Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia

Leave It to Beaver is back in living rooms across America

A house like any other house in the vast expanse of television suburbia.

Gabled windows sit 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.

The 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,...

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