Mister Peepers ran from 1952-55 on NBC, and has many episodes on DVD, sadly around 25 are lost and the last season has not been released onto DVD. The episodes are kinescopes, films of the monitors as the show was aired. The quality is bad to acceptable on many of them, sound can be off, but this is the best that can be done. Thank goodness for kinescopes or we would have none.
Wally Cox played a science teacher, Tony Randall was his best friend on the show, another teacher, and Bewitched's "Aunt Clara," Marion Lorne, was the English teacher. Peepers married in May of 1954 in one of the most watched episodes in TV history, sadly that episode is lost. I have a few negatives from photos taken of that episode.
The series is held by UCLA Film and Television Archives but I have never received any answer from them as to coming out to view the episodes they have not released on DVD. The company that released them, S'mores, told me it was too expensive to recoup the cost to release the final season.
Cute show, a little slow moving, might bore some kids, but Peepers' slapstick and getting himself into mischief is fun viewing for people who like classic/early TV and children.
Review of Mister Peepers
