to make a selection when the list grows to over 50 or 60 titles.I noticed Leave It to Beaver. Of course as well as being a cultural epitome of portraying the 1950's American family, it was also a part of my own youth. I just selected a random episode from Season 1. Interesting that was 1957, or two years before I was born! I guess I saw most of "the Beavers" as re-runs.
It was all there. Barbara Billingsley hovered about in the all-electric kitchen wearing pearls and full makeup. Hugh Beaumont dispensed wise fatherly advice. The young boys were, well, boys. All those frighteningly wholesome family values were a bit asphyxiating. I could hardly take my eyes off the wonderfully rendered B&W footage though. Half-hour shows in those days lasted a full 25 minutes. I rather wish I'd been able to see the commercials with which episode 6, Brotherly Love, originally aired.