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One of the first primetime sitcom series written from a child's point-of-view, the show was created by the writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher.

These veterans of radio and early television found inspiration for the show's characters, plots, and dialogue in the lives, experiences, and conversations of their own children.

Like several television dramas and sitcoms of the late 1950s and early 1960s ( Lassie and My Three Sons, for example ), Leave It to Beaver is a glimpse at middle-class, white American boyhood.

In a typical episode Beaver got into some sort of trouble, then faced his parents for reprimand and correction.

However, neither parent was omniscient ; indeed, the series often showed the parents debating their approach to child rearing, and some episodes were built around parental gaffes.