"Leave it to Beaver" Celebrates 50 Years

Here's a note we received from Archive interviewee Jerry Mathers regarding Leave it to Beaver's 50th Anniversary -- which is October 4th!

From Jerry Mathers:

Leave it to Beaver is celebrating it's 50th anniversary on October 4th! Please join me in watching Tom Bergeron interview my tv family and friends, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, Ken Osmond, Frank Bank and of course me, on Good Morning America (Ch. 7) on Thursday, October 4th at 7:00 am.

And, we are also scheduled to be on the KTLA Morning News "live" (Ch. 5) on Friday, October 5th between 8 and 10 am. TV Land will be hosting a 24 hour LITB marathon beginning on Saturday, October 6th at 8:00pm ET/PT concluding on Sunday, October 7th at 8:00pm ET/PT. The marathon includes the rarely seen 1957 pilot entitled "It's a Small World."

Press release info

TV Land marathon link

Barbara Billingsley's (June Cleaver) Archive of American Television interview is also online. Click here to access.