Leave It to Beaver [SEP] original network
), "Leave It to Beaver" is a glimpse of middle-class American boyhood. In a typical episode, Beaver gets into some sort of boyish scrape, then faces his parents for reprimand and correction. Neither parent was omniscient or infallable; the series often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and some episodes were built around parental gaffes.
"Leave It to Beaver" ran for six full 39-week seasons (234 episodes). The series had its debut on CBS on October 4, 1957
network syndication, a reunion telemovie ("Still the Beaver", 1983) and a sequel series, "The New Leave It to Beaver" (1985–89). In 1997, a movie version based on the original series was released to negative reviews. In October 2007, TV Land celebrated the show's 50th anniversary with a marathon. Although the show never broke into the Nielsen ratings top 30 or won any awards, it placed on "Time" magazine's unranked 2007 list of "All-TIME 100 TV Shows