Did you used to watch Pee-wee’s Playhouse? Well now you can again! All 45 crazy episodes PLUS the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special are digitally re-mastered so that you can watch the episodes whenever you want! The complete series is available on Blu-ray or you can get Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD.
8 Discs
18.5 hrs run-time
Production Date: 1986-1990
Pee-wee’s Playhouse Special Features
OVER 4 HOURS of brand-new interviews with the cast and crew, plus never-seen, behind-the-scenes footage—all part of TEN FEATURETTES, including:
- Building the Playhouse
- Opening the Playhouse
- Writing for the Playhouse
- The Look of the Playhouse
- Music of the Playhouse
- The Cast of the Playhouse
- Puppets of the Playhouse
- Animating the Playhouse
- A Very Merry Christmas Special
- Fans and Memorabilia of the Playhouse
- These featurettes include interviews with actors Laurence Fishburne (Cowboy Curtis), S. Epatha Merkerson (Reba the mail lady), Lynne Marie Stewart (Miss Yvonne) and John Paragon (Jambi the genie).
- Mark Mothersbaugh and Danny Elfman explain the music of the show and the Emmy award-winning production design team of Gary Panter, Wayne White and Ric Heitzman explain how the sets and puppets were imagined and produced.
- Animation Supervisor of all 5 seasons of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Prudence Fenton (Liquid Television) talks about all the types of animation used in the program and animators Peter Lord and David Sproxton (Wallace & Gromit) discuss their contributions.
- Ve Neill, the multi-Oscar winning make-up artist talks about designing the make-up ‘looks’. Two of the shows writers talk about how the scripts were created.
- Other cast and crew explain, in fascinating detail, stories from the production of Pee-wee’s Playhouse. If that weren’t enough, many of the shows puppeteers and voice artists are interviewed about how the puppet characters were brought to life.
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