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Leave It to Beaver is back in living rooms across America

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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