The Cast of Leave It to Beaver Reunites Nearly 70 Years After the Show's Premiere
The Cast of Leave It to Beaver Reunites Nearly 70 Years After the Show's Premiere

Published: June 12, 2025

Members of the original cast of the hit 1950s sitcom Leave It to Beaver reunited on June 6 and 7 at the Hollywood Show in Burbank, Calif., delighting fans with autographs and photos.

Jerry Mathers on 'Leave It to Beaver' in 1955 and in 2024.

Jerry Mathers, who played the titular Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, was joined by Luke Tiger Fafara, who played Tooey Brown, Stephen Talbot, 76, who played Gilbert, Veronica Cartwright, 76, who played Violet Rutherford, and Jeri Weil, 77, who played Judy Hensler.

Stephen Talbot, Jeri Weil, Jerry Mathers, Tiger Fafara, Veronica Cartwright of 'Leave It to Beaver' at the June 2025 Hollywood Show.

It's been more than 60 years since Leave It to Beaver left the small screen in 1963 following its 1957 debut, but the show still has a legion of dedicated fans thanks to syndication (season 1 is also streaming on Peacock).

After Leave It to Beaver, Mathers took a break from acting. He went to high school, where he played football. He then served in the Air National Guard and later attended the University of California, Berkeley to pursue a degree in philosophy.

Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver, Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver, Jerry Mathers as Beaver (Theodore) Cleaver and Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver in the 1950s, with on-screen parents Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver and Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver.

In 1978, he and his onscreen brother Tony Dow, who played Wally, starred in a production of the comedy play Boeing, Boeing, which ran for 10 weeks in Kansas City, Mo. The two later reunited for the reboot of Leave It to Beaver, The New Leave It to Beaver, which aired from 1983 to 1989.

Through the reboot, the classic show about Beaver Cleaver's misadventures was introduced to a new generation. Much of the main cast returned for the reboot, with the exception of Beaver's father, played by Hugh Beaumont, as the actor died in 1982. Dow died in 2022, and Cleaver family matriarch Barbara Billingsley died in 2010.

Talbot also didn't return for the reboot, and like Mathers, quit child acting after Leave It to Beaver. He attended Wesleyan University and went on to have a successful career in public television.

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