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Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series

Jerry Mathers , Barbara Billingsley , Norman Tokar  |  Unrated |  DVD
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  • Actors: Jerry Mathers, Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow
  • Directors: Norman Tokar
  • Format: Box set, Black & White, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 37
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Shout! Factory
  • DVD Release Date: June 29, 2010
  • Run Time: 6090 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0038SUBDC
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,250 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Its A Small World: The rare pilot episode that started it all!
  • Forever The Beaver - The Cleavers Look Back: Cast members Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow and Barbara Billingsley as well as renowned collector and co-creator of The New Leave It To Beaver Brian Levant reflect on the quintessential American family sitcom.
  • Ken Osmond And Frank Bank Remember: Cast members Ken Osmond and Frank Bank reunite to look back at their adventures on the set of Leave It To Beaver and beyond.
  • The Drum Major Of The Toy Parade: A conversation with composer Dave Kahn.
... And More!

Editorial Reviews

Finally, The Complete Series! Beautifully Restored and Remastered on 37 Discs!


Inspired by the real life experiences of creators Joe Connelly and Bob Moshers own children, Leave It To Beaver follows the hilarious everyday adventures of young Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver and his older brother Wally. Whether at home, at school or playing around their suburban neighborhood, Beaver always manages to get himself into some kind of trouble, comically learning each valuable lesson life has to offer along the way. Alongside baseball and apple pie, Leave It To Beaver reigns supreme in the pantheon of Americana. Boasting 234 episodes, spanning six iconic seasons from 1957 63, no other series on television better exemplifies the purity of childhood and importance of family in America.

Bonus Features:

* Its A Small World: The rare pilot episode that started it all!

* Forever The Beaver - The Cleavers Look Back: Cast members Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow and Barbara Billingsley as well as renowned collector and co-creator of The New Leave It To Beaver Brian Levant reflect on the quintessential American family sitcom.

* Ken Osmond And Frank Bank Remember: Cast members Ken Osmond and Frank Bank reunite to look back at their adventures on the set of Leave It To Beaver and beyond.

* The Drum Major Of The Toy Parade: A conversation with composer Dave Kahn.

... And More!

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The Shout Factory has released all 6 seasons in a nicely done boxed set. Joel Bowers  |  17 reviewers made a similar statement
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273 of 279 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars THE HOLY "BEAVER" GRAIL June 29, 2010
QUICK DVD STATS:

Number of Episodes -- 234 (Plus the Original Pilot Episode)
Number of Discs -- 37 (Single-Sided)
Video -- 1.33:1 Full Frame (B&W)
Audio -- Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (English only)
Any Bonus Stuff? -- Heck, yes! (Details below)
Subtitles? -- No (But each of the episodes is Closed Captioned in English)
"Play All" Option? -- Yes
Are These Episodes Complete and Unedited? -- Yes! (With a very minor "but"; details below)
DVD Distributor -- Shout! Factory (The set is copyrighted by NBC Universal)

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On June 29, 2010, a very pleasant thing happened -- something that many people probably didn't think would ever happen in their lifetime -- the audio and video company "Shout! Factory" released to the public "LEAVE IT TO BEAVER: THE COMPLETE SERIES", a spectacular 37-Disc DVD collection that includes all 234 episodes of what I consider to be one of the best and most rewatchable television series of all-time.

And Shout! has treated The Beav with expert care too, make no mistake about that fact. These 234 shows (plus the pilot episode, entitled "It's A Small World", which is also included in this mega-set) look and sound fantastic on these DVDs. All of the episodes were filmed in black-and-white, and the restored B&W prints that are presented in this collection are sensational.

To quote Brian Ward, the producer of this DVD boxed set:

"These episodes are complete and look better than you've ever seen them before. They've been restored and remastered from the original film elements. I've honestly never seen 50s television look this good. For those that bought the original seasons 1 & 2 released a couple years ago, these are leagues above those transfers. They really are something." -- Brian Ward of Shout! Factory; January 27, 2010

These shows do, indeed, look gorgeous on these DVDs, but I will add this note about the video quality --- The majority of the episodes in Season 1 and Season 2 of this set appear to me to have pretty close to the same video quality as the Universal DVD releases of those two seasons which came out in November 2005 and May 2006 [Season 1; Season 2].

