Still the Beaver Episode 2 Thanksgiving Day Nov 21, 1984 Disney Channel

The second episode of the sequel series Still the Beaver was called Thanksgiving Day, which debuted on The Disney Channel Nov. 21, 1984 (about a year-and-a-half after the network launched as a pay cable channel).
The commercial-free episode about Beaver’s oldest son Kipp learning the value of being with family on special occasions (a lesson he learns from, of all people, Eddie Haskell), runs nearly 27-minutes and is presented here as a recent digital transfer from my original Betamax recording of 34 years ago.
This episode also features a nice touch of Wally coordinating a surprise visit by the Cleavers' Aunt Gloria (presumably the late Ward Cleaver's sister), played in a cameo appearance by the real-life sister of the actor who played Ward who died two and-a-half-years earlier, Hugh Beaumont (Gloria Beaumont Rusman, not an actress).

Still the Beaver, a 26-episode series follow-up to the 1983 CBS reunion TV movie of the same name (three more seasons of the series would be produced for commercial cable channel TBS Superstation from 1986-1989 under the name of The New Leave it to Beaver), takes place 20 years after we last saw the Cleaver family in Leave it to Beaver and features almost all of the original primary and supporting cast members plus several new additions. Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is grown and has two boys of his own, Kipp and Oliver, but his wife recently divorced him so he has moved back in with his mother June (Barbara Billingsley) at 211 Pine Street (Ward has died). Wally (Tony Dow) is a lawyer married to his school sweetheart Mary Ellen Rogers and they have a daughter Kelly. Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) is back and the same as ever, running a shyster construction company, and he has a son Freddie who is a chip off the old block (his real-life son). Friends Lumpy (Frank Bank) and his father Mr. Rutherford (a new actor replaces the recently-deceased Richard Deacon) are still around and seen in this episode.