The opening titles feature a drawing of a sidewalk, viewed from above, displaying the credits in wet concrete.
The prologues are retained in the first-season DVD release but are omitted in airings on TV Land. There are no multi-part stories in the season nor in the complete series.įor season one, a voice-over prologue by Hugh Beaumont precedes each early episode's opening credits, providing a background to that episode's theme, and always concludes with 'And that's our story tonight on Leave It to Beaver.' The voice-over prologues are discontinued mid-season and replaced with a short scene extracted from the episode at hand. Very occasionally a reference is made to a previous episode but episodes can easily be viewed out of air-date order. The first season consists of 39 black-and-white, full-screen, half-hour episodes (without ads) recorded on 35mm film.Įpisodes are picaresque stand-alones with no episode-to-episode continuity of storyline. The first season completed its run on Jwith 'Cat Out of the Bag'. (EST) In the second season, the show would move to ABC. Mid-season, the show was rescheduled to Wednesdays at 8:00 P.M. (EST) on CBS with ' Beaver Gets 'Spelled'. Leave It to Beaver debuted Friday, Octoat 7:30 P.M.
