This show was what we all wanted in family life. The cast was perfect together. It had morals and soul to it. Hugh brought the morals because of his background. I still watch this today in this world we live in . It is a escape we all need. God Bless them all for what they gave us.
It is a query why we watch this 50’s early 60’s sitcom over and over. So many of us baby boomers do. I guess it is a welcome relief from the immorality of today 2024. No era was perfect because we are not perfect but the difference in today’s culture is monumental. No full circle.
We need more shows like this now… tv shows have really gone down hill and I cannot trust them for my child. It was such a great show and I love watching the re-runs
As a black kid of Single Father living in poor neighborhood in late 50s early 1960s. It wasn't about Beaver's lifestyle or big house. It was the situations Beaver (and Wally) found themselves. Growing up as kids that was very relatable. They seem understand just how average kid/teenagers felt during Era
Thank you for sharing this! We've been watching a couple of Leave it to Beaver re-runs every night for the last year. It sure makes you wish life was this easy again!
I bought the box set of the episodes. We're half way through it now. It's such a great series and a breath of fresh air in comparison to today's awful television "entertainment".
Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow didn't allow Stardom and fame get into their heads. For them it's just acting job making a living. I liked this about both of them.
I'm 60 yo & remember staying home from school & watching reruns on the UHF channels, which, for some reason, ran during school hours. The line-up was LITB, Hazel, My Three Sons, Donna Reed, et al. Great memories.
Voodoo Curse was my favorite episode. Most people miss the banter between husband and wife. Grew up watching this everyday for years and now 65 years later its still just an amazing show.
It was a great show when I was a kid. And I am still watching reruns. iI’s one of the few programs on television that leaves you smiling when it’s over .
they may frame it as she did here in the introduction as being a goody two shoes life sit com, but let me tell you as easy as Jane throws reality into that concept and said, NOT the way it is, she quickly casts aside the great things WE learned by watching it. Such as, morals, and values and good parenting and healthy lifestyles. It offered a way to cope with OUR issues as we would see an episode about how to deal with classroom things and teachers and manners, with respect. The Real thang, as she described, wasn't bad at all, in comparison to today, however, the real thang INCLUDED Leave it to Beaver. IMHO
No mention of Beavers friends on the show,or Frank Bank as Lumpy either,Rusty Stevens as Larry,Steven Talbot as Gilbert,Richard Correl as Richard,I cant recall the actors name who played Whitey Whitney.
@@R._Thornhill Some do, but certainly not a prevalent thing. Now, after all this change , for decades both parents have to work to make ends meet, not just to have a career, because wages have not caught up to reality and busting unions has become the profitable thing to do for big corporations and chains.
Leave it to Beaver ended in 1963 with just the single person of color during it's run. The Patty Duke Show, which aired from 1963 to 1966, showed black students occasionally, and Sammy Davis, Jr. was a featured guest star.
. 33:34..........I was SO sure Jerry Mathers was wrong on both counts, when he tells Bob Costas that "The Trouble With Harry" (1955) was one of John Forsythe's first films, and WAS Shirley MacLaine's first movie, but he was actually correct on that point regarding Ms. MacLaine (could have SWORN Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis's "Artists and Models" (1955) came first !!).....however, it WAS FAR from being Forsythe's first film, which actually (according to IMDb) was "Northern Pursuit", from1943. 🙂 .
Actually, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was more of a reflection of the early 1960s. The decades were generally set two years before the decade changeover. Considering that the last four years were from the 1960s, this is so.
