Jerry Mathers is looking back at his early years — and his fictional parents — starring on Leave It to Beaver. “They were really nice people,” Mathers, 77, tells PEOPLE of his sitcom parents. Mathers ...

The Cleaver family of the CBS/ABC series ‘Leave It to Beaver’ — from left, brother Wally (Tony Dow), mother June (Barbara Billingsley), father Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and Theodore ‘Beaver’ (Jerry Mathers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “They were really nice people,” Mathers, 77, tells PEOPLE of his sitcom parents. Mathers played the titular son Theodore "Beaver" ...

Mathers reveals what his on-screen parents, Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley, were like in real life and how the whole crew supported him on set Mathers speaks about how being on set as a child ...