Those two Universal sets have pretty good overall picture quality too, but most of the scenes that were filmed indoors are peppered with an abundance of grain. The scenes shot outdoors, however, look perfect and free of almost all grain.

This Shout! set mirrors those Universal video characteristics for the first two seasons, with the indoors footage being speckled with much more film grain than is found in any of the last four seasons. There are exceptions to this though, with one exception being the first-year episode "Brotherly Love", which looks quite a bit better in this Shout! set than it does in the 2005 Universal release, with less grain visible in the Shout! version.

Some of the shows from Season 1 also look darker on the Shout! DVDs when compared to the Universal edition (particularly the episode "Captain Jack"). So it would certainly seem as though Shout! has not used the exact same prints of the shows that Universal worked with in 2005.

But once I got to Season 3 of this Shout! set -- WOW! Simply magnificent in all respects! Almost all of the grain in every episode has been completely eliminated for the final four seasons. It's remarkable how blemish-free these new high-definition DVD prints look. Almost as if they were filmed yesterday. They look that good.

The highest praise I can muster goes to the Shout! people for taking the time and effort to do this classic TV sitcom the "DVD justice" it richly deserves.

One of the things that I immediately noticed when watching some of the episodes from Seasons 3 through 6 (which were filmed after the Cleavers moved into their new house on Pine Street in Mayfield) was the chair in the living room, the one in which dad Ward Cleaver is often seen sitting while reading the newspaper.

The chair's bold and unique fabric looks particularly bright on these remastered DVDs. The pattern practically jumps right off the screen, illustrating just how superb these DVD transfers really are. It might even be a good idea to wear sunglasses when watching those living-room scenes from now on. :)

Each episode is presented complete and uncut, just as they were originally aired on network television in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The average length per episode is about 25 minutes and 45 seconds.

A few episodes clock in at about 24:55. But then there are still others that exceed 26 minutes. So, I think it's probably safe to say that these episodes are just about as complete as we're ever going to get.

And Shout! DVD producer Brian Ward has also assured fans that all of the episodes in this set are uncut -- "The episodes are complete" were Mr. Ward's exact words on May 26, 2010 (via a post Brian made at the Shout! Factory Community Forum).

There is, however, one small section of one episode that is missing. And I'd be willing to bet that it's missing by pure accident. It's the preview (or "teaser") that was originally aired at the very beginning of the episode "The Black Eye". That short preview, narrated by Hugh Beaumont (which is when we hear Hugh say, "And that's our story tonight on Leave It To Beaver"), is nowhere to be found in this Shout! set. It is there, however, in the Universal 2005 DVD set.

The reason I said it's missing by "accident" is because of the way the order of most of the show openings for Season One have been rearranged. The short preview scenes that were part of the first-year episodes were (I think) originally aired PRIOR to the opening titles. That's the way they are presented in the 2005 Universal DVD set anyway.

But in this Shout! set, the majority of the preview clips are shown AFTER the opening credits. There are seven exceptions, however. The following seven episodes are presented as they originally aired, with the teaser coming prior to the opening titles: "Music Lesson", "The Perfect Father", "The State Vs. Beaver", "Beaver Runs Away", "Party Invitation", "The Bank Account", and "Lonesome Beaver".

This is a real mystery to me. I can't figure out why in the world the people who were responsible for remastering these episodes would have decided to reverse the order of the teasers and opening credits for about 80% of the first-season episodes in seemingly willy-nilly fashion, while choosing at the same time to leave the teasers where they should be in the first place (at the very beginning of the show) on 7 of the 39 episodes. It doesn't make a bit of sense. It almost looks like somebody at NBC Universal was being deliberately spiteful.

