What was supposed to be the pilot episode of the beloved sitcom, which aired from 1957 to 1963, was shelved for a week after CBS pushed back against one of the plotlines. The episode, titled "Captain ...

Before Modern Family, Diff’rent Strokes or even The Brady Bunch, one show above all others first defined the template of the American TV family: Leave It to Beaver. From 1957 through 1963, the show ...

Actor Jerry Mathers is the only surviving main cast member from CBS/ABC sitcom Leave It to Beaver, but he is still out there at 77 years young, promoting the show that made him famous and is still ...

Jeri Weil, who played Judy Hensler on the first three seasons of “Leave It to Beaver,” is opening up about her relationships with former castmates, Parade reports. In an August 2025 interview on “That ...

Mathers reveals what his on-screen parents, Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley, were like in real life and how the whole crew supported him on set Mathers speaks about how being on set as a child ...

The set of "Leave It to Beaver" was just as squeaky clean as the 1950s sitcom. "Hugh Beaumont was basically a very nice man, but he was also a minister," Jerry Mathers, who starred as Theodore "Beaver ...

One of America's favorite families was the Cleavers on Leave It to Beaver. Centered around a boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the wholesome series was just one of those charming things that has ...

Family-friendly sitcoms were everywhere back in the 1950s-60s, and ones centered around families were particularly popular, with the likes of The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and The Munsters ...

Leave It to Beaver's first episode sparked concerns with network executives. What was supposed to be the pilot episode of the beloved sitcom, which aired from 1957 to 1963, was shelved for a week ...