1957-1963 TV Show, Leave It to Beaver, Jerry Mathers, 8x10 Photo

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An original 1957-1963 8 x 10 inch photo from the 1957-1963 TV show, Leave It to Beaver which starred Jerry Mathers as Beaver.
The photo has a little corner wear and spome old tape on the back corners and overall is in nice condition with no tears.
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Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver
is an American television
sitcom
broadcast between 1957 and 1963 about an inquisitive and often
naïve
boy,
Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver
(
Jerry Mathers
), and his adventures at home, 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.
[1]
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 or infallible; 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. The following season, it moved to
ABC
, where it stayed until completing its run on June 20, 1963. Throughout the show's run, it was shot with a single camera on black-and-white
35 mm film
.
[2]
The show's production companies included the comedian
George Gobel
's Gomalco Productions (1957–61) and Connelly and Mosher's own Kayro Productions (1961–63) with filming at
Revue Studios
/
Republic Studios
and
Universal Studios
in Los Angeles. The show was distributed by
MCA TV
.
The still-popular show ended its run in 1963 primarily because it had reached its natural conclusion: In the final show, Beaver is about to graduate from grade school into high school, but Wally was about to enter college and the fraternal dynamic at the heart of the show's premise would be broken with their separation.
Contemporary commentators praised
Leave It to Beaver
, with
Variety
comparing Beaver to
Mark Twain
's
Tom Sawyer
.
[3]
Much juvenile merchandise was released during the show's first run, including
board games
, novels, and
comic books
. The show has enjoyed a renaissance in popularity since the 1970s through
off-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".
[4]