~big shrug~

Anyway, my guess would be that when someone was fiddling around with the chronology of most of these show-opening segments, somehow the preview/teaser clip for the "Black Eye" episode was never re-inserted and was inadvertently cut out completely.

Here's another oddity that I noticed about the first-season previews -- In this Shout! set, the preview segment for the episode "Brotherly Love" is completely different from the one that can be found on the 2005 DVD. The narration by Hugh Beaumont is identical in both DVD versions, but the video is totally different. Weird, huh? I had no idea that more than one preview segment existed for any of the episodes in Season 1. (It kind of makes the 2005 Universal DVD set for the first season of LITB seem a tad more valuable now, since there's something unique about a portion of it.)

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THE SHOW:

"Leave It To Beaver" premiered on CBS-TV on Friday, October 4, 1957, and continued on network television for a total of six seasons, finishing up in 1963. Each of the six seasons consisted of exactly 39 episodes, a hefty number when compared to current seasonal standards.

CBS carried the show for the first season only. For the final five years, "Beaver" was a part of the ABC-TV schedule.

The LITB storylines were always very simple and uncomplicated, which is probably a big reason why it is so charming and appealing. No major earth-shattering disasters ever befall the Cleavers. Nobody ever gets hurt (except an occasional scraped knee), the parents (Ward and June) rarely fight about anything serious and never threaten to leave each other, and above all, these characters really seemed to care about each other, without getting too sappy about it.

All of the above-mentioned traits helped make "Leave It To Beaver" what it was each week in 1957, and what I believe it remains today: a good, clean, fun, uncomplicated half-hour of entertaining television.

Starring Jerry Mathers as Theodore (Beaver) Cleaver, Tony Dow as his brother Wally, Barbara Billingsley as June, and Hugh Beaumont as Ward, the excellent cast of "Leave It To Beaver" was a well-chosen group in my opinion.

While it's true, I suppose, that the acting was a bit on the "stiff" side on many occasions, I still think that this ensemble did quite well on this show. A sense of true believability and realism finds its way quite comfortably into each of these episodes. Read more ›
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Allow me to begin by paraphrasing Sir Edward of Haskell...
"Hey Sam...so you're thinking about whether or not to buy the Complete Leave it To Beaver series box set? Well, Gertrude, let me tell you, don't think twice and just do it!!!"

OK. On a more serious note, it's not for nothing that Leave it To Beaver has remained one of the most popular, beloved and copied sitcoms for more than half a century. Sure, it's all too easy to mock or stereotype the show as the quintessential prototype of the Faux Fifties Americana. And, perhaps to some degree, there is something to that argument. But only to a small degree.

However, the REAL reason for the show's enduring success is that it had all the core elements of great television, and most notably, intelligent writing.
Let me personalize this to illustrate the point: when I was a kid, back in the late 60s and early 70s I first began watching the show, already in reruns. I enjoyed the show for many reasons, not the least of which was that even then, almost 10 years after it originally aired, it seemed to have timeless childhood themes. Perhaps the lexicon was a tad dated ("Gee, Wally, why are girls so goofy?") but the fact that the show never mocked the children, but seemed to empathize with them, appealed to me (even if I didn't know why at the time.)

Over the years, as the show (obviously) remained the same and I matured (well, mostly) and especially after I became a professional writer, I came to truly appreciate the nuances of the show's writing and the timeless themes of 'growing up' that transcended the arrival of the technological age.

Sure, there's an element of nostalgia in the show's popularity, but the fact is that very few shows in the annals of television history have achieved the level of loyalty that LITB ever did--so nostalgia alone cannot be the dominant reason for its enduring success. There was (and still is) a timeless humanity, an "American" humanity if you will, reflected in the writing, the acting and casting that became a televised version reflecting what Lincoln referred to as our "better angels".
Yes, the boys screwed up, and yes Eddie Haskell was a sanctimonious and duplicitous "creep", but beneath that shallow exteriors you could always see a frailty and a desire to simply "fit in" to a crazy world not of their making.

