Leave It To Beaver is an iconic situational comedy that ran for 6 seasons in the late 1950s and early 60s. The family-oriented series followed the life of a young boy named Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) and his adventures at home, school, and his suburban neighborhood.

Written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, Leave It To Beaver is a glimpse at middle-class, white American boyhood. A typical episode features Beaver getting into some sort of trouble and facing his parents (played by Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont) for discipline. The Cleaver family eventually became an American representation of the ideal suburban family at the time.

The show remained popular through its cancellation in 1963 and went off the air because the actors wanted to move on. It was listed on TIME magazine’s unranked 2007 list of “The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME.”