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Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom that follows the misadventures of a suburban boy, his family and his friends. It stars Barbara Billingsley , Hugh Beaumont , Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers .
[1] [3] Mathers played the Beaver for six years, appearing in all 234 episodes of the series. He was the first child actor to have had a deal made on his behalf to get a percentage of the merchandising revenue from a television show. Leave It to Beaver still generates revenue more than six decades after its original production run.
Osmond returned to acting in 1983 reprising his role as Eddie Haskell in the CBS made-for-television movie Still the Beaver, which followed the adult Cleaver boys, their friends, and their families. [4] [9] [18] The television movie was a success and led to the revival comedy series The New Leave It to Beaver, which premiered the following year.
Dow (top) with his Leave It to Beaver co-stars (L–R): Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley and Jerry Mathers, circa 1959. With a little stage acting and two television pilots as his only acting experience, Dow's career began when he went on an open casting call and landed the role of Wally Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver.
That's when CBS hired Brian Levant, who had written for such hit shows as Happy Days and Mork & Mindy, to develop a Leave It to Beaver reunion with the surviving cast members that became Still the ...
Fafara left Leave It to Beaver in 1960 and stopped acting professionally in 1961. Fafara returned to acting in 1983 with an appearance as the adult Tooey Brown in the television reunion film Still the Beaver. [2] He reprised the role in the follow-up sitcom The New Leave It to Beaver, from 1983 to 1987.
FILE - This Dec. 10, 1982 file photo shows members of the original cast of the "Leave It To Beaver," from left, Ken Osmond, Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley and Jerry Mathers during the filming of ...
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