[Bryanw92]

>>Good point, but I never saw Ward and June Cleaver in church; I do recall their “sending” the boys to Sunday school on an episode or two.

Church doesn’t make you a Christian. But your observation is quite interesting. The strong cultural Christianity of that time probably made it an understood fact.

No one ever saw a toilet on a TV show until All In The Family. But we assumed that they all pooped.

[SamAdams76]

Ironically "Leave It To Beaver" was the TV show that first showed a toilet on TV. There was quite the battle with the censors at the time but since the toilet was an integral part of the plot (Wally and Beaver hid a pet alligator in the toilet tank), the censors ultimately allowed it. But in Elvis Presley style, they only allowed the toilet to be shown from the tank up. Just like Elvis' pelvis, the bowl itself was still verboten on TV.

[Theodore R.]

It was touching how the boys kept up with Barbara Billingsley over the years and visited her before she died in 2010; hard to believe it’s been five years now. I believe I read she was a heavy smoker, like Pat Nixon and Jackie Kennedy.

[Theodore R.]

Didn’t ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ have some episodes partly in church? Of course, Gene Kelly’s ‘’Going My Way’’ did.