Leave It to Beaver is a television sitcom written from a child’s point-of-view by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher. These veterans of radio and early television were also
the creators of the show. The series had its debut on CBS on Friday October 4,
1957, and then moved to ABC the following year, ending its run on June 20, 1963.

Father Knows Best, originally a radio program in the 1940s, began a run on the
CBS television network on Sunday October 3, 1954 and ended on May 23 1960. 

Elinor Donahue (74)

Billy Gray (73)

Lauren Chapin (66)

My Favorite Martian is a television sitcom that aired on CBS from Sunday
September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes (75 in black and
white 1963 – 1965, 32 color 1965- 1966).

 

The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first three seasons) is a sitcom which ran from Tuesday September 29,1953-1957 on ABC-
TV and from 1957 to September 14,1964 on the CBS television network. The
show ended when Thomas decided to retire.  

Funny bloopers with the cast and crew. Watch for Annette Funicello
and listen for the great Sheldon Leonard off camera (directing).

     
   Marjorie Lord (93)                         Sherry Jackson (69)                   
 

Angela Cartwright (59)

Hazel is a Screen Gems television sitcom series the follows the life a fictional live-
in maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The
five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from Thursday September 28,
1961 until September 5, 1966. The first four seasons aired on NBC-TV and were sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. The show was based on a popular single
panel comic strip (below) by cartoonist Ted Key that appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post.