Plot

Leave It to Beaver, like The Brady Bunch, proved to be much more popular once reruns began airing, then it was during its actual network run. Leave It to Beaver debuted in October of 1957 and aired on CBS. In the fall of 1958, CBS dropped the series and ABC, having faith in it, picked it up and ran it for an additional 5 years. The one thing that most people don't know, is that Leave it to Beaver was the first American television show. That was broadcast, behind the Iron Curtain. That, explains , why Ward always wore a suit to dinner. Why, June, was always dressed perfectly. Even when she was doing housework. It also explains, why there are so many references, to God, Sunday School, Breaking Bread, etc. This series, was trying to show the Russians, that life was better here than in the U.S.S.R. In several episodes, there are subtle references to the Soviet Union. In episode #31 ( New doctor ): Wally, has a model plane. Look close, it,s a Russian bomber. With, the red star decals. In episode #119 ( Beaver's House Guest ), the two boys are wearing their camp sweatshirts. With the name Camp Chekov on it. Propaganda? Maybe. What the average American family was like in the 1950's? I don't think so. What ever, I guess it worked.

The series focuses on the Cleaver family, particularly and obviously, the youngest of the two sons, Theodore Cleaver (Beaver). Beaver (who was 7 when the series began) was your basic everyday little boy who had a knack of getting himself into trouble at every turn. His older brother Wally, was just entering his teen years and often wondered out loud how Beaver could be so dumb to get himself into stupid situations. (Examples: getting himself locked in the principals office, letting the bathtub overflow, letting the washing machine overflow, getting his head stuck in a fence at the park, constantly losing things (cats, change, etc.)) His parents, were your everyday 1950's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, who did their best at trying to understand and support Beaver and Wally as they grew up.

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