Leave It to Beaver

Runtime : 30 mins

Genre : Comedy Family

First Aired 04-October-1957

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beavers parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beavers brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century. The show was created by writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher. These veterans of radio and early television found inspiration for the shows characters, plots, and dialogue in the lives, experiences, and conversations of their own children. Leave It to Beaver is one of the first primetime sitcom series written from a childs point-of-view. Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Leave It to Beaver is a glimpse at middle-class, white American boyhood. In a typical episode Beaver got into some sort of trouble, then faced his parents for reprimand and correction. However, neither parent was omniscient; indeed, the series often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and some episodes were built around parental gaffes.

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Cast Members

Theodore Beaver Cleaver
played by
Jerry Mathers

June Cleaver
played by
Barbara Billingsley

Ward Cleaver
played by
Hugh Beaumont

Wally Cleaver
played by
Tony Dow

Season 6 Episodes 39

Season 5 Episodes 39

Season 4 Episodes 39

Season 3 Episodes 39

Season 2 Episodes 39

Season 1 Episodes 40

Season 0 Episodes 5

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