The Fount Of All Family Sitcoms

“Cheating on homework, being mortified by clothes or haircuts, running away from home, discovering the cruelties of the working world, feeling the stirrings of interest in the opposite sex: [Leave It to] Beaver covered those and dozens of other topics that later turned up in Family Affair, The Wonder Years, The Bernie Mac Show, Hannah Montana and everywhere else, and will turn up again in whatever family series comes next.”