 Although both men initially wrote all the scripts for earlier episodes of "Leave It to Beaver", after becoming executive producers they began accepting scripts from other writers, refining them, if necessary.With Mosher the father of two children and Connelly six, the two had enough source material and inspiration for the show's dialogue and plot lines.Connelly's eight-year-old son, Ricky, served as the model for Beaver and his fourteen-year-old son, Jay, for Wally, while Eddie Haskell and Larry Mondello were based on friends of the Connelly boys.