One would have to be an adult

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Television series
German title One would have to be an adult
Original title Leave It To Beaver
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1957-1963
length 30 minutes
Episodes 234 in 6 seasons
genre Sitcom
production Joe Connelly ,
Bob Mosher
music Paul J. Smith ,
Pete Rugolo
First broadcast October 4, 1957 (US) on CBS (later broadcast on ABC from 1958 to 1963 )
German-language
first broadcast		 May 21, 1965 on ZDF
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Main cast

Recurring supporting roles

You'd have to be an adult (Original title: Leave It To Beaver ) is an American sitcom that was produced between 1957 and 1963.

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In contrast to many other family series of its time, Leave It to Beaver focuses more on the children than on the adults. The main character of the series is the boy Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, who was seven years old at the beginning of the series, and his family, consisting of his parents - the businessman Ward and the housewife June - and his big brother Wally, who is 13 years old at the beginning of the series. The episodes mostly show him in the vicinity of his home, the neighborhood and the school. The family is embedded in a medium-sized suburban life.

The curious and naive Beaver wishes to finally be an adult and takes all sorts of pranks in an attempt to appear as adult as possible. In the course of the episode, Beaver often gets into problems, often partly due to the dynamics between the siblings, Wally's double-faced friend Eddie Haskell or Beaver's friends like Larry, Whitey and Gilbert. At the end of the episode, the problems are usually resolved by having the parents intervene with lessons and guide him on the right path. However, the parents themselves are not omniscient or error-free, they often debate in the series about the right approach to raising children, and in some episodes problems arise due to the parents' mistakes.

When the cast got too old for the show's dynamism - older brother Wally is about to enter college at the end of the series , Beaver before high school - the series was voluntarily discontinued by the producers.

Reception and awards

  • 1958: Emmy nomination (Best New Program Series of the Year)
  • 1958: Emmy nomination for Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher (Best Teleplay Writing)

The series won no awards during its run, but through many television reruns in the decades that followed, it is still very popular in the United States and is part of popular culture . The idyllic, often idealized suburban life in the series reflects the spirit of the American post-war era, which was characterized by strong economic growth and conservatism. The Time magazines chose Leave It to Beaver , 2007, the hitherto 100 best English-language television series.

In Germany, however, the series remained relatively little known. In 1965, ZDF showed 13 synchronized episodes of the series under the title One should be grown up , which received positive feedback from the audience and were repeated later. However, ZDF left it with the 13 synchronized episodes. In 2019 Pidax Film released the 13 episodes in Germany on DVD.

continuation

The series was continued between 1983 and 1989 under the name My dear Biber , which follows the meanwhile adult characters and their children. Jerry Mathers, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, Ken Osmond and Frank Bank from the original series starred in their respective roles on the series. In Germany, the sitcom was broadcast on ProSieben , Kabel 1 and Super RTL in the 1990s .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald C. Miller, Coming of Age in Popular Culture: Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up . ABC-CLIO, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4408-4061-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 19, 2020]).
  2. ↑ All-TIME 100 TV shows. In: TIME.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ You have to be an adult [2 DVDs]. Retrieved on May 19, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: My dear beaver. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .