Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leave It to Beaver is back in living rooms across America
...atop the pseudo-colonial façade. A sturdy elm offers shade for a manicured lawn. A flagstone path leads up to a hospitable front door. But 211 Pine Street, Mayfield, U.S.A., is not just any house. It is the home of Theodore Cleaver, infinitely better known as the Beaver...
...upbeat, bouncy theme song plays in the background as a mellifluous voice announces the cast spilling out the front door: "Leave It to Beaver, starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow . .. and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver...
Tousled-haired and grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...
...Beaumont, 73, journeyman Hollywood actor whose name was etched into the public consciousness through the longevity of a TV hit series, when for 234 half-hour performances in the 1950s and '60s he was Ward Cleaver, the All-American suburban father on the still repeated Leave It to Beaver; of an apparent heart attack; during a visit to Munich, West Germany...