I disagree. The real 1960's didn't start until after Kennedy was assassinated in late 1963 and the Beatles and civil rights, and Viet Nam went into full gear and so on. The early 1960's were slow to change, and were a hangover of the 1950's generally. and the 1960's didn't really end until Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. There was no specific dividing line of course, but slow morphing. and the world changed behind our backs while everyone was disco dancing in the mid to late 1970's as a distraction and we lost our focus on the future and our shirts on the dance floor.... 😂
I just love the show's fake wholesome family values. Other than the blatant discrimination, the show was great. Like when Wally and Eddie were hired to park cars, the first and only black person (Kim Hamilton) to ever appear on the show was a maid.
when Jane Pauley in 1980 introduces the Leave it to Beaver show in the late 1950's as "one of the most popular show" she is full of shit. Leave It to Beaver never broke into the Nielsen Ratings top 30 in its six-season run. However, it proved to be much more popular in reruns.
You are so correct. In my book, "The World Famous Beaverpedia," I mention this but do show how it compared among younger audiences during some rating periods where it was just as popular as the ones we know like Andy Griffith, etc. Those stats came from Broadcast Magazine and I was able to see a few ratings periods, but overall, you are right that it never was that popular first run.
Not sure if that is a reminder. In my high school in the midwest, of 535 seniors, 534 were white, 1 was black. No asians; no hispanics. Other minorities may not have had it great as a whole in the USA, but not present in sufficient numbers to make as assessment where I grew up.
One episode featured a Hispanic kid named Chue,where Eddie tricked Beaver into insulting him in Spanish,and a black actress was in the episode when Wally and Eddie worked parking cars.
I know why the rumors about jerry and tony… it’s time for the truth! The both had multiple identical twins and clones. The were extras and stand- by replacements. Barbara that you see on the series was not the same Barbara .. she was her sister. ken osment double was also a police officer in California they used to impersonate each other while on duty. They tried their dangerous tricks on me when I visited one or the other in California. In some ways they were worse than than the Nelson family and Jay North children. Oh well!?!? That’s Bizzzness!
My favourite show of all time!!
This show was what we all wanted in family life. The cast was perfect together. It had morals and soul to it. Hugh brought the morals because of his background. I still watch this today in this world we live in . It is a escape we all need. God Bless them all for what they gave us.
You are not alone. Many, many of us watch LITB to escape the downturn in society and not as free as we once were.
I watch 15- minutes every morning at breakfast! It puts me in a good mood before heading to work.
We do still watch, lol
Still watching Leave it to Beaver September 2022 and always will watch this show!
It is a query why we watch this 50’s early 60’s sitcom over and over. So many of us baby boomers do. I guess it is a welcome relief from the immorality of today 2024. No era was perfect because we are not perfect but the difference in today’s culture is monumental. No full circle.
We need more shows like this now… tv shows have really gone down hill and I cannot trust them for my child. It was such a great show and I love watching the re-runs
I love that Hulu has a Leave it to Beaver channel. I'm watching every day.
My son and I watch it on Prime Video. Just makes me laugh!
@Busman18761 all those kids are great actors. I died when Beaver and Wally cut Beavers hair!!!!🤣
As a black kid of Single Father living in poor neighborhood in late 50s early 1960s. It wasn't about Beaver's lifestyle or big house. It was the situations Beaver (and Wally) found themselves. Growing up as kids that was very relatable. They seem understand just how average kid/teenagers felt during Era
Can you imagine if there were an actual time machine that we could hop on and head back to those times.
Leave it to Beaver is on the Roku channel,I can watch the show again and again and not get tired of it.
I see it on MeTV.
One of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
I loved watching this! Thanks for it Jeff Zest.
Love 😍😍😍 the TV series Leave it to Beaver!!! Love 😍😍😍 the cast!!! True family wholesomeness!!
I loved leave it to beaver the most when he was really young 1957-59 shows
What a great lady. I loved her as June. She is so nice. RIP Barbara. You are missed.❤
Thank you for sharing this! We've been watching a couple of Leave it to Beaver re-runs every night for the last year. It sure makes you wish life was this easy again!
Loved Eddie Haskell, wiseguy. His lines were always hilarious. ❤ Edit: A great show all around, and I still watch the reruns!!!
@lindajanes, 😂"That's a lovely set of pearls, Mrs Cleaver."😂
One of my Favorite Shows. I watch it every morning @7:00 central time on -Me TV
This show was gold. It was perfect; but it was gold; and I Loved it.
