When I came along, “Leave it to Beaver” was already in reruns. If you don’t know the show, it was a weekly visit with the Cleaver family of Mayfield. The family consisted of parents Ward and June Cleaver and their two boys, Wally and Theodore, the latter was known to everyone as “the Beaver.”
Column: Of all Tony Dow’s TV roles, I miss Wally Cleaver most of all
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