![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, neither parent is depicted as omniscient indeed, the series often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and some episodes are built around parental gaffes.Ĭomprising six full 39-week seasons (234 episodes), the show had its debut on CBS on October 4, 1957, moved to ABC the following year, and completed its last run on June 20, 1963. A typical episode features Beaver getting into some sort of trouble and facing his parents for reprimand and correction. Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s (Lassie and My Three Sons, for example), Leave It to Beaver is a glimpse at middle-class, white American boyhood. One of the first primetime sitcom series filmed from a child’s point-of-view, the show was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, two radio and early television writers, who found inspiration for the show’s characters, plots, and dialogue in the lives, experiences, and conversations of their own children. The show has attained an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-twentieth century. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver’s parents, June and Ward Cleaver. Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver (portrayed by Jerry Mathers), about his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. Hand color tinted photo of Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Hugh Beaumont & Barbara Billingsley from the 1960s television series, Leave It To Beaver ![]()
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