"Leave It To Beaver" who is still with us and who has departed from the cast

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The Cleavers and their friends

Still alive as of July 21, 2024:
Jerry Mathers (Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver) - turned 76 on June 2, 2024
Rusty Stevens (Larry Mondello) - turned 75 November 25, 2023
Steven Talbot (Gilbert Bates) - turned 75 February 28, 2024
Richard Correll (Richard Rickover) - turned 76 on May 14, 2024
Jeri Weil (Judy Hensler) - turned 76 on May 15, 2024

Those that have passed:
Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver) - d. October 16, 2010 at age 94
Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver) - d. May 14, 1983 at age 74
Tony Dow (Wallace "Wally" Cleaver) - d. July 27, 2022 at age 77
Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell) - d. May 18, 2020 at age 76
Stanley Farfara (Whitey Whitney) - d. September 20, 2023 on his 53rd birthday
Frank Bank (Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford) - d. April 13, 2013 the day after his 71st birthday
Sue Randall (Miss Landers - Beaver's grade school teacher) - d. October 26, 1984 at age 49.
 

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The version of "LITB" we see in reruns isn't how it was first conceived. The pilot for the series first aired as a segment of "Studio 57" and was entitled "It's a Small World". It was revived with a whole new cast the exceptions being Jerry Mathers and Barbara Billingsley which is the series we see now. More on "It's a Small World" here:

It's a Small World (Leave It to Beaver) - Wikipedia
 
My parents didn't watch it so we didn't watch it, but years later when I was the parent I got to watch all the re-runs.
I don't love it quite as much as The Andy Griffith show but it comes close. Always warm and funny.

I watched that early pilot a few years ago and cringed at the way June's role was written as a bit of a bimbo then. I love June in all the regular shows, never a push over and often seen to be smarter than Ward about some things.

Because I love their (
second) house:
 

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