Leave It to Beaver is a black-and-white American television sitcom
broadcast between 1957 and 1963 about an inquisitive and often naïve
boy, Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver (portrayed by Jerry Mathers), and
his adventures at home, school, and around his suburban neighborhood.
The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as
Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's
brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the United
States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family
of the mid-20th century.Leave It to Beaver is a black-and-white
American television sitcom broadcast between 1957 and 1963 about an
inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver
(portrayed by Jerry Mathers), and his adventures at home, school, and
around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara
Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward
Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained
an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying
the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.The show was
created by the writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher. These veterans of
radio and early television found inspiration for the show's
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 child's point of view.
Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early
1960s (Lassie and My Three Sons), Leave It to Beaver is a glimpse of
middle-class American boyhood. In a typical episode, Beaver gets into
some sort of boyish scrape, then faces his parents for reprimand and
correction. Neither parent was omniscient or infallible; the series
often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and
some episodes were built around parental gaffes.Leave It to Beaver ran
for six full 39-week seasons (234 episodes). The series had its debut
on CBS on October 4, 1957. The following season, it moved to ABC,
where it stayed until completing its run on June 20, 1963. Throughout
the show's run, it was shot with a single camera on black-and-white
35mm film. The show's production companies included the comedian
George Gobel's Gomalco Productions (1957â€"61) and Kayro Productions
(1961â€"63) with filming at Revue Studios/Republic Studios and
Universal Studios in Los Angeles. The show was distributed by MCA TV. Leave It to Beaver Top Movies & Young Movies