"Television was relatively young when Leave It To Beaver went on the air. In the 1950’s, local independent affiliate stations emerged across the country and they needed programming. Reruns of shows like I Love Lucy were shown over and over again. Baby boomers were weaned, often not on the first releases of these shows, but of reruns from five to ten years before. That is one reason Leave It To Beaver made such an impression on American youth culture of the 1960’s. Baby boomers remember the show, or just as likely remember the reruns, and this forms the impressions we have today of white, suburban America just before the Kennedy assassination and The Beatles. (Leave It To Beaver debuted the day Sputnik was launched by the Russians and ended the month George Wallace stood in the door of the University of Alabama protesting integration of the university)."
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