What better show to bring in the school year than the classic LEAVE IT TO BEAVER?
MeTV’s “Back to School with Beaver” marathon will feature school-themed episodes from the series. It starts on Aug. 16 on the channel, Remind Magazine reported.
The marathon starts at 11 a.m. ET/PT and will air its last episode at 3:30 p.m. The schedule is as follows:
- 11 a.m. – “Beaver Gets Spelled
- 11:30 a.m. – “Part Time Genius.”
- 12pm p.m. – “Beaver Plays Hooky”
- 12:30 p.m. – “Wally’s Test”
- 1 p.m. – “The Last Day of School”
- 1:30 p.m. – “The School Picture”
- 2 p.m. – “Wally’s Election”
- 2:30 p.m. – “Beaver English Test”
- 3 p.m. – “The Book Report”
- 3:30 p.m. – “Beaver’s Graduation”
Related: LEAVE IT TO BEAVER Star Jerry Mathers Says Show ‘Ended At The Right Time’
MeTV is available on broadcast television, select satellite and cable services or streaming on Frndly TV, Philo, Fubo and Sling TV.
MeTV also had a LEAVE IT TO BEAVER Marathon last August, ahead of the show’s 68th anniversary, Collider reported.
The series ran from 1957 to 1963. It had 234 episodes. The synopsis reads, “The Cleavers are the 1950s ‘All-American Family’ in this ‘feel-good’ family sitcom. Parents Ward and June and older brother Wally try to keep Theodore (‘the Beaver’) out of trouble. However, Beaver continues to end up in one kind of jam or another.”
Jerry Mathers, who played “The Beaver,” called the show the best thing that ever happened to him and said it shaped his whole life. Before he made it on the show, he starred in commercials and movies, one of which was THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS with Bob Hope.
“I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Bob Hope,” Mathers told Classic Film TV Café. “In THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS, there was a true-life scene in which there was a fire in a vaudevillian theater and Eddie Foy saved a lot of people’s lives.”
The scene was set up with a curtain doused with gasoline. At the time, Mathers was sitting in the catwalk on the side of the stage. Hope saw that he was up there.
“Everyone else panicked and ran out like they were supposed to, but Bob Hope noticed that I couldn’t get out,” he said. “He threw a blanket over himself and ran through the flames and got me out. So, he actually saved my life.”
One of Mathers’ favorite LEAVE IT TO BEAVER episodes is when he climbed into a giant soup bowl in “In the Soup.”
“They actually built a billboard on the backlot of Universal. So for the outdoor shots, I was up there for about half a day,” he said. “I got to miss a lot of school for that one.”
“The show was just a grand adventure with a lot of adults around and we just had a really good time. After I’d do my schoolwork, I’d work on models that kids were building at the time,” he said. “We’d play catch during lunch. It was just always a fun place to be every day.”
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER is also available to stream 24/7 on Prime Video.
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