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...Beaver may have made a grant leap for making that day. But in general the series was much more a reflection of the values that banned the Privey than a force of social change. It never tried to be. Honest and unpretentious, Leave It to Beaver was the 1950s far more than Happy Days, Grease or any of the other nostalgia pieces that sprang up in the last decade. The show's six-year run began in the cases twilight of the Eisenhower Administration and ended two and a half months before an angry man with a title climbed...
...World According Le Beaver. Irwyn Applebaum captures the essence of the show for its millions of undying fans fawning tributes to television shows tend to be unsatisfying because there usually is little the author can add-we've seen all the same shows, the rest of us just didn't bother to take notes. But Applebaum does a much better than average job by letting the show do most of the talking. The best part of the book is the central section which consists of dialogue vignettes from the show's 234 episodes...
...June Beaver, why would you say a thing like that...
...Beaver. Well, just cause you're married, that doesn't mean you gotta like girls...
...true fanatic, the last third of the book consists of plot summaries of all the shows. Applebaum spices up what might otherwise be a dry catalogue by including collections of Beaverisms on topics like girls, brothers and dogs. For example, what does Beaver's father do for a living. We know he drives to the office every day, prepares a lot of reports, and occasionally goes on a business trip, but the show never exactly tells us who signs old Ward's paychecks...