The show aired for six seasons starting in 1957, and it became a cultural touchstone for the late-'50 and early-'60s. Though ...

“You know, the fact that I was in a TV program that epitomized the supposed ideal world of the ’50s, and here I ... his role in “The New Leave It to Beaver” in the 1980s.

“I was so sad to hear today of the passing of my dear friend and business associate Frank Bank, who played Lumpy on Leave it to Beaver,” wrote Frank’s co-star Jerry Mathers on Facebook.

Dow enjoyed a decades-long career as an actor and director. He was best known as Leave It to Beaver's Wally Cleaver — the All-American big brother not only to "Beaver" Ward Cleaver (Jerry ...

The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio: wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as "Beaver." Beaver hopes to get a bike as a ...

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 ...