one of the first shows that I remember as a kid,watching. Of course, in black and white. We had a television set that had a fancy dial. It had two buttons next to the channel changer. You pushed one and the dial turned one way, and pushed the other, and it turned the channel the other. Just a motor on the channel dial, but we thought we were cool when our parents asked us to change the channel, and we got to push the button that controlled the tv like a living remote.
Years later, watching the same Leave it to Beaver, on reruns, I see why it was geared to kids. Some things are better left behind. But some shows from my youth are still fun. And of course, Charlies Angels would always be welcomed, because Farrah. Every young man had an image of that poster of her in a swimsuit in their mind.