Leave It to Beaver
| Leave It to Beaver | |
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Season one title screen | |
| Genre | |
| Created by | Joe Connelly Bob Mosher |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | David Kahn Melvyn Leonard Mort Greene |
| Opening theme | "The Toy Parade" |
| Composers | Pete Rugolo (1957–1962) Paul Smith (1962–1963) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 234 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producers | Joe Connelly Bob Mosher |
| Production locations | Republic Studios Universal Studios Los Angeles |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | October 4, 1957 – July 16, 1958 |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | October 2, 1958 – June 20, 1963 |
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Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher about the misadventures of an inquisitive suburban boy, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, his family and his friends. It stars Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers.
CBS first broadcast the series on October 4, 1957, but dropped it after one season. ABC picked it up and aired it for another five years, from October 2, 1958, to June 20, 1963. Produced first by Gomalco Productions and later by Kayro Productions, the series was distributed by Revue Studios. Connelly and Mosher developed the program from incidents involving their own children, and the series became notable for telling its stories largely from a child's point of view rather than an adult's.
Although Leave It to Beaver never entered the annual Nielsen top 25 during its original network run, it became far more prominent in reruns and has often been described as one of the defining television depictions of postwar American suburban family life. Its afterlife included a reunion film, a sequel series, and a 1997 feature-film adaptation.