Dennis the Menace is a television series based on the Hank Ketcham

Hank Ketcham

Henry King "Hank" Ketcham was an American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip, writing and drawing it from 1951 to 1994, when he retired from drawing the daily page and took up painting full time in his studio at his home. He received the Reuben Award for the strip in 1953...

 comic strip

Dennis the Menace (U.S.)

Dennis the Menace is a daily syndicated newspaper comic strip originally created, written and illustrated by Hank Ketcham. It debuted on March 12, 1951 in 16 newspapers and was originally distributed by Post-Hall Syndicate...

 of the same name. The show, originally sponsored by Kellogg's cereals and Best Foods (Skippy Peanut Butter), aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 and stars Jay North

Jay North

Jay North is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of six, North became a household name during the early 1960s for his role as the well-meaning, but mischievous, Dennis Mitchell on the CBS situation comedy Dennis the Menace, based on the comic strip created...

 as Dennis Mitchell; Herbert Anderson

Herbert Anderson

Herbert Anderson was an American character actor from Oakland, California, probably best remembered for his part as Henry Mitchell in the classic television sitcom Dennis The Menace.-Career:...

 as his father, Henry; Gloria Henry

Gloria Henry

Gloria Henry is an American actress, best known for her role as "Alice Mitchell", Dennis’s mother, from 1959-1963 on the CBS family sitcom, Dennis the Menace.-Early life:...

 as his mother, Alice; Joseph Kearns

Joseph Kearns

Joseph Sherrard Kearns was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as George Wilson in the CBS television series Dennis the Menace from 1959 until his death in 1962.-Biography:...

 as George Wilson, Gale Gordon

Gale Gordon

Gale Gordon was an American character actor perhaps best remembered as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil—and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy, The Lucy Show...

 as John Wilson, and Sylvia Field as Martha Wilson.