Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver) on Later with Bob Costas 1988

[@goat1408]

Shoutouts to Jerry and all the '48 babies who are still kicking in 2024....blessings to my mother....who passed in 2012, as well as Disco Icon Donna Summer, both born in '48.

[@goat1408]

Watching this interview in 2024 while the original show plays on my dad's tv (MeTV). Me as an 80s baby/kid grew up watching the reruns of the original and was watching the New LITB when it aired.

[@goat1408]

great interview!!!

[@moemcgovern7345]

Jerry is so well mannered and very well educated. He’s a joy to listen to in interviews.

[@paulyricca3881]

👴🏻U NEED A GIRL AND A JOB

[@coolroy4300]

Very easy to listen to 👍

[@az_exit1279]

Growing up, I thought LITB was the greatest TV show of all time; now that I'm a senior adult, I think LITB is (one) of the greatest TV shows of all time.

[@gailgriffith6243]

Jerry Mathers is such a nice guy. I still watch Leave It To Beaver on METV every morning. It starts the day off with a smile 😊

[@willettej7988]

gail cooper I watch it, too. It’s still funny, and Wally has the best lines.

[@MariaLovesThis]

There’s a fan group on Facebook: The Leave it to Beaver Fan Club

[@paulyricca3881]

👴🏻 GO BACK TO SLEEP 💤

[@paulyricca3881]

@@willettej7988 👴🏻DAT SHOW SUCK

[@paulyricca3881]

@@MariaLovesThis 👴🏻U NEED A BOY FRIEND AND JOB

[@sharonwest1602]

Very good interview Beaver ❤️

[@margierogers1815]

I am so impressed by him . Such a nice man and so intelligent .

[@dashriprock3468]

Jerry was very enthusiastic and articulate here.

[@lpdog82]

me and my brother were about the same age as wally and beaver and our bedroom kinda resembled their tv bedroom back then, i will always have a connection with this show :) , you are the greatest jerry , r.i.p. to tony , the whole tv family and friends were wonderful ! ! !

[@moemcgovern7345]

One of my favorites was when Beaver and Wally, gave Beaver a haircut. It was such a kid thing to do.

[@kelseymathias3881]

So sweet...love to Jerry...R.I.P. to Tony 🧡🧡

[@paul9156c]

I've been binge watching LITB on Tubi ever since Wally died. I also watched LITB on it's first run. RIP Tony Dow.

[@johnm2617]

Jerry is an icon in American movies ! Leave it to beaver was at a time when life was fun and good ! Even America was a great country then ! Life was just so simple looking back!

[@kosmokritikos9299]

Gerry Mathews has given us another excellent performance on this episode of _Leave it to Costas._

[@margierogers1815]

I love The Still The Beaver ! Thank you for putting them on for us !

[@SMac-bq8sk]

Mathers is truly a class act.

[@MsJanetLouise]

My son met him last year in Denver at one of those comic con things. He got a signed picture for his little sister. He said he was such a nice guy and actually stood up to take a pic which apparently not all famous people do. Tony Dow was supposed to be there but I believe he got pneumonia and was hospitalized.

[@clamshell6863]

Jerry is such a class act. I felt he should have branched out to more challenging roles but am glad he stuck with what he knew. He is a true professional. I love him alot more after seeing this interview.

[@paulyricca3881]

👴🏻 HEY U GIT A JOB.

[@mademsoisellerhapsody]

Jerry sang and danced in Hairspray on Broadway. He seems to be a talented but humble person. And to the troll I have a job now get back to work

[@paul9156c]

@@paulyricca3881 Learn to spell.

[@jeffclark7888]

Outstanding.

[@eileenmaryomalley740]

Love always Leave it to Beaver best show ever on tv , nothing but crap on tv today . I watch Leave it to Beaver every morning on MeTV ❤️ I wish they woulda talked about Larry Mondello he was hilarious 😆 always eating an apple or candy bar cake lol

[@Lumpy63]

In the Still The Beaver TV movie (CBS) there is indeed a beautiful tribute to Hugh Beaumont as Mr. Cleaver with vintage clips and ending with the family around his tombstone with the name engraved on it as the rain comes down....

[@shettrick]

Yep, I posted that movie on here a a few weeks ago - that scene comes at about 11-minutes in

[@thomaswolf723]

I remember the show. The retrospective of Ward Cleaver brought tears to my eyes.

[@lavernewhiting9826]

M

[@willettej7988]

I watch it everyday on MeTV

[@MariaLovesThis]

There’s a fan group on Facebook: The Leave it to Beaver Fan Club

[@jordanfamily9134]

What a nice person.

