Leave it to Beaver bloopers — where are they?

Can we see any Leave it to Beaver outtakes or bloopers?

Many people have asked me if there is any footage of “bloopers” or outtakes from the original Leave it to Beaver series.  Unfortunately, there are none.  This is not because we didn’t make mistakes, but rather that, Leave it to Beaver was shot on 35mm film, like many motion pictures were.  At the end of the day after we did our filming, the director would pick which one of the takes to print, and the rest of the footage would be sent to the lab and stripped.  What this means is, they would take the silver coating off of the film and re-use it.  Because of this, there are no bloopers.  Anything that wasn’t used in the show was recycled that night.  It would be fun to see bloopers now, wouldn’t it?   Wish we could have saved some of the outtakes!