That is something that every kid, everywhere, had/has/will always strive to do.

The quality of the DVDs is superb, as close to flawless as you can get for 50s television, and the DVD bonus 'stuff' is great too. Sure, Eddie, Lumpy, Wally and the Beav look like they could be in line at the Walgreen's for their senior's discount medications--whereas just FYI the timeless Barbara Billingsley remains as always a beatific beauty even in her 90s--but that's the shallow way of seeing things. We all age, but it's not whether you age that matters, it's whether you age with dignity.

Bob Dylan once asked in song "have you seen dignity?" And, aside from being endlessly entertaining, if there is one thing that this box set achieves it's that it reminds us that there was a time when human 'dignity' was not merely a marketing device but a core value worth portraying and striving for.

So, bottom line, as a wise (ass) man might have opined, "lighten up, Sam, and buy the thing.
I mean, what are you, a goof or something?"

Leave it to Beaver...long may it (re) run.

*a sad addendum: we learned today of the passing of the eternally graceful Barbara Billingsley. Words fail to do justice to how beloved a maternal icon "Mrs Cleaver" was, is and will always be to those of use who grew up with her as our favorite 'TV mom.' By almost all accounts, she was every bit as genuinely gracious and sweet in real life as she was on the small screen. So on behalf of all of us who spent almost as much time in our formative years with "june" as we did our real moms, our heartfelt condolences to Ms. Billingsley's family. She will forever live on in the black and white television screen as well as our multi-hued dreams. And yes, Eddie was right--that was indeed a most lovely sweater, Mrs. Cleaver.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dreams do come true !!!! February 19, 2010
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This is a "dream come true" for fans of the classic "Leave It To Beaver" series.All six seasons of the series to be released in one complete set by Shout! Factory.With reports that the episodes will be re-mastered to pristine quality from original film elements...this is reason to celebrate for all the fans of this classic 1950's tv series.Thanks very much to the Shout! Factory for making this dream finally become a reality.At a great pre-release price from Amazon,it does not get much better than this.I can't wait to spend my summer in Mayfield and own literally every episode of this great show.They simply don't make shows like this anymore!!. It will be a welcome addition to my classic television library.I can't wait !!!.
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I grew up with this show but never watched it until now. Back then I was out playing with my friends and not watching TV. Read more
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The last episode of the first year of the series stopped half way through. I have notified the Shout people, don't know if they will do anything about it. The disc was defective. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars beaver
loved it even grandkids ask to watch it the one episode where he walks and keeps track got my grandson up and he tried to see how far he could walk
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I haven't watched them all, but Leave it to Beaver is a great show for the whole family! Very light and entertaining.
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Barbara Billingsley has died.
June was the best. She could take down Donna Reed, Mary Anderson and Aunt Bee all at one time. Don't forget when she talked "jive" on the plane in "Airplane"
Nov 12, 2012 by Randall Hill |  See all 5 posts
$179.99 Why so expensive still?
Just ordered it today from Amazon for $86.99, down from $131.99 a few days ago. Glad I waited - that's a $45 difference.
Nov 2, 2010 by Lazy Lawn Jockey |  See all 16 posts
Disk quantity discrepency?
The 24 disc set making the rounds elsewhere is not the official Shout set, and appears to have been taped off TV.
Jul 1, 2010 by A reader |  See all 6 posts
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Max, I think your talking about the old Universal copies. I think Shoutfactories has options
Jun 22, 2010 by Edward Block |  See all 7 posts
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I would scrap season 1 and 2 if I we're you. Those releases had double-sided discs which makes it easier to scratch or touch the discs. Although I thought the picture quality still looked good. But there we're also no bonus features. Shout Factory has done a good job on releasing bonus stuff on... Read more
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You might want to check with Shout! Factory's customer service department and let them know. This sort of thing happens once in a while and many companies, like Disney, actually want to know about them and are very helpful.
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