Susan King
Talbot had been outed. Someone had figured out that, earlier in his life, the activist onstage had inhabited the role of Gilbert Bates on one of the most popular TV sitcoms of the late ’50s and early ’60s,Leave It to Beaver. The in-joke on the sign was meant to lampoon one of ...
It is to their credit that theBeaverstars, unlike so many other TV actors, didn't repudiate the program as a youthful folly or bewail careers putatively ruined by its typecasting. In this regard, too, none ofLeave It To Beaver's principals suffered the personal problems that befell, for ...
so it is safe to say that some things have changed since then.Leave it to Beaveris good for some laughs, but it also has a few jokes that just aren't quite right anymore.