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About the only early television show that intrigues me is "Mister Peepers" starring Wally Cox.
Part of the appeal to me is that it didn't seem to star a bunch of pretty people. They looked more like us.
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1283/misterpeeperscast443206583.jpg
Has anyone seen the shows? Is it worth me searching out the dvds by some means to watch them? (They ain't in the local library, we can't do interlibrary loan on videos and I ain't a member of FartFlix....)
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I wouldn't be surprised if the radio series is easier to find than the TV show. I think a good deal of the TV episodes were never saved.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the radio series is easier to find than the TV show. I think a good deal of the TV episodes were never saved.
Mr. Peepers was not a radio series, from what I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of "Our Miss Brooks", another teacher TV series, which was on radio.
Mr. Peepers has made it to dvd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Peepers#DVD_release
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Boy, MR. PEEPERS. This is one that exists in jumbled, faded memories from my early childhood, age 4-7, including such long forgotten live shows as ATOM SQUAD, ROD BROWN OF THE ROCKET RANGERS.
SUPER CIRCUS, and the late afternoon KATE SMITH SHOW.
PEEPERS was my first exposure to the great Tony Randall who played Peeper's full-of-himself friend Harvey Weskitt. It also brought a kind of national fame to Marion Lorne as the ditzy Mrs. Gurney.
I was somewhat surprised years later when she turned up on my first tv viewing of Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN playing virtually the same character as Roberts Walker's spacey Mom.
Yes, PEEPERS was very much the product of a quieter, gentler time. We're fortunate to have Cox's
performances in films like FATE IS THE HUNTER and MORTURI to appreciate his range beyond PEEPERS.
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