Classic TV Shows - Leave It To Beaver with Jerry Mathers

Leave It To Beaver
Complete 1st Season

Leave It TO Beaver on DVD

Leave It To Beaver
Complete 2nd Season

Leave It TO Beaver on DVD

Leave It To Beaver
Complete 3rd Season

ALSO
Complete 4t Season (1960)

Complete 5th Season (1961)

Complete 6th Season (1962)

Leave It To Beaver on DVD!
The Complete 1st Season
The Complete 2nd Season
The Complete 3rd Season
Complete 4th Season (1960)
Complete 5th Season (1961)
Complete 6th Season (1962)

Leave It To Beaver

Jerry Mathers

Barbara Billingley in Leave it to Beaver

Barbara Billingsley

10/4/1957 - 9/17/1958 CBS
10/2/1958 - 9/12/1963 ABC
Black and White - 30 minutes - 234 total episodes

Leave It To Beaver Cast

Jerry Mathers as Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver
Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver
Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver
Tony Dow as Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver

Ken Osmond as Edward 'Eddie' Haskell
Frank Bank as Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford
Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford
Robert 'Rusty' Stevens as Larry Mondello (1958-1960)
Madge Blake as Mrs. Margaret Mondello (1958-1960)
Doris Packer as Cornelia Rayburn
Stephen Talbot as Gilbert Bates
Tiger Fafara as Tooey
Richard Correll as Richard Rickover
Stanley Fafara as Hubert 'Whitey' Whitney
Burt Mustin as Gus the Fireman

Leave It To Beaver Theme Song

"Toy Parade" by Dave Kahn, Mort Greene, and Melvyn Lenard Gordon

CD From TV Guide:
50 All Time Favorite TV Themes
Has Leave it to Beaver Theme

Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
From the 50s and 60s
Has the Leave it to Beaver theme

1950s TV's Greatest Comedies - DVD

Tv Theme Songs CD

100 Greatest TV Themes [BOX SET] - 4CDs

External Links
TV Guide's Leave It To Beaver Page, with TV Listings, Photos, Videos, Exclusive News and More.

Leave It To Beaver Tidbits

Leave it to Beaver contributed to the notion of the perfect Fifties family. Parents never raised their voices or were too busy for the kids. Dad didn't work late.

Mom, well, poor Mom seemed obliged to remain perfectly coifed and dressed regardless of task. Dusting, vacuuming, cooking. No matter. She always had a dress and her heels on. What they never showed was Mom ironing which must have been a daily ordeal to keep all those nice outifts pressed.

A life crisis consisted of a lost report card or failure to eat your vegetables.

Still, we watched. Amused by the comings and goings of the Cleaver family and I suspect, wishing our own families could be as perfect as the Cleavers.

Ward (Hugh Beaumont) was an accountant and they lived at 211 Pine Street in Mayfield. At the start, Beaver (Jerry Mather) was in the second grade and his brother Wally (Tony Dow) was in the eighth.

Eventually Wally moves on the Mayfield High School and becomes captain of the football team. Beaver never seems to mature.

Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), who called Beaver "Squirt," was my favorite of Wally's friends. A kid who sucked up to parents and two timed you behind your back. A kid you loved to hate. A kid just like the one who lived down the street.

Passings

Hugh Beaumont died in 1982 of a heart attack

Leave It To Beaver Trivia

What Happened To:
Contrary to rumor, Jerry Mathers is alive.

Ken Osmond, Eddie, became a Los Angeles police officer who was reportedly injured in the line of duty.

Hugh Beaumont

Tony Dow in Leave it to Beaver

Tony Dow

Leave It To Beaver Trivia

Ever wonder how he got the name "Beaver?" When Wally was young, he couldn't say "Theodore." Called his little brother "Tweder." Ward and June thought "Beaver" sounded better and it stuck.

Leave it to Beaver Cast

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