'Beulah' - The New Arrival (1952)

★★★★★ · Good · Classic_TV_and_Radio_Fan · 2008-11-11

Way better than that overrated peice of crap known as "Daddy-O".

★★★★ · The New Arrival (Beulah) · richgoup · 2011-11-25

Season 2, episode 11. Original air date: 10 June 1952. Donnie charges a baby buggy to his father`s account at the local department store to get new wheels for his soapbox derby racer. When Beulah sees the buggy hidden away and learns that Alice is sewing a maternity dress, She assumes that another Henderson baby is in the offing and organizes a maternity party. Cast: Louise Beavers (Beulah), Ernest Whitman (Bill Jackson), David Bruce (Harry Henserson), Rudy Dandridge (Oriole), Jane Frazee (Alice Henderson), Stuffy Singer (Donnie Henderson), Arthur O. Btian (Mr. Perrin), Margie Liszt (Marge…

★★★ · The Way We Were · Big Boomer · 2009-08-05

Probably very few American families what watched this show were as affluent or had a cook or a hired man to clean up the back yard. All the menial labor jobs in this show are filled by African Americans. All the "bosses" are white. In the early 1950s that was widely considered the natural order of things. Beulah is the hired cook but she loves working for her employer and although her mistake is the key to much humor in this episode, she also solves the problem for the family. This was meant to show that some African Americans were clever, but of course that was not sufficient to bring them…

★★★ · Interesting piece of early TV · ohsnapiam56 · 2009-08-28

Not exactly a bid for racial equality but not really what you'd call a stereotypical racist role (with the exception of "yas'm" and the dumb "yuk yuk laugh at the beginning"). If anyone was the dumbbell it was the husband and the imitation Butterfly McQueen next door maid. The black man was a worker, not lazy. Beulah was kind of like a Black Hazel. So considering, it's not that bad, but I certainly don't long for the days of Beulah.