Mr. Peepers
DVD release of Mr. Peepers material
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	David Swift
Written by	Robert Alan Aurthur James Fritzell Everett Greenbaum Bill Larkin Biff McGuire Harold Rodman David Swift
Directed by	Hal Keith James Sheldon
Starring	Wally Cox
Composer(s)	Bernard Green
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	70
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Swift
Producer(s)	Fred Coe
Running time	30 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	July 3, 1952 – June 12, 1955

Mr. Peepers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from July 3, 1952 to June 12, 1955.

Overview

It starred Wally Cox as junior high school science teacher Robinson J. Peepers. Others in the cast included Tony Randall as history teacher Harvey Weskit; Georgann Johnson as Harvey's wife, Marge; Patricia Benoit as school nurse Nancy Remington, later married to Peepers; Marion Lorne as often confused English teacher Mrs. Gurney, and Ernest Truex and Sylvia Field as Nancy's parents.

Running jokes tended to involve Peepers coping with misbehaving inanimate objects and with acutely embarrassing moments. In a typical moment, Peepers sees a hopscotch grid chalked on a sidewalk and, thinking himself alone, plays the game with abandon, only to discover that his girlfriend Nancy has been silently watching the entire time.

The episode in which Peepers married Nancy was, for 1954, a blockbuster ratings event, but it also marked the beginning of the series' slide in popularity.

Mr. Peepers was aired live, and thus was not preserved except in the form of kinescopes on 16 mm film. It was performed on stage before a large audience at the [ Century Theater], 932 7th Avenue, NYC.

Wally Cox was somewhat typecast by the role of the mild-mannered Peepers, but continued on to a long career in movies and television. He later starred in a comedy/adventure series, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, and is remembered as the voice of the cartoon superhero Underdog. He also wrote and published a novel, Mr. Peepers (1955), based on scripts from the televised adventures of the character.

DVD release

In 2005, the first 26 episodes of Mr. Peepers, which had been preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, were released on DVD by S'more Entertainment.

Trivia

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Mr. Peepers was also the name of an unrelated recurring character on Saturday Night Live as played by Chris Kattan. He was a monkey who would devour apples and spit the pieces at bystanders.

Awards and nominations

External links

• Mr. Peepers at the Internet Movie Database
• Mr. Peepers at TV.com
• A page with accurate cast information and production stills
• A page with images related to Mr. Peepers, including TV Guide covers
• The novel Cox wrote based on Mr. Peepers scripts

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