![]() The show was good, clean fun through and through. Though self-proclaimed cynics took it to task for its baseball-mom-and-apple-pie tone just a few years after it went off the air in 1963, its innocent humour holds up today. ![]() Leave It to Beaver, which creators and former Amos ‘n’ Andy radio writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher conceived of as a show related through the eyes of children (a new idea when it launched back in October 1957), was a solidly put-together series. When Theodore was just a baby in his crib, older brother Wally, a mere toddler in those days, couldn’t get his little mouth around the name Theodore. The best he could do was “Tweeter,” which Ward and June morphed into “Beaver”, and thus a legendary title was born. Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley) Cleaver lived at 211 Pine Street, Mayfield, with their children, Wally (Tony Dow) and Theodore (Jerry Mathers).
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