'Leave It to Beaver' holiday marathon

You can celebrate All Things Cleaver on Thanksgiving Day when the retro-channel Antenna TV airs a 27-hour "Leave It to Beaver" marathon (it begins Thursday at midnight and ends early Friday morning at 3 a.m.). Here are five things you may not have known about the cast of that classic sitcom:

Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver) held a master of theology degree from the University of Southern California and was an ordained minister.

From 1970 to 1988, Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell) was a Los Angeles Police Department officer, working in vice and narcotics, and a motorcycle officer. (And the urban legend is definitely not true: He did not become ghoulish rock star Alice Cooper.)

In the 1990s, Tony Dow (Wally Cleaver) revealed that he has struggled with and was eventually diagnosed with clinical depression.