Family Scrapbook

The writers on this show almost seemed to know the culture was about to change and that Leave It To Beaver was emblematic of an innocent and more carefree time that was about to end as a presidential assassination, the British invasion, the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, and a more open attitude about sex due to the advent of the birth control pill changed everything. Just ten years later America's family would be Archie Bunker and company.

So in a rare instance for those days of a TV show having a series finale, the Cleavers look through a scrapbook that has the viewer relive moments in the series. As some reviewers have said, many scenes shown are of some very embarrassing moments and for sure nobody would have a camera handy, but the point is nostalgia not realism.