<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Chronology </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Still the Beaver The New Leave It to Beaver Leave It to Beaver (1997 film) </Td> </Tr> <P> Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom about an inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver (portrayed by Jerry Mathers), and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood . The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally . The show has attained an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century . </P> <P> The show was created by the writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher . These veterans of radio and early television found inspiration for the show's characters, plots and dialogue in the lives, experiences and conversations of their own children . Leave It to Beaver is one of the first primetime sitcom series written from a child's point of view . Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s (Lassie and My Three Sons), 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; the series often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and some episodes were built around parental gaffes . </P>

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