[@MrMenefrego1]

It just blows me away that now the "New" LITB show is actually "Classic TV"! I watched the original series when I was a kid and was a great fan of the new series, we Baby Boomers are truly The Older Generation now! What happened? lol! - It was indeed a great show, with great traditional American values, I sure miss the days when it was okay to me a "Real man" or a "True American Patriot", now you are punished for having American traditional values. It really was America's Golden Age.

[@chrisrose6014]

I agree that Costas isn't really good here, but Mathers is top-notch. I kinda throught they did the Beaver character a bit wrong when they did the series in the 80s. They seemed to make him out as a loser. Beaver's problem in the original series was he trusted his friends no matter how ridiculous their suggestions were, most of which got him into some kind of mess!!

[@eileenmaryomalley740]

Right Costas is not thorough enough he never saw those Leave it to Beaver episodes Jerry talked about I remember them in June 2022. They didn't talk about Larry Mondello and his mom 😂🥰

[@stevecamozzi3671]

I always wanted a brother like wally. My brother used to pick on me all the time. Watch this show on me tv every morning

[@MariaLovesThis]

Steve Camozzi if you’re not already on it: There’s a fan group on Facebook: The Leave it to Beaver Fan Club

[@paul9156c]

The best family is always the one that doesn't exist.

[@coolroy4300]

Beaver , you're still the best little brother to have especially when you're asleep. 😆

[@justinbrockshus8483]

"Oh, why hello, Mr. Mathers!" LOL :)

[@brugglesby]

Seems to me like Bob didn't know too much about the show. Mr. Mathers was very nice about that.

[@justice-jb5ld]

This interview confuses me, in another interview Jerry said that he was 6 years old whenever he started Leave it to Beaver, he couldn’t read and had to memorize his lines.

[@shettrick]

Young kids are often read their lines by an adult until they memorize them

[@michaelbruns449]

Just listen to him... Jerrys IQ must be sky high...

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Costas was cold and abrasive. But his show was far better than any late night program today. The networks just don’t want to air good talk shows. They want angry politics in the guise of comedy.

[@JAMES49442]

Tom Snyder had the entire cast on his show for the whole hour. Is this available ?

[@edvickers667]

A GOOD, A GREAT SIMPLE ERA IN OUR TIME. I THOUGHT IT WOULD STAY LIKE THAT. JUST HAVING FUN EVERY DAY. ALL THOUGH I DON'T THINK I EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT. MORE WORRIED ABOUT HOW MANY PENUTBUTTER & JELLY SANDWICH'S I WOULD GET & COLD MILK.

[@nancyericson4263]

Apparently, Bob missed the Uncle Billy episodes.

[@MsJanetLouise]

Does anyone know what state Mayfield was supposed to be in? Was in CA?

[@shettrick]

No specific state. That is the answer to this oldest and most common question asked about this show for 65 years. Despite many things in specific episodes you can point to that prove it's in Ohio or near an ocean or in California or many other places, it was intended not to be specific to any one place in the country but that it could have been anywhere, so everyone would feel it could have been near where they lived. Also, the creators/producers/writers wanted to be flexible to allow for different situations to take place in different locations. Jerry Mathers says it was set in Anywhere USA.

[@Zorn76]

Fusia went thru a revival in the '80s.

[@maxinealvarez9981]

Hey they said beaver quit did not get canceled

[@shettrick]

Right, you thought the show got canceled?

[@cathleanjohnson675]

The show may not have been a "real" representation of 50s family and there were no people of color in it but that's the way it was back then and that's what we watched, the show is still a classic inspite of and compared to the "garbage" that's on now I would still watch it, RIP Tony Dow-forever "Wally"..

[@robf6105]

I used to love watching "Later with Bob Costas." In retrospect, Bob could be very ignorant and rude to his guests.

[@justinbrockshus8483]

"...and then he decided that he wasn't doing enough for the community, so he joined the Los Angeles Police Department!" LMAO 🙂

[@timmccarthy6374]

I met that Ken osmond in Reno he was selling pictures of himself. I thought he was an ass. These people always act nice in interviews and stuff but don't let that fool you.

[@rjnordin]

Mathers is great, Costas annoying.

[@sclogse1]

Now you realize Elon Musk is Jerry Mathers.

[@recidivistfighter4673]

Costas steps allll over his stories. Typical of a talk show host !!

[@shettrick]

Typical of a bad talk show host, not all talk show hosts - you'd seldom see these people interviewed at all if it wasn't for talk shows