Nice documentary. Thanks for sharing.
I bought the box set of the episodes. We're half way through it now. It's such a great series and a breath of fresh air in comparison to today's awful television "entertainment".
Everyone seems just as nice in real life as they did on the show
Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow didn't allow Stardom and fame get into their heads. For them it's just acting job making a living. I liked this about both of them.
I love the show. I still watch reruns.
I'm 60 yo & remember staying home from school & watching reruns on the UHF channels, which, for some reason, ran during school hours. The line-up was LITB, Hazel, My Three Sons, Donna Reed, et al. Great memories.
Voodoo Curse was my favorite episode. Most people miss the banter between husband and wife. Grew up watching this everyday for years and now 65 years later its still just an amazing show.
Have the box set ! But still watch it every day on tv ! The good old days !!
Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow seems like such great guys. So humble.
It was a great show when I was a kid. And I am still watching reruns.
iI’s one of the few programs on television that leaves you smiling when it’s over .
Best show of all time still relevant
way before my time, but wonderful to see these more innocent times re-captured !!
My favorite character was Eddie Haskill played by Ken Osmond. His auto biography is an interesting read.
I'd love to see the Cheers one.
Still watching in 2024
The interviews gave some good insights behind the scenes.
Jerry hair and collar on shirt at the beginning wild
they may frame it as she did here in the introduction as being a goody two shoes life sit com, but let me tell you as easy as Jane throws reality into that concept and said, NOT the way it is, she quickly casts aside the great things WE learned by watching it. Such as, morals, and values and good parenting and healthy lifestyles. It offered a way to cope with OUR issues as we would see an episode about how to deal with classroom things and teachers and manners, with respect. The Real thang, as she described, wasn't bad at all, in comparison to today, however, the real thang INCLUDED Leave it to Beaver. IMHO
No mention of Beavers friends on the show,or Frank Bank as Lumpy either,Rusty Stevens as Larry,Steven Talbot as Gilbert,Richard Correl as Richard,I cant recall the actors name who played Whitey Whitney.
Ward, just because you have a hard day at the office is no reason to come home and take it out on the beaver- June Cleaver.
Ward was the greatest TV father of all time.
Hugh Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas.
🥃👴🏻 I WAS BORN IN KAZAKHSTAN IN 1155.
Ok................ your point??
Did anyone ever watch the series "Family"? I just loved that show!
I watched this with my son and he asked, "When does the mom go to work?"
It’s sad that kids now don’t know the joys of having a stay at home mom.
🤣...Smart kid!!! I lived that idea I'm so old, but then mom went into teaching elementary school so it did not last that long.
@@R._Thornhill Some do, but certainly not a prevalent thing. Now, after all this change , for decades both parents have to work to make ends meet, not just to have a career, because wages have not caught up to reality and busting unions has become the profitable thing to do for big corporations and chains.
Eddie Haskell is my favorite!!
June Cleaver!!! Hubba, hubba! 😋
Leave it to Beaver a Good Tv Show....I Beaverton Everyday.😂
"Ward, don't you think the Beaver needs a haircut? 😅
Leave it to Beaver ended in 1963 with just the single person of color during it's run. The Patty Duke Show, which aired from 1963 to 1966, showed black students occasionally, and Sammy Davis, Jr. was a featured guest star.
lol! "Turned out mom"
👴🏻I HATE JIVE TALK
Tony Dow recently passed away!
I was very sad , seen him on facebook
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33:34..........I was SO sure Jerry Mathers was wrong on both counts, when he tells Bob Costas that "The Trouble With Harry" (1955) was one of John Forsythe's first films, and WAS Shirley MacLaine's first movie, but he was actually correct on that point regarding Ms. MacLaine (could have SWORN Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis's "Artists and Models" (1955) came first !!).....however, it WAS FAR from being Forsythe's first film, which actually (according to IMDb) was "Northern Pursuit", from1943. 🙂
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Actually, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was more of a reflection of the early 1960s. The decades were generally set two years before the decade changeover. Considering that the last four years were from the 1960s, this is so.
