It wasn't just Leave it to Beaver. The father in The Brady Bunch was an architect and the family had a maid; in Happy Days the father was a business owner; Cli

It wasn't just Leave it to Beaver. The father in The Brady Bunch was an architect and the family had a maid; in Happy Days the father was a business owner; Cliff Huxtable (The Cosby Show) was an MD; The Wonder Years dad was a manager at a defense contractor; and the guy from I Dream of Jeanie was a freaking astronaut(!). Very few shows portrayed middle class families, and those that did often made the struggles of being blue collar into plot device.