Series

Leave It to Beaver 1957

Created by Bob Mosher

  • Comedy, Family
  • 25 min episodes
  • 6 seasons
  • 234 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-G

Gee, Wally!

An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in 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 US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

ComedyFamilysitcomtraditional familyABC, CBS

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