Jerry Mathers played the star character, Beaver, in the hit sitcom Leave It to Beaver.
The 74-year old former child star recently sat down with Fox News Digital.
And Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver revealed a few secrets about his time as a star on the 1950s hit sitcom.
Leave It to Beaver was an American sitcom that followed the misadventures of a suburban boy, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, his family, and his friends.
CBS aired the first episode of the show on October 4, 1957, but dropped the program after the first season.
ABC then aired Leave It to Beaver from 1958 to 1963.
During the six seasons it aired on television, Leave It to Beaver never once broke into the top 30 Nielsen Ratings.
However, the show’s reruns became wildly popular and are still watched today by many American families.
Unlike today’s television programs, which are filled with woke insanity, Leave It to Beaver episodes taught moral lessons and instilled traditional values in children.
Even though it’s been more than half a century since 78-year-old Jerry Mathers starred as Beaver, he still remembers filming the show like it was yesterday.
“It ended at the right time for me,” he told Fox News Digital about the show’s ending. “I wanted to play sports and, of course, while working at the studio that wasn’t something I was able to do.”
He said acting is not the easy job that most people believe it to be.
“We had to be at the studio every day at 8 o’clock, work till 5,” he said. “And on the weekends, a lot of times, we had PR to do.”
But what Mathers remembers the most about his time on the show are the relationships he made with fellow cast and crew members.
“I think the thing that makes me smile the most is all the people I got to meet – the cast and crew,” he explained. “You just [saw] the cast members, but there were probably 60 to 70 people on the crew. And we were all friends.”
“Everybody liked everybody,” he continued. “There wasn’t somebody who said, ‘We don’t want to work with that person.’”
Today, Mathers has five grandchildren he and his wife enjoy spending time with.
“I still do autograph shows because those are fun,” he admitted. “I get to go all over the country and people still come up to me with questions about the show and what I’m doing.”
Mathers said he is “grateful” for the opportunity to perform on the sitcom.
And American families are grateful for a program that teaches traditional values to young children.
