This was a cute show. The cat... it's ginormous! It's also adorable. The plot's straightforward, but Grace Wallis Hubble, who plays the cat's older owner, is great and may be one of tv's earliest cat ladies.
I think one of the most remarkable things about this episode though is, for once, one of Beaver's friends (in this case Gilbert) doesn't do anything to cause him problems. Gilbert, in fact, acts like a friend, going with Beaver to return the cat and then lending Beaver his own dog to "discourage" the cat from returning to Beaver's house.
I have always suspected Stephen Talbot wanted to stay distanced from LITB as an adult because Gilbert was something of a junior rat (on the Eddie Haskell scale). He almost never had a bad idea that he couldn't pawn off on Beaver!
I think one of the most remarkable things about this episode though is, for once, one of Beaver's friends (in this case Gilbert) doesn't do anything to cause him problems. Gilbert, in fact, acts like a friend, going with Beaver to return the cat and then lending Beaver his own dog to "discourage" the cat from returning to Beaver's house.
I have always suspected Stephen Talbot wanted to stay distanced from LITB as an adult because Gilbert was something of a junior rat (on the Eddie Haskell scale). He almost never had a bad idea that he couldn't pawn off on Beaver!