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5 shows Tony Dow appeared on after Leave It to Beaver
Here are five shows where Dow wasn't called Wally.
Tony Dow might've had no idea that he'd be an actor before getting the role of Wally on Leave It to Beaver, but his success after the show proves elsewise — even if in later life he chose to work behind the camera on special effects and even became a respected sculptor.
We all remember him as the older brother to Beaver, and many generations after us will, too. Still, Dow made appearances on several television shows after Leave It to Beaver ended. Here are five of those appearances.
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In the episode "Guest in the House," Dow played Gilbert Thornbury, a young boy mistaken for a visitor Steve was expecting. Steve, who was out of town, asked Bub and the boys to take care of the visitor.
2. Knight Rider
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In the episode "Nobody Does It Better," Dow played Julian Groves, the main suspect when computer software was stolen from Deltron Micronics.
3. General Hospital
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Dow appeared in multiple epsiodes of the popular soap General Hospital.
4. Adam-12
In the episode "Log 69: Cigarettes, Cars, and Wild, Wild Women," Dow played Cpl. Wayne Miller. Reed and Malloy have to break up an auto theft ring, where they find women stealing cars and taking them to chop shops to resell the pieces.
5. Murder, She Wrote
Distributed by Universal Television
In the episode "Crossed Up," Dow played Gordon Rogers. Phone wires get crossed during a storm, and Jessica (Angela Lansbury) can't convince anyone that what she heard was a murder plot.
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But I suspect little kids will still be watching Wally and the Beav 100 years from now.
I'd love to have been on THAT boat.
I hope his family knows how appreciated he was.
Thanks MeTV Staff for remembering him through the Holidays!
Leave it to Beaver cast attended. She/He said the cast were very nice, especially Tony's wife.
Thank you so much for sharing. If they do it again, locally, or with a larger Con, I'll go. That would be cool, and to say Thank You to them.
I never watched Leave it to Beaver until reruns in the eighties. So the adult Wally seems more familiar to me.
WALLY IS MY FAVORITE ROLE OF
TONY DOW. THE CASTING DIRECTOR
OF LEAVE IT TO BEAVER COULD HAVE SEARCHED ALL 50 STATES AND I
GUARANTEE THAT NOBODY BUT
NOBODY COULD PLAY WALLY AS
GREAT AS THE WONDERFUL ACTOR
TONY DOW. I ALSO MISS KEN OSMOND
(Eddie Haskell) and FRANK BANK
(Lumpy Rutherford).