I disagree. The real 1960's didn't start until after Kennedy was assassinated in late 1963 and the Beatles and civil rights, and Viet Nam went into full gear and so on. The early 1960's were slow to change, and were a hangover of the 1950's generally. and the 1960's didn't really end until Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. There was no specific dividing line of course, but slow morphing. and the world changed behind our backs while everyone was disco dancing in the mid to late 1970's as a distraction and we lost our focus on the future and our shirts on the dance floor.... 😂
EDDIE HASKELL WAS THE ONLY REASON I WATCHED THE SHOW
Haaaaa
eddie really used to give the beav the business lol
Your loss
I just love the show's fake wholesome family values. Other than the blatant discrimination, the show was great. Like when Wally and Eddie were hired to park cars, the first and only black person (Kim Hamilton) to ever appear on the show was a maid.
It was the reality of the tomes, like it or not. For example it was 70's before most schools integrated.
Harry Shearer did ok for himself. The Simpsons may last a season or two
All Ozzy did was sit home. Annoy Harriet. An go get ice cream 🍦 with Thorny.😊
That’s not the same Jerry Mathers …. There was 4 or 5 of them as I recall.
What????
Never saw 30 something?
Skull cap. I got tricked twice.
Crazy sept 11
???????????
Roseanne was more realistic, with a bit of over the top humor. She was the "anti June". Lol! She was on an episode with the other iconic tv moms.
And so goes the country
🥃👴🏻 ROSANNA YELL AT AT PEOPLE ALL DAY
when Jane Pauley in 1980 introduces the Leave it to Beaver show in the late 1950's as "one of the most popular show" she is full of shit. Leave It to Beaver never broke into the Nielsen Ratings top 30 in its six-season run. However, it proved to be much more popular in reruns.
You are so correct. In my book, "The World Famous Beaverpedia," I mention this but do show how it compared among younger audiences during some rating periods where it was just as popular as the ones we know like Andy Griffith, etc. Those stats came from Broadcast Magazine and I was able to see a few ratings periods, but overall, you are right that it never was that popular first run.
Showing her beaver for 17 years
"Lilly white" only black actor was played as help. A reminder tht life wasn't good for everyone.
Not sure if that is a reminder. In my high school in the midwest, of 535 seniors, 534 were white, 1 was black. No asians; no hispanics. Other minorities may not have had it great as a whole in the USA, but not present in sufficient numbers to make as assessment where I grew up.
@@jeffzest8393 im Hispanic and leave it to beaver was like my mom’s upbringing. Its an American show for everyone . I love it
Now in this day in age its opposite! And nobody complains
One episode featured a Hispanic kid named Chue,where Eddie tricked Beaver into insulting him in Spanish,and a black actress was in the episode when Wally and Eddie worked parking cars.
@@marcdewey1242
🥃👴🏻 SOOO HOWS YO MOTHER DOIN?
I know why the rumors about jerry and tony… it’s time for the truth! The both had multiple identical twins and clones. The were extras and stand- by replacements. Barbara that you see on the series was not the same Barbara .. she was her sister. ken osment double was also a police officer in California they used to impersonate each other while on duty. They tried their dangerous tricks on me when I visited one or the other in California. In some ways they were worse than than the Nelson family and Jay North children. Oh well!?!? That’s Bizzzness!
If you are soooo desperate for attention, GET A DOG, jackleg.
Golly Beav.....roll another joint.
God, how dorky Jerry looked in 1980!
Jane Pauly is impossible to listen to.
🥃👴🏻 THANK YOU ITS LIKE A SIREN
*a nineteen SIXTIES version. 1960, 1961, 1962 & 1963
I wonder if the producers and writers ever realized the double entendre is 'Beaver Cleaver'?